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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 797.124
EAN: 9780393032963
Edition: 1st
ISBN: 0393032965
Label: W. W. Norton & Company
Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 251
Publication Date: 1985-06
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Studio: W. W. Norton & Company
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A guide for racing covers the principles of sail trim, crew movement techniques, maneuvers, and control systems, and gives advice on adjusting to special conditions.
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I have read this book and I will keep it for those moments I want to go to the real deep fundamentals or.... when I cannot sleep.
It is a classic and almost required to have in the bookcase but if you want a practical book on trim don't buy this book. Very dense and in an engineering way made complicated where simplicity is the answer.
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I would be hugely pleased to have the author of this book on my sailboat at any time... partly because he clearly knows a lot of things I want to know and partly because it's sometimes hard getting it out of the book. There are little supporting statements missing here and there that can pose knock-out obstacles to your average sailor reader (including me, a 50 year amateur). I read and re-read and infer and glean and hypothesize and maybe I get it. But afterward it's clear that a simple sentence ... Read More
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Walker's book has withstood the test of time. First published over 20 years ago, it remains an active seller on Amazon for good reason. The Manual of Sail Trim is detailed and thorough. In fact, it strength is also its weakness.
Walker presents the physics and science of sail trim in a very prescriptive manner. Problems are described and solutions prescribed. The writing is precise and technical. Walker approaches sailing and sail trim as a scientific problem; describe the problem, collect ... Read More
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This is not a book to read once and then go sailing and win. At least for me, I had to read a chapter or two, go out and try it, the read and repeat. The bit that helped me the most was the theory of the vang. I've used it for downwind legs to hold the boom down but not for upwind. With a bendy mast you can open up the leach by using the vang on the upwind legs too. It pushes the mast forward and induces a bend. With a stiff mast it closes off the leach. It's just one more control that I wasn't using well.
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Walker's sail trim book is a cookbook of sailtrims. I found the information that I had lacked from this book so it is useful for sail racers. The organization of the book is poor - information conserning some topic is hiddened to 2-3 places and is difficult to find due to poor table of contents and short of index. The book is mostly for dinghies(?) because vang sheeting was always used and often the only solution for correct trim. Backstay, or runners was only mentioned few times. About checkstays I could not ... Read More
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