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The Racing Sailor - Winning Tactics For Small Sailboat Racing
"Highly Recommended." - Video Librarian.
Learn how sailboats work, how race courses are laid out, how to sail faster and win from our motion-realistic animations!
Featuring a combination of live-action footage and computer animation, this comprehensive production demonstrates winning tactics for small sailboat racing. The Racing Sailor illustrates how sailboats work, looks at racecourse layouts, and offers sailing techniques and strategies (both upwind and downwind) designed to help sailors increase speed, turn more quickly, and finish strongly. You'll discover everything you need to take your boat from the dock to the winner's podium, including strategy, tactics, and boat handling. Learn all the tips & techniques to increase boat speed, point higher and turn more quickly. Also features a nautical dictionary and a tutorial on sailing knots.
Teaches:
• Race starts
• Upwind strategy and tactics
• Reach tactics
• Downwind strategy
• Finishing techniques
• Wind shift management
• Offensive techniques
• Mark rounding
73 min.
$ 34.95 R7089DVD
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NEW! Sailboat Racing DVD Set
SAVE $20.00!
Reg. $89.85 3 DVD Set ONLY $69.85
Teaches:
• Featuring racing legend Gary Jobson
• Start, windward & downwind tactics with 3D animation
• Gary Jobson’s tactics – how they win
• Sail trim, tactics & race strategies
• Setting up your racing boat for top performance
• Rig tuning, weight & balance
• Crew positions & sail handling
• Spinnaker sets & douses
• How to attain the greatest speed in any direction
$69.85 SSRACE
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YACHT
RACING DVD SET
Includes: The 2003 America’s
Cup & The 97/98 Whitbread Pushing The Limits.Featuring
the 2003 Americas Cup and the 97/98 Whitbread – this
a “behind-the-scenes” look at two of the world’s
most spectacular ocean races with action packed footage,
indepth interviews and fantastic coverage of two of the
toughest, most demanding races in history. SAVE $10.00!
Reg. $69.90. BUY both for $59.90.
$59.90 SYACHTR
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Alinghi:
The Inside Story - America's Cup 2003
This film takes you into the heart & soul of the Alinghi campaign
during the America's Cup competition. This extraordinary film documents
slices of everyday life of the team & their families, the tensions
& dramas as well as the joys. The team share their emotions &
deepest feelings under their grueling physical training program &
the constant upkeep & development of the boat. 97
min.
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Stormy
Weather: The Amazing Race Around Britain
The 1998 Round Britain & Ireland Yacht Race caused havoc amongst
the fleet of 41 starters. Of the 15 multihulls, only 7 finished, the
rest were scattered around the British Isles: dismasted, hulls &
rudders broken, rigging failures - due to the violent weather &
gale force winds. Share their challenges, broken rigging, the Arctic
cold, the fearsome breaking seas of the open North Atlantic &
dangerous rocky lee shores.. 41 min.
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Volvo
Round the World Race: The SEB Stopover Reports.
Follow Team SEB and their 7 competitors around the world, leg by
leg, stopover by stopover in the toughest sail race on Earth. Skill,
courage & endurance are put to the test with action-packed onboard
footage & spectacular recap's & analysis of each leg. This
is as close as you get without getting wet! 210 min.
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Whitbread
97/98: Pushing The Limits.
A "behind the scenes" look at the world's most spectacular
ocean racers and crew, featuring the Whitbread 97/98 winning EF Language's
Paul Cayard (Skipper) & Magnus Olsson (Crew). How do these extraordinary
sailors conquer 9 hellish months of raging seas, whiplash gales &
sub-arctic conditions? Get the inside story that has never been told.
50 min.
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Whitbread
97/98: Fight To Victory
Featuring the winning team - EF Language. This brilliant program brings
action packed footage, indepth interviews and fantastic coverage of
the toughest, most demanding race in history. 120 min.
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Back to Classics
Provides a unique opportunity to take a closer
look at some of the most beautiful and certainly most cherished yachts
of their time. From small day-boats to 60ft ketches, a legendary America's
Cup challenger to a century old gentleman's cutter. 45 min.
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$ 34.95 A7442DVD
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Return of the J's
Designed to compete for the America's Cup between
1930 and 1937, only ten J-Class yachts were ever built. Of these,
only three have survived. Shamrock V, Velsheda & Endeavour. Each
has been gloriously restored & racing together For the first time
in home waters for 65 years. 55 min.
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$ 34.95 A7443DVD
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Pacific High: The Ensenada
Yacht Race
The World Famous Newport-Ensenada Yacht
Race
Sail over an unpredictable 125-mile course as 4,000 competitors begin the
world-famous Newport-Ensenada Yacht Race. The exciting aerial photography
and the compelling on-board and on-land activities and interviews bring
this exhilarating sporting event into your home. 83 min.
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Transpac: A Century Across
The Pacific
The 100 Year Drama Of The Transpacific
Yacht Race
This historical documentary video of the Transpacific Yacht Race traces
one of the world's most prestigious sailing events. It features the men,
women and even children who challenged 2,225 nautical miles of the Pacific
under sail. It's all there: a hundred years of drama, danger and adventure
- the tree-size topmast of Goodwill at 161 feet snapped off and threatening
to destroy the boat at any moment, Ted Sierks, miraculously rescued after
being lost overboard for 29 hours and lots more. 120 min.
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Learn To Sail & Get That Extra Knot
With Peter Isler. This program teaches the basics of sailing and a thorough lesson on the theory & application of wind, coming about & jibing, sail draft, getting the exta knot, using the Traveller and much more.
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BOC Challenge - Knockdown!
"When onboard video cameras were first
introduced to around-the-world sailboat races, they promised the kind of
on-the-spot documentation that Don McIntyre has assembled in this film."
- Sailing Magazine
Don McIntyre suffered a "knockdown" during a 70-knot gale with 50 foot seas
and snow while competing in the 1990-91 single-handed BOC Challenge. It's
all here - surfing at 30 knots, being washed overboard, colliding with a
whale, the 360 degree rollover, hurricanes, icebergs and snow. 105 min.
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Against The Odds: Boc 1994/1995
"Against The Odds" tells the story of Alan Nebauer's courage as the
first person in the history of the race to win two seamanship awards.
One for rescuing a fellow sailor whose yacht was sinking and one for
sailing around Cape Horn without a mast. 42 min.
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Merit - Whitbread 1989/1990
Pierre Fehlmann, winner of the fourth Whitbread in 1986, captains Merit
in his fifth Whitbread. Although Merit is beaten by New Zealand's
Steinlager this extraordinary film documents the Merit challenge and
contains some of the best ocean racing footage we've ever seen. 61 min.
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By Way Of Cape Horn 86' Whitbread
This magnificent film of the 4th Whitbread is introduced by Sir Anthony
Quayle. This excellent video takes you into the action of this exciting,
grueling, 8 month long race showing dismastings, storm damaged boats,
cramped living conditions and the excitement and the glory as the trophy
is claimed by UBS Switzerland. This is the only official video. 52 min.
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