How to Cope with Storms

By Dietrich Von Haeften

Book Overview

To cope with extreme weather conditions sailors need to know to be able to recognize well in advance the approach of a deep low pressure system, to prepare for safe navigation during the passage of a storm, and then be able to handle the boat safely while the storm rages. This book, packed with practical advice and information, will help readers cope with all these aspects.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1574090321
• ISBN13: 9781574090321
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Sheridan House
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

How to Cope With Storms is direct and to the point.

We use this book for the Ocean Sailing Class that we teach (soundsailingcenter.com). The book is straighforward, authoritative, and to the point. Covers a lot of material. Very good value. Some of the descriptions about the difficulty in dealing with heavy weather are so direct in a German sort of a way, that they are funny (I was reading the book initially while sailing upwind in 40-50 knots in our J44. The pounding was intense. The author writes something to the effect that 'in heavy weather, when sailing upwind in a modern, well built boat, it will seem that the boat will break apart from the pounding, but it will not'. We had a good laugh about that section, since it was exactly what we were thinking.