Heavy Weather Sailing

Peter Bruce
296 p, hardcover, 17.5x25 cm

There is no one simple remedy for coping with bad weather, and first-hand knowledge of storms at sea is not easy to acquire. Thus the prudent boat owner looks to gain from the hard-won experience of others.

Heavy Weather Sailing has long reigned as the ultimate international authority on surviving storms at sea aboard sailing and motor yachts. The fifth edition of this classic brings a welter of expert advice from many of the great sailors to the present, followed by fresh accounts of yachts overtaken by extremely heavy weather. Of the new material for this edition, parachute sea anchors and drogues are given particular prominence, there is a treatise on almost every seasick remedy known to man, a pertinent blueprint is provided for those in command, and there is a chance to upgrade one's meteorological skill to a higher plane.

"If you buy no other book for your voyage, buy this one" - Pete Goss