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Summary: best book for begining sailers
Review: This book will teach you the baisics of sailing in a way thats easy to understand. Theirs a lot to learn if your a beginer. Gary Jobson did a good job of simplifying it a little.
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Summary: Tried and Tested Material
Review: This is American Sailing Association textbook for beginning sailors and closely tied to the ASA certification program.Why should you consider certification? Many people don't want to own a boat and prefer to charter. This is more economical than boat ownership. To have the freedom to charter anywhere in the world you need to be able to prove to the charter companies that you know what you are doing. That is where certification comes in. An ASA certification is a big plus when you are in Hawaii on vacation and want to rent a keelboat for a couple of hours. Or if you want to charter a big boat in the British Virgin Islands for a week. Try to do that without a certification! The major plus of this book is that it teaches you how to sail with all the information you need to learn in the proper order you should learn it. There is an advantage in learning the material in a time tested manner. This book gets the benefit of tried and true, tested, proven methods of sailing instruction that work. The material is presented in the order in which you should learn it Reading the book and then taking the course will give you a jump start on your sailing skills. Most sailors have knowledge like Swiss cheeze--with lots of holes. The books will give you knowledge like American cheeze--no holes. Buy the book--you won't regret it. Read it and take the course for maximum effectiveness. This is the path to skill, safety, and confidence on the water.
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Summary: Disorganized, poorly edited
Review: 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.
Rating:
Summary: Disorganized, poorly edited
Review: 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.
Rating: 
Summary: too hastily assembled by the ASA...
Review: Very poorly edited & proofread; numerous errors & omissions make for distracting & frustrating reading that undermines confidence in the material. Buy, read and enjoy "The Complete Sailor" instead.
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