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

    By Barry Pickthall

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    About this ebook

    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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFernhurst Books
    Release dateFeb 27, 2009
    ISBN9781118315514
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    Dinghy Sailing: Start to Finish: From Beginner to Advanced: The Perfect Guide to Improving Your Sailing Skills
    Author

    Barry Pickthall

    Barry Pickthall is an award winning yachting journalist, photographer and author. A former boatbuilder and naval architect, he was yachting correspondent for The Times for 20 years, and he has written 18 books about sailing.

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