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A guide for racing covers the principles of sail trim, crew movement techniques, maneuvers, and control systems, and gives advice on adjusting to special conditions.
Editor Ken Textor is a writer and sailing enthusiast.
The digital edition of the RYA Sail Trim Handbook for Cruisers is crammed with useful tips and pointers on one of the fundamentals of good seamanship: sail trim. The book focuses more on the needs of the cruising sailor as opposed to the out-and-out racer. After all, a well-trimmed cruising yacht will be better balanced, easier to handle, and will sail more comfortably. Sail trim can be bewildering to the novice but the RYA Sail Trim Handbook talks you through the subject in an informative yet entertaining manner. This eBook is further enhanced by a range of clear, well thought-out illustrations. Chapters include: How Sails Work Jibs & Genoas Spinnakers Reefing Sailing Upwind Heavy Weather Sailing Trade Wind Sailing Ultimately this book will have you itching to get back afloat and tinkering with the trim of your sails. This book takes advantage of Google's accessibility features (https://support.google.com/accessibility/android/answer/6006564?hl=en-GB).
An anthology of authoritative articles from SAIL magazine--one of the world's major sailing magazines.
A guide to tuning the sails and rigs of yachts and small keelboats, featuring step-by-step instructions and more than 150 illustrations.
Explains the art of good sail trim with the aid of superb colour diagrams and photographs.
This ebook is designed as preparation for a practical sailing course or as an accompaniment to it. It is also excellent for people who are returning to sailing and want to freshen up their knowledge. For those who have just started it helps to understand how sailing works and is also suitable to introduce family members, partners and friends in this wonderful sport. All the important sailing manoeuvres are explained comprehensively and easy to understand. After reading this ebook you will visit your practical sailing course well prepared. There you can concentrate on the actually important matter, already knowing some of the theory: Sailing The ebook contains 144 coloured images showing the important sailing manoeuvres step by step. On additional 75 black and white images the nautical knots are explained. So before you buy the ebook please download a free sample and have a look if your ebook-reader shows all details on the images correctly.
This practical guide is for owners and crew sailing all types of boats from dinghies to offshore cruisers with either masthead or fractional rigs. It explains what sail trim is all about, how to achieve it and what its benefits are, and covers: mainsails and headsails trim for light airs, medium strength and strong winds trim for beating, reaching and running correct camber and mast rake weather helm - causes and cures and easy reference trimming tables. How to Trim Sails will help racers and cruisers of all levels of experience get the best performance from their boats and sails. 'This book does tell you how to trim sails.' Little Ship Club