(Ebook) Adlard Coles' Heavy Weather Sailing by Peter Bruce (Editor) ISBN 9780071592901, 9780071813198, 9780713682434, 0071592903, 0071813195, 0713682434

(Ebook) Adlard Coles' Heavy Weather Sailing by Peter Bruce (Editor) ISBN 9780071592901, 9780071813198, 9780713682434, 0071592903, 0071813195, 0713682434

Main subject categories: • Sailing • Heavy weather ocean sailing • Ocean cruising • Ocean weatherHeavy Weather Sailing has long reigned as the ultimate international authority on surviving storms at sea aboard sailing and motor vessels. 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, Peter Cook, and Larry and Lin Pardey. Techniques for coping with heavy seas are explored, and new chapters have been added, giving advice on the use of storm sails, taking shelter in heavy weather, handling multihulls in storms and one on handling RIBs in high seas. Seasickness remedies are proposed, and a detailed analysis is given of the meteorological conditions leading up to a storm. 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.'If you buy no other book for your voyage, buy this one' Pete Goss (renowned yachtsman and rescuer of Raphael Dinelli during the 1996/97 Vendee Globe) • 'This book is an institution' Practical Boat Owner • 'The ultimate survival handbook' Yachting WorldThe seamanship classic you should have on-board when sailing in rough weather.Adlard Coles' Heavy Weather Sailing provides you with expert advice for when you venture out of sight of land, whether for racing or cruising. It gives a clear message of seamanlike design features, preparations, and tactics that you should consider against the time when it comes on to blow. It includes new how-to chapters on storm sails, taking shelter, and managing multihulls in storms, plus thrilling new accounts of actual storm encounters.