This is racing: Tactics and strategy in action

This is an updated guide teaching all the skills to ensure accomplished and enjoyable yacht racing. It contains comments on the latest racing rules and original race-winning tactics and discusses the psychology and strategy of competition, course and weather tactics and the geometry of the race course. It takes you step-by-step through pre-race preparation and then through each decision point from start to finish of the course. It explains the many facets that make a winning boat be it a 12-foot dingy or an ocean racer. The book is written from experience gained in top-class competition and assumes that the reader will be sailing a boat that is crewed and tuned to be fully competitive.