SAILING FROM START TO FINISH

Yves-Louis Pinaud, Adlard Coles 3^rd Edition 1975.

This book starts where first primers leave off, and it offers a thorough grounding in dinghy racing. Yves-Louis Pinaud takes the keen beginner in racing from the first principles right through boat-handling, sail setting and rigging, racing rules, tactics and strategy, and even includes very worthwhile chapters on physical fitness and diet.

You can find everything here explained clearly and in great detail.

A vast number of specially taken photographs and drawings illustrate the book and leave no doubt as to the author’s meaning when explaining different points.

A vast number of specially taken photographs and clear drawings illustrate the book and leave no doubt as to the author’s meaning when explaining different points.

A particularly valuable feature of the book is the series of panoramic fold-out photographs which describe, far better than any words, how to perform certain manoeuvres correctly such as tacking, setting the spinacre, trapezing and starting a race.

Apart from the dust jacket having been price clipped and some very light and limited foxing to the book, which is illustrated in black and white, it  is in very good condition.