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