Start Sailing Right, Part 1Product DescriptionOfficially sanctioned by U.S. Sailing and the American Red Cross. Next to being on the water the best way to learn to sail is with video instruction. Start Sailing Right is used in the US Sailing/American Red Cross program - the instruction is first rate, comprehensive and accurate.
Start Sailing Right Part 2Product DescriptionIn Part 2 you will learn the skills and techniques to sail upwind and downwind and how to trim your sails to sail well. You will also learn to judge weather and currents plus how to safely leave shore and return. One of the most valuable parts of this video is the section on sailing drills. These drills help you to learn to sail better and to sharpen your skills.
Improve Your Sailing Skills - DVD
Product DescriptionProduced for the sailor with some sailing experience, this video is filled with the information that every novice sailor needs to start his educational path to expert. Each topic is presented by top Southern California racers in a step-by-step, easy to follow manner to make learning as easy as an ocean breeze. This DVD contains extremely useful demonstrations of the following subjects: Efficient Tacking, Keys to a safe Jibe, Draft control, Reefing the Main, Shaping the Genoa, Using the Spinnaker, Boom Vang Adjustment, Man Overboard Drill, VHF use, Lifesling Retrieval System, Anchoring, Staying Anchored, and much more.
Sailing With ConfidenceProduct DescriptionA great learn to sail program designed to give those with little or no sailing experience the knowledge and skills needed to sail with confidence. Expert instructor Bud Foulke teaches the basics of getting started, intermediate helmsmanship and maneuvers and advanced heavy weather sailing and flying spinnakers.
Get Ready to CRUISE: Lin & Larry Pardey - Offshore Sailing Part 1Product DescriptionJoin Lin and Larry Pardey at their home base in New Zealand as they share ideas and hints to make your boat safer, easier to handle, and more enjoyable to use. On board Taleisin, the boat that has been their home for 65,000 miles of voyaging, they demonstrate galley upgrades, table design ideas, comfortable seating arrangements, and ways to improve ventilation below deck. On deck, learn how sail and ground-tackle handling can be made easier for even the smallest crew member. Larry discusses sun protection, rain collection, and line handling. Lin provides advice on buying and storing provisions and hints for keeping you and your crew dry, warm, clean, and well rested. This DVD incorporates the best ideas from their highly praised videos, including Cruising with Lin and Larry Pardey and The Care and Feeding of Sailing Crew. The programs have been re-edited, re-mastered, and supplemented with new information from these master voyagers.
Get Ready to CROSS OCEANS: Lin & Larry Pardey - Offshore Sailing Part 2Product DescriptionSo you feel confident with cruising local waters and are thinking of setting off across an ocean . . . Before you start planning, join Lin and Larry Pardey on board Taleisin in Fremantle, Australia, as they demonstrate gear storage for offshore voyaging, dinghy choices, warping out a stern anchor, proper life-raft storage, storm trysails, sail repairs, and other valuable hints to help you prepare. Then voyage along with them on a classic trade-wind passage across the Indian Ocean toward Africa, with stops at Cocos (Keeling) Atoll, the quiet island of Rodriques, and the remote French colony at Réunion. Weather planning, landfall considerations, windvanes, sail choices, and crew comfort are only a few of the subjects covered. This DVD incorporates the best ideas from some of their highly praised videos: Voyaging, Hints for Upgrading Your Cruising Boat, and Cruising Coral Seas. Completely re-edited and re-mastered, this program is supplemented with new information and ideas from these master voyagers.
Sailing in Heavy WeatherProduct DescriptionGo offshore aboard a 40ft. sailboat for an exciting look at heavy weather sailing techniques and tactics. Join Warren Luhrs, Steve Dashew, John Neal and other top sailors as they cover steering in large seas, heavy air sail trim, heavy weather sailing techniques and tactics, personal protection and storm tactics.
Annapolis: Heavy Weather SailingProduct DescriptionFeaturing world renonwned sailing expert John Rousmaniere. In this program, John Rousmaniere, sailing aboard a Hinckley Sou'wester sloop in the Caribbean shows the modern techniques and equipment for mastering tough conditions so that the experience becomes more enjoyable and less fearful. Maneuvers are demonstrated with detailed close-ups and animated graphics. Subjects covered include boat and crew preparation, how to avoid falling overboard, storm tactics, heaving to and drogue deployment, trimming and shortening sails in fresh, strong and gale winds. Plus exciting footage from the Whitbread Round the World Race.
Annapolis: Sailboat NavigationProduct DescriptionFeaturing world renonwned sailing expert John Rousmaniere. This program teaches you step-by-step how to find your way with classic dead reckoning piloting and today's electronic navigation instruments. Includes clear demonstrations on the water and in a simulated navigator's station in a Coast Guard certified navigation school. Includes detailed close-ups, helpful graphics and imaginative presentations of how objects appear on the chart and water, in good and bad visibility. Subjects covered include, the chart and compass, GPS, radar for navigating and avoiding collisions, the navigation rules, finding your way in fog and at night, taking and plotting bearings, allowing for tidal current, tips and tricks for quick decisions.
Annapolis: Cruising Under SailProduct DescriptionFeaturing world renonwned sailing expert John Rousmaniere. This is the most complete and detailed instructional DVD ever made about sailing, from the first moment you first climb aboard, to dropping anchor. While this program deals with a voyage made under sail, many of the techniques demonstrated apply equally to power boaters, to whom seamanship and navigation skills are as important as to the sailor. Every maneuver and technique is demonstrated clearly with plenty of close ups and action replays. Subjects covered include, basic navigation and planning a cruise, sail handling and sail trim, anchoring and docking, steering and boat handling, safety at sea, what to wear, moving around on deck, knots and rope work and much more.
Daysailors: Sailing & Racing (The Annapolis Book of Seamanship, Vol. 5)
Product DescriptionFeaturing world renonwned sailing expert John Rousmaniere. In this program, you will learn now to sail and enjoy the most popular of all sailboats - the keel daysailers and small keel sailing boats. Beginning with hull design, this program covers getting underway, boat handling and includes an introduction to the sport of sailboat racing. This program is packed with information inlcuding detailed close-ups, helpful graphics and a strong emphasis on safety. Subjects covered include, steering, tacking and jibing, how to shape the sails, life jacket type and use, crew organization, the spinnaker, essential racing skills, navigation rules and man overboard rescue.
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