Storm Tactics Handbook: Modern Methods of Heaving-to for Survival in Extreme Conditions

Pardey, Larry,Pardey, Lin

ISBN 10: 0964603667 / ISBN 13: 9780964603660

Published by Pardey Books, 1995

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Storm Tactics Handbook: Modern Methods of Heaving-to for Survival in Extreme Conditions
• Publisher: Pardey Books
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0964603667
• ISBN 13: 9780964603660
• Binding: Perfect Paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

A new, completely revised and expanded version of this book is now available. Storm Tactics Handbook 3rd edition was released in July. It contains all of the information in this edition plus nine additional chapters including: Notes from a voyage around Cape Horn, Preventing Rudder damage, Storm Staysails, An interview with the Late Sir Peter Blake on storm tactics. The new edition also has updates on important items such as choosing a para-anchor, check lists for getting fin keeled boats to lay hove to, when to heave to without a para-anchor and when to deploy one. Several new chapters telling the stories of people who have weathered severe storms using these tactics are also included. You will find the 3rd edition much more user friendly and up to date. Reviewers are recommending that people who used the second edition will find sufficent addirional information to buy the more recent 3rd edition. To go directly to this edition click on other editions on the opening page of this one.

From the Publisher

The second edition of this book sold over 30,000 copies and drew excellent reviews from all major sources. The newest edition is already in its second printing and is used by many sailing schools as an important part of their curiculum. To be sure you are getting this new edition, look for Storm Tactics Handbook 3rd edition with the cover which shows a boat hove to with a bright orange trysail while a wave is breaking just forward of the bow.