Name/Title
Go for the GoldEntry/Object ID
GV811 .H6 1971Description
Go for the Gold is no ordinary textbook on sailboat racing. If you spend most of your time worrying about intricate equipment and sophisticated tactics, this may be just the book you need to get you out of that swamp. Mr. Hoyt, World Sunfish Class Champion in 1970, tells you how you -- not your boat -- can make the difference in winning sailboat races.
This book, the author writes, was "conceived in audacity and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created beatable...Go for the Gold is an attempt to jostle you into the realization that winning or placing better is, as much as anything, a state of mind, an attitude. This winning attitude is neither as simple as the power of positive thinking nor as complex as you have probably come to fear. My modest aim is to try to help you pull your game together, to home-in on those areas where just a small improvement will yield big yards, and places at the finish."
You will likely find more straight talk in this book than in any other sailing book you have ever read. Mr. Hoyt makes his points in a wonderfully readable style, handsomely illustrated with his own pen-and-ink drawings.
No. of Pages: 152Collection
Racing-SailOther Names and Numbers
Other Numbers
Number Type
Old NumberOther Number
2002.L.081Book Details
Author
Hoyt, GarryDate Published
1971Binding
Binding Type
Hardcover or Case BoundPublication Language
EnglishCall No.
RSLCCN
GV811 .H6 1971Location
Room
*Lou Smith LibraryBuilding
*Elizabeth & Bolling Haxall BuildingCopyright
Copyright Holder
Hoyt, GarryCopyright Date
1971