When you’re piloting close inshore and everything is happening fast, trying to take and plot magnetic position lines is generally a bust. To access this post, you must purchase The Sea …
Get the grib
Are you looking for really sound wind and weather forecasting on your desktop, anywhere in the world, large area or small, with three-hour intervals and up to seven-day prognosis? To …
Check aloft the easy way
You may be completely confident of your rig if you set it up yourself, but if it was left to anyone else it’s worth checking your pins and clevises before a passage. To access this post, …
Freshen that nip
Chafe is the great enemy of the far-voyaging sailing vessel. From clipper ship to mini-yacht it’s the same old problem. To access this post, you must purchase The Sea Chest membership …
A clean tow
The towing boat in this illustration had a problem because of her self-steering. It wouldn’t take much of a tweak from a towrope with 7 tons of yacht on the end of it to bend something. To …
A long Bowline
You might be forgiven for thinking this was a tip about not securing to rotten old tree stumps, but it isn’t. To access this post, you must purchase The Sea Chest membership (Annual …
