Heavy Weather Sailing

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For over 50 years Heavy Weather Sailing has been regarded as the ultimate international authority on surviving storms at sea aboard sailing and motor vessels. In this book, former Commodore of the Ocean Cruising Club Martin Thomas brings together a wealth of expert advice from many of the great sailors of the present, including fresh accounts of yachts overtaken by extreme weather, from Ewan Southby-Tailyour, Alex Whitworth and Dag Pike to Larry and Lin Pardey, Matt Sheahan and Andrew Claughton. The expert advice section has been updated in line with current thinking, with major new additions tackling preventing or coping with lightning strikes, navigating in heavy weather with both paper and electronic charts, the choice and use of tenders in severe weather, and special problems faced by the new generation of foiled cruising boats. For the first time the book also covers the unique challenges presented by weather in high latitudes, with more yachts crossing the Drake Passage and attempting the North West Passage. These revisions ensure that Heavy Weather Sailing is as relevant, useful and instructive for today's sailor venturing offshore as it ever was. This is the definitive book for crews of any size contemplating voyages out of sight of land anywhere in the world, whether racing or cruising. It gives a clear message regarding the preparations required, and the tactics to consider when it comes on to blow. Cover Half-title Title Copyright Contents Preface Part One • Storm Experiences 1. The loss of Tamarind 2. Heavy weather lessons from the Southern Ocean 3. A night rescue in the Bass Strait 4. Hit by a Cape Horn cold front in the South Atlantic 5. Atlantic storm diary 6. Dragging an anchor in Storm Hector 7. An encounter with Super Typhoon Surigae 8. The Loss of Reliance AC Part Two • Expert Advice 9. Yacht design for heavy weather 10. Preparations for heavy weather and calamities at sea 11. Waves 12. Stability of yachts in large breaking waves 13. The weather chapter 14. Storm tactics for sailing vessels 15. Storm sails 16. Seeking refuge, anchoring and mooring in severe weather 17. Heavy weather sailing with foils 18. Boat handling and design factors for operating powerboats in heavy weather 19. Tactics for helming RIBs in heavy weather and open seas 20. High latitude sailing 21. Lightning at sea 22. Dinghies and tenders 23. Seasickness 24. Medical emergencies at sea Bibliography Acknowledgements Index