Synopsis
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.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Getting Started
Standard Moves
Advanced Moves
Survival Sailing
Avoiding Disaster
Broaching & Capsizing
Boatspeed
Racing: Tactics & Strategy
The Racing Rules
The Final Five Percent
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About the Author
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.
From the Back Cover
Feel the need for speed with ASYMMETRIC SAILING
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 ans some great shortcuts from expert sailors in a wide range of classes gives you the inside knowledge to 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
- SOLO AND CREWED
- SURVIVAL SAILING
- ADVANCED SKILLS
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