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Sailing Fundamentals | 
| Author: Gary Jobson
Publisher: Touchstone
Category: Book
List Price: $22.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  34 reviews
Sales Rank: 4122
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 220
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 10.7 x 8.5 x 0.5
ISBN: 0743273087
Dewey Decimal Number: 797
EAN: 9780743273084
ASIN: 0743273087
Publication Date: August 1, 1998
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Published under the pennants of the American Sailing Association and the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary, Sailing Fundamentals is an excellent guide for novice sailors ready to get their feet wet. This comprehensive manual helps beginners learn basic sailing and coastal cruising with step-by-step instructions for everything from hoisting the sail to docking. Written with clear prose by Gary Jobson--tactician aboard the 1977 America's Cup-winning Courageous--Sailing Fundamentals is specially designed to help sailors qualify for ASA certification--essential if you wish to charter a boat. Necessary reading for novice sailors--and an excellent reference for intermediate to advanced sailors. --M. Stein
Book Description
Written by America's foremost instructional authority, the new edition of Sailing Fundamentals combines the training programs of the American Sailing Association and the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary. The official learn-to-sail manual of the American Sailing Association, it is also used in the programs of many yacht clubs, colleges, and sailing groups. Unlike most introductory sailing books, which reflect the biases and idiosyncrasies of their authors, Sailing Fundamentals has been extensively pretested by ASA professional instructors to ensure that it offers the fastest, easiest, most systematic way to learn basic sailing and basic coastal cruising. This book covers every aspect of beginning sailing -- from hoisting sail to docking and anchoring -- and specifically prepares the learner to qualify for sailing certification according to international standards. Widely acclaimed author Gary Jobson has won several major races, including the 1977 America's Cup victory as tactician aboard Courageous. He was head sailing coach at the U.S. Naval Academy, and has conducted sailing clinics across the country. Illustrated step-by-step in two colors with over 150 line drawings and photographs.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 29 more reviews...
 Another Perfect Sailing Primer June 2, 2008
I used this book as a companion book to another text for learning to sail on the Hudson, and I found it to be a thorough and informative text, with all basic information on rules of the road, parts of a boat, parts of a sail, rigging, water safety and rules of the road.
As a beginning sailor, learning on a responsive boat with a sail and a jib, I would recommend this book to anyone learning to sail smaller craft and slower craft. By my second lesson, this book and the companion I used allowed me to gain the comfort necessary to prepare for my basic keelboat certification.
 Not bad, but... April 28, 2008
I also got this book with a keelboat class I was taking at the time. In combination with an experienced instructor, the book was quite useful. However, there are quite a few sloppy mistakes, due more to poor editing than poor writing. If I had bought this book outright, I'd be pretty angry as well. The companion books for cruising and navigation are much the same.
Alright for beginners December 7, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The book is pretty BASIC, and for beginners it's a least the minimum that you need to know before hop on !!!! Tells you a little bit of everything, but if you looking something more especific or deep in details, definally IS NOT the right one !!!!
Really good to know boats part and names though !!!!
 Not a very good guide... October 30, 2007
I took the ASA 101 course and a lot of the material that was asked on the test was not emphasized in the book. I found it very dry, somewhat scattered and generally not enjoyable from which to learn.
I've only skimmed through New Complete Sailing Manual by Steve Sleight and that book looks like it might be a lot easier to understand.
Complete, but with poor illustrations August 7, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have both Sailing Fundamentals and the US Sailing Basic Keelboat text. Overall, I find the Sailing Fundamentals to the more complete text of the two. However, the editing is sloppy in places and the illustrations are lacking compared to the US Sailing text. For those of you who are very visually oriented, I would suggest getting both texts. The US Sailing illustrations are very good.
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