Why Book Of Sailing

Scott Welty

• Publisher: Burford Books
• eBook ISBN:
  9781580805131
• Year: 2010

The science behind sailboats, told in layman's terms.

Table of contents

• Acknowledgments
• Foreword
• Introduction
• 1 Floating Alone—Archimedes
• 2 Moving Through Wind and Water—Using Vectors
• 3 The Nature of Force—More Vectors
• 4 Torque—A Leveraged Deal
• 5 Navigation and Piloting— Old and New
• 6 Batteries and Lightning
• 7 Waves
• 8 Optics, Illusions, and Rainbows
• 9 Conservation and Cruising
• A Final Word