If you’ve just cruised to the Caribbean and are about to sail home from America, consider this: plotting a great circle course (the shortest way across the outside of a sphere) used to involve special …
Secure the sheet
By all means ease the mainsheet when dropping the sail, but before anyone goes up to stow it, the boom should be secured amidships. To access this post, you must purchase The Sea Chest …
Up-tide or down?
There’s little more embarrassing than coming into a hammerhead berth down-tide by mistake. To access this post, you must purchase The Sea Chest membership (Annual Payment) or 1 Year Gift …
Get the time right
Tidal height curves delivered by a chart plotter are among the most useful advances in recent years. To access this post, you must purchase The Sea Chest membership (Annual Payment) or 1 …
Bury it behind the main
When something goes wrong on the foredeck, the natural instinct of most fore-and-aft sailors is to luff up head to wind. To access this post, you must purchase The Sea Chest membership …
Automatically wrong
A recent Expert on Board article produced an interesting postbag revealing that a number of readers had been assuming the course ‘dialled up’ on their autopilot... To access this post, you …
