Optimist Racing

The Optimist is the most popular children's boat world-wide with over 250,000 sailed in 70 countries. This book is endorsed by the Optimist Association and is used by most Optimist coaches as their textbook. This second edition is fully updated and describes all the latest rigging and sailing techniques. Many Olympic gold medallists started in this class.

Phil Slater has been Firefly National Champion, captain of the University of London sailing team and team coach for the UK Optimist squad. He has studied Optimist sailing techniques at all the major championships.

Introduction

6

(2)

PART ONE - SPEED

Speed Basics

8

(4)

Sail and Rig

12

(7)

Upwind Speed

19

(8)

Downwind Speed

27

(7)

PART TWO - BOAT HANDLING & TACTICS

Basic Boat Handling

34

(6)

Tactics

40

(7)

PART THREE - EQUIPMENT & TUNING

Mast Rake

47

(3)

Fast Gear

50

(10)

PART FOUR - WIND SKILLS

Seeing the Wind

60

(7)

PART FIVE - MIND & BODY

Mental Fitness

67

(4)

The Perfect Body

71

(2)

Physical Fitness

73

(11)

PART SIX - PARENTS & COACHES

For Parents

84

(3)

The Perfect Coach

87

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