Includes the new question catalog of the Sports Boat License Regulation, which came into effect on June 1, 2017. This successful sailing textbook provides all the teaching and examination material for the legally required inland license for boats under sail and motor. It is methodically structured, systematically organized, visually appealing through the combination of color, photos, and graphics, practical, and written in an easily understandable manner. It also contains the 300 official exam questions with model answers for direct exam preparation and a sailing glossary with 260 terms. Content includes: Seamanship tasks: ropes, knots, boat maintenance, boat transport; Theory of sailing: direction and course designations, windward and leeward tendencies, displacement and planing, courses to the wind; Practice of sailing: setting sails, sail trimming, lowering sails, tacking, gybing.