A groundbreaking introduction to how sailboats behave, and a guide for predicting the performance of a modern sailing yacht. "Aero-hydrodynamics and the Performance of Sailing Yachts" is the first major yacht design treatise to come along in a decade. With its cutting-edge explanations of how sails, keels, and rudders interact with their respective fluids to make a boat sail-and of how to use that knowledge to optimize a boat-this is a book that every student of yacht design will want on his or her shelf.