Heavy Weather Tactics Using Sea Anchors and Drogues

Heavy Weather Tactics Using Sea Anchors and Drogues

Author: Earl Hinz

Publisher:

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780939837601

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Just as self-steering systems and autopilots have given the offshore seaman another pair of hands to steer the boat, so sea anchors and drogues have provided another means of handling threatening seas. Heavy Weather Tactics: Using Sea Anchors & Drogues is a classic; the last word on a subject of very great concern to leisure boaters and professional seamen alike, providing the reader with in-depth advice and analysis about: How deep water and coastal waves behave; How to deploy a sea anchor or drogue, and how it works; Different designs and their merits; What size of drag device is needed for a yacht, multihull, motorboat, fishing boat or working craft; Sea anchors for life rafts; How to make a makeshift sea anchor from whatever is at hand.This is the most detailed study available of a highly effective strategy for dealing with severe weather. Anyone putting to sea in a yacht or power driven vessel should carry a copy on board.


Storm Tactics

Storm Tactics

Author: Lin Pardey

Publisher: Pardey Books

Published: 2002-08

Total Pages: 84

ISBN-13: 9781929214105

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Lin and Larry Pardey demonstrate methods to help you bring your boat and crew safely through storms. Join them near South Africa's Cape of Storms to watch a live demonstration of setting and retrieving a para-anchor, then sail on board Taleisin during Lin & Larry's rounding of Cape Horn with storm sails in action in 70-knot winds. They demonstrate techincal details of storm tactics for both modern and classic boats. Learn how to prepare your crew and boat to eliminate fear and face heavy weather with a plan. Learn how and when to use the sailor's safety valve, heaving-to, with or without a para-anchor. They also discuss gear and equipment, plus special sails for heavy weather.


Liberty, State & Union

Liberty, State & Union

Author: Luigi Marco Bassani

Publisher: Mercer University Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 0881461865

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Examines the political ideals of Thomas Jefferson, discussing his views on the rights of man and state's rights, and describing the political theory that guided Jefferson's decisions as the nation's third president.


Oceanography and Seamanship

Oceanography and Seamanship

Author: William G. Van Dorn

Publisher: Cornell Maritime Press/Tidewater Publishers

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780870334344

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The final sections of the book deal with strategies for heavy weather seamanship and emergency procedures.


Marine Medicine

Marine Medicine

Author: Eric Weiss

Publisher: The Mountaineers Books

Published: 2012-04-19

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 1594856613

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CLICK HERE to download the sections on abdominal injury, dislocations, and animal stings from Marine Medicine * Advice for sailing, pleasure boating, fishing, and diving emergencies * More than 100 illustrations * Near-shore or out-at-sea first aid covered * As vital a piece of gear as your PFD and signal flares This edition features the latest information on marine first aid. It includes chapters on hazardous marine life, submersion injury and dive medicine, rescue and evacuation of the sick and injured, wound cleaning and closing, and much more.


The Death of Expertise

The Death of Expertise

Author: Tom Nichols

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2024

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 0197763839

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"In the early 1990s, a small group of "AIDS denialists," including a University of California professor named Peter Duesberg, argued against virtually the entire medical establishment's consensus that the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) was the cause of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. Science thrives on such counterintuitive challenges, but there was no evidence for Duesberg's beliefs, which turned out to be baseless. Once researchers found HIV, doctors and public health officials were able to save countless lives through measures aimed at preventing its transmission"--


The Complete Book of Anchoring and Mooring

The Complete Book of Anchoring and Mooring

Author: Earl R. Hinz

Publisher: Cornell Maritime Press/Tidewater Publishers

Published: 2009-07

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780870335396

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The Complete Book of Anchoring and Mooring addresses anchoring systems, techniques, and permanent moorings for boats from twelve feet to eighty feet in length. It covers monohulls, multihulls, light displacement sailboats, cruisers, sportfishers, passagemakers, and workboats. In short, it is for all recreational and working boats in this size range. Since the last printing of this book a number of revolutionary anchor concepts have appeared on the boating scene. These unique designs have shown exceptional performance when compared by a renowned testing agency with their contemporaries. Changes made to this revised second edition ensure its continued role as the state-of-the-art source book for the boating world.