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Description: leads you through the essential principles of safe, confident daysailing faster than ever. |
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Description:
Exhibits a lively, visual format with excellent charts, illustrations
and diagrams all working together to make navigating and piloting easy
to understand and apply. |
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Description: Opens the door to an exciting
new world by offering information essential for comfortable and enjoyable
cruising. |
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Description: Offers pertinent information
on docking, anchoring and basic navigation giving sailors the confidence
to bareboat charter in destinations that were once only distant dreams. |
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Description: Performance Racing Tactics Coursebook by Bill Gladstone.
The
most complete book on modern racing tactics. Performance Racing Tactics
takes you all the way around the course. The sixth edition covers
tactics, rules, weather, and strategy in 200 information-packed pages.
The fast moving, easy to follow format is accessible to all readers.
Rules are covered the way you use them - (ie upwind rules as part of
upwind tactics). The content offers complete information for neophytes
and insights which grab the attention of the saltiest dog. Quizzes and
skill building sections show how to develop a race winning approach.
Includes chapters by Peter Isler on Match Racing and from Ockam U on Performance Tactics.
View an excerpt from Chapter 3.
View an excerpt from Chapter 10.
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Description: Performance Racing TRIM Coursebook by Bill Gladstone.
To
win races you have to sail well and sail fast. Performance Racing Trim
shows you how. The North U Trim book treats boat speed and boat
handling topics in the same accessible style as Performance Racing
Tactics. The TRIM book gives complete coverage to upwind and downwind
sail trim and boat handling. Topics include helming, mainsail and genoa
trim, and the trim and handling of both conventional and asymmetric
spinnakers. Learn how angle of attack, depth and twist effect
performance. See how changes in pole position change spinnaker shape.
Understand you options for spinnaker takedowns. Special sections on
Trim Solutions solve the most baffling performance problems, while the
boat handling skills and drills show you how to turn your crew into a
team. Packed with illustrations, written to be read, the Trim book will
teach you techniques you can use in your next race.
View an excerpt from Chapter 8.
View an excerpt from Chapter 11. |
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