Practical Sailing

By Timothy Jeffery

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0831770724
• ISBN13: 9780831770723
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: Gallery Books
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Brittannia rules the waves

This is just a beautiful book and if you are a British reader, by all means go out and buy yourself one of those cheap used copies floating around. American readers, however, may find it upon close reading rather less helpful because Royal Yachting Association instructor Jeffery has written a book closely tailored for his British audience. Americans and Britons may sail the same seas but the endless difference in detail of how things are done (mooring between posts, mooring in rafts, "drying out") and how they are said (the term "warp" seemingly used in five different ways and I could only gather two from context) make British sailing seem like almost a different sport. An experienced American sailor will, however, find some good food for thought in discussions of method and there are numerous color photographs of small, sleek, well-crafted British sailboats that aren't sold in North America, to our dismay!