The Sailor's Handbook: A Clear and Comprehensive Guide to Sailing for Pleasure and Sport

by Halsey C. Herreshoff

Since its first publication more than ten years ago, The Sailor's Handbook has been an essential purchase for anyone who wants to get the most out of sailing. Now this updated, durable, water-resistant edition ensures that the book will remain an indispensable part of every sailor's gear well into the 1990s.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0316359483
• ISBN13: 9780316359481
• Release Date: April 1994
• Publisher: Little Brown and Company
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

One of the best sailing references I have read

I own the hardcover version of this book and it is one of the best sailing books I have found and I own over 10 books about sailing and sailboats. I would compare it to Bob Bond's "Handbook of Sailing", but I like this one just as well or better as it is in a more condensed format and focuses more on technique and equipment and less on sailing history and is slightly smaller in size. The book contains hundreds of color photographs and diagrams and is well laid-out and readable. It has a great table of contents and index so it is a great reference book as well. If I could only own one sailing reference or handbook, this would be it.