Fast handling technique : a companion and extension to higher performance sailing / Frank Bethwaite.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bethwaite, Frank.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sailing.

Navigation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (526 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Bloomsbury, c2013.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

From the author of the bestselling High Performance Sailing and Higher Performance Sailing comes the first scientific analysis of what makes fast sailors fast. Eschewing the idea that luck or innate talent are the keys to success, Frank Bethwaite shows how knowledge truly is power. Making use of video cameras aligned to GPS read-outs to track the fastest racers, he meticulously analyses what winners do and how they do it, to show the rest of us how to get the best out of a racing craft. Frank Bethwaite's previous books were groundbreaking bibles that applied scientific theories to how sails an

Contents:

Cover; Title page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Foreword; Introduction; 1 THE HISTORY OF HANDLING; 1.1 Starting Point; 1.2 The Evolution of the Natural Handling Technique; 1.3 The Evolution of the Fast Handling Technique; 1.4 The First Big Change - The Big-Sail Era; 1.5 The Second Big Change - The Development of the Planing Sailboat; 1.6 Personal Recollections; 1.7 The Third Big Change - The Concept of Target Speed; 1.8 The Northbridge Sailing Club; 1.9 The Fourth Big Change - Synchronised Coordination of the Manoeuvre Routines; 1.10 The 1967/68 Era; 1.11 The 1969/2007 Era

1.12 The Fifth Big Change - Steer for Balance at the Stability Limit1.6 Clive Park clubhouse; 1.5 Merlin on Wanganui river, c1937; 1.4 Patiki in Sydney; 1.3 Patiki at speed; 1.2 Sydney skiff; Fig 1.1 New York sandbaggers racing; 2 SET-UP; 2.1 Set-up; 2.2 Source of Camber, Twist, Heading, Trim, and Speed Examples in Light Air; 2.3 Set-up in Light Air; 2.4 Camber in Light Air; 2.5 Effect of Twist; 2.6 Light Air Summary in Breeze; 2.7 Properties of Breeze; 2.8 The Design Wind; 2.9 Effect of Camber; 2.10 Twist to Windward in Breeze; 2.11 Set-up Progression

2.12 To Windward in 6 to 12 Knots (Object - Maximum VMG)2.13 To Windward in 12 to 25 Knots (Object - Maximum VMG - Upright); 2.14 Set-up Progression - 12 to 25 Knots; 2.15 Favourable Dynamic Changes; 2.16 Sailing Cross-wind; 2.17 Movement of the Apparent Wind when Reaching; 2.18 Camber when Reaching; 2.19 The Design Wind when Reaching; 2.20 As Full as Practicable; 2.21 When Heading for a Mark; 2.22 When Tacking Downwind; 2.23 Back to Light Air; 2.24 In Breeze; 2.25 New Game-Changing Designs; 2.26 Running - Basic Principles; 2.8 Dynamics of 49er gybe

3.15 Potential Advantage3.16 Summary Section re Gusts; 3.16 Gust footprint and sailors' tracks; 3.15 Upper Middle Harbour; 3.14 Brisbane River; 3.10 Heat and No Hills; 3.13 Evans Bay; 3.12 Visual summary of three winds; 3.6 The Spectrum of Unsteadiness, and the Energy of Heat; 3.11 U2A trace of light air heated; 3.10 U2A trace of 20 knot breeze, cooled; 3.9 U2A trace of 10 knot breeze, heated; 3.8 U2A trace of 10 knot breeze, cooled; 3.7 U2A trace of 6 knot breeze, heated; 3.6 U2A trace of 6 knot breeze cooled; 3.5 U2A trace of light air heated; 3.4 U2A trace of light air cooled

3.4 Smoothing Effect of Shallow Boundary Layers

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-4081-7860-5

1-4081-5593-1

OCLC:

847003518