Adlard Coles' Heavy Weather Sailing

Heavy Weather Sailing has long reigned as the ultimate international authority on surviving storms at sea aboard sailing and motor vessels. The book brings a wealth of expert advice from many of the great sailors of the present, followed by fresh accounts of yachts, both sail and power, overtaken by extreme weather. Techniques for coping with heavy seas are explored, seasick remedies proposed, there are lessons to be learnt for those in command, and a detailed analysis of meteorological conditions leading up to a storm. This is the 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 of the sort of preparations required, and the tactics which should be considered when it comes on to blow. 'This book is an institution' Practical Boat Owner 'Compulsory reading for any passage-making yachtsman' The Lifeboat 'A book with a worldwide reputation and rightly so' Kelvin Hughes