Sail and Rig Tuning by Ivar Dedekam Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Sail and Rig Tuning
Book Review: Almost perfect
Summary: 4 Stars
A super book, great illustrations, very srtaightforward approach to explaining sails and rigging. Glossary could be bette but not much.Book Review: Best book for the non-mathematical
Summary: 4 Stars
If you could buy only one book on sailing, have moderate experience and enough common sense not to do things that will obviously damage the hull or hurt the crew, this would probably be it.
It is not perfect, in the sense that there is no engineering math, but it's so good that, having lost my copy, I'm buying a replacement now.
Book Review: Clear & Concise
Summary: 5 Stars
The excellent ilustrations in this book make it stand apart. Easy to understand, a great reference to refer back to. Also includes problems with lists of solutions. For example, too much weather helm has solutions like 1) tighten outhaul 2) reduce mast rake etc.Book Review: Clear and Concise...
Summary: 5 Stars
Ivar is right about this being the best illustrated manual. The concise, easy to understand text followed by beautifully understandably illustrations, have taken sail and rig tuning for me out of the black arts. Amazing how he fits all of this into an 80 page paperback....which makes it easier to fit into your seabag.Book Review: Excellent on tuning, not so good on engineering.
Summary: 4 Stars
I brought this book to check the rigging on a boat that I want to build.
The diagrams are very clear and the book is concise and easy to read.
While this book was helpful it was not really what I was after.
I see this book being great for those sailors who want to win races.