Tag: heavy weather

  • Pretty essential:short handed mainsail reefing

    Good article from yachting World about briefing the main sail with only two people. The most important advice in here in my opinion is to practice and know exactly what each person is going to do before you start doing it. But I think there are two things left out of this article that are… Read more

  • Our Saga Trying to Find a Warm, Dry Women’s Sailing Jacket

    Our Saga Trying to Find a Warm, Dry Women’s Sailing Jacket

    I spent years trying to find a sailing jacket that Synthia would actually wear and feel warm in. We actually bought all the jackets listed below plus a few others and tried them all. Our goal was to find something warm enough that a girl from the Caribbean would feel comfortable sailing in the Pacific coast… Read more

  • An Unexpected Encounter With Santa Ana Winds – Sail Magazine

    Fun story. I was in the same cove on a night like is described in this article when all the dingy docks were destroyed by the wind and many people lost their dinghies. But we did not see anyone lose their moorings. That’s scary. If you don’t sail in Southern California then you don’t know… Read more