Dinghy Sailing: Start To Finish: Beginner to Advanced: The Perfect Guide to Improving Your Sailing Skills

By Barry Pickthall

Dinghy Sailing is the perfect book if you are new to sailing and want to learn the basics, or are an experienced sailor who wants to broaden your skills and develop your techniques.

This easy-to-follow, step-by-step guide is packed with clear illustrations and photographs and contains everything you need to know, including basic principles, what to wear, preparing to sail, the first sail, advanced sailing and racing.

Get on the water and take to the helm with confidence with this practical guide.

A version of this title specifically for iPad/tablet devices is also available. Please see “Dinghy Sailing: Start To Finish (For Tablet Devices)”.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Fernhurst Books
• Release date: Feb 27, 2009
• ISBN: 9781118315514

Barry Pickthall

Barry Pickthall is a respected sports writer and photographer and has been covering all aspects of sailing and boating for the past 35 years, 20 of them as a yachting correspondent to The Times newspaper. He has been covering the international stage for the past 4 decades from the Olympics to America's Cup and Round the World Races. His entertaining dialogue takes audiences alongside some of the biggest names in the sport including America’s Cup icons Dennis Conner, Ted Turner, Russell Coutts and Sir Ben Ainslie; round the world sailors Sir Francis Chichester, Sir Robin Knox-Johnston, Sir Chay Blyth, Dame Ellen McCarthur and Tony Bullimore; and Olympic medallists Paul Elvstrom, Rodney Pattisson and Shirley Robertson. Pickthall is also a qualified sailing instructor – having graduated from one of the first courses held at the UKSA.