On Yacht Sailing: A Simple Treatise for Beginners upon the Art of Handling Small Yachts and Boats

by Thomas Fleming Day and James Zimmerhoff

Book Overview

There is no difficulty in the learned writing for the learned, but it is extremely difficult to compose a work for the instruction of the ignorant. The more comprehensive and exact knowledge the writer has of his subject the more arduous is the effort to express his thoughts in such simplicity as will make it understandable to those who have little or no knowledge of the subject he treats. This is doubly so when the subject is one like sailing--an...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1549582887
• ISBN13: 9781549582882
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 94 Pages
• Weight: 0.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.2" x 6.0"