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	Positioning: The Logic of Sailboat Racing In association with Amazon.com by: Stuart H. Walker List Price: $45.00 Amazon.com's Price: $38.47 You Save: $6.53 (15%) as of 11/21/2009 23:22 EST Used Price: $33.88 Third Party New Price: $33.88 Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours This item ships for FREE with Super Saver Shipping. Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 797.14 EAN: 9780393033397 Edition: 1st ISBN: 0393033392 Label: W. W. Norton & Company Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 320 Publication Date: May 01, 1992 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Studio: W. W. Norton & Company Related Items: Mainsail Trimming: An Illustrated Guide (Wiley Nautical) Jib Trimming: An Illustrated Guide Understanding the Racing Rules of Sailing 2009-2012 Sailing Smart: Winning Techniques, Tactics, And Strategies A Manual of Sail Trim see more Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Customer Reviews Average Rating: Rating: - Lots of your racing "why" answered During the race, you see WHAT others are doing. This book provided me with lots of explanations about WHY the best racers are doing what they are doing - a kind of explanations you so rarely can get from other racers, coaches, etc. Invaluable for self-training. Rating: - Racing Tactics This is the best of the Dr. Walker books. It's a concise treatice on all the tactical elements needed for around the buoys racing. Rating: - Best of the Walker books! This is the book by Stuart Walker which cleared a lot of things up for me -- I go back to it constantly, especially when there are areas of my racing that I want cleared up a bit. As he likes to do, the author has plenty of real-race situations from which he draws his experience. This one is out of print, but keep checking out-of-print sources; it is well worth the search! Rating: - An integrated, thorough approach to race strategy Dr Walker's book, Positioning, has provided me with an integrated and logical framework with which to formulate my own racing strategy. The categorisation of beats and runs into category I, II or III conditions and a thorough discusion of the principles pertinent to each, greatly simplify the process of data collection and effective strategic decision making during a race. The book is made very readable by Dr Walker's use of interesting examples from races in soling yachts conducted at a high ... Read More		Boat Design.Net Design Award Top Rated Sites Most Popular Sites What's New Boat Plans Books Designers Boatbuilders Materials Powerboats Catamarans Propulsion Sailboats Multihulls Software Resources Random Site My Links Gallery Forums Search
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