Re: [Cal_Boats] Re: Shore power wiring

Thanks for the book links - I'm going to check into them today. With all the snow we're getting here - I'm starting think spring/summer is never going to come. Over 24 inches in 2 days and it's still coming down. ---- Marsh Wise <ma… [at] reenactor.net> wrote: >stupid yahoo messed up the book links... Here they are fixed (BTW, w/ >yahoogroups, it helps to put url links in html brackets, like this <> ). >:-) Marsh > >* > ><http://www.amazon.com/Royces-Sailing-Illustrated-Vol-Sailors/dp/0911284087/> > >* > ><http://www.amazon.com/Chapman-Piloting-Seamanship-Small-Handling/dp/158816232X> > > >mtkennedy1 wrote: > >>--- In Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com, Chris Campbell <clcampbell@...> wrote: >> >> >>>Erin & Chris Dawley wrote: >>> >>> >>>>We've never sailed before and are so anxious for May 1st to come. >>>>We've been waiting since August, staring at our boat longingly and >>>>sitting on it pretending we're on the water and reading, reading, >>>>reading fo we can have somewhat of an idea of what is involved. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>If you're really never sailed before, I'd suggest that you either find >>>an experienced person to go along on your first sails, or go sailing on >>>somebody else's boat a few times. >>> >>> >> >>I would go beyond this to suggest sailing lessons at a competent sailing school. That is >>what I did and I wound up friends with the instructor who owned the school for years >>after. When I was going to crew in the first long distance race I had been in, the boat >>owner and I went to this same instructor for lessons in navigation. I had also taken several >>Power Squadron courses which are invaluable in navigation and theory of sailing. There >>was also a little book that every sailor I knew had a copy of. It is still in print and I highly >>recommend it. >> >> >> >>Has everything you need to know in the first 10 years you are sailing. Patrick Royce had a >>sailing school in Newport Beach. It doesn't say so in the biographies but he taught >>Humphrey Bogart to sail. I'd suggest that book plus Chapmans >> >> >> >>You don't really need the latest edition of Chapmans but you should have a copy. >> >>Mike Kennedy >>Conquest Cal 40 # 96 >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>Yahoo! Groups Links >> >> >> >> >> >>