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Title: Sailing Fundamentals: The Official Learn-To-Sail Manual of the American Sailing Association and the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary by Gary Jobson ISBN: 0-684-84994-1 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: 17 September, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.00

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Average Customer Rating: 3.84 (19 reviews)

Rating: 3
Summary: This book was a great review and certification training
Comment: I had been sailing for only three years when I got this book as part of a sailing certification course I took at the North Texas Sailing School on Lake Ray Hubbard in Dallas. This is a great "how to sail" book and is the course material for the American Sailing Association (A.S.A.) course that I took. It did a good job of teaching all the requisite sailing skills and terminology. I would recommend it for general use in learning to sail at a basic skill level.

The Book includes numerous black and white photographs and lots of illustrations and diagrams to teach the skills required for the course. The book is divided into several sections that are used to teach three separate ASA certified courses. The sections are: Introduction to Sailing, Basic Sailing, Safety and Seamanship, Basic Seamanship Skills, Basic Coastal Cruising I, Basic Coastal Cruising II and Special Sailing Information. The book contains a good glossary and sailing terminology guide (very helpful for novices) and a good index. Review questions for each chapter or chapter series are included as well as answers to all the questions.

Rating: 5
Summary: Great basic learn-to-sail book!
Comment: Being new to sailing, I purchased the book before I started taking sailing lessons so I would be familiar with the terms, concepts, etc. With highlighter in-hand, I carefully combed through the book. It prepared me very well.

My instructor usually hands out the same book during the first class. Since I already carefully read it (he quizzed me), rather than spending a lot of time in class going over the terms etc., I spent the time sailing; gaining hands-on sailing experience.

It's a great book for the beginning sailor.

Rating: 2
Summary: Disorganized, poorly edited
Comment: This is one of the most disorganized and poorly edited books I
have ever read. There are sentences that get truncated from one
page to the next, concepts that supposedly will be explained "in
the next chapter" and never are, totally unrelated topics that
are jumbled together, material that is repeated without a clear
reason, obscure and/or poor illustrations/photos, etc.
Some radical editing could probably turn this book into
something useful, but as is I would recommend that the beginning
sailor turn to one of the many introductory books on sailing
that are better written and illustrated.

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