HighER Performance Sailing

Nope, there's a great deal of new stuff.

There's loads more on handling high performance boats,

There's a whole bunch of development of 29er, 49er and the aborted spinnaker Tasar

There's a bunch of stuff on how Bethwaite has worked out some performance ratios which are on the way to a dinghy VPP and there's more detail on this than the last book.

There are various new observations on gust behaviour and so on since last time.

For the sorts of things I'm interested in its definitely worth having. There is overlap, mainly I think so that you don't have to have to find the old book if you've bought the new one. I haven't looked at it with a number in mind but my finger in the air guess is that its between 50% and 80% new. I think its probably better focussed for most sailors than the old one too: it is a better book in my opinion for whatever that's worth!

Edited by JimC

I assume we're talking about this book?:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Higher-Performance-Sailing-Handling- Techniques/dp/1408101262/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books& qid=1231434186&sr=1-1

Of which I was unaware (despite having had High Performance Sailing since it first came out). The first review of this later book on Amazon is dated 2000.

All of which leaves me somewhat confused: in 2005, Frank Bethwaite told me he was writing a new book - so apparently we'll shortly be seeing the launch (or not, acording to publishers' whims) of "Even Higher Performance Sailing"

Or (penny slowly drops - maybe) Amazon have included reviews of the first book in error (certainly the comments could apply to that). I wonder what you'd receive of you ordered the £17.50 used book?

EDIT: I've just clicked the £17.50 and does indeed appear to be the first book - hardly what I'd describe as an "Other Edition". "Other book by same author", by all means.

Edited by Medway Maniac

But in Amazon the reviews for that book (with the 49er on it) actually relate to the one with the 18 on the cover.  Naughty or stupid?