Improve a wide range of sailing skills with this highly illustrated guide

Popular sailing author Tom Cunliffe teaches sailors how to improve a vast range of sailing skills, from dropping anchor to fixing an engine or using onboard electronics. Each chapter deals with a specific skill and is highly illustrated with step-by-step photos. This selection of the best practical articles from the pages of "Yachting Monthly" magazine will help sailors at every level.

Perfect your spinnaker technique, learn how to dry out your yacht and pick up some tips for successful single-handed sailing. There's advice on everything from passage planning to boat handling and all delivered with easy to follow photographs and diagrams. Tom cuts through the theory to explain what really works -- often setting sail with normal yachtsmen and women to solve their cruising conundrums.Improve your sailing skills with a pick of the most useful tips and adviceEasy to use language with step-by-step guidesExpert advice from one of the U.K.'s most popular yachting journalists

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This book is intended as an aid for people who are interested in knowing more about cruising boats. You may have a boat and be preparing for a trip or thinking of buying one. For people who may aspire to live aboard, cruise or cross oceans and want to start researching what the boat needs. Well, this is the place to start. All the details in this book will probably raise as many questions as are answered but questions are good. This book is not technical, (well, not much) and will not talk about repairing an alternator or the like. It will however discuss what you need to know in order to buy and fit one as part of your cruising conversion. Cruising is fun (mostly) and reading about it should be too so I hope you get a laugh every now and then. The author, pictured left (after an altercation with a shaman in Thailand), has lived aboard for over 14 years. He has recently (2014) completed a diploma in marine surveying. www.championmarinesurveyors.com