A very well-written, basic sailing book is The Essential Sailor, by Jim
Saltonstall. Beyond that, the USSailing books are pretty good, but have some
deficits. The ASA books are a bit better technically, but lack the
readability of the USSailing ones. Then, of course, there are the biggies
like Chapmans and The Annopolis Book of Seamanship.

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"RogueIT" wrote in message
ps.com...
Looking for a little advise on what I could read to get a good overall
knowledge of sailing. I plan on taking a power squadron class but would
like to know more than nothing before I get there. In fact I know I
don't know anything so that is something...right?

Any advise would be great.
thanks,
Scott