How to Sail a Boat City Island（如何驾船城市岛）.pdf

How to Sail a Boat A sailing primer for novices ©Nick Jenkins, 2007 - This work is licensed under the Creative Commons (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike) 2.5 License.. To view a copy of this license, visit [/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/]; or, (b) send a letter to “Creative Commons, 543 Howard Street, 5th Floor, San Francisco, California, 94 105, USA”. In summary - you are free: to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work and to make derivative works. You must attribute the work by directly mentioning the authors name. You may not use this work for commercial purposes and if you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under a license identical to this one. For any reuse or distribution, you must make clear to others the license terms of this work. Any of these conditions can be waived if you get permission from the copyright holder. Your fair use and other rights are in no way affected by the above. Please see the license for full details. Table of Contents How to Sail a Boat1 Introduction3 Chartering3 Parts of the Boat4 Sails and Rigging5 Parts of sails5 Rigging5 Sail terminology5 The two types of sails5 Winches6 Loading a winch6 Cranking a winch6 Easing a winch6 Jammers, Cleats and Stuff6 Sailing Basics7 Points of sail7 Sailing into the Wind8 Tack, Tack, Tacking!8 Adj usting sail8 Tacking and Gybing9 Tacking9 Gybing9 What can I do?10 Miscellaneous Stuff11 Putting sails up and taking them down11 Anchoring12 Rules of the Road13 Safety13 The 7 F’s of Safety13 Emergencies and responses14 Man overboard14 Distress signals14 Radio15 Glossary16 Introduction Sailing is fun. But – a lot of people are put off sailing by the complexity and strange terms. What exactly is a