Chrysler Sailors Forum

Hey,

I was wondering if anyone has a recommendation for some good literature on sail trim?
I was looking at Don Guillette's books on sail trim and was wondering if anyone has read those?
http://www.sailtrimproducts.com/sail_tr ... guide.html

Thanks,
Adam

Adam

I may have limited sailing time... none at all, but I know a good book when I see one. I have Mr. Guillette's book on sail trim, tons of information that even I can understand.

Terrence
Wilmington N.C.
Chrysler 26' 1980
Pandora (for now)

Thanks for letting me know.
Do you know where you ordered them from?


Adam

This one from Ivar Dedekam is quite good:

http://www.amazon.com/Sail-Rig-Tuning-I ... 1898660670

Ken Textor's New Book of Sail Trim is not bad:

http://www.amazon.com/New-Book-Sail-Tri ... 774&sr=1-2

North Sails has the North U Trim Book about 1/3 down the page at:

http://www.northu.com/nu/NU_catalog.taf ... ategory=21

The best book I have found is called "illustrated sail & rig tuning" by Ivar Dedekam, I think it's available from www.wileynautical.com , I picked it up on amazon for next to Nothing, there are also seamanship and navigation books in the same series. There are tons of illustrations and it's real easy to understand..

Yes, that's the Dedekam book I posted the link to. It's great, isn't it?

I'll need to add my smile to this list, the Dedekam book is also in my collection.

Terrence
Wilmington NC
Chrysler 26' 1980
Pandora (for now)

My name is Ivar
I'm an engine driver....

Thanks for the info guys, ordered some today.

Adam

My book is not on Sail Trimming. More of a Sailing manual, rules of the road, sailboat owners type manual.

Chapman's "The Boaters Handbook" Fourth Revised Edition.

I also have one done by the US Coast Guard. This could be a good book but I find myself waking up about 3 hours after I started reading the book. It does not fail, I've never gotten past 3 pages and I'm out. Sure fire cure for insomnia.

Thanks
Alan

ROFLMAO

That's was an amazing book I read this book couple of months ago, Did you guys are interesting in a novel or storytelling book? let me know if anyone of you is interesting to talk about novels.
I mostly purchased the book from Alibris I found a discount code for Alibris by using Alibris coupons you can get discounts and free shipping.

This is an old post, but if anyone is still looking for help on sail trim check out "Sailaway" https://sailaway.world/ . It is about $15.00 I think converts from Euro. The best thing is it tells you what you need to do to make the sails the most efficient. It will also do it for you and explain what it did. It has a few different boat for you to play with. From the basic to a full blown ocean cruiser. I have been using it for a while and find it sorta relaxing. It uses real wind/weather, currents and time of day. I was shocked the first time I sailed from Port Arthur to Tampa, 7 days!