Sailing Simplified

By Bob Gebhardt

Sailing Simplified is a literal and simple sailing training guide with a little tongue-in- cheek diversion. A person with a little boating experience, and some, or minimal, common sense, should be able to grasp the simple concept of using wind power to travel over the world’s waters. This lesson plan will take you from stepping aboard a typically equipped and rigged small to medium-sized sailboat to sailing it about the local waters. It will also prime you in a small amount of the mysterious sailor’s language.
Warning, warning, this may lead you to a lifetime of casual sailing or lure you into a whole new way of speaking and/or acting like a sailor geek.
I wish you blue skies, high tides, fair winds, light seas, loads of fun and a bone in your teeth.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Sep 9, 2014
• ISBN: 9781312420144

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Sailing Simplified

Sailing Simplified

Lesson Plan, Lite

a novel by

Bob Gebhardt

Copyright © 2014 Bob Gebhardt

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This book is dedicated

to my loving wife

Patricia A. Gebhardt

Thank you for your collaborative effort,

support and encouragement

in the preparation of this

and all of my fictional novels.

Very special thanks to my friend, neighbor

and professional illustrator,

Mike Bartus

for his help, advice and illustrations

in this and my other novels.

Other Books by Bob Gebhardt

Trove

The discovery of a hide map that leads to a pirate trove

of riches and lifelong friendships.

Island of Death

Those who venture in search of its pirate treasure never come back.

Pirate’s Ghostly Spirits

The friendly paranormal interaction with the spirits of the pirates.

Treasure a Sailor’s Siren

A pirate’s spirit complicates the hunt for untold riches.

El Dorado Relics Recovered

The story of the world famous legend of El Dorado’s elusive treasures.

Sailors Tacking from Murder

The lure of romance, riches and high-seas adventure.

Extra-Dimensional Visitation

A parallel dimension of advanced humans

making rare visits sharing enlightenment.

Visit the author’s website at:

www.gebhardtnovels.com

Prologue

So you would like to learn to sail a boat and speak sailoreese (I just made that word up), but you thought it might too be hard or all involved. Well, anything worth learning or doing does get a bit involved. Even with somewhat limited involvement with the language you can have fun and sail about like you really know all the sailor’s words and slang. The good news is that sailing is easier than driving a car, but the bad news is you have to read and follow this boorish text. Sorry about that!

First I recommend attaining a bit of information such as reading this and/or other books or even taking a course and/or gaining some practical on-board experience by accompanying someone on their boat. Other options include borrowing or buying your own boat, if you are serious. And it would also be very beneficial and reassuring if you invite an experienced sailor aboard your boat, borrowed or owned, on your first efforts at sailing.

But, and that is a very big but, I think I am giving you sufficient, but not overwhelming information and instruction to lead you through a self-initiated pleasurable sail. I have attempted to give you everything you will encounter on taking a sailboat out for a simple first experience sail including all points of sail that can be set up and practiced to become a proficient sailor.

I personally took several courses in college on navigation, seamanship, and sailing, and in some instances some topics in the sailing study seemed a bit like Greek to me. Then I bought a new twenty-two foot cabin sailboat that came with a commissioning and five one-hour lessons aboard. During the second time out with the instructor he said I no longer needed him and then he occasionally called on me to assist him, as a mate, in demonstrating other new sailboats for his company. The Greek parts suddenly made sense once I was aboard handling the sails and boat. So if you take this aboard and follow the text it will make more sense.

Of course I had been aboard boats all