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The Mirror Book
Ref: KHDIN0200
Price:
£14.99
The Mirror is one of the UK’s best-loved dinghies. This book teaches you how to sail and race one and how to get the best out of it.
The Mirror dinghy is a British sailing icon and continues to evolve, keeping up with modern sailing technology and requirements. Written by the national UK Mirror Coach, this fully illustrated book covers everything you need to know including rigging, sailing theory and practice, reefing, launching and landing, capsizing, racing and transportation. It also includes four master classes which aim to get the reader to advanced racing standard.
- This is the only book you’ll ever need to sail your Mirror.
- Fully illustrated with step-by-step photography.
- It teaches everything from the essentials of sailing theory and rigging, through faster upwind and downwind sailing, to racing tactics and how to outsmart the opposition.
- Written by the National Mirror Coach
Table Of Contents
Part 1 Sailing the boat
1. Rigging a basic boat
2. Rigging a gaff-rigged boat
3. Rigging a Bermudian boat
4. Sailing theory
5. A first sail
6. Launching
7. Reaching
8. Beating
9. Tacking
10. Running
11. Gybing
12. Capsizing
13. Landing
Part 2 The spinnaker
14. Setting up the spinnaker gear
15. Hoisting the spinnaker
16. Trimming on a reach
17. Trimming on a run
18. Gybing with a self-launching pole
19. Lowering the spinnaker
Part 3: The elements of racing
20. The rules
21. The line start
22. The beat
23. The reach
24. The run
Part 4 Masterclasses
25. Mental and Physical Fitness
26. Setting up the boat for racing
27. Boatspeed
28. Advanced boat handling
29. Advanced crewing
30. Race preparation
31. Travelling to an event
32. Strategy
33. Parents, coaches, be your own coach.
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