Ready for Sea: Check Your Boat

Science & Math

Mosenthal, Basil

Astronomy & Space Science

Encore Editions

A nautical medley of wit and wisdom for present-day sailors, acquired over the author's lifetime. Serious advice blends with humorous anecdotes in essential bunkside (or bedside) reading, both for sailors and for landlubbers.See:

The Sailor's Little Book: Sayings of the sea

Reference

Fernhurst Books

<p>A book intended for anyone going sailing for the first time in a cruising boat, as opposed to a dinghy. There is advice on gear, domestic arrangements, deck layout, crew responsibilities such as getting ready to leave the pontoon, casting off, hoisting the sails, steering the boat, helping with the anchor and coming alongside. There is also information on the weather and tides, tying knots and a simple explanation of how the boat is navigated. It ends with a lighthearted quiz.</p>

Learning to Crew

Sports & Outdoors

Water Sports

Adlard Coles

A pocket guide packed with information for young dinghy sailors. Its lively color presentation and clear layout will appeal to young people and encourage them to try sailing for the first time. Includes sailing schools and clubs, rigging and launching small boats, how boats sail, starting to race, the racing rules made easy, types of dinghy, all about ropes and knots, what a chart tells you, buoys and what they mean, the effect of the tide, understanding the weather, exploring in a dinghy, sailor's language and flags. 

Getting Afloat: All you need to know about sailing small boats

Engineering & Transportation

Pelling, Sue

Transportation

This book is for anyone learning to sail in either dinghies or yachts. Simple, easy to read and with lively color illustrations, it is invaluable as a back up to sailing school courses or anyone learning to sail with a friend. This is a no-nonsense guide for beginners of all ages.

Learning to Sail: In Dinghies of Yachts

Adlard Coles Nautical

An introduction to for anyone wanting to learn the basics of what navigation is all about. The book covers the essentials of reading a chart, understanding tides, using navigation instruments, plotting a position and planning a passage, and is suitable for novices of all ages.

Learn to Navigate: An Introduction for all ages, 3rd Edition

<p>Aiming to familiarise seven to eleven year olds with yachts and family sailing, this is the ideal book to help the young sailor feel part of the family crew. It explains, with the help of clear and colourful illustrations, how a boat sails, and describes the different types of boats, flags, ropes, knots, weather and tides. Colour photographs will help inspire the young sailor, and with the help of a glossary and a sailing quiz, they will soon be able to understand, enjoy and participate in activities on board a yacht.</p>

Young Sailor: How to be a good sailor and have fun!, 2nd Edition

Children's Books

Learn to Navigate is a very simple and relaxed introduction to navigating small boats. Anyone who goes afloat should know something about navigation if only to be able to take the boat safely back to port if the skipper is put out of action. This book will help you do just that.

Learn to Navigate: An Introduction for all Ages

This book is for anyone learning to sail in either dinghies or yachs. Simple, easy to read and withl lively colour illustrations, it is invaluable as a back up to sailing school courses or for anyone learning to sail with a friend. This is a no-nonsense guide for beginners of all ages. Covers how to start sailing, the different kinds of boats you will sail in, various parts of a boat, rigging and lauching a dinghy, getting going in a yacht, how a boat sails, handling ropes and tying knots, the effect of the tide, the weather, living aboard a yacht and what is on a chart.

Learning to Sail - in Dinghies or Yachts: A No-Nonsense Guide for Beginners of all Ages

Learning the rule of the Road is based on The International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea, but beacause these regulations are lengthy and detailed they are not always easy to understand - nor is it easy to find your way around. This guide takes those sections of the rules that particularly affect small craft, and explains them briefly and simply. Ideal for beginners but also a useful reminder for the more experienced.

Learning the Rule of the Road: A Guide for the Skippers and Crew of Small Craft

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