QUB Sailing Club

Basic Sailing Theory

In these pages I will attempt to outline the basic knowledge required for sailing. As I amn't a particurlarly experienced sailor, half of what I write here will probably be wrong, so I've included a comments box for anybody who cares to make a correction.

N.B.  In the following pages, ordinary links are ordinary links, bold links are definitions, given below and italic links are explained in the same document that you are reading.  You'll see what I mean.

Parts of a Boat
How a Sail Works
Points of Sail
Manoeuvres
Other ?? [yet to think of a proper description for this]
Five Essentials
Give-Way Rules (simplified in the extreme)

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Last updated: 1115 Monday 17-08-1998.