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Holding the water out when a port breaks at sea Issue 53 : Mar/Apr 2007 According to the pilot charts of the central and north Pacific Ocean, the incidence of gales during late July and August on the preferred sailing route from Hanalei Bay, Kauai, to San Francisco is less than 5 percent. It’s even...
Sailing where the water goes from thin to none Issue 53 : Mar/Apr 2007 When you live in a foreign country for a while, you come to know it and the way of life there. But the important thing is not so much what’s learned about that country and its ways but how your own...
It’s one thing to find it, quite another to apply it Issue 53 : Mar/Apr 2007 As far as we were concerned, our new boat was a great success. All her systems were working well. She sailed like a dream and looked lovely on the water. The only thing we didn’t like was her name....
This necessary skill comes with knowledge and practice Issue 53 : Mar/Apr 2007 Unlike automobiles, which operate on a a solid medium, boats are always at the interface between two fluids, both of which are usually in motion. The movement of the water relative to the ground is called current. It has two components: set,...
