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Title: Sailor's Wind by Stuart H. Walker ISBN: 0-393-04555-2 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: May, 1998 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $37.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (2 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Reminds me of a college textbook
Comment: While, I'm sure a lot of what Dr. Walker writes about is groundbreaking stuff and no where else will you find the detailed decriptions of winds at various major racing locations, I found this book very technical and difficult to read. I was constantly referring to the glossary to see what terms meant. I finally went and bought Wind Strategy by David Houghton and High Performance Sailing by Frank Bethwaite, both of which I found easier to read.
Rating: 4
Summary: Worth wading through the complex prose !
Comment: Worth at least ten places at last week's 60th anniversary Lightning regatta at Skaneateles in the New York Finger Lakes region. ( 175 or so boats in three fleets, 87 boats in our fleet)
All those little thermal downslope lifts coming off the side streams... 180 degree wind shift from downslope thermal to gradient wind right before leeward mark....just exactly as Walker described !
Alexander P. Vucelic (first season skipper)
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Title: Advanced Racing Tactics by Stuart H. Walker ISBN: 0393303330 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: October, 1992 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: High Performance Sailing by Frank Bethwaite ISBN: 0070057990 Publisher: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 1996 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: The Tactics of Small Boat Racing by Stuart H. Walker, Carol H. Little ISBN: 0393308014 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: November, 1991 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Championship Tactics : How Anyone Can Sail Faster, Smarter, and Win Races by Gary L. Jobson, Tom Whidden, Adam Loory, Bill King ISBN: 0312042787 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 15 July, 1990 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Sail Performance : Techniques to Maximize Sail Power by Czesaw A. Marchaj ISBN: 0071413103 Publisher: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press Pub. Date: 10 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $54.95 |
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