Choosing the Right Fabric For Your Sails: Part One
WEBThe real advantage of a laminate, other than the fact that it’s a lot lighter and stronger for the same strength and stretch resistance as Dacron, is that you can use the fabric to build a radial sail, either a bi-radial or a tri-radial sail. This way you can use fabrics of different weights in the same sail.
5 Tips for Keeping Organized Logs | Cruising Compass - Blue …
WEBMay 7, 2015 · Follow these five basic rules of thumb: 1. Make Entries Each Hour. Skippers make the call when it comes to log entry frequency. But it’s best to keep consistent log keeping–and that means once each hour. This gives you more historical data for weather, engineering, and navigation. Compare this to a graph.
Calculating the True Wind and Why it Matters
WEBMay 9, 2017 · There are several ways to define the wind. For weather work at sea we care only about the true wind. This true wind is the speed and the direction of the wind relative to the fixed earth under the ocean. Tied up at the dock, we feel the true wind. Once we get underway, however, our own motion changes the wind we feel, and then it is called the ...
Use These Sailing Navigation Lights with Caution
WEBDec 2, 2014 · Quick flashing lights “13” and “14” warn the mariner of a turn and also bring attention to a platform near the dredged channel. Mark these on your chart so that they stand out for safer, easier navigation. Turns and Breaker Lines. The channel begins with lighted whistle buoy “10” to starboard to mark the edge of the dredged channel.
A Guide to Equipping Your Boat with a Windvane
WEBSep 10, 2015 · A Guide to Equipping Your Boat with a Windvane. By Administrator · On September 10, 2015. Daniel Collins provides a summary of the major choices involved in the purchase of new self-steering gear. A common piece of equipment found on the modern offshore cruising sailboats is the autopilot. Whether it is …
Heaving-To: a Useful Maneuver Worth Practicing
WEBAug 26, 2015 · Simply put, heaving-to is a maneuver used to slow a sailboat’s progress and calm its motion while at sea. When successfully “hove-to,” a sailboat will gently drift to leeward at a greatly reduced speed. The reasons for heaving-to are numerous and often situational. When teaching students the maneuver, I impart the three Rs of heaving-to ...
Dock a Boat Like a Pro – How to Use a Breast Line
WEBJan 7, 2016 · When you return to the boat, untie the breast line. Pull the boat flush alongside the pier and cleat off the breast line to the original pier cleat located adjacent to your beam (middle illustration). Board the boat. Untie the breast line from your boat beam cleat. Move the breast line to a bow or stern cleat (bottom illustration).
Dock Like a Pro – Use a Forward Bow Spring | Cruising Compass
WEBMar 18, 2015 · 5. Belay and Dock Flush Alongside the Pier. Place your engine throttle in astern propulsion at idle speed (or the slowest speed possible). Tension on the spring line will bring the boat flush alongside the pier. Once alongside, leave your engine in gear to maintain position (illustration 5). As an alternate to the forward bow spring, put over a ...
New Beneteau Oceanis 30.1 is a Proper Yacht - Blue Water Sailing
WEBMay 20, 2020 · The large cabin-side and hull windows will bring a lot of natural light into the interior and with the white overheads, the 30.1 will have a warm, bright quite yacht-style feel. The tankage is ample for a boat of this size with 34 gallons of fuel and 42 gallons of water. Under power at five knots she will have a range of almost 500 miles.
Cruising Guide to the Western Caribbean - Blue Water Sailing
WEBOct 12, 2018 · One of the greatest aspects of this itinerary is that most of this sailing route takes advantage of favorable winds and currents. This is a key difference between this Western Caribbean route via the “Thornless Path” of traveling upwind from the Bahamas to the BVI via Turks and Cacaos, Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico. That can be a real ...