Title: Not a very very deep dive
Product review: The book is advertized as the book explaining the physics of sailing. The book has a promising start while deriving the hull speed formula over several pages. But that's unfortunately about it. The book is really shallow on actual science of sailing. The book is only a 150 pages on a large font, you'll read it in a day.The book makes also oversimplification of the phenomena involved. Eg it describes the sail with the grade school anecdote 'air travels a longer distance leeward to the sail, thus creating lower pressure'. While that might explain part of the physics involved, my sailmaker seems to have way better models...If just want a quick read on physics involved, this is your book. If you want to deepen your understanding, I'd go somewhere else. I learned a lot more from the old 'High performance sailing' by Frank Bethwaite.
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