Duncan Wells

Stress-Free Sailing (eBook, PDF)

Single and Short-handed Techniques

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This brand new edition of Stress-Free Sailing is the answer to single or short-handed crews' prayers - a step-by-step handbook addressing the most common sailing situations that anyone cruising will have to manage.
Here you will find clever, highly effective and successfully tried and tested shorthanded solutions for dealing with everything from getting off and then back onto the dock in a variety of wind and tide configurations, sail setting and reefing, mooring and anchoring, to sailing in heavy weather and new techniques for man overboard, all clearly illustrated with straightforward diagrams and sequence photos. 24 QR codes dotted throughout the book link to online video demonstrations to bring the techniques to life.

As single or short-handers you have to plan carefully, prepare properly and be able to anticipate. This new edition will be a godsend with its original techniques for coping in every situation. It will be fully revised throughout with new practical tips and advice on mooring, navigation, anchoring and safety at sea.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781472978417
• Artikelnr.: 61610064

Autorenporträt

Duncan Wells is an RYA instructor and sailing school principal. He has written for many leading boating magazines in the UK and US. He is also the author of Stress-Free Sailing, Stress-Free Navigation, Stress-Free Motorboating, Stress-Free Mooring and 101 Tips for Stress-Free Sailing (Adlard Coles Nautical), which have helped countless sailors and motorboaters learn helpful boat handling and berthing techniques. He lives in Buckinghamshire.

Inhaltsangabe

CONTENTS Acknowledgements Preface 1 INTRODUCTION PHILOSOPHY Why learn
single-handed techniques? Test boats 2 SKILLS & DISCIPLINES Rope Attaching
to the dock Mooring lines Knots Boathook Sharing a cleat Shore lines Shoes
Keep a clean head Glossary 3 GETTING OFF THE BERTH Conditions: wind and
tide Prop walk Fendering Back-up plan Grip Finger berth, bows in Finger
berth, stern in Along a long pontoon, with boats ahead and astern 4 GETTING
ONTO THE BERTH The approach Approaching bows first Approaching stern first
Tricky berths, bows first Tricky berths, stern first Strong wind blowing
you off a stretch of pontoon Box mooring Rafting up Mediterranean mooring
French fingers and hooped cleats 5 SAILING, HEAVING TO & REEFING Sail trim
and handling Sailing in a circle on the spot Heaving to Reefing 6 MOORING
BUOYS Approach and control of the boat Mooring buoy with pendant and
pick-up float Mooring buoy with no pendant 7 ANCHORING Coding the cable
Quick tips for anchoring success Using a kedge anchor Bahamian moor A line
ashore Grounding the bows on the beach Anchor stuck? 8 WEATHER Frontal
systems Wind on land and sea 9 HEAVY WEATHER SAILING STRATEGY Using the
right sails Centring the effort Balancing the sails Weather helm Setting
the boat up for heavy weather Very heavy weather When to heave to 10
NAVIGATION Measure with your body Distances Lee bowing Moon phases Tablet
navigation 11 MAN OVERBOARD STRATEGY Getting back to the MOB Getting an
able MOB back on board Getting an unconscious MOB back on board Glossary
Epilogue Index