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 enlarge | Author: Gary Jobson
Publisher: Touchstone
Category: Book
List Price: $22.95
Buy New: $12.94
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Avg. Customer Rating:  34 reviews
Sales Rank: 22066
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 220
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 10.7 x 8.5 x 0.5
ISBN: 0743273087
Dewey Decimal Number: 797
EAN: 9780743273084
ASIN: 0743273087
Publication Date: August 1, 1998
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 ASA Manual December 28, 2006
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This manual is used by the American Sailing Association (ASA) for their sailing fundamentals class. Everything is useful and well explained, no fluff. Great for beginners and sailors that want to do the basics right.
Learning how to sail August 18, 2006
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
This book provides the fundamental theory for getting started sailing. As with any activity that is learned with practice, readers should not expect to learn how to sail by reading the book. Reading it alone is really boring, but once you start sailing, many of the concepts explained in the book strat to make sense and it is a really useful reference.
 Excellent introduction to sailing July 10, 2006
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book was a requirement for my sailing class and is an excellent concise sourse of all begining sailing knowledge.
I've put everything I've learned so far to good use. Teaches all about sailboat terminology, safety, rules of the road, and most of all how to sail a boat with correct use of the available wind.
This book gives sufficient coverage to take the ASA certification, which is what I am embarking on. A great way to start upon a new sailing experience!
ASA Manual March 7, 2006
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is a very basic and fundamental book with well presented information that is a necessary book in the American Sailing Association.
A good book, but I didn't actually learn to SAIL from it. January 19, 2006
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
This book has been around for almost twenty years now. While I didn't use it in a sailing class or school, it is the book that I picked up when I taught myself to sail.
I found it to be very complete and well organised. When it came to terminology, hardware, laws and theory it was first rate. It was also a good review of skills that I already knew but was rusty on- like knot tieing and chart reading.
However, this book did not teach me how to sail. To be fair, I don't know if any book can teach that. I learned by actually getting out on the water and learning to keep the wind on the back of my neck, and to adjust the mainsheet and the tiller accordingly. Maybe it is just me, but you aren't going to learn to tack or jibe from a checklist. When things get rough you aren't going to remember. And if you are running through a checklist in your mind, or worse yet, from a cribsheet or book, you aren't going to be focussing your attention on the wind and the waves where they need to be.
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