A highly reliable knot: the Solid Knot. What you are about to read is the first article of Boatandboats Fishing, the new…
Heavy weather sailing; lying a-hull We've already talked about the main techniques to prepare the boat and handle waves in…
At 4:00 pm, it's already dark; yet, it's 8 hours before the stroke of midnight and therefore the end of…
We've already seen how important is to prepare our boat and crew for heavy weather sailing. Now, it's time to…
Weather reports indicated a 18-knot south-east wind, rain and some storms would be approaching us along the Tuscany Coast in…
When spending a night at the anchor, you have different possibilities to anchor your boat. One of them is to take one or more…
As many of you have unfortunately experienced, the boat is an inexhaustible source of minor and major incidents which are not comparable…
Many years ago, a sailing instructor told me: " During any navigation, throw a life preserver in the water and shout:…
There are subjects that people prefer not to mention aboard. That's generally typical of guests who, for example, seem to be…
In a 25-knot sirocco, the boat approaches to a buoy, it stops for a while - just long enough to…