The advanced racing skipper, Dr. Walker writes, must look around, examine his own mistakes and successes, record them, review them, remember them. When he recognises from his own experiences the validity of the principles presented here, they will become useful to him. When he has incorporated them into his regular racing patterns, he will have made a five- or ten-year leap forward. He sets forth basic principles of starting, beating, reaching and mark rounding that should be practiced every time, and he underlines from his own experiences, what mattered, what consistently provided an advantage. Possibly the best book on racing tactics ever written.
396 pp. B/w illus. Softcovers.