Download or read book Championship Tactics written by Gary Jobson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1990-07-15 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Championship Tactics gives expert advice in a collection of stories from the greatest sailing races of recent decades, and includes profusely diagrammed professional secrets that even the Wednesday-night club racer can use. All boat racers will benefit from this professional collection of tips!
Download or read book Advanced Racing Tactics written by Stuart H. Walker and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1986-05 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Possibly the best book on racing tactics ever written." --Ted Jones, Dolphin Book Club News
Download or read book The Complete Sailing Manual 4th Edition written by Steve Sleight and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-06-06 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether you're a novice or experienced skipper, everything you need to know about sailing is in this ebook. A market leader in sailing guides, the fourth edition of The Complete Sailing Manual is packed with informative text from former British national champion Steve Sleight, and includes a foreword by Olympic gold medalist Sir Ben Ainslie. Steve Sleight's expert advice is brought to life with breathtaking action photography and clear illustrations. This invaluable e-guide offers extensive coverage of sailing practice, including foiling catamarans, apparent wind sailing, long-distance cruising, and electronic navigation. From tying knots and boat care to vital equipment, learn all you need to know to become a sailor and boat owner. Further your understanding of the sport and develop your technique with information on the science and physics of sailing a boat. The Complete Sailing Manual also shows you how to become a confident competitor with tips on the etiquette, rules, and techniques of racing a course. Includes essential information, handy diagrams, and step-by-step artwork.
Download or read book The Complete Sailing Manual written by Steve Sleight and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only sailing manual you will ever need, covering everything from sailing basics to making repairs and mastering navigation. The undisputed market leader in sailing guides, this fully revised and updated sailing manual, with a foreword by quadruple Olympic gold medallist Sir Ben Ainslie, answers questions about any sailing situation, with thorough coverage of all aspects of sailing and boat ownership. In DK's The Complete Sailing Manual, former British national champion Steve Sleight offers a wealth of expert advice and guidance in the form of a complete course on seamanship, which is brought to life with breathtaking action photography and clear instructions. Fully revised, this new edition features all of the latest developments in sailing--including foiling, long-distance cruising, and high-speed apparent-wind sailing--and navigation, with technology such as modern performance systems and electronic navigation. It also highlights the latest rules, regulations, and best practices necessary for every avid sailor, from the novice to the seasoned seaperson. Includes essential information, handy diagrams, and step-by-step illustrations, The Complete Sailing Manual is the ultimate sailing ebook to keep by your side when you're out on the waves.
Download or read book Plot Your Course to Adventure written by Roger Olson and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2004-05 with total page 671 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Driving down the glamorous Las Vegas Strip, Bryce Hartman is plotting revenge against his former boss, the powerful governor of Nevada. Three thousand miles away, in Washington, D.C., Peter Holden, a two-bit lobbyist, will soon be doing the same. Long silenced by Governor Logan Key, they alone suspect the dark secret he hides, one that threatens a multimillionaire Las Vegas casino baron who will stop at nothing to protect his interests. When Albert Tom, a young Paiute Indian, discovers a body in the desert, he tells his story to reporter Mike Stanton. Now Stanton must uncover a web of deceit and murder stretching from Las Vegas to Washington, two cities where power, greed and illusion are the real games of chance.
Download or read book Cruising World written by and published by . This book was released on 1992-01 with total page 1816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Sailing Bible written by Jeremy Evans and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-06-28 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sailing Bible is the complete, hands-on manual packed with detailed step-by-step diagrams, lively action photos, and helpful advice on getting the most out of your sailing at whatever level. Whether you are a dinghy or yacht sailor just learning the basics or wanting tips on sailing with the best, this is the book that will give you all the answers you are looking for. It's all in here! -What type of dinghy or yacht? -Cruising and racing -Launching, helming and capsizing -Mastering the trapeze -Sailing with a spinnaker -Managing a crew -Reading the weather -Racing techniques and tactics -Buoyage, tides, charts and navigation -Anchoring and marina berthing -Knots, ropes and flags -Boat etiquette and seamanship -Rules of the road, safety and emergencies -Boat maintenance and repair and much more... This second edition has been revised throughout and brought completely up-to-date, including new techniques and new approaches to navigation, first aid and berthing. 'It's a beautifully designed book, with glossy photos, diagrams and clear text, and a great read whether you're just starting out or looking to improve your skills' Practical Boat Owner 'Lavishly illustrated, sharp photography ... a first-class introductory text' Yachting Monthly
Download or read book Fundamentals Of Sailing Cruising And Racing Revised And Expanded written by Stephen Colgate and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1996-03-05 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Removes the mystery of sailing and reduces sailing techniques to basic, simple principles.
Download or read book Cruising With Class written by Stan Zimmerman and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2007-02-26 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many beginning sailors soon yearn for a larger boat - with a galley, head and berths - so they can extend their time on the water and range of action. However, the simple mechanics of sailing do not include the variety of arts necessary to cruise successfully. Cruising (with) Class began as a series of lectures at the Sarasota (Florida) Sailing Squadron with the intention of teaching basic skills to beginning cruisers. Comfort on the water is not a matter of soft cushions. It comes from confidence in the ability to voyage safely. Reading the weather, planting the anchor, calculating the tides, navigating a coast, avoiding fatigue, choosing equipment, coping with storms, reacting to disasters, these are the arts of a cruiser. Although the book calls on the author's 25 years of cruising small sailboats, it is not a travelogue. Instead, it is a precise iteration of lessons learned the hard way, and presented in sailor-to-sailor fashion so others can avoid disaster and find comfort bred in confidence on the water.
Download or read book Cruising World written by and published by . This book was released on 2008-10 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hand Reef and Steer 2nd edition written by Tom Cunliffe and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-07-14 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Hand, Reef & Steer - winner of the Best Book of the Sea Award - Tom explains the different sailing characteristics of classic craft and shares his grasp of the special skills required to handle them. He describes how to handle heavy loads using tackles rather than winches and reveals the mysteries of making the boat work for you rather than fighting with her gear. He shares step by step advice on setting up the rig; sail handling skills (hoisting, setting and reefing) heavy and light air sailing; manouevring a long-keel boat; losing way, scandalizing and steering with sails, topsails, watersails, single-luff spinnakers and fisherman staysails; and much, much more. Hand, Reef & Steer, with its wonderful watercolour drawings and atmospheric photos, will delight all who love the unique character and grace of classic craft. 'Superb' Cruising 'A delightful book' WoodenBoat
Download or read book Training to Win written by Jon Emmett and published by Fernhurst Books Limited. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gold medal winning coach, Jon Emmett works with sailors and coaches around the world and is frequently asked things like: 'What is a good exercise to improve this?' 'Why do we do this exercise?' 'How do we make the exercise more / less difficult?' This book is the answer to those frequently asked questions. It contains training exercises for each element of a sailing race. As well as describing and illustrating the exercise, it tells you what skills you are trying to improve, why and how to make the exercise harder or easier. The book will enable coaches to deliver better, more focussed, training sessions, but it will also help sailors who don't have the benefit of a coach to practise and improve their sailing skills. The exercises are marked as to whether they are suitable for solo boats, groups of boats or those with a coach boat. As Aristotle said: "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act, but a habit." Armed with this book, get out, do some training and improve your sailing skills!
Download or read book Cruising World written by and published by . This book was released on 2008-03 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Yachting written by and published by . This book was released on 1982-03 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Positioning written by Stuart H Walker and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1992-05-05 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every racing sailor is involved in strategic decision making. The author will take you through the elements that determine racing factors: wind direction, velocity, temperature, stability, current strength, and direction. This is a masterful guide to winning.
Download or read book The Aero and Hydromechanics of Keel Yachts written by J.W. Slooff and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-04-25 with total page 645 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How and why does sail boat performance depend on the configuration and trim of boat and sails? This book provides the yachtsman with answers in a relatively straightforward account of the physical mechanisms of sailing. It presents an accessible overview of the fluid dynamic aspects of sailing and sailing technology, addressing both aeromechanics and hydromechanics. Readers are provided with the basic principles of physics and general mechanics that will assist their understanding of the fluid mechanics of sailing yachts. Rich appendices cover not only in-depth,mathematical-physical treatments and derivations for those wishing to explore further, but also helpful summaries of basic mathematical notions for those wishing to refresh their knowledge. This work explores keel yachts, specifically single-masted mono-hulls with ‘fore-and-aft’, Bermuda-rigged sails. However, much of it is applicable to other types of sailing vessels such as multi-hulls, yachts with multiple masts, windsurf boards and the like. Yachtsmen, yacht designers and professionals of sailing technology will all find something of interest in this work which provides explanations of the mechanics of sailing in a way that is scientifically justified, whilst remaining appealing to those wishing to use their knowledge on-board a sailing vessel. For some years I’m teaching a course on “Sailing Yacht Design” in the master class of yacht design. Actually, I’ve found your book the best one about physics of a sailing yacht I’ve ever read. Edward Canepa, assistant professor in Fluid Machinery at the University of Genova (Italy) ...very impressed, no wonder it took so long. It is “everything I ever wanted to know about sailing but was afraid to ask” ! Frank Woodward, former computational fluid dynamicist at the Boeing Company and Analytical Methods Inc., and a cruising yachtsman
Download or read book The Anatomy of Sail written by Nic Compton and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2015-04-21 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This beautifully illustrated reference work for all boat lovers is an encyclopedic treasure trove of fascinating detail about every element of a yacht, from keel to binnacle, wheel and mast.
