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Boating For All - Navigation, boat-handling and
skill-builiding activities.
 Boating
For All is the sequel to the very popular Boating
Fun book.
Boating For All is aimed at 14 year
olds and up, and many adults will be tested by some of the activities
and experiments contained in both books.
Our two main aims of Boating Fun
and Boating For All are to make the practical and theoretical aspects of
boating understandable and “do-able” for young people and also introduce
ideas and activities in which the whole family can participate.
We hope this will increase everyone’s
skill and understanding levels, making boating safer, and bring families closer
enabling them to have
more boating fun together.
The yachting skills activity below is an example of the
content you will find in Boating For All.
Review from Jane Pares, Sail-World.com
Finally what you’ve all been looking for is right here between the covers of Mike and Dee Pignéguy’s - Boating For All – a book for everyone enthusiastic about being in a boat on the water.
It’s packed with interesting, useful, easy to read and to understand information on all things ‘boatie’, and although it’s been written with young people in mind, its content will appeal to all ages and levels of experience. The diagrams are colourful and explicit – giving clarity to the text and bringing it alive for the reader.
This book is much more than an enjoyable and informative read – it also has a variety of fun and fascinating activities that will appeal to young and old
alike:
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Boat handling skills – sail trim, how to stop your boat under sail, anchor under sail, man over board (MOB) exercises under sail & power, the dinghy, berthing your boat
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Navigation and chartwork – reading charts, finding your position, course to steer, using a hand-bearing compass, calculating your speed without any electronic equipment, tides explained
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Boating skills – tying the right knots, signals at sea, communications, buoys and beacons
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Enjoy a marine biology lesson, understand the weather, learn new terminology and many historical facts
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Food on board - try out some tasty new recipes
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And finally get stuck into some fun practical activities that everyone on board can do together and which will increase skill levels and knowledge of all things ‘boatie’
With nearly sixty years of messing around in boats and ships with their family and friends, the Pignéguys share their vast experience of boat life with such enthusiasm that this is one book you must have aboard!
...Anchoring Under Sail
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Adjust speed by spilling the wind from the mainsail
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Push the boom out or
rig a preventer to pull it
out to bring the boat
astern
Image from Pacific Yachting, August 2005 |
Anchoring Under sail is best not done in a crowded anchorage -
at
least not until you have had some practice.
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First, you have to know exactly where you want to drop your
anchor.
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Check that there is enough room for you to sail up into position.
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As you will be sailing into the wind, the mainsail will give you better
control so you can roll up or drop the jib.
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Approach the position on an angle so you can still use the mainsail but can
also loosen the mainsheet to spill the wind out of the sail (so it's
flapping).
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By pulling in and easing off the mainsheet, you will be able to control the
speed of your boat.
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Get the anchor ready to drop.
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Have the boat stopped and the bow into the wind at the anchorage position.
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Drop the anchor and allow the boat to drift downward while paying out the
anchor chain.
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You can help the boat to drift downwind by pushing out the mainsail boom on
one side.
This is sure to impress anyone who is watching!
Boating For All was published in October
2007.
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