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Learn about the sailing book Expert Sailing Skills by Tom Cunliffe
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Improve a wide range of sailing skills with this highly illustrated guide
Tom Cunliffe shows sailors how to improve a vast range of sailing skills, from dropping anchor to fixing an engine or using onboard electronics in this fully illustrated sailing book.
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 Tom Cunliffe - one of the U.K.'s most popular yachting writers
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Expert Sailing Skills covers the following topics:
Boat Handling
Secure alongside
Springing off
Rafting up
Mooring stern-to
Going astern
Negotiating locks
Easy anchoring
Mooring under sail
Anchoring under sail and power
Seamanship
Taming your ropes
Sailing among shipping
Trouble-shooting a diesel engine
Sailing in fog
Eye-splicing
Night sailing
Navigation
Tidal curves
Radar
Compass swing
Radar and AIS
Sailing and sail trim
Sail trim trips
Tacking in gybing
Sailing up river
Handling a spinnaker
Cruising chutes
Reducing weather helm
Skippering
Briefing your crew
Cruising with children
Sailing with your partner
Short-handed sailing
Keeping your crew happy
Emergencies
Running aground
Freeing a fouled propeller
Taking a tow
Man overboard
Recovering a man overboard
Air-sea rescue
Other sailing books by Tom Cunliffe include:
Celestial Navigation
Yachting Monthly's 200 Skipper's Tips
Inshore Navigation
Coastal and Offshore Navigation
Watch Tom Cunliffe's celestial navigation videos and learn how to use a sextant
Watch Tom Cunliffe's Skipper's Tips videos