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Yachting: Start To Finish (For Tablet Devices): Beginner to Advanced: The Perfect Guide to Improving Your Sailing Skills
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Yachting: Start to Finish is the perfect book for you if you are new to sailing, or if you are an experienced sailor wanting to broaden your skills and develop your techniques.
This easy-to-follow, step-by-step guide takes you through the world of knots, navigation and heavy-weather sailing. This book is accessible to all levels, giving those new to sailing straightforward advice, and shows experienced sailors how to take their sailing to the next level with professional tips on how to sail faster and safer.
Advice is included on basic principles, preparing to sail, your first sail and safety at sea, this book is packed with hundreds of illustrations and photographs, and is a great way to learn, develop and refresh your sailing skills.
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Barry Pickthall
Barry Pickthall is a respected sports writer and photographer and has been covering all aspects of sailing and boating for the past 35 years, 20 of them as a yachting correspondent to The Times newspaper. He has been covering the international stage for the past 4 decades from the Olympics to America's Cup and Round the World Races. His entertaining dialogue takes audiences alongside some of the biggest names in the sport including America’s Cup icons Dennis Conner, Ted Turner, Russell Coutts and Sir Ben Ainslie; round the world sailors Sir Francis Chichester, Sir Robin Knox-Johnston, Sir Chay Blyth, Dame Ellen McCarthur and Tony Bullimore; and Olympic medallists Paul Elvstrom, Rodney Pattisson and Shirley Robertson. Pickthall is also a qualified sailing instructor – having graduated from one of the first courses held at the UKSA.
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