with the cooler weather here closing in rapidly i finally got around to spending some time at amazon looking for books to read over the winter, (pretty well limited to amazon as they seem the only ones that will accept my foreign credit card9

ended up ordering 2 books

everyone's top choice

rick white's "catamaran racing for the 90's"

8 daysno email saying it has been dispatched:o(

and his earlier, "catamaran racing, solutions, secrets, speeds"

has arrived in japan just 8 days after ordering:-)

got the earlier book as it was a hardback, clear covered, new condition, ex-library book for only $3.48, (the $11 postage kind of kills that tho...)

as it was printed in 1983 it has a good 3 page history of nacra up to that time. was hoping that it would have the nacra 5.2 race setup guide i had heard about, but it does not, perhaps that's a different rick white book?.

however it has 12 pages on the hobie 16
10 pages on the hobie 18
7 pages on the prindle 16
and 10 pages on the prindle 18 and tornado

so if you are new to 1 of those old boats this old book may be of interest, certainly they are cheap enough!