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the winner's guide to optimist sailing
€28,00
the winner’s guide to optimist sailing
€28,00
Subtitle: tune your boat and your skills – enhance your racing tactics – master starts and finishes – understand the racing rules – ideal for beginning and advanced sailors and coaches
Author: jobson g. kehoe j.
Publisher: international marine (mcgraw hill education)
The International Optimist is the largest youth one-design sailing class in the world, with 400000 boats registered in more than 95 countries. “The Winner’s Guide to Optimist Sailing” is the most comprehensive guide to this popular boat ever written. Its step-by-step format is perfect for young sailors and special sections offer advice for parents and coaches. Written by champion sailors and sailing coaches Gary Jobson and Jay Kehoe, “The Winner’s Guide to Optimist Sailing” gives you everything you need to know about:
– equipment, lines and useful knots
– basic sailing tips, including where to sit, how to launch and land, tacking, jibing and rules of the road
– weather awareness
– more advanced sailing skills (going faster!)
– racing, including starts, upwind tactics, finishes and dealing with protests
– practicing alone or in groups
– opti events, including tips for parents, plus scholastic and collegi
ate sailing and the Olympics
Edition: 2004
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