Catamaran Sailing : From Start to Finish

Fast, inexpensive, versatile, and exciting, catamarans are one of America’s most popular pleasure crafts.

Here is a complete course in catamaran sailing for the beginner and the semi-experienced sailor who wants to become more skilled in the arts of tuning, handling, and racing cats. It includes sections on buying a cat, learning the basics, heavy weather sailing, mastering the fine points, racing tactics, surfing, and more. A new chapter on how to use high-performance sails covers how to use spinnakers, reachers, screechers and fathead mainsails.