Heavy Weather Sailing 7th Edition by Peter Bruce
by Stephanie Morgan 5 Jul 2016 12:08 BST
5 July 2016
"An indispensable addition to any offshore sailor's bookshelf. We cannot recommend it too strongly" – Yachting Monthly
For 50 years, Heavy Weather Sailing has been regarded as the ultimate international authority on surviving storms at sea aboard sailing and motor vessels. This is the seventh updated edition, 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 distils a wealth of expert advice, and explores techniques and strategies for surviving storms based on first-hand experience and research. Contributors are all renowned for their specialist knowledge, and include Andrew Claughton, Matt Sheahan, Dag Pike and the late Olin Stephens, with storm accounts from, amongst others, Lin and Larry Pardey, Lt Col Ewen Southby-Tailyour and Alex Whitworth.
Changes to this new edition include:
- A new section on sailing 50 degrees to the wind, now advocated as a primary storm tactic.
- A chart showing that a large proportion of modern yachts' stability is below the acceptable line required by the UK Maritime and Coastguard Agency for commercial craft. The agency does not have jurisdiction over leisure vessels and Peter Bruce makes a well-founded case that leisure vessels should be as safe as commercial vessels have to be.
- Advice on whether to fit in-mast, in-boom or traditional slab reefing for ocean work.
- Details on why the Series Drogue is becoming the most favoured drag device.
- Recent theory from an anchor designer on the low value of the catenary when bar taut.
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About the author:
After 24 years in the Royal Navy, Peter Bruce continues to spend much time at sea: racing, cruising, or researching his pilotage books. He has twice been in Britain's winning Admiral's Cup Team and since his first Fastnet in 1961 achieved a string of victories skippering his own yachts. He was aboard Eclipse, top Admiral's Cup yacht and class winner in the infamous 1979 Fastnet Race.
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