The Sailor's Wind
The Sailor's Wind
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Author(s): Walker, Stuart H.
ISBN No.: 9780393045550
Pages: 1
Year: 199805
Format: Trade Cloth (Hard Cover)
Price: $ 51.75
Status: Out Of Print

Stuart Walker's intelligent, straightforward explanation of why wind behaves as it does and what it is likely to do next draws upon his sixty-plus years of sailing experience and his vast knowledge of meteorology. The Sailor's Wind first describes each aspect of wind behavior in context'hallenging readers to analyze wind flow as though they were experiencing it on the water'hen explains what principles determined the wind's behavior, using recent meteorological research, instrumented observations, and studies of computer models. This book enables sailors not only to understand the wind but also to harness it.


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