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Index
Cover Page
The Complete Sailor, Second Edition
Copyright Page
Contents
Dedication
BECOMING A SAILOR
WIND SENSE
Direction
Words of the Wind
Land and the Wind
True & Apparent Winds
Wind Speed Tables
Wind Strength
WORKING WINDS
With the Wind
Across the Wind
Working the Wind
Into the Wind
GETTING UNDERWAY
Bending Sail
Steering
Making Sail
Leaving a Mooring, or a Dock
Reaching
Keeping a Course
Close-Hauled
Tacking
Other Tacks
In Irons
Downwind
Jibing
Slowing Down
Heaving-To
Heavy Weather
Capsized!
Practice
Returning to a Mooring, or a Dock
Beach Sailing
Dock Work
Leaving Her
THE BOAT
Form
Comparing Boats
Lines
Stability
Heeling
Resistance
Preventing Leeway
Wooden Boats
Fiberglass Boats
Metal Boats
Buoyancy
Boats
RIGGING
Standing Rigging
Tuning the Rig
Running Rigging
Sail Controls
Tackle
Winches
Stepping the Mast
Rigs
Balance
SAILS
Sail Shape
Telltales
Fault Finder
Reefing
The Genoa
The Spinnaker
Sail Care
UNDER POWER
Inboards
Outboards
Oars
RULES OF THE ROAD
Right of Way
Avoiding Collisions
Sound Signals
Lights & Shapes
ANCHORING
Ground Tackle
The Anchorage
Anchoring Under Sail
A Second Anchor
Weighing Anchor
Moorings
MARLINSPIKE SEAMANSHIP
Rope
The Ditty Bag
Knots
Cleats
Eye Splice
Going Aloft
Chafe
Coiling
Heaving Lines
EMERGENCIES
Avoiding Trouble
Personal Safety
Aground
Man Overboard
Towing
Signaling for Help
SEA & SKY
Weather
Fog
Squalls
Currents
Tides
Waves
NAVIGATION
Language of the Chart
Aids to Navigation
Lights
Visibility
Sound
Plotting a Course
The Compass
Deviation
Lines of Position
Danger LOPs
Distance Off
A Fix
Dead Reckoning
Distance Run
Speed
Running Fix
Correcting for Currents
GPS
Getting a Fix with GPS
Waypoint Navigation
Staying on n Course with GPS
RACING
How it’s done
Racers
Rules
The Start
Playing the Wind
The Windward Leg
A Racer’s tack
Offwind Legs
At the Mark
Racers’ Secrets
TRAILERING
The Trailer
On the Road
Ramps
Backing Up
Launching & Retrieving
INDEX
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