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Suitable for beginners	Customer Rating:
This book would be ideal for beginners but really isn't suitable for anyone with any degree of sailing experience.

Essential read for anyone beginning sailing	Customer Rating:
In my opinion this book is awesome. I recently decided to take up sailing so purchased this book. It is very clearly set out. They author is very informative without trying to baffle you. It is simple to read with excellent diagrams. Would suit adults or children. I think this is the essential read for anyone taking up sailing !

From dinghy sailing to blue water cruising.

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As the title suggests, this truly is complete. Like the majority of people, my only trips on water came from ferries on a channel crossing! Last year I decided that I wanted to try sailing and bought this book to have some sort of knowledge of the suject before turning up for my course. It proved to be very worth while. As a student on a competant crew members course, I found myself getting stuck in with weather forecasting, navigation and general boat skills (skills that were required for day-skippers). This book is pact with a lot of factual information both in, simple to understand writing and informative and colourful pictures and diagrams. Whether you are a dinghy sailor or an aspiring blue water cruiser, this book will help you to broaden your knowledge base on the subject. I am now about to embark on my coastal skippers course and this still remains my only sailing reference manual, I have not completed any shore-based courses as I have not felt it necessary. I would definitely recommend this to anyone wishing to take up sailing as a hobby, sport or pastime. "ventis secundis"

Superb look at many aspects of sailing

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I have a home library full of "water-orientated" subjects and was incredibly impressed when I first read this book ~ I honestly believe that I would have to bundle five or six of my previous sailing books together to even approach the amount of knowledge contained within this one volume. A never-ending source of pertinent and fascinating info. for the newcomer AND for the experienced cruising "boattie".

A very good book

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Having recently developed an interest in sailing I wanted to find out the basics and develop an idea of what is involved before taking it any further. This book I have found to be excellent in covering a wide range of information and I feel that I can now approach the subject with some idea of what is involved without having sailed before. I would recomend this book to anyone as an excellent starting point as well as being useful I should imagine for someone involved in the sport already.