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His family boasts no less than 3 olympic medallists and 3 world champions in 4 different classes. Teach sailing the fun way us sailing team raise fundraising app teamsnap team organization app books for the aspiring racer. Nothing could be more different than downwind speeds of 6 knots and 12 knots. In 2008 he followed this up with a further volume, higher performance sailing, also published by adlard coles nautical. Frank s new book higher performance sailing is not another edition of his high performance sailing book, it is a completely new title. Buy high performance sailing by frank bethwaite from waterstones today. High performance sailing 9780877424192 by bethwaite, frank and a great selection of similar new, used and collectible books available now at great prices. High performance sailing has become the standard reference work on high speed racing techniques. By means of extensive research, and working with sailors of different racing calibre, bethwaite analyses how to harness the apparent wind for increased speed and better position on your rivals. Fast handling technique by frank bethwaite books on.
Higher performance sailing is frank bethwaites second book explaining both the theory and the practice of apparent wind sailing aws. High performance sailing by frank bethwaite, 9781408124918, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. This book focuses on high performance sailcraft, but the lessons are applicable to almost any racing boat. Read higher performance sailing faster handling techniques by frank bethwaite available from rakuten kobo. Bethwaite provides many charts, graphs, and illustrations to support his observations on maximizing performance. This mindset the conviction that there is only one best way to handle a boat and that we already know it appears to affect the crews of all classes, from dinghies to 12metres. Groundbreaking in its thinking on boat speed, strategy and tactics, and timeless in its application, this second edition has been brought right up to date with new information, the discoveries from new boat testing and new developments.
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According to amazon, both consists of 448 pages and i believe they cover pretty much the same subject although the subtitle suggests that one of them is about boat handling while the others about racing. Robert lloyd, island sailing club one of the most readable books on the complex subject of sailing faster, and without doubt, a must for every racing sailor yachts and yachting some. During his time as the meteorologist for the australian sailing team at the 1976 summer olympics in montreal, quebec, canada, bethwaite collected copious wind data that led him to write his first book, high performance sailing. It presents revolutionary explanations of wind prediction and boat design, a fundamental rethinking of how to sail a boat fastliterally faster than the wind. Groundbreaking in its thinking on boat speed, strategy and tactics, and timeless in its application, it is a book which no serious racing yachtsman should be. Frank bethwaite has coached every level of wouldbe champion from basic to olympic standard. Higher performance sailing frank bethwaite monumental. Bethwaites revolutionary new work, higher performance sailing, will be a revelation and a godsend for. High vs higher performance sailing by frank bethwaite. Although this is a technical book, it is written for the layman.
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