Driscoll J. Improve Your Sailing IQ - The Dry-Land Workout to Improve Your Skills on the Water

Barron''s Educational Series, 2003. — 128 p.Few sailors can claim they have nothing more to learn about sailing, and this innovative book will help them all sharpen their skills. Improve Your Sailing IQ offers advice to sailors at every skill level, giving them the chance to dream their way through countless hours on the water. It will also help them discover just how knowledgeable they actually are about the sport. Here is valuable and simple-to-digest instruction on all aspects of sailing from one of the sport’s top instructional writers. He introduces each situation in an easy question-and-answer format, posing a problem, allowing readers to work through it, then providing an expert answer. Readers improve their sailing skill simply by thinking about the details of sailing and working out hypothetical problems. Instruction has never been this easy—or this much fun!
About the Author John Driscoll lives in England’s Lake District. He started teaching sailing during university vacations and developed his coaching skills with the Royal Yachting Association before becoming its Principal National Coach. John’s own sailing has ranged from sailboards and single-handed dinghies to offshore cruising and ocean racing. He has sailed in many parts of the world, including the Caribbean, Hong Kong’s waters, and the South Pacific.