Introduction

It seemed to me that I was gradually gathering together a fairly coherent body of text that looked exactly like a statement of the physics of the sailing boat. It started as a piecemeal process when I wrote my book on the radio-controlled, model, racing yacht and gradually expanded.

 

I have said that I have no experience of sailing and so it is inevitable that I cannot be familiar with the mind-set of those who do sail. They may even think that it is unfortunate that I ever started to put pen to paper. But there will be some readers who will find that my approach fits in with their own way of thinking and that it does not offend any of the established principles of physics.

 

I offer it to those who can make use of it.

 

Ivor Bittle