And much, much more
Hand, Reef & Steer with its wonderful watercolour drawings and atmospheric photos will delight all who love the unique character and grace of classic craft.
NZ$70.00 + Delivery
SAILING - A BEGINNER'S MANUAL.
By John Driscoll. Paperback, 185mm x 244mm, 48 pages, monochrome photographs and drawings.
Sailing will give you an interest for life. The scope is endless: pottering, cruising and racing; dinghies, keelboat and yachts; rivers, lakes and sea. Few activities offer so much fun and so much variety.
This book is the perfect introduction to the sport. Using the famous RYA teaching method, it explains how the wind drives the sails, how to use the sails to drive the boat, and how to rescue the situation when things get out of hand. There are also sections on clothing and safety, launching and landing, mooring and anchoring. The book is lavishly illustrated throughout with step-by-step photographs and diagrams.
NZ$20.00 + Delivery
SAILING WITH PENNY WHITING.
By Penny Whiting. Pbk, 180mm x 240mm, 136 pages, full colour photographs.
This is the new edition of the book by New Zealand’s leading sailing school instructor and popular television yachting commentator. It shows in her own style how to learn to sail a keel boat yacht. Covering every aspect of sailing, from the rig and parts of the boat, hoisting sails, running, gybing, going about, reefing, tying knots, and handling a spinnaker, this is perhaps one of the clearest, most user-friendly books for those going afloat for the first time. Lots of clear sequential photographs throughout.
New to this edition are a short section for Optimist sailors, and the importing of much of her book, The Boat Code. This focuses on rules of the road, buoyage and suchlike. There is an improvement in quality of the pictures, and many of the keeler sailing photographs feature a vaguely recognisable young, lithe, blond sailor - I think these may be from the original edition! (sorry Penny!)
NZ$41.00 +Delivery
Sailing with Penny Whiting is also available in DVD format.
NZ$41.00 +Delivery.
START TO FINISH - DINGHY SAILING.
By Barry Pickthall. Paperback, 155mm x 202mm, 191 pages, full colour photographs and drawings.
New to sailing? Want to learn the basics? Or are you an experienced sailor who wants to broaden your skills and develop your techniques? In either case, Dinghy Sailing is the perfect book for you.
This easy to follow, step-by-step guide, is packed with clear illustrations and photographs, and contains everything you need to know, from the basics right through to advanced techniques.
This book includes: