Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #15455 in Books
• Published on: 2008-01-31
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 160 pages

Customer Reviews

A modern, comprehensive guide
This is a very good book for an intermediate leisure sailor or a beginner racer.
All the topics are covered, from the purchase of an used boat, to a small brief about tactics and strategies, but sailing techniques are the core: therefore both a leisure sailor and a racer will beneft reading the book. There are lot of pictures and both photos and ilustrations are well done.

If you are a real newbie to sailing, you'll need to learn the basics somewhere else (possibly with a course), but you only have a vague idea of sailing and its terminology, you'll find everything you need to become a good laser sailor. I read this book several times, each time I tried to apply a topic or a hint on the water and every time I understood something more. I think that even an experienced sailor (read: over 30), could find something useful. I'm sure that if you want to win a race you must know (and be able to apply on the water) almost every page: a good sailor could use the book as a sort of check-list.
I race at local level and my results improved: thank you Paul!

With a wider coverage of starting techniques and strategy I'd have rated it five star. Probably the guys at RYA want to sell another book about these two topics ;-)