By Lin and Larry Pardey, Pbk, 150mm x 230mm, 186 pages, monochrome photographs and drawings.
Well-designed, well-equipped sailboats are by definition, capable of dealing with almost anything that the ocean can dish out. As Joseph Conrad put it, a good boat "like a seabird going to rest upon the angry waves…will lay out the heaviest gale that ever made you doubt living long enough to see another sunrise".
But that boat needs a well-designed, well equipped crew. It needs people who have sound, effective, thoroughly rehearsed means of coping with dangerous weather. It does not need the mismash of speculation, ritual and "knocking-on-wood" that too often masquerades as storm tactics.
In this book the authors bring together their own and the experience of others to give the best possible advice to mariner who find themselves dealing with extreme weather under sail.