Tide tables are all very well, but they are only predictions. On the day, you can’t beat something you personally have observed to be the truth. To access this post, you must purchase The …
Nothing lasts for ever
Here’s a shiny new syphon breaker in the engine cooling line before the water is injected into the exhaust system. To access this post, you must purchase The Sea Chest membership (Annual …
Compensating for leeway
Unless you’re a professor of mathematics who can think in pure numbers, the easiest way to plot a course compensating for leeway is visually. To access this post, you must purchase The Sea …
Button up the ‘moby’
Anecdotal evidence suggests that more reading glasses and mobile phones have been lost by sailors leaning down to attend to a docklines than by any other group of humanity. To access this …
Left-over seas
The chances are that some time this season half of us will find ourselves holed up in some faraway port while the usual mid-holiday gale blows itself out. To access this post, you must …
Wide in, tight out
Old racing hands know that the quickest way to round a mark of the course is to approach it wide, then tighten the turn as you round. To access this post, you must purchase The Sea Chest …
