Sailing Skills Useful to All Sailors
updated: 3 August 2023
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Contents
Safe, Competent Sailing
2011.02.24: Efficient Sailing = Safe Sailing = Fun Sailing
2023.08.03: A Chilling Reminder to Cruisers
2020.09.29: What to do about getting Masthead Buoyancy
2020.07.15: Shortening sail: the Wayfarer storm trysail
2020.05.20: Shortening sail: Roller & Slab Reefing
 
2007.12.08: Uncle Al & Mato Ilijic talk safer gybing, better pointing
2007.01.05: The (tricky) use of wire halyards on the (g)old masts
2005.03.14: How to avoid a jammed centreboard
2001.12.08: How should we cope with lightning?
2000.06.26: New Heaving Line Requirements for Canada
Helping Yourself and Others
190704: Uncle Al talks self-rescue in KISS edition 3
2019.07.04:
That Sinking Feeling
2018.03.06: More Capsize Pics and Their Lessons
2011.10.17: Lesson with a Happy Ending
2020.09.29: What to do about getting Masthead Buoyancy
2009.12.06: Self-Rescue After a Capsize
2023.04.08: A Case in Point and Resulting Recommendations
2002.06.26: Uncle Al on Rule 1.1
2002.06.26: Giving Assistance
2002.06.26: Capsize Pics and Their Lessons
The Beaufort Scale(s)
2001.10.13: The Art of Coarse Sailing Beaufort Scale
2004.03.28: The Beaufort Scale with a Difference
for the less experienced
2020.07.01: The Toronto Sailing & Canoe Club Guidelines
for Relatively Inexperienced Sailors