Higher performance sailing

Monumental!' - Bob Ross, Australian Sailing High Performance Sailing is now regarded as the bible of racing sailors and carries a string of endorsements from high achievers. Since its publication in 1984, racing yachts and dinghies have developed out of all recognition - a new high-tech breed of 'apparent wind' fast racers has claimed the water and so far no-one has applied themselves seriously to analysing what makes these boats sail fast (and what will make them faster). This is Frank Bethwaite's ground-breaking achievement in Higher Performance Sailing . By means of extensive research, and.

Subtitle on cover: faster handling techniques.

Includes index.

Cover; Title page; Table of Contents; List of Tables; List of Illustrations; Introduction; PART ONE ø%Perspective; Chapter 1 €%The Origins of High Performance; 1.1 Summary; 1.2 The first 4000 years; 1.3 The century of bigger sails -- 1800 to 1900; 1.4 The sandbaggers of New York; 1.5 The North American inland lakes; 1.6 The skiffs of Sydney; The Planing Explosion -- 1895 to 1905; 1.7 England -- first stirrings and private planing; 1.8 New Zealand -- Arch Logan, and the Patikis of Auckland; 1.9 Canada -- Herrick Duggan and the lake scows of Montreal; 1.10 The trickle-through decades -- 1900 to 1950.

1.11 The South African interest1.12 New Zealand after 1905; 1.13 The English scene; 1.14 The first half of the apparent wind revolution -- 1970 to 1990; 2.1 Scope; 2.2 Fastest sailcraft: Iceboats by Buddy Melges; 2.3 Fastest waterborne: Sailboard by Finian Maynard; 2.4 Recent fastest waterborne: Triscaphe by Lindsay Cunningham; 2.5 Fastest practical foilborne: The Flying Moths by Dr Ian Ward; 2.6 Fastest foilborne: The trifoilers by George C Chapman; Chapter 2 €%The State of the Extreme Arts; PART TWO ø%Wind; Foreword to Chapters 3-6; 3.1 The wind's driving force; The Wind at the Surfa…