This is Racing: Tactics and Strategy in Action

by RichardCreagh-Osborne (Author)

• Used

  Hardcover
  1977

  $3.30

• Used

  Paperback
  1989

  $3.30

  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 facets that make a winning boat be it a 12-foot dingy 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.

• Used

  Hardcover
  1977

  $3.30