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This is a guide teaching all the skills to ensure accomplished and enjoyable yacht racing. It contains comments on the latest racing rules and original race-winning tactics and discusses the psychology and strategy of competition, course and weather tactics, and the geometry of the race course. It takes you step-by-step through pre-race preparation and then through each decision point from start to finish of the course. It explains the many facets that make a winning boat, be it a 12-foot dinghy or an ocean racer. The book is written from experience gained in top-class competition and assumes that the reader will be sailing a boat that is crewed and tuned to be fully competitive.
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This Is Racing, Richard Creagh Osborne
- Language
- Released
- 1977
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- Book condition
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- Title
- This Is Racing
- Subtitle
- Tactics And Strategy In Action
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Richard Creagh Osborne
- Publisher
- Nautical Pub. Co.
- Released
- 1977
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 179
- ISBN10
- 0245530703
- ISBN13
- 9780245530708
- Series
- Description
- This is a guide teaching all the skills to ensure accomplished and enjoyable yacht racing. It contains comments on the latest racing rules and original race-winning tactics and discusses the psychology and strategy of competition, course and weather tactics, and the geometry of the race course. It takes you step-by-step through pre-race preparation and then through each decision point from start to finish of the course. It explains the many facets that make a winning boat, be it a 12-foot dinghy or an ocean racer. The book is written from experience gained in top-class competition and assumes that the reader will be sailing a boat that is crewed and tuned to be fully competitive.