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Heavy Weather Sailing 7th edition (Hardcover, 7th edition)
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Heavy Weather Sailing 7th edition (Hardcover, 7th edition)
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For 50 years Heavy Weather Sailing has been regarded as the
ultimate international authority on surviving storms at sea aboard
sailing and motor vessels. The first edition was compiled by Kaines
Adlard Coles himself in 1967. Since then technology may have
improved, but the weather certainly hasn't. This is the seventh
updated edition, edited by racing yachtsman Peter Bruce, ensuring
that in its 50th year the book remains as relevant and as essential
as it has been for the previous five decades. The book 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. It
also includes a new Foreword by Sir Robin Knox-Johnston, Britain's
most high profile yachtsman of the past 50 years. The expert advice
section has been updated in line with current thinking, and there
has been a major update to the chapter focusing on the use of storm
sails as well as to the use of drag devices. The technique of
taking refuge has been reviewed and updated, and the chapters
dealing with preparations for heavy weather and its effect on yacht
design have been overhauled. These revisions ensure that Heavy
Weather Sailing is as relevant, useful and instructive for today's
sailor venturing offshore as it ever was - perhaps more so in the
light of tragic disasters like the loss of the Cheeky Raffiki
mid-Atlantic on a delivery trip after her season racing in the
Caribbean. 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.
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