Stress-free sailing : single and short-handed techniques / Duncan Wells.

Includes index.

Introduction & philosophy -- Skills & disciplines -- Making the berth your own -- Casting off -- Coming alongside -- Sailing, heaving & reefing -- Mooring buoys -- Anchoring -- Weather -- Heavy weather sailing strategy -- Navigation -- Man overboard strategy.

Tried and tested shorthanded solutions for dealing with everything from getting off and then back onto the dock in a variety of wind and tide configurations, sail setting and reefing, mooring and anchoring, to sailing in heavy weather and new techniques for man overboard, all clearly illustrated with straightforward diagrams and sequence photos. Over 20 QR codes dotted throughout the book link to online video demonstrations to bring the techniques to life.