Heavy Weather Sailing 8th edition

Heavy Weather Sailing is the ultimate international authority on surviving storms at sea, with expert advice from many of the great sailors of the present. It covers 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. It also covers the unique challenges presented by weather in high latitudes, with more yachts crossing the Drake Passage and attempting the North West Passage.

Format: Hardback
Length: 320 pages
Publication date: 01 September 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Heavy Weather Sailing has been recognized as the ultimate international authority on surviving storms at sea aboard sailing and motor vessels for over 50 years. 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.

Weight: 1104g
Dimension: 178 x 254 x 27 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781472992604
Edition number: 8 ed