Go for the gold;: Somebody has to lose ... but why you?

Go for the Gold is no ordinary textbook on sailboat racing. If you spend most of your time worrying about intricate equipment and sophisticated tactics, this may be just the book you need to get you out of that swamp. Mr. Hoyt, World Sunfish Class Champion in 1970, tells you how you - not your boat - can make the difference in winning sailboat races. This book, the author writes, was "conceived in audacity and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created beatable...Go for the Gold is an attempt to jostle you into the realization that winning or placing better is, as much as anything, a state of mind, an attitude. This winning attitude is neither as simple as the power of positive thinking nor as complex as you have probably come to fear. My modest aim is to try to help you pull your game together, to home-in on those areas where just a small improvement will yield big yards, and places at the finish." You will likely find more straight talk in this book than in any other sailing book you have ever read. Mr. Hoyt makes his points in a wonderfully readable style, handsomely illustrated with his own pen-and-ink drawings.