Duncan Wells passes on even more tips on using an anchor to help with boat handling, how to drop ground tackle by hand and how to recover a stuck anchor
sailing skills
Sailing through overfalls: how to sail safely through them
Overfalls should be respected but they don’t always have to be avoided. Ken Endean explains how to handle them
Skipper’s tips – Calibrate the sounder
Tom Cunliffe has assessed hundreds of sailors for the RYA Yachtmaster exam. He shares a few skipper's tips with us...
How to use vector charts safely
If you navigate using vector charts alone, says Tom Cunliffe, you’re heading for unseen trouble
Hold her off a dock with a kedge anchor
If you're alongside a leeward harbour wall and the fenders are on the verge of popping, use a kedge anchor to haul her up to windward, says Duncan Wells
Anchor lights: are you sure you’ll be seen?
With one all-round white anchor light, as most boats have, are you sure you'll be seen? Alastair Buchan asks if it’s time to update the COLREGS
Skipper’s tips – How to leave a raft
Tom Cunliffe has assessed hundreds of sailors for the RYA Yachtmaster exam. He shares a few skipper's tips with us...
Skipper’s tips – look abeam
Tom Cunliffe has assessed hundreds of sailors for the RYA Yachtmaster exam. He shares a few skipper's tips with us...
Using an anchor in a Bahamian moor
If you're anchored next to an obstruction, you can set your bower anchor and kedge to make sure you don't swing more than two boatlengths, says Duncan Wells
An expert’s guide to stern to mooring
If you charter in the Med, you’ll find yourself mooring stern to. Theo Stocker finds out how from Barrie Neilson