Racing: A Beginner's Guide
Become a Successful Competitive Sailor (For All Classes of Boat)
Published on 20. April 2007
112 pages
978-1-912177-61-5 (ISBN)
Description
This book will give a flying start to your competitive sailing career. Whatever class of boat you sail and whatever your experience, these principles will ensure you are at the front of the fleet and better prepared than the opposition. The book is illustrated with stunning step-by-step photographs, and common racing pitfalls are highlighted. Starting with the basics of choosing which boat to race and where to race it, you will be introduced to the rules of racing and learn about rigging, tactics, training, strategy and tuning your boat. Racing is aimed at helms and crew - their skills are complementary and a fast boat is one with a good team on board.
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John Caig is a twice Fireball World Champion and a former Topper National and European Champion. He was a member of the British Olympic Yachting Team.
Content
- Intro
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Choosing a Boat
- What is a Race?
- The course
- Handicap racing
- Basic Racing Rules
- The need for racing rules
- Alternative penalties
- Protests
- Golden rules
- Your First Race
- The start
- The first beat
- The reach
- The run
- The finish
- What did you think of it?
- Golden rules
- Helming and Crewing Skills
- Tacking
- Gybing
- Beating
- Reaching
- Running
- Rounding marks
- Starting
- Golden rules
- Boat Preparation and Equipment
- Hull preparation
- The foils
- Mast and rigging
- Gear and systems
- General maintenance
- Golden rules
- Tactics
- Wind shadow
- Dirty wind
- Lee-bow effect
- The start
- The gate start
- Tactics on the beat
- Tactics on the reach
- Tactics on the run
- Tactics at the finish
- Golden rules
- Strategy
- Short beats
- Current
- General strategy on the beat
- Windshifts and windbends
- One-sided beats
- Strategy on the reach
- Strategy on the run
- Strategy at the finish
- Golden rules
- Tuning
- General requirements
- What are we trying to do?
- What do all the controls do?
- Initial set-up onshore
- Initial set-up on water
- Adjusting the rig for various windstrengths
- Golden rules
- The Spinnaker
- Spinnaker gear
- Raising and lowering the spinnaker
- Running
- Reaching
- Gybing the spinnaker
- Golden rules
- The Asymmetric Spinnaker
- Advantages
- Disadvantages
- Rigging your asymmetric
- Equipment
- Setting
- Gybing
- Tactics
- Rules
- Golden rules
- Glossary
- Visual Signals Used in Racing
