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Hardcover This is racing: Tactics and strategy in action Book

ISBN: 0914814079

ISBN13: 9780914814078

This is racing: Tactics and strategy in action

This is an updated 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...

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Rated 5 stars
Great book for starter racer

I am new to racing and this book is a very good starting reference. It contains fundamentals of racing, rules, wind/tide. If I had this book I wouldnt have lost that dinghy race where I was inches away from the boat ahead but couldnt figure out how to pass him.

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Rated 5 stars
Great book for becoming the advanced racer

When I wrote my review of this book there was only one other, written by G.M. Kingsley III, which starts with the line: "This book isn't very popular, because it's old and because it's English.", which I found strange as not only was my first reading in a copy out of my local public library here on Long Island, NY. But it was also one of the few books the library had on the shelf dealing with the topic. I can only surmise,...

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Rated 5 stars
An excellent introduction to a great sport

This book isn't very popular, because it's old and because it's English. But, it's clearly written, profusely and clearly illustrated, and it covers the important points (tactics, wind shifts, etc) in a very organized and concise fashion. The book's main focus is one-design monohull dinghy racing -- the essence of the sport, in my opinion. And it doesn't have a lot of material on the racing rules, which is good because they...

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