Also, there’s an error in the drawing on where the caption says “port” when it clearly refers to “starboard.” Granted, the accompanying text description of the maneuver has the correct directions, but to a beginner such errors might cause a bit of confusion. Oddly enough, some of the diagrams (page 15) appear to be professionally drawn (or more probably, computer-generated), so one wonders why they all couldn’t be equally clear. Many of them look like “cocktail-napkin drawings” or white-board screen captures and that lack of clarity detracts from their usefulness. If there’s one thing about the book that needs improvement, it’s the illustrations. The author provides a very useful caveat to all the exercises in the book when he states that, with regards to how, exactly, they are to be performed in the real world: “It depends on the wind.” The practicalities of the exercises in the book all really depend on the conditions you encounter when performing them - particularly the wind.
There’s even a section on multi-hulls and the particular skills required to handle them. The exercises are applicable to both sailboats (the author’s primary focus) and powerboats. There’s a lot of practical advice in this small volume, perhaps the best of which is “You learn to drive a boat by driving a boat.” The book walks the reader through 25 exercises that cover such basics as simply understanding the throttle controls and continues through much more challenging material such as Mediterranean mooring and handling a boat in confined spaces during windy conditions.
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An employee of SailTime on Lake Michigan since 2005, he has a Merchant Marine license and is a certified American Sailing Association (ASA) instructor. Jim Stewart has been sailing for over 30 years and has been teaching boating since 2004.
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