HANDLING STORMS AT SEA

Hal Roth left his career as a journalist and editor more than thirty-five years ago and, with his wife, Margaret, went sailing. Since then, they have crossed all the oceans of the world and sailed to a thousand foreign ports and anchorages. Hal also raced twice around the world singlehanded, in the BOC Challenges of 1986-87 and 1990-91. He has accumulated 200,000 voyaging miles and has sailed to the Aleutian Islands, Japan, the North American West Coast, throughout the South Pacific, around South America, the Caribbean, the U.S. East Coast, Newfoundland, Labrador, and the Indian Ocean, Red Sea, and Mediterranean. He has crossed the Pacific five times and the Atlantic eleven times and has rounded Cape Horn three times. A graceful writer and accomplished photographer, Hal has written eight books about his adventures and one how-to book, After 50,000 Miles, which has sold more than 60,000 copies in its various editions. Two Against Cape Horn, Two on a Big Ocean, and Always a Distant Anchorage rank among the true classics of voyaging literature. He is one of the world’s half dozen most accomplished sailing writers. HOMETOWN: St. Michaels, MD

Part One: Storms and Storm Tactics 1. An Overview 2. What is an Ocean Wave? 3. More On Big Waves 4. Heaving-To 5. Lying A-Hull 6. Running Off 7. What is a Sea Anchor? 8. Parachutes in the Sea 9. Parachutes in Action 10. What is a Drogue? 11. A New Idea 12. Do Drogues Really Work? 13. Bow or Stern: Which Scheme is Better? Part Two: The Bigger Picture 14. Passage Planning: The Best Time to Go 15. The Chart Game, or Where Am I? 16. A Few Notes on Reefing the Sails 17. Glossary. [350 terms of the sea]Notes and references