Kategoria BISAC: Sports & Recreation >> Water Sports - Sailing

The Know the Game: Complete Skills series is a perfect introduction to a sport for every budding player. Each book aims to teach young players the basic skills they need to start enjoying the sport, by giving them plenty of simple practice drills and showing how the star players do it. In this book, players will learn:

Passing, catching and kicking
Rugby terms / Positions in rugby / Passing / Catching / Kicking

Tackling, contact, teamwork and tactics
Scoring a try / Avoiding a tackle / Tackling / Contact / Teamwork /...

This book has been used for 30 years, updated periodically as needed. More than 20,000 students have successfully learned ocean navigation from these materials and gone on to cross oceans or circumnavigate the globe. This book covers how to find position at sea from timed sextant sights of the sun, moon, stars, and planets plus other routine and special procedures of safe, efficient offshore navigation. No previous navigation experience is required. The only math involved is arithmetic (adding and subtracting angles and times). This is a practical, how-to-do-it book, which also includes...

Benny and Virginia Lefebvre had an idea to get their boys off the streets of Los Angeles. Their answer was to start The Catalina Baseball Camp in Catalina's remote west end isthmus. It became so popular in the fifties and sixties that thousands of boys from all walks of life spent some of the best summers of their life there. From its alumni came prominent athletes, business and movie personalities. This is the true story of the last summer of the Lefebvre's youngest son who, along with his best friends Tuck, Ross and a caste of local legends, in a wondrous, exotic, historic setting,...

Instant Weather Forecasting has been a perennial bestseller since it was first published nearly 50 years ago. A brilliant concept, its winning formula of 24 clear color photographs of cloud formations and their accompanying explanatory text enables the reader to read the sky, pick up the clues, and predict what the weather will do.

This revised and updated 5th edition takes into account the new ways users can receive professional weather forecasts, factor them into their own cloud observations, and develop an even better understanding of how the weather will change.

This...

Once upon a time, a mastery of the art of rigging was required for anyone working onboard a ship. Although this is no longer the case for sailors on today's steel-hulled, gas-powered behemoth's, the intricate rope work that once made sailing possible is a fascinating and important part of nautical history. And for those who enjoy building model ships, learning to create authentic rigging-albeit in miniature-is a matter of practical importance.

Captain George Biddlecombe's "The Art of Rigging" is widely considered to be the best and most thorough manual ever produced on the subject of...

Once upon a time, a mastery of the art of rigging was required for anyone working onboard a ship. Although this is no longer the case for sailors on today's steel-hulled, gas-powered behemoth's, the intricate rope work that once made sailing possible is a fascinating and important part of nautical history. And for those who enjoy building model ships, learning to create authentic rigging-albeit in miniature-is a matter of practical importance.

Captain George Biddlecombe's "The Art of Rigging" is widely considered to be the best and most thorough manual ever produced on the subject of...

In 1968, the Sunday Times organized the Golden Globe race--an incredible test of endurance never before attempted--a round the world yacht race that must be completed single-handed and non-stop. This remarkable challenge inspired those daring to enter, with or without sailing experience. A Race Too Far is the story of how the race unfolded, and how it became a tragedy for many involved. Of the nine sailors who started the race, four realized the madness of the undertaking and pulled out within weeks. The remaining five each have their own remarkable story. Chay Blyth, fresh...