Championship Dinghy Sailing
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Championship Tactics
| Author | : Gary Jobson |
| Publisher | : Macmillan |
| Total Pages | : 376 |
| Release | : 1990-07-15 |
| Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
| ISBN | : 9780312042783 |
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!
Golden Lily
| Author | : Lijia Xu |
| Publisher | : Fernhurst Books Limited |
| Total Pages | : 238 |
| Release | : 2016-03-01 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1909911798 |
The fascinating autobiography from Asia's first ever dinghy sailing gold medallist. Learning to sail and becoming a full-time athlete at just 10 years old, Lijia Xu was taken away from her parents and enrolled on the gruelling Chinese training regime, a programme meticulously prescribed across all sporting disciplines to catapult the nation's talented youngsters to international champions. A rare insight into a shocking world of relentless physical training and unquestioning mental compliance, Lijia's honest and heart-felt account takes you on her journey from physical disabilities and debilitating injuries to learning to think for herself, eventually going on to achieve her dream of becoming an Olympic gold medallist. This is an inspirational story of a young woman's will to succeed despite all that her background threw at her.
Expert Dinghy and Keelboat Racing
| Author | : Paul Elvstrøm |
| Publisher | : Crown |
| Total Pages | : 342 |
| Release | : 1968 |
| Genre | : Dinghies |
| ISBN | : |
Des Townson
| Author | : Brian Peet |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2019 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9780473481070 |
Des Townson was a yacht designer and boatbuilder who possessed an analytical mind, an innate feel for sailing boats and a wonderful eye for their visual balance. During a five decade long design career he produced some of the most eye-catching, easily handled and well performing maritime craft to ever grace New Zealand waters. The fact he was self-taught and worked almost his entire career alone only intensifies the achievements of this remarkable man. His own recollections and those of his family, close friends and associates combined with photos, boat plans and press reports, ensure a detailed record of his impact on the New Zealand sailing scene is preserved. Des Townson's legacy continues to this day through the thousands of yachts still bearing his name.
Understanding the Racing Rules of Sailing
| Author | : Dave Perry |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 356 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
| ISBN | : 9781882502899 |
Tuning to Win
| Author | : Ian Pinnell |
| Publisher | : Fernhurst Books Limited |
| Total Pages | : 290 |
| Release | : 2016-09-13 |
| Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
| ISBN | : 190991181X |
For most sailors, boat tuning may seem a mystery understood only by sailmakers and the like. In this book, sailor, chandler and championship winner, Ian Pinnell, unravels this daunting subject and will help improve your boatspeed as a result. Since most races are won or lost by a difference of less than 2% of racing time, you will soon be moving up the fleet. With hundreds of photos and diagrams to illustrate every point, the book clearly explains what each control does and how to set it up optimally for different conditions. Additional troubleshooting and skills sections take things even further, making this the bible of dinghy tuning.
Tuning Your Dinghy
| Author | : Lawrie Smith |
| Publisher | : Wiley |
| Total Pages | : 64 |
| Release | : 1991-01-16 |
| Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
| ISBN | : 9780906754184 |
Tuning your Dinghy throws a bright light on the black art of boat tuning. Here is a logical, systematic approach to the problem of setting up your boat and fine-tuning it for maximum speed on all points of sailing. A 'troubleshooting' section at the back of the book shows how to pinpoint and cure specific weaknesses in your boat's performance. Tuning your Dinghy is part of the Sail to Win series - books by world-class sailors and sailing coaches which take a fresh look at the complex subject of racing. Each book gives the detailed expert advice that the competent sailor must have to overcome the "club racer" barrier and compete successfully in international fleets. The emphasis is on practical, effective advice presented in a straightforward, highly illustrated manner.
Be Your Own Sailing Coach
| Author | : Jon Emmett |
| Publisher | : Fernhurst Books Limited |
| Total Pages | : 323 |
| Release | : 2008-03-07 |
| Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
| ISBN | : 111831560X |
If you want to win races you need to get organised! This unique guide shows you how to set your overall sailing goals, and breaks them down into manageable – yet stretching – mini-goals. Jon Emmett breaks racing down into 20 key skills (such as speed to windward and tactics) and, with detailed analysis of key techniques, uses a step-by-step guide to explain how to highlight your own strengths and weaknesses, and how you can improve each skill. This book will help you get to the front of the fleet, whether your goal is to win at club, open, national or international level. You will get tips from Olympic racers, and learn their approaches to each key skill; improve you sailing technique in manageable stages; and discover how to set goals and create the action plans to achieve them. Along the way you will find advice from Olympic sailors and exercises to turn you into a winner, with contributions from Paul Goodison, Simon Hiscocks and Joe Glanfield.
