A big shout out to our buddy Jon Emmett who is launching his spanking new sailing book at the Boat Show this weekend, called Be Your Own Sailing Coach. We like the title, mainly because we can’t afford to hire our own coach.

Team Madcap have actually got a bit of an exclusive on this one - Jon has kindly sent us a couple of chapters of the book to publish on the blog, so keep your eyes peeled for those in the next week or two.

The book is in the post to us as I write this (it’ll probably beat us to Palma at this rate) so we’ll post a review of Be Your Own Sailing Coach as soon as we’ve ploughed through it… which might be a while - I think it is about 300 pages long (and Jonny left school too early).

Congratulations Jon, I’m sure it will be a raging success and a regular on every sailors’ bookshelf.

You can join Jon’s Be Your Own Sailing Coach Facebook page or see it featured on the Wiley publishing site.