Yachtsman's Omnibus: Learning to Sail; Learning to Race; Learning to Cruise

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1959 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Light blue cloth with silver titles, 3 volumes in one: xxiv, 345 pp; xviii, 319 pp; xiv, 286 pp; numerous illustrations in all three volumes. Lacks rear free end paper, otherwise good with moderate rubbing of extremities, soiling to bottom edge near fore-edge, and a small tear to tail of spine. Learning to Sail is aimed at the "landlubber," according to the foreword. "It begins at the beginning, and gives just enough information to enable anyone to take out a small boat and bring her back in safety." Contents: selection of a boat; mooring; vocabulary; preliminary warnings; useful knots; bending and hoisting sail; reefing; theory of sailing; before the wind; sailing to windward; reaching; making and clearing a dock or mooring; helmsmanship; ballast and trim; seventeen ways to get into trouble; seventeen or more ways to get out of trouble; capsizing; what to do in a thunderstorm; sailing in a tideway; laying to; waves; coastwise navigation; marlinespike seamanship; standing and running rigging; light sails; right of way; handling the dinghy; care of the hull; care of sails; winter storage and care; fitting out; the haul-out. Learning to Race covers rules and conditions of racing; tuning up; aerodynamics; crew; starting under various conditions; sailing to windward, reaching, and running; turning; opportunism - tides, currents, wind, wind shifts, and other factors; tactics - how boats interfere with one another, blanketing, back-winding, broken water, breaking through, general strategy; distance racing; putting the boat to bed; sportsmanship. Learning to Cruise is about cruising along the coast while living aboard: philosophy; requisites of a cruiser; rigging; the yawl and ketch; the schooner; the sloop and cutter; the auxiliary motor; lights; food and cooking; water; sleep; plumbing; equipment; fire prevention; keeping dry; navigation; the dinghy problem; anchoring; evening chores; cruising outside; etiquette; night sailing; companions; racing; the organized cruise; routine; seamanship. Shipping weight 3 lbs. (International 2 lbs., 4 oz.). . 21 X 14 cm.