This book is about learning to sail. It follows the techniques perfected
at the world-famous Annapolis Sailing School, where thousands of people
just like you have learned to take tiller in hand and harness the wind.
You'll learn your way around a boat--what its parts are called, what
they do, and how to use them to ride the wind wherever you want to go.
Read this book, spend some time on a boat, and practice your new skills,
and pretty soon you'll be a sailor, one of a select group of people
who think there's nothing finer than hiking out to windward in a
close-hauled dinghy--racing against friends or a neighboring sailing
club, or alone and just for the fun of it.