Nav in a nutshell: Lee bowing defined - Practical Boat Owner. Dick Everitt explains how you can get a little lift from the tide If our destination is directly to windward we’ll have to tack towards it. The diagram to the right shows we have a 7-knot wind on the nose and a 2-knot tide running at right angles to us, and later on in the passage the tide will change and run in the opposite direction. This is all theoretical, but it will demonstrate the principle of what is usually called ‘lee bowing’. Making choices With the wind dead ahead, we can start on either port or starboard tack. If we start on starboard (A) we’ll have the tidal current on our lee bow and it will push us back towards the rhumb line – the shortest straight line to our destination.
But if we go on port (B), the tide’s on our windward bow and will push us away from the rhumb line. What isn’t quite so obvious is the effect of the tide on the wind direction that we’ll feel onboard. But on course (B) we’d be headed when the ‘tide-induced wind’ changes direction. How air mass affects wind direction – Yachting World. For each wind direction we can determine where the source region is and therefore its likely characteristics, says meteorologist Tibbs I have a lovely old instrument at home which belonged to my grandfather; using dials on concentric circles you can set the direction of the wind, barometer reading and trend, along with the season.
This then gives a basic weather forecast by identifying the air mass and what is likely to happen next, similar to the forecasts found on home weather stations. So what is an air mass? If you go vertically up through the atmosphere you will get some big changes in temperature, humidity and wind over a short distance. However, if you move horizontally through the air you will find that the air’s characteristics will stay very similar often for hundreds of miles. As the air is heated, or cooled from below, the temperature of the air becomes close to that of the surface it is crossing. Tropical maritime Identifying the type of wind See also: How to tie a soft shackle - Yachting Monthly. Tie a soft shackle in 10 minutes! Soft shackles are cheaper, stronger, lighter and kinder to your boat than the stainless-steel alternative, but many yachtsmen still use metal shackles. Is it time the cruising yachtsman followed in the wake of racing yachtsman and converted? Soft shackles can be used almost anywhere you currently use a conventional shackle.
Look on any boat and you will usually find areas where a metal shackle has worn away an aluminium casting or toe rail. If soft shackles had been used from the outset, one might have had to replace a shackle a few times but this would be a lot cheaper than having to replace a mast fittings, for example. Another advantage is that once the shackle is secured there is little or no chance of it coming undone, unlike conventional shackles, which require seizing to prevent a pin coming adrift. To find out more read the Summer 2016 issue of Yachting Monthly. Glossary of nautical terms. Wikimedia list article This is a partial glossary of nautical terms; some remain current, while many date from the 17th to 19th centuries.
See also Wiktionary's nautical terms, Category:Nautical terms, and Nautical metaphors in English. See the Further reading section for additional words and references. A[edit] Aback A foresail when against the wind, used when tacking to help the vessel turn. Abaft Toward the stern, relative to some object ("abaft the cockpit"). Abaft the beam Further aft than the beam: a relative bearing of greater than 90 degrees from the bow: "two points abaft the beam, starboard side". Abandon ship! An imperative to leave the vessel immediately, usually in the face of some imminent overwhelming danger.[3] It is an order issued by the Master or a delegated person in command. Abeam On the beam, a relative bearing at right angles to the ship's keel.[5] Able seaman (Also able-bodied seaman). Aboard On or in a vessel. About To go about is to change the course of a ship by tacking. Jonty Pearce: Just mooning around - Yachting Monthly.
Cruising GP, Jonty Pearce, suggests giving the tide tables a rest and keeping an eye on the moon instead... The sun was shining on the sea,Shining with all his might:He did his very best to makeThe billows smooth and bright–And this was odd, because it wasThe middle of the night. The moon was shining sulkily,Because she thought the sunHad got no business to be thereAfter the day was done–“It’s very rude of him,” she said,“To come and spoil the fun! – Lewis Carroll When gazing up at a full moon, It still amazes to me that man has actually stood there, thereby totally undermining the notion of the man in the moon living off its cheesy structure. The sun itself may rise and set in a daily predictable sort of way, but the moon has its own complicated life of waxing, waning, and being full or new which, I have to admit, has always slightly confused me.
It is very nice to know all about the phases of the moon, but why worry? Jonty Pearce. Yachting Articles : On too long a lead: how your lifejacket harness could kill you - Yachting World. Rudder failure and 1,500 miles to sail – Yachting World. When the rudder of his 39-footer broke in mid-Atlantic Patrick Marshall set up a jury rig, with the support and advice of a radio net, and sailed 1,500 miles to the Caribbean Like most dinghy sailors, I used to have fun sailing my boat without a rudder. I learned a lot about the optimum set of the sails, heel and fore and aft trim in order to keep a straight course.
Doing it for real in a 39ft yacht weighing 9 tons after rudder failure in mid-Atlantic at night with a Force 7 blowing was a different matter. Amanda and I left Mindelo in the Cape Verde Islands at 1500 on Tuesday 6 December 2011 on our Sweden Yachts 390 Egret. We shot through the acceleration zone between São Vicente and Santo Antão in 30 knots of wind, and continued 50 miles south to avoid the islands’ huge wind shadow before turning west. By midday the next morning we were heading direct for Barbados, 1,950 nautical miles away, with full main and the cruising chute set under a blue sky with just a few puffy clouds. Skipper’s tips – Look abeam. Tom Cunliffe has assessed hundreds of sailors for the RYA Yachtmaster exam.
He shares a few skipper's tips with us... Tom Cunliffe is an RYA Yachtmaster examiner. He has passed and failed hundreds of Yachtmaster candidates over the years Credit: Graham Snook/YM Skipper’s tips Look abeam A sideways glance will tell you how much way the yacht is making on the final approach to the mooring buoy When you’re at the helm picking up a mooring – power or sail, it makes no difference – there’s a natural tendency to become focussed on the foredeck action. The answer is to make a point of looking abeam as you come close up to the mooring. This might not sound like advanced boat handling, but I know from running numerous exams that it’s often forgotten. Don’t go too close Buoys like this one at Bembridge can swing into the shallows, so don’t go too close to them A picture may not always tell a thousand words, but this one has plenty to say about buoyed channels. Forget the polish. An expert’s guide to stern to mooring.
If you charter in the Med, you’ll find yourself mooring stern to. Theo Stocker finds out how from Barrie Neilson An expert’s guide to stern to mooring Coming alongside at the end of the day in the UK usually means picking up a mooring or some form of parallel parking against a floating dock. In other parts of the world, the Baltic and the Mediterranean for example, bow- and stern-to moorings are the norm, and the challenge of sliding neatly stern-first into a gap barely wider than your toerails can take the shine off a sailing holiday for an unpracticed crew. Of course, mastering end-on mooring has plenty to teach us for squeezing into an awkward marina berths too, and for those of us content with what our own sunny island has to offer, there are still times when putting bows to a quay, or nosing up to a steep beach is the neatest and easiest way to make contact with the land and get ashore, as long as there isn’t too much tide running.
A piece of cake? How to Get Kids to Love Sailing >> Scuttlebutt Sailing News. When Farr 40 pro, Dave Gerber, hears this topic discussed, he gets really excited. For Dave, growing our sport, our recreation and putting more kids in sailing of any type is an absolutely awesome thing to accomplish and close to his heart. Here is what he has learned about getting kids to love sailing as a coach and from sailing with his own kids… Someone asked me how you measure a successful sailing season with kids?
Is it a regatta win, a personal victory in a given wind strength or a new skill learned? Personally, all of those are important and any one of them will keep kids coming back to our sport. However, there are three common elements that are needed to get to any level of success. Get them involved. Kids love to feel grown-up and important and part of what’s going on. Grandpa Dan takes many steps to ensure the kids are safe and having fun. Most importantly, they always have fun and they always want to go back.
Make it fun. Island Hopping: The Joy of Sailing in Greece. PHOTO: The clock tower rises over the marina on Hydra, Greece. (photo by John Roberts) Imagine long, relaxing days on clear blue waters under sunny skies, with no appointments to keep and your next destination wherever you, your fellow passengers and the skipper decide. My voyage on a 50-foot yacht sailing in the Greek isles delivered all I had anticipated — and more. As a long-time cruiser (you know, the big ships), I knew climbing aboard a sailboat for the first time to traverse the open waters of the Aegean Sea would represent something altogether foreign to me. I was fairly certain I would have to deal with a bout or two of seasickness.
But the weather cooperated, the seas were pleasant, I did not get sick and the trip was an epic delight. I traveled with Mar-A-Mar Travel, a company that charters yachts in Greece and hosts passengers for customized sailing experiences. My journey started when I joined the yacht in port at Mykonos. Back at the boat, I settled into the tight confines. 5 tips: the heavy weather gybe – Yachting World. Of all sailing manoeuvres a heavy weather gybe is the one that can strike fear into the hearts of even professional racers. Jonty Sherwill asks Rob Greenhalgh for tips on how to deal with it With your heart rate rising like a jockey heading towards Becher’s Brook in the Grand National, your gaze is fixed on the gybe mark that’s getting ever closer. You may have been through this procedure countless times before, but picking the right wave at the right moment to gybe is a fresh challenge every time.
At play are elemental forces poised to have their fun if you drop your guard at a crucial moment. Today is more testing than usual, a gusty 25-30-knot wind is pushing against two knots of ebb tide and kicking up a short, confused sea, plus a boat overlapped to windward is looking keen to gybe as soon as you do. “Everyone ready?” Calls the helmsman as the boat comes abeam of the port hand passing mark just before steering into the gybe. How come they got it so right and you so badly wrong? 1. Experts examine Oyster Yacht that sank. Oyster 90 that lost her keel and sank has been raised and investigations are ongoing into the structural failure that caused the keel and its stub to break away Polina Star III, a 90ft version of an Oyster 825 that lost her keel and sank off the coast of Spain on 4 July 2015, has been raised and is now being examined by experts who are investigating the cause of the failure.
Although little is yet being said about the nature of the accident, the structural failure involved in the keel and its stub breaking away from the hull of the yacht and that this, ‘was not due to a failure of keel bolts’, according to a statement on Oyster Yachts’s website. Before the yacht was raised, underwater photographs were taken in which the company says that the intact keel bolts can be clearly seen.
Yachting World also understands that there were no obvious signs of impact on the keel. Keel failure: the shocking facts - Yachting World. Keel damage is a very real danger To contemplate the loss of your keel is to think the unthinkable. Yet in recent years there have been several cases that have reminded us that this worst-case scenario can and does happen. Many of the recent incidents have been aboard raceboats, often fitted with high-performance keels that push the boundaries of design and technology.
But the loss of the keel aboard Cheeki Rafiki, which became the subject of an intensive search last year, sent shockwaves through the sport. This was a standard Beneteau 40.7, a boat that is anything but high-tech. Furthermore, the 40.7 is not only popular, but is typical of many other cruiser-racer styles around the world. It wasn’t the first case of its type, however. Before that there was the case of Hooligan V, a production raceboat that lost her keel in 2007 and claimed a life. The trouble is that these are only cases where the worst has happened and the keel has parted company with the boat. Going aground hard. How Much of a Sailor Are You? >> Scuttlebutt Sailing News.
Find a Crew™ 50 innovations that changed sailing. Chris Beeson picks 50 innovations that have changed our safety, navigation, life on deck and more 50 innovations that changed sailing AIS lifts the veil, allowing you to see and be seen This is the biggest step in marine safety since President Clinton made GPS publicly available in 1996. An AIS receiver allows you to monitor shipping traffic over 300 tonnes, and a transceiver also broadcasts your position to other AIS-enabled traffic. They come as stand-alone screens, chartplotter overlays and in fixed VHF units. If you have a DSC VHF radio, you can contact a target using its MMSI number, ensuring they know about you.
There are personal AIS beacons too, that activate if you fall overboard and trigger an MOB alert on the plotter of your boat and any AIS-enabled plotter in range. 2. Radar allows you to monitor shipping and weather, and it’s a navigational aid too Radar has helped mariners avoid countless collisions and can also detect the weather and squalls. 3. 5. 6. 7. 8. 10. 11. 12. 13. 20 tips for surviving strong winds. Having analysed several case studies from Cyclone Pam in Vanuatu, Tom Partridge identifies 20 key techniques for surviving strong winds A safe option is a strong cradle with arms secured by chains, the hull supported with Acrow props and ratchet cargo straps Credit: Tom Partridge 20 tips for surviving strong winds All boats Remove sails, sprayhood, bimini and linesTake down wind generators, solar panels and stow liferaftsReduce windage as much as possible and leave no loose items on deckEnsure water and fuel tanks are full as demand will be great after the cycloneRemove and stow your tender, or take it ashore when you leave the boatTalk to your insurer, prepare as advised and take photos of your preparationOnce fully prepared, leave the boat.
Remove as much windage as you can, up to and including the mast if possible Boats in a boatyard Boats on a mooring Use your heaviest mooring lines and protect them at any potential chafe points Use thick lines that can provide strength and elasticity. Расследование катастроф на море. Записки яхтсмена. Как я учился на шкипера (Day Skipper Tidal) в Ирландии. Springing on and off. Solent (Pilotage Information and Charts) [Expanded View] : pilotage, charts, photos and marine business listings.
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