Sailing in a Nutshell - A Treatise in a Small Compass (Mariner's) on the Sea and How to Sail About it

by Patrick Boyle

This classic book is a comprehensive and accessible guide to yachting, with information on all aspects of the sport form buying a yacht to navigation. Carefully selected for a modern readership, this timeless volume will be of considerable utility to anyone with a practical interest in boating or sailing, and would make for a fantastic addition to collections of related literature. Contents "Author's Note", "What's What in Yachts", "Buying a Yacht", "Fitting Out", "Sailing", "Sea English", "Moorings", "Cruising", "On Running Aground", "Navigation", "Signalling", "Gadgets in the Yacht", "The Sailing Club", "The Complete Yachtsman", etc. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on sailing.

134 pages, Paperback

First published May 19, 2011

About the author

Boyle was born in 1905 in Ballymoney, Co. Antrim. He worked for the Ulster Bank in Donegal and Wexford. He began writing when he was in his forties. His first collection of short stories, At Night All Cats are Grey, was published in 1966. He also wrote a novel, Like Any Other Man, published in the same year. These two books were followed by two more collections of stories, All Looks Yellow to the Jaundiced Eye (1969), and A View from Calvary (1976). He was a member of the Irish Academy of Letters. He died in 1982.