Your First Sailboat: How to Find and Sail the Right Boat for You
  The first comprehensive sailing start-up kit for adult learners
Your First Sailboat is the only book that puts entry-level sailboat selection, use, maintenance, and lifestyle issues all in one place for new sailors who happen to discover this wonderful sport as adults. This book answers questions that other books don't even think to ask: Can a keelboat tip over? Can I take a centerboard boat onto open water? What's a fair price to pay for the boat I want? Can I trailer a keelboat? How do I make this boat move? How do I make it stop moving? How do I take care of it?
This complete guide for the beginning sailor:
- Offers authoritative advice on choosing a sailboat
- Provides decision trees to guide the reader to the perfect starter boat
- Discusses lake vs. ocean boats, family day sailing vs. racing, and more
- Answers all of the new sailor's questions
Table of Contents
Introduction: So You Want to Buy a Sailboat?
Part 1. Buying and Equipping Your First Sailboat
- 1. What Kind of Boat Should I Buy?
- 2. First-Time Sailor’s Survival Guide
- 3. How Big Should My First Boat Be and What Should It Be Built Of?
- 4. From Whom Should I Buy?
- 5. New or Used?
- 6. How Do I Know If a Used Boat Is Used Up?
- 7. How Do I Recognize Quality?
- 8. Where Can I Keep My Boat?
- 9. What Will It Cost Me?
- 10. What Equipment Do I Need?
Part 2. Handling Your First Sailboat
- 11. How Do I Get My Boat In and Out of the Water?
- 12. How Do I Tie My Boat to the Dock?
- 13. All the Knots You'll Ever Need
- 14. How Do I Attach the Sails?
- 15. How Do I Attach Sheets and Halyards? (And By the Way, What Are They?)
- 16. How Do I Leave the Dock?
- 17. How Do I Raise the Sails?
- 18. How Do I Turn?
- 19. How Do I Stop?
- 20. What If the Boat Heels?
- 21. What If the Boat Flips?
- 22. How Do I Come Back to the Dock?
Part 3. Maintaining Your First Sailboat
- 23. How Do I Take Care of This Thing?
- 24. What If I Hit Something?
Part 4. Navigation
- 25. How Do I Know Where I Am?
- 26. How Do I Know Where I'm Going?
- 27. How Do I Steer a Course?
- 28. Currents Keep Screwing Me Up
- 29. How Fast Can I Go?
- 30. What If It Gets Dark?
- 31. What If It Gets Foggy?
Part 5. Worst-Case Scenarios
- 32. Despite What You Say, What If I Still Get Lost?
- 33. What If the Mast Falls Down?
- 34. What If the Boat Starts to Sink?
- 35. What If the Boat Does Sink?
- 36. What If Someone Gets Hurt or Falls Overboard?
- 37. What If the Engine Won't Start?
- 38. What If the Wind Stops Blowing?
- 39. How Do I Know When It's Time for My Next Boat?
The Sailboat Guide | Resources | Index | Illustration Credits
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