From the author of the bestselling High Performance Sailing
and Higher Performance Sailing comes the first scientific analysis of what
makes fast sailors fast. Rejecting 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 and
hulls interact with wind and water to influence boat speed. But whilst they
applied scientific theories to boat construction, they didn't apply science to
practical boat handling. This book fills that gap, and then goes further.
Budding racers of all levels will welcome this unique book as a godsend. It
will inform, instruct and enable them to employ the techniques (and timing) of
the most successful racers, and make racing more competitive for participants,
and more exciting for those of us watching.