The Mirror Book
Mirror Sailing from Start to Finish
(Sprache: Englisch)
The Mirror is one of the UK's best-loved dinghies. This book teaches you how to sail and race one and how to get the best out of it. The Mirror dinghy is a British sailing icon and continues to evolve, keeping up with modern sailing technology and...
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The Mirror is one of the UK's best-loved dinghies. This book teaches you how to sail and race one and how to get the best out of it. The Mirror dinghy is a British sailing icon and continues to evolve, keeping up with modern sailing technology and requirements. Written by the national UK Mirror Coach, this fully illustrated book covers everything you need to know including rigging, sailing theory and practice, reefing, launching and landing, capsizing, racing and transportation. It also includes four master classes which aim to get the reader to advanced racing standard. This is the only book you'll ever need to sail your Mirror. Fully illustrated with step-by-step photography. It teaches everything from the essentials of sailing theory and rigging, through faster upwind and downwind sailing, to racing tactics and how to outsmart the opposition. Written by the National Mirror Coach.
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Part 1 Sailing the boat1. Rigging a basic boat
2. Rigging a gaff-rigged boat
3. Rigging a Bermudian boat
4. Sailing theory
5. A first sail
6. Launching
7. Reaching
8. Beating
9. Tacking
10. Running
11. Gybing
12. Capsizing
13. Landing
Part 2 The spinnaker
14. Setting up the spinnaker gear
15. Hoisting the spinnaker
16. Trimming on a reach
17. Trimming on a run
18. Gybing with a self-launching pole
19. Lowering the spinnaker
Part 3: The elements of racing
Part 4 Masterclasses
- Mental and Physical Fitness
- Setting up the boat for racing
- Boatspeed
- Advanced boat handling
- Advanced crewing
- Race preparation
- Travelling to an event
- Strategy
- Parents, coaches, be your own coach
Autoren-Porträt von Peter Aitken, Timothy Davison
Peter Aitken is the UK National Mirror Coach and has seen plenty of his charges triumph on the world scene, most recently with a gold medal at the Mirror World Championships in South Africa.Tim Davison has been Laser (Masters) European Champion and National Champion. He has raced successfully in Laser National, European and World Championships and has twice won the Moth Nationals.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autoren: Peter Aitken , Timothy Davison
- 2008, 184 Seiten, Maße: 21 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Wiley & Sons
- ISBN-10: 047051938X
- ISBN-13: 9780470519387
Sprache:
Englisch
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