Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 3.8 / 5.0

Great basic learn-to-sail book!:

Being new to sailing, I purchased the book before I started taking sailing lessons so I would be familiar with the terms, concepts, etc. With highlighter in-hand, I carefully combed through the book. It prepared me very well.

My instructor usually hands out the same book during the first class. Since I already carefully read it (he quizzed me), rather than spending a lot of time in class going over the terms etc., I spent the time sailing; gaining hands-on sailing experience.

It's a great book for the... more info

don't buy if you are not taking the ASA certification:

I bought the book for general sailing information. I found that a lot of the content is specifically geared to the certification requirements for ASA. If you are not going to certify or sail in the US then you will find yourself skipping US-specific pages and maybe losing on content in the process. Everything is spelled out to an excruciating detail. A book for those who haven't been in a boat ever before in their life.

Disorganized, poorly edited:

This is one of the most disorganized and poorly edited books I
have ever read. There are sentences that get truncated from one
page to the next, concepts that supposedly will be explained "in
the next chapter" and never are, totally unrelated topics that
are jumbled together, material that is repeated without a clear
reason, obscure and/or poor illustrations/photos, etc.
Some radical editing could probably turn this book into
something useful, but as is I would recommend that the... more info

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