Mayday Mayday Mayday: Collision at Sea
The more time you spend on the ocean the more incidences you will encounter. Here’s a life threatening event that happened to me this week.
The more time you spend on the ocean the more incidences you will encounter. Here’s a life threatening event that happened to me this week.
While all sailboat designs are different and will sail optimally at different heel angles and reef points, there are a few generalities that we’ll cover in this sailing blog. General reefing point number 1 through infinity: Don’t scare the beegeebees out of those on board by heeling the boat over too much. While you may […]
Here’s a question from a student. >>>>>>> Grant, I would like some clarification on the steps taken to reef a main sail on a cat. I’m going out on a 48ft cat and prob want to reef the sail before i go out…. Do i reef it while at the dock or in the water […]
This is an add on to the last post we did on heaving to. I was looking over our Storm Tactics online sailing course and found this image we created which best shows a boat in a heave-to situation in a storm. They say a pic is worth a thousand words so with this blog […]
While books say to tack the boat with the head sail cleated to windward and turn the wheel to windward, there’s more to know about heaving to
Last weekend we were out racing and one of the legs was very similar to a race we’d done a few weeks back with the same wind condition. On that previous race we’d lost huge ground over the other boats solely because the sail configuration and hull design etc on this boat doesn’t allow the […]
Take a look at some footage of the tell tales on the head sail as a NauticEd student turned the boat through various wind angles.
In this article, we’re talking about bareboat chartering of a Catamaran sailing boat on a sailing vacation.
Yesterday we were out racing in our local sailing regatta. At the end of any regatta race we always have a debriefing on what we could have done better. Turns out this one works especially well in our work lives as well and so that was the topic of conversation over a few beers afterward. […]
Know your sailboat mast height! Some lessons learned from encountering over-water power lines during a bareboat sailing trip.
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