Top tips from the world's most successful Olympic sailor
by Sir Ben Ainslie CBE
ISBN: 9781912621026
Pub Date: 2020-04-03
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Fernhurst Books
84 Pages
The world’s most successful Olympic sailor’s only how-to book, revealing the secrets that won Sir Ben Ainslie his first gold medal. An invaluable guide as to how to perform at the top of the Laser class or, indeed, any single-handed sailing dinghy. Brimming with photos, this is a colourful and detailed account of how to dominate in your fleet.
Learn how to sail the world’s most popular junior sailing boat fast. Originally written by Ben Ainslie’s Optimist coach, this new edition has been completely updated by top coach Steve Irish. It shows how to achieve blistering boatspeed through technique and tuning, perfect boat handling and tactics as well as covering the mental and physical side.
Training exercises for solo boats, groups and those with a coach
by Jon Emmett
ISBN: 9781912177219
Pub Date: 2019-04-05
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Fernhurst Books
80 Pages
A book of training exercises for each element of a sailing race. Each exercise is described, illustrated and explained (the skills you are trying to improve and how to make it harder or easier). It will enable coaches to deliver better training sessions and those without a coach to train themselves, either alone or with groups of other boats.
Explains simply what tactics you can apply around the race track with advice for the beginner, intermediate and advanced sailor. Individual boats are given names to allow easy understanding. Individual chapters take you around the racecourse, from before you get on the water, through the pre-start, start, different legs and manoeuvres.
The ultimate crewing manual from a gold medal winning crew. Covering getting started as a crew and team, the particular skills a crew needs and how these can be utilised on the race course, along with the other roles, communication, decision making and execution that are needed during a race. Shows you how you can be the best crew and a great team!
A tactical bible for sailboat races from the highly original and multi-championship winning author. Nick Craig, shows you how to develop a strategy and what tactics to adopt on every leg and at every mark of the course.
The wind powers everything a sailor does and Wind Strategy has been helping sailors understand it since 1986, now fully updated for modern forecasting.
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