Product Description

Heavy Weather Sailing has long reigned as the ultimate international authority on surviving storms at sea aboard sailing and motor vessels. The book 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, Peter Cook, and Larry and Lin Pardey. Techniques for coping with heavy seas are explored, and new chapters have been added, giving advice on the use of storm sails, taking shelter in heavy weather, handling multihulls in storms and one on handling RIBs in high seas. Seasickness remedies are proposed, and a detailed analysis is given of the meteorological conditions leading up to a storm. 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. 'If you buy no other book for your voyage, buy this one' Pete Goss (renowned yachtsman and rescuer of Raphael Dinelli during the 1996/97 Vendee Globe) 'This book is an institution' Practical Boat Owner 'The ultimate survival handbook' Yachting World

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #73610 in Books
• Published on: 2008-05-30
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 304 pages

Review
"This book is the storm sailor's bible, an invaluable and indispensable resource for the adventurous yachtsman" Yachting Monthly (July 2008) "This book cannot be bettered for advice on coping with stormy weather and preparing for it" Lymington Times (June 2008) 'Heavy Weather Sailing is probably the best preparation a sailor can make onshore ' Lloyds List, Sept 2008 'Heavy Weather Sailing has long reigned as the ultimate international authority on surviving storms at sea for crews of any size. If ever there was a definitive book on the subject...this is it' RIB International, October 2008 ' It really is an essential addition to any serious cruiser's bookshelf ' The Main Sail.com, August 2008

Lymington Times (June 2008)
"This book cannot be bettered for advice on coping with stormy weather and preparing for it"

Review
' It really is an essential addition to any serious cruiser's bookshelf '

Customer Reviews

A comprehensive revision of the standard textbook
The fifth edition of 'Heavy Weather Sailing" is radically different in content, if not in scope, to earlier editions. When the author of a revered textbook dies, his sucessor as Editor has to choose between retaining "the words of the Master" and retaining his or her intentions.

Peter Bruce has done the latter, keeping just one and a half chapters from Adlard Coles's editions of the book.

Consequently, if you have an older edition, (or even two!) you still need to buy this one. The techniques recommended have changed; lying a-hull is not now favoured and the use of parachute sea anchors has become accepted. Data from RORC races involving heavier long keeled yachts has been dropped in favour of the 1991 Japan/Guam Race and the 1998 Sydney/Hobart Race.

In place of the old anecdotal arrangement, Peter Bruce has performed radical surgery. The book is neatly divided into two sections - "Advice from the Experts" first, followed by accounts of experiences. The first chapter, by Olin Stephens, sets the tone for the whole book; balanced, authoritative, concise.

As Adlard Coles used to say, the book. like seasickness tablets, should be taken before the onset of heavy weather and there is every reason to do just that. One of the strengths of the old book was that, unlike most textbooks, it was readable and could be read for pleasure. Peter Bruce has managed to retain this quality, so that the lessons will have sunk in before they are needed.

The one complaint is that the proof reading is a disgrace; we have 55 metre inflatable boats(!) a boat leaving an anchorage to avoid a dragging kedge ("ketch" in earlier editions!) and many more such. Presumably, in a spirit of economy, the proof reading was done with the aid of a spellcheck programme rather than a yachtsman!

The photographs, on the other hand, are as good as ever.

An essential book

Brilliant a must for all yachties
A very well laid out, concise book giving loads of advice from the experts on possible approaches to heavy weather sailing and dealing with extream storms.

Absolutely essential reading
It scares me that I ever went to sea without having read and re-read this book. If you're serious about going to sea then you need to know the techniques and skills in this book.