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On Fri, 18 Apr 2003 00:08:21 +0100, George Huxtable wrote:

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>1. It's not my subject. What I have explained to the list is pretty near
>the sum total of all I know about hydrodynamics. And I've cogged that
>mostly from "Sailing Theory and Practice" by C A Marchaj (Adlard Coles,
>London, 1964). I recommend that book to any searcher after wisdom about the
>interactions between boats, wind, and water. Not that it's free of faults:
>there are some significant areas of confusion. But it's the best text that
>I know of, about a big topic.
>

I suggest that Marchaj is risky for anyone not well acquainted with the
subject already. He intersperses a great deal of axe-grinding into
everything he does. I expect the "areas of confusion" George mentions
are part of the result.

His particular axe was celebrated (in advance of his birth) by Gilbert
and Sullivan-- "all centuries but this one and all countries but his
own."

A less tendentious text might be Frank Bethwaite's High Performance
Sailing, publishrd by International Marine, Camden, ME ISBN
0-07-005799-0.


Rodney Myrvaagnes                                                           J36 Gjo/a

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