Floyd Jay Winters

Learn Sailing Fun and Easy Floyd Jay Winters

(Black and White print version. Full Color ISBN is 9798648818484) Learn Sailing Fun and Easy is focused on helping the reader understand and remember. Written by a career teacher and coach, it stands out with its use of many helpful teaching methods, association memory techniques, reminders, and fun hints. These learning aids will help the reader easily grasp and remember sailing terms, maneuvers, and safety tips.
Learn Sailing Fun and Easy includes over 200 clear photos and diagrams to fully illustrate the topics covered. A sea of Water Riddles are splashed throughout the book to make the reading even more entertaining. If you want to learn how to sail a Sunfish, Laser, Opti, O'pen Bic or even a small keelboat, Small Sailboats Made Fun and Easy is a great place to start.
Check out the very thorough Table of Contents:
- Main Parts of a Sailboat
- Directions on a Boat
- Sails and Rigging
- Rigging a Sunfish in Photos
- Parts of a Sail
- Raising and Storing the Main Sail
- Points of Sail
- Trimming your Sail and Telltales
- Heeling and Hiking
- Apparent Wind
- Tacking
- Jibing (Gybing)
- Comparing a Tack and a Gybe
- Preventing and Getting out of a Stall
- Capsize Prevention and Recovery
- Man Overboard (MOB) (COB)
- Heave To
- Basic Anchoring Tips
- Basic Docking Tips
- Aids To Navigation and Terms
- Sailing Rules of the Road
- Safety Tips
- PFDs (Lifejackets)
- VHS Marine Radios
- Some Types of Sailboats
- Basic Knots
- Miscellaneous Hints and Notes
- ... Plan Your Sail
- ... Very Simple Navigation
- ... Keep the Wind in Your Sail
- ... If overpowered by Too much Wind
- ... Safe Turns
- ... Read the Water
- ... Passing Obstacles
- ... Sculling
- ... Going Backwards
- ... Steering without a Tiller
- ... Transporting Dinghies
- ... A few old Sailing Phrases used Today
- ... Basic Sailboat Quiz
- ... Answers to Water Riddles
- ... Answers to Basic Quiz