Category: Seamanship
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Night sailing – a few tips
As the skipper of a boat it’s up to you to decide on safety matters for yourself and your crew. Thus many skippers insist on everyone on deck wearing harnesses, but some eschew them, saying… […]
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Shooting a bridge – Boating Skills
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Sailing skills: launching and recovering the Jib
In our experience of teaching folks to sail, both on our own Traditional Boat Skills courses aboard Amelie Rose and through the RYA YachtmasterTM scheme we’ve come across many “methods” for doing everything from making… […]
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Using Wykeham Martin furling gear
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Making and throwing a heaving line
Dan Houston shows how to use a heaving line – and relays how to make a Monkey’s Fist or a quick knot to go on the end of it A typical heaving line is a… […]
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Navigation Basics: Course to Steer
You know what point to aim for, the wind is free so you can go straight there. Except that you need to take into account the speed and direction of the tide to determine your… […]
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Rule of Tenths
Rule of twelths? It’s a bit tricky with metric charts… so use the Rule of Tenths: As your on deck ready reckoner for the state of tide Working out tidal heights using the traditional rule… […]
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Heaving the lead
As soon as a vessel came near land her crew would begin “sounding” the depth of water using a line marked with depths and a length of lead. The word sounding is dervived from the… […]
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Heaving the Log
A line, to which markers or ‘knots’ were attached at eight fathom (47ft 3inches to be precise) intervals, was wound on the reel which one man holds over his head. To the end of this… […]