This is Sailing: A Complete Course

by Richard Creagh-Osborne

Book Overview

The first section is devoted to the theory of a sailboat as "wind machine" and the components of a boat that are used to harness the wind efficiently. The second part solidly delineates beginning... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0688054293
• ISBN13: 9780688054298
• Release Date: January 1985
• Publisher: Hearst Books
• Length: 215 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Absolutely necessary sailing manual

"This Is Sailing" is a wonderful, extremely useful manual for beginning sailors -- and more experienced ones who would like to broaden their knowledge of sailing or sailing terminology. There is scarcely a page without colour illustrations (photos and drawings), all of which are easy to see and to understand. The text is succinct and lucid, and the sailing vocabulary is in boldface. This book is quite serious when it calls itself "a complete course". Containing a massive amount of sailing know-how, "This Is Sailing" is a must for everyone who wasn't actually born sailing.