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| Championship Laser Racing Book |
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Description:
Championship Laser Racing, Bourke
Also recommended: The Complete Book of Laser Sailing, Tillman (Item # BOOKCLS)
Price: $18.95
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| Winning In One Designs |
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Description:
Written in Dave Perry's easy to read, friendly style. Packed with practical and common sense tips that are easy to understand and remember. Accurate drawings help make his points. Topical sections are, "Preparation", "Developing Boatspeed", "Tactics for Starting and Finishing", "Tactics for Racing Upwind and Downwind", "Helpful Tips and Racing in Current", "The Psychology in Racing", and "Safety". A great book for the novice or advanced racer. Soft back. 293 pages
Price: $24.95
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| Racing Trim Book |
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"Performance Racing Trim" by Bill Gladstone. 200 pages of easy to follow information packed pages. Many diagrams and clear language covering the latest in fractional and masthead sail trim, boat speed, helmsmanship, and boat handling. Upwind and downwind boat handling, upwind sail trim and helming, spinnaker handling, and spinnaker trim. Includes sections on asymmetrical spinnakers. A special Trim Solutions section offers solutions to the most baffling problems in upwind performance.
Price: $25.00
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| Racing Tactics by Gladstone |
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"Performance Racing Tactics" by Bill Gladstone. Fifth edition.180 pages of easy to follow information packed pages. Many diagrams and clear language covering Tactics, rules, weather and strategy. Quizzes and skill building sections show how to develop a race winning approach. This book will make the saltiest dog smile from a new twist and still guide the neophyte nicely. Fun book.
Price: $25.00
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| Sailor's Wind Book |
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Description:
"Sailor's Wind" by Stuart Walker.
This is the book you've been asking for. This book helps to neutralize the "home court advantage" that most travelers face. It has in depth looks at the wind conditions at many of the major regatta sites including Long Island Sound, Marblehead, Rochester, St. Petersburg, Chesapeake Bay, Miami, and the NY Finger lakes. If you're a road warrior you need this book.
Price: $37.50
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| "Sailing Smart" Book by Melges |
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Description:
"Sailing Smart" Book by Melges
Price: $15.00
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| Optimist Racing |
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This book is about winning. In it, you will learn the secrets of the top Optimist sailors. What gear you need. Setting up the boat. Blinding boatspeed. Unbeatable boat handling. A tough mind and body. How your parents can help. How your coach can support you.
Price: $16.95
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| Learning to Sail Book |
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Description:
Learning to Sail
By Diane Goodman & Ian Brodie.
The Annapolis Sailing School guide for basic sailing instruction featuring proven, encouraging techniques geared toward young sailors ages 10 and up. Clear, simple, and easy to understand lessons tested and refined by thousands of students. Paperback, 208 pages, 1994.
Price: $12.95
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| Keelboat & Sportboat Racing |
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Description:
"Keelboat & Sportsboat Racing" By Glyn Charles. A must for the new assymetrical spinnaker boats. Handles important aspects of how to get (and keep) your boat on a plane, under control, and going Fast. From an author who realizes rig tuning, spinnaker and boat handling are simply not the same on a Tartan 30 as on a J80 or Melges 24.
Price: $18.95
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| Helming to Win |
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Description:
"Crewing to Win" By Smith & Pinnell. "Helming to Win" By Smith & Pinnell. If you liked "Crewing to Win", "Helming to Win" is a natural addition to your sailing library. Both written in clear, straightforward language, "Crewing to Win" covers pre-race through during the race responsibilities while "Helming to Win" does the same from a skipper's point of view. It makes sense to buy and read these together.
Price: $18.95
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