By Don Casey

All you need to tackle virtually any canvaswork project, from sails and sail covers, flags, lee cloths and windscoops, to sprayhhods, cushion covers, boat covers and awnings.

144pp 320 drawings hb

by Bill Gladstone

This Quick Guide show you how to shape your sails for wind and sea conditions; correct excessive weather helm, poor pointing, sluggishness, exaggerated pitching, and other faults; achieve optimum sail trim and boat speed on and off the wind; depower your sails in strong winds with minimum performance loss; and properly set up and tune a masthead or fractional rig.

Waterproof, fold-out format.

History, Design, Techniques, Developments
by John Leather
Reissued 2009

The definitive reference for anyone designing, building, rigging or sailing either an existing gaff rigged craft or a new one. It outlines the practical aspects of the masts, spars, sails, running and standing rigging, and contrasts the development of gaff rig in Britain, America, Scandanavia and France.

Pb. 240pp, black and white photographs and diagrams.

RRP £29.99 OUR PRICE £23.99

by Peter Schweer
2011

This highly practical guide explains what sail trim is all about - how to achieve it and what its benefits are. Aimed at owners and crews sailing all types of boats, from dinghies to offshore cruisers, with either masthead or fractional rigs, it covers:
· mainsails and headsails
· trim for light airs, medium strength and strong winds
· trim for beating, reaching and running
· correct camber and mast rake
· weather helm – causes and cures
· easy reference trimming tables

'How to Trim Sails' will help racers and cruisers of all levels of experience get the best performance from their boats and sails.

112pp, paperback, photos and 2-colour diagrams, 3rd edition 2011.

RRP £14.99 OUR PRICE £11.99

An Illustrated Guide
2005

How to trim the jib or genoa on a yacht or dinghy. Jib trim is crucial to a boat's speed and this book de-mystifies the black art in plain language and with clear diagrams / photos.

by Felix Marks

An illustrated guide to successful mainsail trimming for power and acceleration on a yacht or a dinghy.

This book explains everything you need to know about fine mainsail control without blinding you with science. Sailing terminology has been reduced to the bare minimum and the book is concerned only with making your boat go as fast as possible.

High quality photographs and illustrations are used throughout to simplify this complex subject.

95pp, 210mm x 170mm, paperback, 2007.

RRP £13.99, OUR PRICE £11.00

By Stuart Walker
1990
American yacht racing guru, Stuart Walker, explains how to make a boat go fast using the sails and rig to maximum effect.

Pb 252pp

Cruising and Racing sail tips.

By Ian Nicolson

With 30 years experience in sailmaking, this book is a treasure trove of sail tips and ideas. From solving roller furling probl;ems to checking sail twist, curing chafe to stopping leech flutter, fitting luff foil protectors to preventing hank wear - there is something for everyone.
128pp 120 drwaings pb

RRP £10.99 OUR PRICE £8.99

By Bill Gladstone
6th Ed. 2003
Sail trim, boat speed and boat handling. A very comprehensive resource on boat speed and sail trim for the racing sailor.

Pb, 208pp, 210x280mm 100s illustrations!

By H.G.Hasler, J.K.McLeod

This book examines the design and aerodynamic theory behind junk rigs and how best to sail them.
'There is no better or more comprehensive work on the subject available' Sailing.

Pb 256pp 276x219mm 350 b/w line drawings

RRP £50.00 OUR PRICE £39.99

By D. Fabbroni
2008
covers every aspect of standing and running rigging on a boat, explaining the role of every part and how they influence eachother. Easy step-by-step guides explain how to choose and fit your equipment before going on to describe how to tune your rig to achieve better performance. Alternate configurations are examined and the bewildering array of lines simply explained. Where calculations are used they are kept easy and straightforward to understand.
Running Rigging, Backstay, Genoa Sheets, Genoa Cars, Main Sheet, Afterguys and Sheets, Halyards and Reefing Lines, Standing Rigging, Spreaders and mast Tuning, Winches

Pb. 184pp

RRP £14.99 OUR PRICE £11.99

By Brion Toss

The definitive book on the art of rigging and a classic in its field.

Covers mast stepping, inspecting and maintaining the rig, turning tailsplices and wire eyesplices - indeed the whole array of rigging.

'If there were room for only two 'How to' books on a boat, one of them should be the Rigging Handbook' - Yachting Monthly.

412pp, 800 drawings, hardback

RRP £40.00, OUR PRICE £32.00

2nd Ed.
By Ivar Dedekam

The best illustrated manual produced on tuning yacht and keelboat rigs, upwind and downwind sails. Very logical text and computer generated diagrams.

240x171mm 80p 152 diag. Pb.

RRP £13.99 OUR PRICE £11.50

By C. A. Marchaj
Revised edition 2003

This is the standard work on the subject and is now acclaimed as a milestone in sailing literature. It is a major work on the factors that contribute to an efficient sailing rig.

416pp, over 350 b/w line drawings, photographs. Hardback

RRP £45.00 OUR PRICE £36.00

Theory and Practice
Bt Peter Hahne
Re-issue 2010

This book demonstrates the skill of good sail trim with the aid of superb colour diagrams and photographs, to enable racers and cruisers alike to sail efficiently and get the most out of their boats.
Taking account of all types of wind condition the author explains:
aero and hydrodynamics; rig types;
the best way to rig a vessel; sail cloth and cut; the right trim for mainsail and smaller sails; sailing before the wind.

Pb. 128pp 216x128mm Colour throughout

RRP £14.99 OUR PRICE £11.99

by Rob Gibson

The RYA Sail Trim Handbook for Cruisers is an all new title and is crammed with useful tips and pointers on one of the fundamentals of good seamanship: sail trim. The book focuses more on the needs of the cruising sailor as opposed to the out and out racer. After all, a well trimmed cruising yacht will be better balanced, easier to handle, and will sail more comfortably. Sail trim can be bewildering to the novice, but the RYA Sail Trim Handbook talks you through the subject in an informative yet entertaining manner. The book is further enhanced by a range of clear, well thought out illustrations.

Paperback, 88pp, 2010

By Derek Harvey

All the information a boatowner needs to fully understand how sails work, and how to design, make, repair and modify them. Derek Harvey shows how it can be done more easily and accurately with the aid of the computer programs available free by post using the coupons in this book.

160pp, 50 b/w line drawings, 15 b/w photos, paperback

by Trower

This highly informative and detailed guide will be of real help to all yachtsmen, skippers and crew in understanding more about the sails and rigging of their boat.
Fully illustrated throughout with photographs and diagrams of sails and rigging equipment, their usage and how they look when in position on board boats.

128pp, hardback

by Emiliano Marino

This title has become a standard among self-reliant cruising sailors, boat builders and small boat enthusiasts. It combines hundreds of finely textured drawings with an authoritative commentary. It covers repairs, maintenance and understanding sails as well as making them.

Paperback, 494pp.

By Lawrie Smith & Andrew Preece

This major title cuts through the technical jargon of sailing theory to give a grasp of the principles that will make your sail go faster.

240x171mm 128p 94 b/w photos 31 diag. Pb

RRP £12.95 OUR PRICE £10.45

2nd Ed.
Trim to Perfection
By Mark Chisnell

One of the world's best sailors demystifies the black art of sail trim. See how to set the sails and use them properly in all wind strengths.

240x171mm 96p 108 photos. 28 diag. Pb

RRP £12.95 OUR PRICE £10.50

By John Heyes

For yachts and dinghies, including asymetric spinnakers. Plus a useful 'faultfinder' chapter.

244x185mm 112p 263 b/w photos 23 diag. Pb.

RRP £14.99 OUR PRICE £11.99

Trim and techniques for cruising sailors

by Peter Nielsen

A practical book in full colour throughout (photos and drawings) based on a highly-rated series of articles in Yachting Monthly magazine. Written for cruising sailors rather than racing types, it covers every aspect of how sails interact with the wind and the boat's hull with the aim of helping the reader get the very best out of his sails.

Includes how sails work, essential sail trim tips, boat balance, keeping moving in light airs, heavy weather trim, and techniques, spinnakers for cruising, tuning the rig, reefing system improvements, running rigging, troubleshooting and care.

Paperback, 160pp.

RRP £22.00 OUR PRICE £17.99

This double CD set puts performance in action and shows how changes in trim change the sailing performance of your boat. Use the interactive 'sail shaper' to see how different sail controls change sail shapes, understand how to adjust angle of attack, depth and twist to match different sailing conditions. Detailed trim guidelines are provided for mainsail, jib, genoa, spinnaker and asymmetric spinnaker trim.

T. Widden
America's Cup sailor Tom Widden provides on-the-water instruction on trimming, launching, gybing, dousing and packing. This program demonstrates spinnaker handling for both cruising and racing chutes and provides pointers to crew positions when handling spinnakers and the effect of changing the height and angle of the spinnaker pole. As president of North Sails, he is also a mine of information on sails and rigging.
60 min.

Presented by Peter Bateman, this film helps you to trim sails more effectively and make the boat go faster. Combines graphics with on-board photography.
Covers Genoas, Mainsails and Spinnakers how to view the shape, adjust the shape, trimm to balance the helm, how to make the boat accelerate, get the best boatspeed and pointing ability to windward, how to maximise the spinnaker set for downwind speed and how to control it in heavy weather.
34 mins