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Tania Aebi argues that getting out there and doing it is the best way for some of us to learn all of the time and all of us to learn some of the time. With a few examples from her experience, Aebi shows how mistakes are better teachers than books.
[SailNet, 30 May 2003]
The authors present the view that learning to sail in a small boat makes you a much better sailor of a large cruising boat, and suggests how you can find a way to learn or improve your skills in a dinghy.
[Blue Water Sailing, October 2002]
Here is the training, in detailed list form, needed to complete the various US Sailing courses from Basic Keelboat to Offshore Passagemaking. The organization also publishes manuals for these skills.
[US Sailing, Portsmouth, RI, USA]
Short but succinct review of sailing skills, including nomenclature, sail airfoil theory, sail trim, buoyage, wind shifts, reefing, right of way rules, crew overboard procedures, and knots.
[San Francisco Bay Sailing and Cruising Site, USA]
Sail Jazz has a selection of useful articles for the beginning sailor or navigator
[Sail Jazz, Mount Pleasant, SC, USA]
Grab bag of tips and commentary on trade winds sailing, sailing in light air, reducing motion, motor-sailing, and techniques in canals and waterways Contains excerpts from hard-to-find bulletin board and newsgroup postings, as well as links to useful sites and vendor pages.
[Bill Dietrich, USA]
An e-mail discussion list for people interested in seamanship. Over 100 subscribers.
[SailNet, Charleston, SC, USA]
A famous racer tells non-spinnaker sailors how to go fast. Written for club racers but equally applicable to cruisers. Concentrates on using a whisker pole and your boat′s polar diagrams properly to maintain air flow across your sails off the wind, On-line article is missing the illustrations.
[Sailing World, May 1992]
Written for beach cruisers, this lengthy well-illustrated on-line book covers many aspects of rigging, safety, sailing technique, maneuvering without sails, anchoring, and equipment in small boats.
[Shallow Water Sailors, USA]
Questions and answers about tensioning halyards and outhauls, moving jib leads, trimming the main, using a boom-vang, and poling out your jib on a run.
[SailNet, 28 March 2003]
Most sailboats are equipped with enough controls to shape sails with exactitude. . . Small changes in halyard, outhaul, Cunningham, leads, traveler, and vang can mean the difference between a powerful, efficient airfoil and one that struggles through the air, even though it might look ′full.′
Doug Logan
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