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    Posted: 23 Oct 13 at 8:19pm
A little while back I bought a load of old sailing books off Amazon - stuff I read when I was 12 or 13 years old. Winning by John Oakeley (with possibly the best ever picture of an FD at full chat), Winning in One Designs by Dave Perry, Small Boat Racing with The Champions by Bob Fisher. The latter in particular with articles by the likes of Pete White (505), Phil Crebbin (470), Dick Jobbins (Fireball). All these people fired me into a love of racing sailboats. What books and which sailors inspired you? Interested to hear.
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Eric Twiname, as a sailor and author.

Books wise, I would read everything I could find about small boat racing, especially about all the different designs out there. Burrett's Dinghy Recognition and Catamaran Racing, by Reg White and Bob Fisher stand out, as does Elvstrom and Uffa Fox.

Sailors who stand out - Stevie Vines, who taught me how to race, simply by being in a boat with him. On a less personal level, Mark Rushall, Peter Knight (not a complete coincidence that we own the boat they both won the Firefly Nationals in twice), and many of the local Firefly sailors from Tamesis and the clubs nearby. Somehow in those days, with no internet, you either knew about the very famous, or local heros.
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Yes, Start to Win...how could I forget! That was another of the batch of books I got from Amazon. In the days I was at QM he had the tattiest boat in the fleet and I remember him putting his feet inside plastic bags before putting his boots in the changing rooms. In those days, when they got fleets of 30 or more lasers out racing, he was still the man to beat. A great book and a man ahead of his time.
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It wasn't just the book, he inspired me to work out why things did the things they did, it was and has been the most defining introduction to mystery in my life. I've never stopped questioning, and he and that book and those little fluid diagrams were the start. Plus he edited Dinghy and Boardsailing and was eager to learn how we did things and was intrigued that I'd never sailed before, no question without having met him my life would have taken a totally different course.
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..imagine what he could have brought to a forum like this!
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..and you'd all have still argued the toss!
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Originally posted by Jeepers

..imagine what he could have brought to a forum like this!

Hmm, not sure wether he was equipped with what it takes to f**k about in places like this, he was after all quite a serious person, and you'll note most of them steer clear, (the very serious types who are concerned professionally with the weight of their persona in real life).

You can get very upset and annoyed if you take places like this seriously.

I dunno, it was a very different time back then, we all conducted ourselves much differently than we do theses days, much more respect for one.
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Stuart H Walker - the Tactics of Small Boat Racing - took it out of the library many times

Jack Knights column in Y&Y

Elvestrom (though not his book on the racing rules - I had read Walker!)

And corny but true - not racing but sailing - Arthur Ransome
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Originally posted by Jeepers

A little while back I bought a load of old sailing books off Amazon - stuff I read when I was 12 or 13 years old. Winning by John Oakeley (with possibly the best ever picture of an FD at full chat), Winning in One Designs by Dave Perry, Small Boat Racing with The Champions by Bob Fisher. The latter in particular with articles by the likes of Pete White (505), Phil Crebbin (470), Dick Jobbins (Fireball). All these people fired me into a love of racing sailboats. What books and which sailors inspired you? Interested to hear.
 
My father has an old copy of "Winning" still a great read now except for the bendy boom theory!
 
I do remember John Oakeley suggesting drying out the sponge in the airing cupboard for a week before a regatta, never understood that one Confused why take it with you if it gets wet sailing you might as well not dry it and if you aren't going to use it leave it behind! 
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