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    Posted: 24 Oct 13 at 1:46pm
... not forgetting:
Richard Estaugh
Ian Pinnell
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I'm less inclined to hero worship now I'm older but when I first started racing in Enterprises in the late '70s / 80's (arguably the #1 class in the UK at the time) I was inspired by the top Ent sailors:
Laurie Smith
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Mike Holmes
Ian Southworth
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Whats a couple of inches between friends?
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Eric Twiname for me.  And Rodney Pattison.  I loved the story of how open he was with his rig settings on his FD, but what he didn't tell anyone was that he had chopped the first two inches off the tape measure he used to set mast rake!
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My inspirational sailors two Petes, Colclough and Currie.

Re old books, recently had opportunity to review a bunch of books for a Northern magazine. Twiname, Start to Win, its still as good as it was. Various recent books, few cut the mustard but enjoyed Clive Eplett's. Quality of writing matters. But other old ones I'd like to return to Sailing- Wind and Current, by Ian Proctor, now reprinted. And Stewart Walker's ones. I'll give you an obscure foreign one- Regatta Sailing by Per Skjonberg. Anyone remember that? It was available in my local library, you don't get choice like that now. Good on how to steer upwind in waves, funny how you can remember items from so long ago!
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Same as Nessa Rodney Pattisson's book "Boatspeed: Supercharging Your Hull, Foils and Gear" got my classic i14 upto racing mode (as it was bare)...learnt loads from this BUT Stuart Quarries book "The Offshore Race Crews Manual" got me into racing.

Sailors that have inspired me...Paul Elvstrom (so much I worked for him for a while), Russell Coutts, Lawrie Smith, Rob Brown (from 18ft skiff fame) & Tracey Edwards. More recently i'm in awe of people like Nick Craig, Ben & Roz McGrane, Rob Greenhalgh and even our own Dan Holman - these people have amazing natural talent and much respect to all of these and thank them for my racing development over the years.

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My List includes Peter Colclough, Rodney Patterson, Paul Elvstrom.

Jim Saltyballs book on dinghy racing and most of the fernhurst books on sailing all great and useful. Many articles in Y&Y of course.
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Originally posted by getafix

Reg White, Lawrie Smith, Phil Morrison, John Turner, Jo Richards, Spud Rowsell, Ben Ainslie, Ian Percy, Bart Simpson, Chips Howarth, Clive Everest, Frank Bethwaite.... in no particular order.

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Interesting list, shows how UK focused we are?
I'm struggling to add any foreigners myself but how about Bonezzi, nice bloke, fast sailor most beautiful boats? Might sound a tad more convincing if I could remember his first name....
What is Clive Everest doing these days? I knew him at uni.
 
I can also claim to have sailed with Alex Thomson, he crewed for me a few times when he was about 14?
 
Books, I would second Frank Bethwaite's books for the sheer enthusiasm and methodical approach.
I also have Ted Wells' 'Scientific Sailboat Racing' from about 1950.
The advice on the care and feeding of cotton sails might be a little bit funny, but much of the rest of it is 'plus ca change'.
Particularly the the bit that starts 'race committees should be lined up and shot....'.
 
RS Sailors, Nick Craig plus Paul Hilliar, Dave Hivey stand out as people who can not only win, but also help others to do better.
 
Plus a whole lot of good amateur sailors, it's not necessarily the champions who are most inspiring.
 
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Rodney Pattisson's book on supercharging your dinghy.  outdated now, but the attention to detail was phenomenal.
Dave Perry, Eric Twiname.  Bryan Willis' rules book.
the same, but different...

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Reg White, Lawrie Smith, Phil Morrison, John Turner, Jo Richards, Spud Rowsell, Ben Ainslie, Ian Percy, Bart Simpson, Chips Howarth, Clive Everest, Frank Bethwaite.... in no particular order.

The first dinghy sailing book I really remember reading again and again was Lawrie Smiths Tuning book.  I love Merlins & N12's, I thought Clive's contribution to Moth's in the 90's were brilliant and the RS600 is great fun too.  Bethwaites' book is an oft-thumbed one also.  To the contemporary sailors I would also add Nick Craig, Dave Wade, Jim Hunt and Charlie Cumbley... had the pleasure to meet them all and see them sail, you do learn and enjoy your sailing more by simply copying them!
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