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Winning in One-designs | 
 enlarge | Author: Dave Perry
Publisher: U.S. Sailing Association
Category: Book
List Price: $26.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 361543
Media: Paperback
Edition: 4
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6 x 0.7
ISBN: 0976226146
Dewey Decimal Number: 300
EAN: 9780976226147
ASIN: 0976226146
Publication Date: May 30, 2005
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Product Description
Long considered one of the best books about sailboat racing by competitive racers around the world, Dave Perry's Winning in One Designs covers every aspect of racing. Perry explains in detail how to sail fast, reduce mistakes and make use of the most advanced tactics from start to finish. Perry's expert advice, clear and often humorous explanations, and numerous tips, offer invaluable instruction to sailors at all levels of competition and in all sizes of boats, whether racing one-design or handicap.
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Fantastic Easy to Understand Guide July 24, 2008
This book is one of the best guides to sailboat racing you can buy. Perry's easy conversational style makes this an easy to read, easy to understand, yet extraordinarily helpful book, especially for the advanced beginner or intermediate sailor who has some basic racing experience. It covers all aspects - from boat setup, starts, upwind, downwind, etc. - very comprehensive and highly recommended along with "Sailboat Racing with Greg Fisher" as the top two books for anyone desiring to dramatically improve their racing knowledge. Now get out and race!
Excellent book December 11, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
An excellent review of how to race sailboats. Focused on smaller boats and dingies.
For any level racer May 30, 2004
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Whether you just started racing in your local club's sunset series, or you compete seriously in a One Design fleet, this is a book you should get your hands on. It answers all those annoying little questions you always seem to forget about on race day, or feel too sheepish to ask for fear of coming off as unexperienced as you might be. Perry answers most of them quite clearly and simply. He offers a lot of advice to bring your skill along. For the beginning racer it's an awful lot to take in and much of it will be confusing, until you start racing more and see the situations arise. For anyone who is looking to make racing a part of (or a bigger part of) their life, this is a book they should have on the shelf and be ready to go back to over and over again.
Great anecdotes from a top sailor August 15, 2000
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
This is a great book and I recommend it to everybody that isinterested in racing sailboats. Dave Perry has competed at the highest levels of the sport, and this collection of anecdotes underscores his experiences. Compared to Stuart Walker's muddled and confusing writing, Dave Perry's examples and experiences are valuable and clear, and I am also encouraged by the fact that all of the situations are in one design sailboats...
 A very thorough look at sailing in one designs October 28, 1997
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
When I meet someone who has shown a strong interest in sailing in the International Dragon class and is looking for some way to impove their understanding of all aspects of what makes one of these boats go quickly this is the one that I recommend. It is covers tactics, rules, boat and crew preparation, sail and rig setup. The one aspect that is not included is team and match racing. A great book for the advanced to intermediate competior.
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