High Performance Sailing - Frank Bethwaite

'It is the cheapest bit of go-faster gear you can buy…' - Robert Lloyd, Island Sailing Club

'One of the most readable books on the complex subject of sailing faster, and without doubt, a must for every racing sailor' - Yachts and Yachting

'A classic' - Kelvin Hughes

Some people like to sail. Some people like to sail fast. This is a bookabout sailing faster. During the past few decades there has been arevolution in the way some boat designers and sailors have thoughtabout, designed, built and sailed their boats. This book is about thenew ideas which have led to these greater speeds and the faster sailingtechniques which have been developed to achieve them.

High Performance Sailinghasbecome the standard reference work on high speed racing techniques -the bible for racing sailors, from dinghies right through to America'sCup boats. Ground-breaking in its thinking on boat speed, strategy andtactics, and timeless in its application, it is a book 'which noserious racing yachtsman should be without.' (Kelvin Hughes)