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The perspective is different when you sail in a place that is usually bathwater warm. Odds are if I fall in the water temp could be in the 80s. OTOH this mentality can creep into early season when the water is NOT warm yet. I always think a hot day around here in March or April gets people in a...

I was caught out in a Penguin once. Sailing home from a race the wind died, it was sunset, and I was 4 miles from home. The the sky lit up with lightning and I knew I was going to get nailed. I put the board full down, removed the rudder, lowered the sail, and sat in the stern wrapped in the...

Can someone explain something? I understand beach cats capsizing. Things like the Melges are a bit :blink: My standard idea of a keelboat is that *wind* could not possibly heel a boat over more than 90 degrees. At the mast-in-water point, there is no more exposed sail. How is this possible...

I love my Spinlock. It is the most comfortable vest I have even worn and it has leg straps to keep it in place.

Pilots still die in widely reported adverse weather, so the training we get is no cure-all. The human factor of wanting to be somewhere or not wanting to get stuck somewhere is very strong :( That said, here in the Annapolis area a storm front like that would have had the NOAA weather radio...

I have been in a storm like this and it killed the people on the boat next to us. It DID move so fast getting PFDs on in time was a near thing if you weren't constantly watching the horizon. Being in the water = death. The 90 + knot winds (in our case) whipped the wave tops off into a foam you...

+1 Well Done Sir!