The Complete Sailor: Learning the Art of Sailing
  The Complete Sailor takes the reader from the first sail to a mastery of small-boat handling. Weaving his writing around 600 drawings by noted marine illustrator Kelly Mulford, David Seidman has created a book in which each double-page spread invites the eye and communicates volumes of information.
The Complete Sailor goes beyond other learn-to-sail books to cover navigation, boat design, and seamanship. Encyclopedic in scope yet warm in style, it conveys the magic as well as the techniques of sailing.
Among the other topics covered: anchoring, ropework, rigging, weather, fog, squalls, currents and tides, rules of the road, trailering, and working the winds.
The book is a gentle introduction for those just starting out, and a guide to new horizons for those who already sail.
Table of Contents
Wind Sense
Direction | Words of the Wind | Land and the Wind | True & Apparent Winds | Wind Speed Tables | Wind Strength
Working Winds
With the Wind | Across the Wind | Working the Wind | Into the Wind
Getting Underway
Bending Sail | Steering | Making Sail | Leaving a Mooring, or a Dock | Reaching | Keeping a Course | Close-hauled | Tacking | Other Tacks | In Irons | Downwind | Jibing | Heaving To | Capsized! | Heavy Weather | Returning to a Mooring, or a Dock | Beach Sailing | Dock Work | Leaving Her
The Boat
Form | Comparing Boats | Lines | Stability | Heeling | Resistance | Preventing Leeway | Wooden Boats | Fiberglass Boats | Metal Boats | Buoyancy | Boats!
Rigging
Standing Rigging | Running Rigging | Sail Controls | Mechanical Advantage | Rigs | Balance | Self-Steering
Sails
Sail Shape | Telltales | Fault Finder | Reefing | The Genoa | The Spinnaker | Sail Care
Under Power
Inboards | Outboards | Oars
Rules of the Road
Right of Way | Avoiding Collisions | Sound Signals | Lights & Ships
Anchoring
Ground Tackle | The Anchorage | Anchoring Under Sail | A Second Anchor | Weighing Anchor | Moorings
Marlinspike Seamanship
Rope | The Ditty Bag | Knots | Cleats | Eye Splice | Going Aloft | Chafe | Coiling | Heaving Lines
Emergencies
Avoiding Trouble | Personal Safety | Aground | Man Overboard | Towing | Signaling for Help
Sea and Sky
Weather | Fog | Squalls | Currents | Tide
Navigation
Language of the Chart | Aids to Navigation | Lights | Visibility | Sound | Plotting a Course | The Compass | Steering a Course | Deviation | Lines of Position | Danger LOPs | Distance Off | A Fix | Dead Reckoning | Distance Run | Speed | Running Fix | Correcting for Currents
Trailering
The Trailer | On the Road | Backing Up | Launching & Retrieving
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