The Offshore Game: Today's Ocean Racing

New York: Crown Publishers, Inc (c. 1977) BOMC Edition. By the author of 'Multihull Sailboats'. Edward F. Cotter, a top-notch sailor, ocean navigator, photographer, and well-known yachting writer, has distilled in text, action photographs and charts ten years of intensive experience on top offshore boats for the benifit of round-the-buoys and offshore-sailing enthusiasts as well as the observer. This book contains a wealth of information on yachts, people, technology, competition and techniques of this great sport. The author offers excellent navigational tips on electronic and celestial navigation, figuring the currents, using visual bearings to your best advantage, etc, etc. Coverage on the ocean racing classics as the Sydney-Hobard Race, the Transatlantic Race and others will also be found here. One will find the book to be complete, authoritative and detailed. 277 photographs, 48 charts and tables and index provided. Photo illustrated, price-intact dust jacket. A sound, most serviceable copy.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.