Sail Course ® Section 18, Storm Conditions

Sail Course ® Figure 18–1 Heaving To

Sail Course ® Figure 18–2 Stormy Weather

Sail Course ® Sea Anchor

Sail Course ® Drogue

Sail Course ® Broken Mast

Sail Course ® Vocabulary Batten Down. To secure all hatches and ports in preparation for heavy weather. Drogue. Drag deployed off the stern of a boat to create resistance and slow the boat's speed in heavy weather, but still allow steerageway. Often conical or a series of conical shapes. Compare sea anchor. Heave To. To bring a boat into a position where there is little or no headway, usually with the bow into the wind or current. Lay To. To lie without headway either to a sea anchor or to lines streamed over the side, or merely drifting (lying ahull). Pitchpole. Capsize end over end. Sea Anchor. A parachute-like device deployed off the bow to hold a boat head-to-head with minimum steerage way; often used in heavy weather to keep the bow into the wind and seas. Compare drogue. Under Bare Poles. Sailing (underway) with no sail set and being driven only by force of the wind on the hull, spars, and rigging; usually a heavy weather precaution.

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