Hydrofoil sailing

by Alan John Alexander

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0903238004
• ISBN13: 9780903238007
• Release Date: January 1972
• Publisher: Juanita Kalerghi
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Full of information, photographs, and diagrams!

From the dust jacket: "This book gives a lucid account of a rapidly expanding science and sport." "The authors have pooled their technical knowledge to provide details of the relevant theory and then shown how to put this theory into practice. They have contacted all those active in the field and received detailed accounts from most of them. The result is a book which emphasizes the 'main-stream' of successful foil-sailing, but also includes accounts of unusual developments." "Amateurs are advised to aim for simplicity. In this way craft will remain reasonably practical, and allow their builders to enjoy the thrills of foil-sailing, without constant engineering problems. These thrills are well conveyed in the action photos towards the end of the book, and any sceptical reader should turn to them in the first place for the reassurance that the added complexity of the foils is justified."