Asymmetric Sailing

Get the Most from Your Boat with Tips & Advice from Expert Sailors

Andy Rice (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

248 Seiten

2012
John Wiley & Sons Inc (Verlag)
978-0-470-97426-1 (ISBN)

Infos

Tips and advice from expert sailors to help you get the most from your asymmetric boat, whether you are a beginner or an advanced sailor.

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Learn the secrets of getting the most from your boat – whether you sail an entry level dinghy, high performance skiff, sportsboat or catamaran. Tips, advice and some great shortcuts from expert sailors in a wide range of classes gives you the inside knowledge to improve your techniques and get ahead of the fleet. There’s step-by-step guidance, and every stage of asymmetric sailing is covered, including rigging and tuning, hoists, gybes and drops, tactics, survival sailing and advanced skills for solo and crewed boats.

Autor

Andy Rice is a championship winning dinghy sailor. A spell in the British Olympic Squad led him to sailing journalism – he now writes for a number of dinghy and yacht racing magazines including Seahorse, Yachts and Yachting, Yachting World and Sailing World. He is editor of the go-faster website SailJuice.com, aimed at sailors who want to improve their skills, and owner of Sailing Intelligence, a specialist media agency for the sailing and marine market.

Inhalt

Introduction; Getting Started; Standard Moves; Advanced Moves; Survival Sailing; Avoiding Disaster; Broaching & Capsizing; Boatspeed; Racing: Tactics & Strategy; The Racing Rules; The Final Five Percent

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.8.2012
• Zusatzinfo: 246 Halftones, color
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 170 x 210 mm
• Gewicht: 538 g
• Einbandart: Paperback
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Segeln / Tauchen / Wassersport
• ISBN-10: 0-470-97426-5 / 0470974265
• ISBN-13: 978-0-470-97426-1 / 9780470974261
• Zustand: Neuware