Böcker av Stuart H. Walker

Stuart Walker's intelligent, straightforward explanation of why wind behaves as it does and what it is likely to do next draws upon his sixty-plus years of sailing experience and his vast knowledge of meteorology. The Sailor's Wind first describes each aspect of wind behavior in context-challenging readers to analyze wind flow as though they were experiencing it on the water-then explains what principles determined the wind's behavior, using recent meteorological research, instrumented observations, and studies of computer models. This book enables sailors not only to understand the wind but also to harness it.

This book is designed to explain why winners win, why losers lose-and why everyone else finishes in the same position time after time.

A detailed, technical, and readable study of the tactics of winning for the experienced sailor-by one of the world's leading small boat racers.

A complete discussion of the effects of wind and its changes on racing strategy--by one of the world's most successful sailboat racers.

Stuart Walker, a world champion celebrated for his books and columns on racing in Sailing World magazine, here takes his readers step by step through the elements that determine racing factors: wind direction, velocity, temperature, stability, current strength, and direction.