Float your boat! : the evolution and science of sailing / Mark Denny.
"In Float Your Boat! professional and amateur boaters alike will find intelligent and understandable answers to such questions as: What were the key innovations that made sailboats more efficient? How do you increase the speed of a boat? How do sailboats travel into the wind? Why are so many ex...
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2008.
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Table of Contents:
- Evolution: from prehistory to the age of sail
- Analysis: square-rigged ship motion
- Evolution: from the age of sail to the modern yacht
- Analysis: fore-and-aft boat motion-introducing life and drag
- A lot of torque
- Flying through water
- Windsurfing.