Wind and Strategy
A world authority and champion sailor has written the definitive book on one of the most important, and least understood, factors in winning: the wind, its changes, and its effects on racing strategy.Races are lost by a failure to understand and predict changes in wind. This book is the first and only one of its kind to deal with the character of the wind as it applies specifically to the racer. It shows how surface wind is affected by season, time of day, temperature disparities, clouds and geography. It supplies the meteorology needed to understand surface winds, and it shows how to predict the many kinds of wind shifts. Above all it shows…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-393-33258-2
- EAN: 9780393332582
- Produktnummer: 4204180
- Verlag: W W Norton & Co
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1973
- Seitenangabe: 416 S.
- Masse: H22.8 cm x B15.1 cm x D3.8 cm 592 g
- Gewicht: 592
Über den Autor
Stuart H. Walker is professor of pediatrics emeritus at the University of Maryland Medical School and an international dinghy champion. He was a member of the 1968 U.S. Olympic team and the 1979 U.S. Pan-American Team.
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