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Drag Device Database & Storm Tactics Workbook
The Drag Device Database (DDDB) is available from Victor Shane at Para - Tech Sea Anchors.
"Drag Device Data Base is an essential reference book for anyone who thinks seriously about heavy weather, gales and storms. For too long an area where serious discussion has taken the form of anecdotes, rumors, wild speculation, or entrenched arguments, this very significant segment of offshore seamanship has begged for systematic analysis. Victor Shane has provided it here." - John Rousmaniere, Author, FASTNET FORCE 10
Storm Tactics Workbook is available from PARADISE CAY Publications.
"In this age of pushbutton navigation, instant weather reports, SARSAT, electronic charts, autopilots, and a host of readily available safety devices, storm seamanship remains an elusive and uncommon art. It cannot be bought over the counter. There are no shortcuts to its acquisition. It has to be learned the hard way, out on the real sea, on a real sailboat, in real gales, in real storms. Lin and Larry Pardey have made the equivalent of five circumnavigations under mast and canvas. They have survived gales and storms. They emerged unscathed and were resuming their journey when other sailboats were in the process of sinking, being abandoned, and otherwise making the headlines.
How did Lin and Larry do it? In this timely work, Storm Tactics Workbook, they reveal the secret of their successful track record. The stark, simple truth is right here in this book and cries out for attention by novice and experienced sailors alike. If the lost art of heaving-to could be revived by modern-day sailors, we would grieve the loss of far fewer of them." - Victor Shane, Drag Device Database
Rod Bruckdorfer
©: copyright 1999 Rod Bruckdorfer
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