Book Description
The first comprehensive sailing start-up kit for adult learners
Your First Sailboat is the only book that puts entry-level sailboat selection, use, maintenance, and lifestyle issues all in one place for new sailors who happen to discover this wonderful sport as adults. This book answers questions that other books don't even think to ask: Can a keelboat tip over? Can I take a centerboard boat onto open water? What's a fair price to pay for the boat I want? Can I trailer a keelboat? How do I make this boat move? How do I make it stop moving? How do I take care of it? This complete guide for the beginning sailor:
- Offers authoritative advice on choosing a sailboat
- Provides decision trees to guide the reader to the perfect starter boat
- Discusses lake vs. ocean boats, family day sailing vs. racing, and more
- Answers all of the new sailor's questions
From the Inside Flap
The Comprehensive Sailing Start-Up Resource
*Can a keelboat tip over?
*Can I take a centerboard boat onto open water?
*How can I determine what boat I want?
*Once I do, what’s a fair price to pay for it?
*Should I buy it new or used?
*How can I tell the difference between a used boat and one
that’s used up?
*Now that I have it, how can I start sailing quickly and
safely?
Your First Sailboat is the first book to answer all your questions about selecting, buying, maintaining, and using your first boat. This user-friendly guide covers issues that other books ignore, including how to choose between a trailer sailer, daysailer, raceboat, cruiser, or multihull; what hull material is best for your first boat; whether to buy new or used; where to shop; how to judge quality and condition; where to keep your new boat; and what to do about gear, loans, insurance, and annual maintenance. Special features of this all-in-one handbook include:
*A descriptive buying guide to 75 recommended sailboats
of all types and sizes, from daysailers to racers, cruisers,
and multihulls
*A decision tree to guide you to your ideal starter boat
*Complete instructions on how to care for and sail your boat
as well as how to acquire it
Straightforward and fun, Your First Sailboat gives you just what you need to stop asking questions and start sailing. Everything else is optional. Save time. Save money. This book omits everything you don’t need to know.
Daniel Spurr is the editor-at-large of Professional
Boatbuilder magazine and the author of seven sailing books.
He has been senior editor of Cruising World magazine and for
twelve years was the editor of Practical Sailor, the
consumer report of the sailing world, for whom he has edited
a book-length collection of sailboat reviews. He has owned
and upgraded eight sailboats.
