Expert sailing skills. Экспертные навыки плавания под парусом

Improve a wide range of sailing skills with this highly illustrated guide.
Popular sailing author Tom Cunliffe teaches sailors how to improve a vast range of sailing skills, from dropping anchor to fixing an engine or using onboard electronics. Each chapter deals with a specific skill and is highly illustrated with step-by-step photos. This selection of the best practical articles from the pages of Yachting Monthly magazine will help sailors at every level.
Perfect your spinnaker technique, learn how to dry out your yacht and pick up some tips for successful single-handed sailing. There's advice on everything from passage planning to boat handling and all delivered with easy to follow photographs and diagrams. Tom cuts through the theory to explain what really works — often setting sail with normal yachtsmen and women to solve their cruising conundrums.
* Improve your sailing skills with a pick of the most useful tips and advice
* Easy to use language with step-by-step guides
* Expert advice from one of the U.K.'s most popular yachting journalists
Contents
1. Boat handling
1.1 Securing alongside
1.2 Springing off
1.3 Rafting up
1.4 Mooring stern-to
1.5 Going astern
1.6 Negotiating locks
1.7 Easy anchoring
1.8 Mooring under sail
1.9 Anchoring under sail and power
2. Seamanship
2.1 Taming your ropes
2.2 Sailing among shipping
2.3 Troubleshooting a diesel engine
2.4 Sailing in fog
2.5 Climbing a mast
2.6 Eye-splicing braidline
2.7 Night sailing
3. Navigation
3.1 Tidal curves
3.2 Staying safe with radar
3.3 Compass deviation
3.4 Radar and AIS
4. Sailing and sail trim
4.1 Sail trim tips
4.2 Tacking and gybing
4.3 Sailing up river
4.4 Handling a spinnaker
4.5 Cruising chutes
4.6 Reducing weather helm
5. Skippering
5.1 Briefing your crew
5.2 Cruising with children
5.3 Sailing with your partner
5.4 Keeping your crew happy
6. Emergencies
6.1 Running aground
6.2 Freeing a fouled propeller
6.3 Taking a tow
6.4 Man overboard!
6.5 Recovering a man overboard
6.6 Air-sea rescue