Heavy Weather Gear and Strategy
posted by John & Phyllis Web Site
The last couple of Q&A posts on this blog have got me thinking about heavy weather generally; that and the fact that we have just finished changing and completely re-engineering our storm survival system on “Morgan’s Cloud”. Both the previous posts were about avoiding storms, but if you sail offshore enough sooner or later heavy weather will find you, so I’m thinking that the next series of posts will be about the strategies we use and the way “Morgan’s Cloud” is set up to cope with various possible gale and storm scenarios at sea. We certainly don’t have all the answers, but after 25 years of setting boats up to go offshore we have learned some things that will be useful to others.
To keep things reasonably focused, we won’t be dealing in this series with techniques for sailing in strong winds but will look at systems for coping with gales up through full survival storms.
Since we firmly believe that no one piece of gear or technique is a silver bullet for all heavy weather conditions, this will be a series of posts each dealing with one heavy weather situation that we might face while sailing offshore and our strategy and the gear we carry to deal with it.
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