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RYA Dinghy Techniques

by Beth Ingason, RYA Publications 10 Jun 2011 15:42 BST

As part of our efforts to help everyone improve their dinghy sailing regardless of experience, RYA Publications has released RYA Dinghy Techniques, written by renowned author Jeremy Evans.

Featuring seven experts sailing six popular modern single-handed and twin-crewed dinghies, this is for sailors who want to develop their knowledge, understanding and sailing expertise.

RYA Dinghy Techniques is filled with the top tips, secrets and advice that every dinghy sailor craves, and will arm you with the following new skills so that you are itching to get out on the water:

  • Preparing your boat, self and crew
  • Reading the wind
  • Sheeting, tweaking and trimming,
  • Points of sailing and maximum speed
  • Spinnaker sailing
  • Helm/crew communications
  • Turning negatives into positives
  • Understanding the inner game
Buy RYA Dinghy Sailing Techniques at the RYA Shop

Review

In my view Dinghy Techniques will help an enormous number of dinghy sailors to improve their boat handling. Breaking each manoeuvre down into stages, each one illustrated perfectly with photos and explained clearly makes the book easy to use - an invaluable tool for anyone wishing to up their game… Martin Wadhams, Managing Director of RS Sailing, June 2011

Prize draw courtesy of Rutland Watersports and RS Sailing

To accompany this book RYA Publications has teamed up with Rutland Watersports and RS Sailing to provide one lucky reader with a day of personal training in any two of the five RS training boats (RS Tera, RS Q’BA, RS Feva, RS Vision and RS 500). This will need to be taken before 31 December 2011.

Buy now to be in with a chance of receiving one of the limited advance copies before the main stock arrives at the end of June 2011.

To enter this prize draw all you need to do is buy a copy of RYA Dinghy Techniques, priced at £13.99, through the RYA shop, and a winner will be selected at random by RYA Publications.

There is just one entry per person and there is no reflection in the number of copies bought.

15% discount for RYA members, competition closes 31 July 2011.

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