Fast Handling Technique

Frank Bethwaite

• Publisher: Thomas Reed
• Year: 2013
• eBook ISBN:
  9781408178607
• Print ISBN:
  9781408154168
• Edition: 1

From the author of the bestselling High Performance Sailing and Higher Performance Sailing comes the first scientific analysis of what makes fast sailors fast. Eschewing 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 welcomethis unique book as a godsend. It will inform, instruct and enable them toemploy the techniques (and timing) of the most successful racers, and make racingmore competitive for participants, and more exciting for those of us watching.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• Foreword
• Introduction
• 1 THE HISTORY OF HANDLING
• 2 SET-UP
• 3 THE REAL WIND
• 4 FAST HANDLING TECHNIQUE
• 5 LEARNING AND SAILING WITH FAST HANDLING TECHNIQUE
• 6 THE TACK, MARK ROUNDING AND GYBE MANOEUVRES 106
• 7 SETTING UP AND HANDLING THE LASER
• 8 SETTING UP AND HANDLING THE TASAR
• 9 SETTING UP AND HANDLING THE 49ER
• 10 SETTING UP AND HANDLING THE FOIL MOTH
• 11 SAILING THE DN-OPTIMIST AND THE DN ICEBOATS
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