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Stress-Free Sailing
Single and Short-handed Techniques
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This book is ideal for single-handed and short-handed sailors seeking efficient, safe, and accessible sailing techniques to improve their skills and confidence on the water.
Now in its second edition, this indispensable guide takes the stress out of sailing with step by step photographic instructions on how to perform essential sailing techniques, regardless of how much help you have to hand.
This indispensable guide takes the stress out of sailing with step by step photographic instructions on how to perform essential sailing techniques, regardless of how much help you have to hand.
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By definition, couples sailing alone have to do everything for themselves. They leave the berth, set the sails, helm the boat, navigate, trim the sails, anchor, pick up mooring buoys, enter harbour, moor up, and all without the help of any extra crew. They need to carry out these manoeuvres efficiently and effectively, with as little physical effort as possible.
Stress-Free Sailing is the answer to single or short-handed crews' prayers – a step-by-step handbook addressing the most common sailing situations that anyone cruising will have to manage. Here you will find clever, highly effective, and successfully tried and tested shorthanded solutions for dealing with everything from getting off and then back onto the dock in a variety of wind and tide configurations, sail setting and reefing, mooring and anchoring, to sailing in heavy weather and new techniques for man overboard, all clearly illustrated with straightforward diagrams and sequence photos.
21 QR codes dotted throughout the book link to online video demonstrations to bring the techniques to life.
As single or short-handers, you have to plan carefully, prepare properly, and be able to anticipate. This book will be a godsend with its original techniques for coping in every situation.
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Sailing Today praises Wells' extensive coverage of topics from marina berthing to anchoring, highlighting his approach as safe, logical, and grounded in practical sailing experience. The book's unique techniques are noted to improve the habits of experienced sailors and ease challenges for newcomers alike.
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ISBN: 9781472978424
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 10 June 2021
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Adlard Coles Nautical
Edition: 2nd edition
Illustration: colour diagrams and step-by-step photographs throughout
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 10.0mm
Width: 188.0mm
Height: 246.0mm
Weight: 460g
Pages: 160
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Duncan Wells is an RYA instructor, Principal of Westview Sailing School and features writer for Yachting Monthly, Sailing Today and SAIL magazine. He produces the Westview Sailing, RYA shore-based Day Skipper and Yachtmaster video tutorials which RYA students find invaluable as a study aid to their courses. Duncan has been on the water one way or another throughout his life, from skulling and coxing eights at school, to racing Three-Quarter Tonners in the Channel Islands, to Dorothy Lee, his beloved Hallberg Rassy 352.
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