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Heavy Weather Sailing, Sixth Edition - The Definitive Storm Survival Guide
For over fifty years, Heavy Weather Sailing has stood as the authoritative resource for navigating and surviving storms at sea. This sixth edition, edited by Peter Bruce, preserves the essential lessons learned by seasoned sailors while incorporating the latest developments in sailboat design, gear, and storm-sailing experience.
Learn from Real Heavy Weather Experience
This hardcover edition provides unique access to hard-won experience from sailors who have faced severe conditions. The book analyzes actual storm encounters, including new accounts from renowned sailors Lin and Larry Pardey off Australia's east coast and Alex Whitworth's South Atlantic experience during his circumnavigation. These real-world stories offer practical insights into what works and what fails when conditions deteriorate.
Comprehensive Storm Sailing Coverage
The sixth edition addresses boat stability and seaworthiness, spars and rigging, heavy-weather preparations and tactics, and the deployment of drogues and sea anchors. You'll find guidance on meteorology and sea-state predictions, crew fitness requirements, and storm-sailing techniques for monohull sailboats, powerboats, and multihulls.
Updated Content for Modern Sailors
New chapters cover seeking shelter in heavy weather, storm sails, helming rigid inflatables in rough conditions, and handling multihulls during storms. These additions reflect current sailing practices and address the needs of today's diverse sailing community, whether racing offshore or cruising.
Essential Maritime Safety Reference
Since its publication over fifty years ago, Heavy Weather Sailing has remained the classic of navigating and surviving storms at sea. It is unique in its focus on the lessons learned by seasoned sailors in heavy weather conditions. Nowhere else will you find an opportunity like this to learn from the hard-won experience of others what works and what doesn't in surviving a storm at sea.
The stories and their analyses are further augmented by advice on boat stability and seaworthiness, spars and rigging, heavy-weather preparations and tactics, the use of drogues and sea anchors, meteorology and sea-state predictions, crew fitness for heavy weather, and more. You'll find well-proven methods for surviving bad weather at sea in powerboats and multihulls as well as monohull sailboats. This advice from leading seafarers has been compiled and edited by Peter Bruce, one of the world's most experienced sailors, who has assumed the book's editing from the late Adlard Coles.
This edition is completely up to date with changes in sailboat design and gear and with the latest storm-sailing experience. You will find new chapters on seeking shelter in heavy weather, storm sails, helming a rigid inflatable in rough weather, and handling multihulls in a storm. Several new accounts describe unexpected and extraordinarily severe weather on the world's oceans, including a storm experienced by renowned sailing couple Lin and Larry Pardey off the east coast of Australia and another endured in the South Atlantic by Alex Whitworth during his remarkable circumnavigation.
Heavy Weather Sailing has long reigned as the ultimate authority on surviving storms at sea for crews of any size, whether racing or cruising. If ever there was a definitive book on the subject, this is it.
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Heavy Weather Sailing, Sixth Edition - The Definitive Storm Survival Guide
For over fifty years, Heavy Weather Sailing has stood as the authoritative resource for navigating and surviving storms at sea. This sixth edition, edited by Peter Bruce, preserves the essential lessons learned by seasoned sailors while incorporating the latest developments in sailboat design, gear, and storm-sailing experience.
Learn from Real Heavy Weather Experience
This hardcover edition provides unique access to hard-won experience from sailors who have faced severe conditions. The book analyzes actual storm encounters, including new accounts from renowned sailors Lin and Larry Pardey off Australia's east coast and Alex Whitworth's South Atlantic experience during his circumnavigation. These real-world stories offer practical insights into what works and what fails when conditions deteriorate.
Comprehensive Storm Sailing Coverage
The sixth edition addresses boat stability and seaworthiness, spars and rigging, heavy-weather preparations and tactics, and the deployment of drogues and sea anchors. You'll find guidance on meteorology and sea-state predictions, crew fitness requirements, and storm-sailing techniques for monohull sailboats, powerboats, and multihulls.
Updated Content for Modern Sailors
New chapters cover seeking shelter in heavy weather, storm sails, helming rigid inflatables in rough conditions, and handling multihulls during storms. These additions reflect current sailing practices and address the needs of today's diverse sailing community, whether racing offshore or cruising.
Essential Maritime Safety Reference
Since its publication over fifty years ago, Heavy Weather Sailing has remained the classic of navigating and surviving storms at sea. It is unique in its focus on the lessons learned by seasoned sailors in heavy weather conditions. Nowhere else will you find an opportunity like this to learn from the hard-won experience of others what works and what doesn't in surviving a storm at sea.
The stories and their analyses are further augmented by advice on boat stability and seaworthiness, spars and rigging, heavy-weather preparations and tactics, the use of drogues and sea anchors, meteorology and sea-state predictions, crew fitness for heavy weather, and more. You'll find well-proven methods for surviving bad weather at sea in powerboats and multihulls as well as monohull sailboats. This advice from leading seafarers has been compiled and edited by Peter Bruce, one of the world's most experienced sailors, who has assumed the book's editing from the late Adlard Coles.
This edition is completely up to date with changes in sailboat design and gear and with the latest storm-sailing experience. You will find new chapters on seeking shelter in heavy weather, storm sails, helming a rigid inflatable in rough weather, and handling multihulls in a storm. Several new accounts describe unexpected and extraordinarily severe weather on the world's oceans, including a storm experienced by renowned sailing couple Lin and Larry Pardey off the east coast of Australia and another endured in the South Atlantic by Alex Whitworth during his remarkable circumnavigation.
Heavy Weather Sailing has long reigned as the ultimate authority on surviving storms at sea for crews of any size, whether racing or cruising. If ever there was a definitive book on the subject, this is it.
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