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Author: Andy Rice

 

 

 

Let the Champions show you how to sail and race your asymmetric boat faster! 

 

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 Asymmetric Sailing - the book

Take your sailing to a higher level with the book Asymmetric Sailing. There's expert advice from the world's best sailors on how to rig, tune and race your asymmetric dinghy, catamaran or yacht. A wealth of colour photography and illustrations shows you how to put the theory into practice. Championship-winning sailor, Andy Rice, guides you through the basics of these exciting boats before letting you into the secrets of how to squeeze the last few per cent of performance from your boat and sailing technique.

Asymmetric Sailing covers:

 

• How to rig, tune and trim your asymmetric spinnaker

• Hoists, gybes and drops
• Tactics and strategy
• Solo and crewed
• Survival sailing
• Advanced skills

 

Whether you are looking to move to into asymmetric sailing for the first time or even if you're already experienced but want to learn from the best, then look no further. Buy your copy here

 

Read a sample chapter from the sailing book Asymmetric Sailing

 

 

 

 Asymmetric Sailing is also available in ebook format

 

About the author of the book Asymmetric Sailing

 

Andy Rice is a championship-winning sailor in asymmetric classes and has sailed with  such greats as John Merricks, Ian Walker and Simon Hiscocks.He is also an established racing writer. His work appears in racing magazines including: Seahorse, Yachting World, Australian Sailing, Boat International and Sailing World. He writes a monthly column for Yachts & Yachting and runs the popular racing website Sailjuice.com.

 

 

 

 

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