North U Kursmateriell

Performance Racing TRIM© Bill Gladstone
by Bill Gladstone    Pris: 300,-
The most complete book on modern sailing performance
To win races you have to sail well and sail fast. Performance Racing Trim shows you how. Performance Racing Trim treats boat speed and boat handling topics in the same accessible style as Performance Racing Tactics. The TRIM book gives complete coverage to upwind and downwind sail trim and boat handling. Topics include helming, mainsail and genoa trim, and the trim and handling of both conventional and asymmetrical spinnakers. With hundreds of illustrations, Performance Racing Trim solves the most baffling performance questions.

Performance Racing Tactics © Bill Gladstone
by Bill Gladstone    Pris: 300,-
The most complete book on modern racing tactics 
Performance Racing Tactics takes you all the way around the course. The sixth edition covers tactics, rules, weather, and strategy in 200 information-packed pages. The fast moving, easy to follow format is accessible to all readers. Rules are covered the way you use them - (ie upwind rules as part of upwind tactics). The content offers completeinformation for neophytes and insights which grab the attention of the saltiest dog. Quizzes and skill building sections show how to develop a race winning approach.Included in this edition are chapters by Peter Isler on Match Racing and from Ockam U on Performance Tactics. 

Tactics CD © Bill Gladstone
by Bill Gladstone    Pris: 475,-
NEW Shift Simulators plus 2 hours of video!
Our new Tactics CD puts Performance Racing Tactics in motion. The CD covers starting, upwind, and downwind topics, including strategy, tactics, and rules. The CD takes you all the way around the course, and also includes new coverage of distance racing and VMC strategy! The CD teaches tactics through 100's of animations, photos, photo sequences and nearly 2 hours of new video. In addition to video, the new edition features the exclusive interactive Wind Shift Simulators for both upwind and downwind windshifts! The simulators allow you to test positioning and strategy for all types of wind shifts and see the impact of shifts as never before. The CD is the next best thing to a live in person seminar. It even includes a voice over by the author, Bill Gladstone. A must have for every sailboat racer!

TRIM CD © Bill Gladstone
by Bill Gladstone    Pris: 475,-
See Trim in Action!
Bobsleds, bicycles, sailboats - no matter what you race, you've got to be fast to win. If it's sailboats that you race, then the North U TRIM CD is for you! The TRIM CD puts performance in motion, and shows how changes in trim change the sailing characteristics and performance of your boat. You'll learn about upwind trim and controls, how to balance the power between the main and jib, and how trim and driving styles change in different sea conditions. In addition to upwind trim the CD provides full coverage of spinnaker trim, control, and performance for both conventional and asymmetric spinnakers. The CD also includes our exclusive inter-active "Sail Shaper" which lets you see how different sail controls change sail shapes. But Wait - there's more! In addition to sail trim, the CD offers in-depth coverage of boathandling topics. Through photos, video, animations and graphics the CD shows the most up to date techniques for spinnaker sets, jibes and douses, for both conventional and asymmetrical spinnakers. The Performance Racing TRIM CD-ROM includes color graphics, animations, an interactive sail shaper, hundreds of sail trim and boat handling photos, and VIDEO, including coverage of symmetric and asymmetric spinnaker sets, jibes, douses, and trim. The CD is the complete North U. TRIM Seminar curriculum that you can use and review over and over. The TRIM Seminar on CD is a complete course on sail trim and boat handling, and even includes a voice over by the author, Bill Gladstone. In fact, the TRIM Seminar on CD has so much info it won't fit on one disk! It is a two-CD set for the price of one!
A great gift for any keelboat racer!

The Race Boat Crewing Video on DVD
by Tucker Thompson Pris: 475,-
The Race Boat Crewing Video provides a detailed look at the mechanics involved in each individual position on a modern race boat including: bow, mast, pit, floater, headsail trimmer, tailer, & main trimmer. You'll see the responsibility of each crew member for upwind trim, tacks, and sail handling, plus spinnaker sets, jibes and takedowns. You'll see a number of different techniques and interaction between crew members during each maneuver. The instructive DVD allows you to analyze each position individually or learn the entire crewʼs responsibilities.

North U Cruising Workbook
by Bill Gladstone and John Rousmaniere kr. 300,-
The Cruising Workbook covers sailing, cruising, and seasmanship topics with a simple hands on approach to real world problem solving. Topics include upwind and downwind sail trim, including heavy air sailing, cruising spinnakers, and how to trim for comfort, speed, and balance. But the book goes way beyond sail trim! Other topics include how to make new guests feel at home, anchoring, docking, navigation, knots, heavy weather sailing, and a series of problems and solutions. The North U Cruising Workbook is filled with practical hands on techniques, challenging problems and real world solutions.

Weather for Sailors book
by Bill Biewengaby    Pris: 300,
Weather for Sailors is designed to help sailors, ruisers, and racers gather, understand, and interpret weather information. The book starts from a broad overview of weather and weather systems, and gradually narrows its focus to the wind and weather conditions you can expect aboard your boat. You will learn about the forces that create and shape our weather, about sources of weather information, and about how to match you observations to the forecast. You will then learn how to revise the forecast based upon your observations and how to best apply the forecast to your sailing.

North U Cruising CD-ROM
by Bill Gladstone and John Rousmaniere    Pris: 475,-
The North U Cruising CD-ROM puts cruising technique in full motion. The CD covers the same topics as the workbook, but in a visual multi-media format, with fewer words, and more visuals. The new edition CD includes VIDEO segments on upwind sail trim, heavy air sailing, reefing, heaving to, Gennaker sets, jibes, and takedowns, Gennaker trim, and Lifesling crew overboard recovery. The Cruising Seminar on CD covers a full spectrum of sailing and coastal cruising topics, and includes a voice over by Bill Gladstone.

Weather for Sailors on CD
by Bill Biewengaby    Pris: 475,-
Prepared jointly by North U., Bill Biewenga, and Commanders Weather, the all new Weather for Sailors CD Rom includes all the photos, graphics, maps, and animations used to teach the North U Weather for Sailors Seminar. See how weather systems and fronts move, watch the interaction of regional systems and local (coastal) weather. The CD shows how to match and modify the forecast based upon your observations, and how to apply weather information to your sailing. Whether you sail, race, or cruise, it pays to know weather. The next best thing if you can't attend a seminar live, the CD includes a voice over by Bill Biewenga.