num_pages: 170
description: A new, completely revised and expanded version of this book is now available. Storm Tactics Handbook 3rd edition was released in July. It contains all of the information in this edition plus nine additional chapters Notes from a voyage around Cape Horn, Preventing Rudder damage, Storm Staysails, An interview with the Late Sir Peter Blake on storm tactics. The new edition also has updates on important items such as choosing a para-anchor, check lists for getting fin keeled boats to lay hove to, when to heave to without a para-anchor and when to deploy one. Several new chapters telling the stories of people who have weathered severe storms using these tactics are also included. You will find the 3rd edition much more user friendly and up to date. Reviewers are recommending that people who used the second edition will find sufficent addirional information to buy the more recent 3rd edition. To go directly to this edition click on other editions on the opening page of this one.
language: English
title: Storm Tactics Handbook: Modern Methods of Heaving-to for Survival in Extreme Conditions
titlecomplete: Storm Tactics Handbook: Modern Methods of Heaving-to for Survival in Extreme Conditions
genres: Reference, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 290
publisher: Pardey Books