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How to Maintain Your Sailboat
Travel and Leisure: Sailing • Published: February 7, 2012
Learn to sail like a pro when you keep your sailboat shipshape and "squared away". Save tons of money on repairs, sailing gear replacement, and go sailing more. Use these seven top sailing tips to stay ahead of the sailboat maintenance game today!
Learn to Sail for Newbies - Five Low Cost Ways to Go Sailing!
Travel and Leisure: Sailing • Published: January 31, 2012
Do you want to learn to sail, without the high price of sailing schools? In these tough times, we all are looking for free or almost free. And you can sail for free or almost free with five simple sailing tips you can put into play today!
Three Sailing Tips for Safer Sailing Today!
Travel and Leisure: Sailing • Published: January 24, 2012
What sailing tips could you put into play today to make your small sailboat a safer platform for her sailing crew? Do your inexperienced crew members know the body motions they must use for safety at sea? Follow this simple sailing safety advice and pass it along to your crew.
Learn to Sail for Newbies - Sailboat Cabin Terms You Need to Know
Travel and Leisure: Sailing • Published: January 18, 2012
Learn to sail in no time when you understand the sailboat terms that relate to your sailboat cabin. With this new knowledge, you'll be on your way to become an "old salt" in no time!
The Top 5 Anchoring Tips
Travel and Leisure: Sailing • Published: December 29, 2011
What five anchoring tips rank right up there as the most important for sailing safety? Follow these five super sailing tips before you drop the hook. Gain peace-of-mind that your boat anchor will keep you and your crew safe and sound--wherever in the world you choose to cruise!
Learn to Sail for Newbies - What Are Your Sailing Goals This Off-Season?
Travel and Leisure: Sailing • Published: December 19, 2011
Have you put away thoughts of sailing for another season? If you want to learn to sail, challenge yourself to these three sailing education goals that will cost you nothing. Your sailing knowledge will soar to new heights faster than your ever thought possible!
How to Tie Marine Knots
Travel and Leisure: Sailing • Published: December 15, 2011
Learn how to tie marine knots fast and easy when you understand parts of a sailing rope and the techniques for tying a knot. Follow this simple "getting started" guide to tie any knot aboard your boat fast and easy!
How Far Can I Sail in a Day?
Travel and Leisure: Sailing • Published: December 8, 2011
How far you can sail in 24 hours? If you want to go on a sailing cruise, you need this sailing skill so that you can carry enough food, water, fuel, and sailing gear for your sailing crew. Use these simple sailing tips.
Three Sail Care Tips to Save You Money
Travel and Leisure: Sailing • Published: November 30, 2011
Learn to sail like a pro with these cost saving sail care tips. If you want to learn how to sail like a pro, then you need to know the best way to keep your sailboat sails in great shape.The last thing you want are sails that don't provide you with speed, power, and performance.Make this simple inspection before the sailing season begins and after it ends.
How to Become a Pro at Docking a Sailboat
Travel and Leisure: Sailing • Published: November 22, 2011
If you want to learn to sail well, docking a sailboat will be one skill you will need. After all, after you go sailing, you will need to bring your sailboat back to the dock and tie her up.
Learn to Sail for Newbies - Do You Know These Sailing Terms?
Travel and Leisure: Sailing • Published: November 15, 2011
Learn to sail in the off season when you study the sailing terms used aboard sailboats everywhere. Here are a handful of common terms and sailing tips to get you started!
Learn to Sail - How to Use Sails to Steer a Sailboat!
Travel and Leisure: Sailing • Published: November 7, 2011
If you want to learn to sail like a pro, you will want to try out one of sailings most fun and useful exercises - sailing without a rudder. The rudder on your boat lies exposed and vulnerable to all kinds of underwater obstructions, like stumps, sand bars (if you go aground), and debris. Tillers have few moving parts, but the rudder post can get jammed, which will keep the rudder pulled to one side.
How to Adjust a Sailboat's Main Sail on Reaches
Travel and Leisure: Sailing • Published: November 1, 2011
If you want to learn to sail well, you need to be able to adjust a boat's mainsail on reaching points of sail. Learn how to do this fast and easy with these easy sailing tips.
Dock a Boat Like a Pro - How to Use Your Boat's "Pivot Point"
Travel and Leisure: Sailing • Published: October 25, 2011
If you want to learn to sail like a pro, you will need to be able to maneuver with skill under power too. Dock a boat like a pro when you know your boat's pivot point. have you ever dropped something over the side, like a fender, and had to turn your boat around to try and recover it? Or needed to make a sharp turn into a slip?
How to Adjust Sails
Travel and Leisure: Sailing • Published: October 19, 2011
When you first learn to sail, you will need to know the seven sailing controls that help you move your sails up and down, or from side to side. Check out these easy sailing tips to learn how you can beat the pants off the competition on race night or make faster passages when cruising.
Learn to Sail for Newbies - Ten Sailing Terms for Wheel, Tiller, And Compass
Travel and Leisure: Sailing • Published: October 11, 2011
Learn to sail fast and easy when you understand the sailing tip terms used by sailors worldwide. Here are ten sailing terms that will show you the devices used to steer your boat and sail a compass course. And, you will discover how some magical instruments will even steer your small cruising sailboat for you!
Heavy Weather Sailing - Reef Your Mainsail Before You Head Upwind!
Travel and Leisure: Sailing • Published: October 4, 2011
If you want to learn to sail like a pro, you will want to avoid one of the most common mistakes made by new and veteran sailors alike. Is it pinching too close to the wind? Nope! Or having your sails sheeted in too tight? Not at all! Read on to learn this little-known sailing tip to boost your knowledge to a whole new level!
Downwind Sailing Can Be Fun and Easy!
Travel and Leisure: Sailing • Published: September 27, 2011
Have you experienced the thrill and wonder of downwind sailing? The wind and seas are behind you as you whoosh along like a surfer on a wave. Learn to sail when the wind blows from astern with these easy sailing tips!
Learn to Sail With Magic Shroud Telltales
Travel and Leisure: Sailing • Published: September 21, 2011
If you are anything like me, you are always on the lookout for sailing tips that make sailing easier with less effort. When you first learn to sail, it can be tough to "see the wind". You can feel the wind on your cheek or the back of your neck. But how can you see it? One small sailing helper can help you do this. And it costs just pennies too!
Sailing - What Is Coastal Navigation?
Travel and Leisure: Sailing • Published: September 12, 2011
What does it mean to have the confidence to go sailing and make sure that your boat stays in safe water? Coastal navigation solves this fast and easy. It's fun, challenging, and will make you a better sailor and sailing skipper. Read on for this intro on what navigation along a coastline means.
How to Find Latitude and Longitude on a Nautical Chart
Travel and Leisure: Sailing • Published: August 23, 2011
Any GPS receiver will find Latitude and Longitude along your sailing routes at any moment. But as a skipper, have you plotted this information onto a nautical chart to check your position? Boost your sailing navigation skills to the next level with this vital sailing skill!
Learn to Sail for Newbies - Can You "See" the Sailing Wind?
Travel and Leisure: Sailing • Published: August 16, 2011
If you are anything like me, when you first learn to sail, it can be a bit confusing to "see" or visualize just where the wind comes from. You might learn how to use sail telltales--short pieces of yarn or ribbon that attach to the leading edge of a sail. But there's a much better way that will make you a better, more independent sailor. And you will be much more in tune with the wind and waves.
How to Reef a Main Sail in Five Easy Steps!
Travel and Leisure: Sailing • Published: August 9, 2011
Did you know that you can get your boat to sail better and faster when you reef the main sail? You might think that reefing sails was just for sailing in heavy winds. But often, your boat will sail smoother, faster, and easier with this simple, easy-to-use technique. Here are five fast steps to put this super sailing technique into play on your sailboat today!
Learn to Sail for Newbies - Running Before the Wind in Seven Simple Steps
Travel and Leisure: Sailing • Published: July 29, 2011
If you want to learn to sail like a pro, you will want to spend a lot of time running before the wind--which means you have the wind blowing over the stern of the boat. This can be sailing's most relaxing point of sail. But it also requires a lot of good concentration by the person steering the boat. Follow these seven simple sailing tips.
Learn to Sail for Newbies - Three Steps to Sail in Gusty Sailing Winds!
Travel and Leisure: Sailing • Published: July 22, 2011
If you are anything like me, when I first learned how to sail, I hoped that all the days would be perfect, sunny, with light breezes and flat-as-a-pancake water. Sounds like a picture postcard, right? But what do you do when the winds get gusty? Follow three secret sailing tips.
