Heavy Weather Sailing 8th Edition (Hardcover)

Hardcover. Technology may have improved in the past 50 years, but the weather certainly has not. In that time Heavy Weather Sailing has come to be regarded as the international authority on surviving storms at sea, aboard sailing or powered vessels. When caught out in severe weather at sea there is no one simple solution to ensure a safe return to port. Described within these pages are numerous well-tried methods that have proven consistently successful for surviving fierce ocean storms. For this eighth edition, former Commodore of the Ocean Cruising Club Martin Thomas and racing yachtsman Peter Bruce have revised and updated the text to ensure it remains as relevant and as essential as it has for decades. There are major new additions on coping with lighting strikes, navigating in heavy weather, the choice and use of tenders in heavy weather and the 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. Book jacket. The definitive book for crews of any size contemplating voyages out of the sight of land anywhere in the world, this new edition includes new thinking on a variety of aspects of heavy weather handling, and recent heavy weather experiences from around the world. Foreword by Sir Robin Knox-Johnston. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…