Sailing Made Easy: Told in Pictures

Sailing Made Easy: Told in Pictures by Rufus G Smith. Published by Dodd Mead & Co, NY, 1952. 2nd Edition. Hardbound w/Paper DJ. Size 8vo. Condition: Nr Fine in Chipped DJ. Age wear to edges of cloth covering boards, overall content excellent. This famous picture book has been complete reset, in a new more practical format. This edition takes the new yachtsman step by step right from the beginning. Terms and expressions are defined and identified pictorially, preparations for the first sail are make, and the mooring cast off. The various points of sailing are described and pictured, the rules of the road explained and the boat brought back to her mooring again. With special photographs by Walter Civardi, Instructor in Photography, School of Fine and Applied Art, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY. 96 Pgs. Description text copyright 2007 www.BooksForComfort.com. Item ID 15446.