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Higher Performance Sailing |
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Higher Performance Sailing By Frank Bethwaite 512 Pages Based on 25 years of research and Olympic coaching, Higher Performance Sailing reinvents the strategies of sailboat racing. It presents revolutionary explanations of wind prediction. and boat design, a fundamental rethinking of how to sail a boat fast—literally faster than the wind. Bethwaite's theories boosted the average speed of the highest-performance sailboats from two-thirds the windspeed to windspeed or faster. Bethwaite is Australia's most successful Olympic coach, and his family includes three Olympic sailing champions and three world champions. This book will have a revolutionary impact on racing sailboats and the way they are sailed. "Essential for any serious racing sailor." —Gary Jobson |
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Racing: A Beginner's Manual, 3rd Edition |
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Racing: A Beginner's Manual, 3rd Edition By: John Caig and Tim Davidson 100 Pages Make the jump from cruising to racing with this beginner's manual. Step-by-step training for dinghy sailors who are ready to start racing. It shows basics in rules, strategy and tactics. Learn starting tactics, successfully getting around a race course and avoiding conflicts. Fully illustrated with color photos and diagrams. |
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Sails for Racing |
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Sails for Racing By: John Heyes 112 Pages For both dinghies and yachts, symmetric and asymmetic spinnakers. Performance starts with your sails, and are essential for success. Shows how to develop sails to match your rig. Sections show how sails work and how to trim them on every point of sail. Even a faultfinder chapter to solve common problems. |
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Keelboat & Sportboat Racing |
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Keelboat and Sportboat Racing By: Glyn Charles 96 Pages Olympic star helmsman explains how to go fast in conventional keelboats and the new sportboats. Covers how the rig works and proper adjustment for conditions, using all-purpose sails across the full wind range, how to sail fast in a straight line, how to use waves, tacking and gybing properly, handling a spinnaker (be it asymmetric or conventional) and a variety of hosts and drops, and when to use them. |
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Race Training: Coach Yourself to Success |
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Race Training: Coach Yourself to Success By: Rick White 160 Pages By practicing in this structured way, the author guarantees that you will sail faster, better and smarter - and will ultimately win races. The drills apply to all types of boat - monohulls, multihulls and sailboards. The equipment needed is minimal - the only thing you really need is the desire to improve your performance. Race training is divided into major sections: Boat handling, starting, mark rounding, tactics and finishing. Each section has pre-thoughts on what you're trying to achieve, followed by carefully designed drills. |
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Sail Power - The Science of Speed |
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Sail Power: The Science of Speed By: Lawrie Smith and Andrew Preece 128 Pages Boatspeed really does make you a tactical genius. Lawrie Smith and Andrew Preece are two of the fastest sailors in the business, what makes them so fast? We asked them, and their answers from the text of this book. They identify the key elements of boat speed, explain the theory of each - so you understand what you're trying to do - then show you how to use you're new knowledge to sail blisteringly fast. You'll find, like them, that its more fun at the front of the fleet. |
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Sailboat Racing with Greg Fisher |
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Sailboat Racing with Greg Fisher By: Tom Hubbell 170 Pages Take some tips from one-design veteran and multiple class champion, Greg Fisher. Through a combination of how-tos and enlightening anecdotes, this packed-with-photos book will be your go-to guide when you decide to up your level of performance and fun. |
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Faster & Faster |
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Faster & Faster By Bob Fisher and Barry Pickthall 105 Pages The story of the 1993-94 Whitbread Round the world race (Now the Volvo Ocean Race), one of the highest profile yachting events in the world because of it's intense competitiveness, testing conditions, staggering expensive campaign and, most of all, its high caliber sailors. With accounts from crews from various boats competing, Fisher and Pickthall have covered in detail every thrilling race since the first in 1973. With spectacular action photography, the magic and excitement of this grueling race is captured. |
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Sailing Drills |
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Sailing Drills: How to Sail Better, Faster, Smarter, Safer By: Rick White 160 Pages This book finally compiles under one cover most of the sailing drills used by coaches around the world. It summarizes neatly most of the work required in sailing to get the boat to behave the way you want. The authors have literally dissected sailing into individual skills and then given you the drills to improve those dissected skills. |
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Tuning Yachts and Small Keelboats |
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Tuning Yachts and Small Keelboats By: Lawrie Smith 63 Pages This book starts off with a step-by-step guide to setting up fractional and masthead rigs - checking the fittings, putting the mast in the right place and assembling the standing rigging. Then its time to go sailing, and get down to some serious tuning. The author looks at the rig controls, and shows how to adjust them for the condition of the moment. With the rig set up, he turns his attention to the sails, and explains how to trim them for maximum efficiency on every point of sailing. He shows you the sail shape to aim at, why it works, and hw to achieve it. In short, how to make your boat the fastest on the water. |
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