Essential tips for high-latitude cruising
Sailing in these cold and remote waters is particularly demanding. Here are a few tips to make cruising under high latitudes easier.
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How large is a spring tide?
Not all spring tides are created equal. So how do mariners quantify them? Ways to do so vary significantly around the world!
Responsible boating: 5 good habits to protect the marine environment
Sailing is a tremendous opportunity for freedom, but it also entails responsibilities. Preserving marine ecosystems, limiting your impact on marine wildlife, while continuing to enjoy the sea: it’s all possible if you take up some simple habits. Here are five fundamental tips to act responsibly when boating.
Weekly quiz: the autopilot steers off course!
When you set your autopilot to steer due west, the boat seems to consistently head WSW. Similarly, when aiming due south, the boat veers SSE.
🔹 What might be causing this discrepancy?
🔹 And how is this issue generally corrected?
Weekly quiz: what does this nautical chart symbol mean?
What does this arrow symbol mean? Where is it most often found? And most of all, why is it added on nautical charts?
Weekly quiz: what kind of mark is this?
While sailing at night, you see this beacon ahead.
🔹 What kind of mark is it?
🔹 Where should you be heading?
Weekly quiz: wet dock sill tide calculation
The port of Perros-Guirec just inaugurated the new gate-flap of its wet dock. You plan to go there, but what time will the sill open at?
Weekly quiz: aligning markers astern
Suppose you are following the pictured range astern, do you need to steer to starboard or port in order to return on track?
Weekly quiz: reading your sail’s telltales
They may be simple wool strands. But it’s the best technology out there. At least when it comes to trimming the sails. Meet the telltales.
Weekly quiz: Nautical chart of St. Paul island
This week in the Vendée Globe, Antoine Cornic anchored off St-Paul Island to repair his broken mainsail track ⛓️💥
To put the pictures shared by the TAAF into context, we looked up the SHOM nautical chart for this particular anchorage.
