Sailing for Beginners

By Jeff Toghill

How To Get Started

The author provides basic but comprehensive information on learning to sail. In an easy-to-follow style, learn about sails and rigging, how to get underway, sailing positions, harnessing the wind, boat and sail handling and even more advanced skills, such as flying the temperamental spinnaker.

It is an invaluable introduction to the pleasures of sailing, no matter what the shape or size of the boat.

Soft cover. 114 pages. approx. 207mm X 135mm. 3rd Edition (1998 / 2007 Reprint). APN 9781864364392. RRP $19.95