Tom Cunliffe is an expert bluewater sailor, instructor, and renowned author. He has completed numerous ocean voyages as a merchant mariner, captain, racer, and owner of several cruising sailboats.
This book, based on his vast experience, contains masterful insights and advice on all the essential aspects to consider before facing rough weather aboard a sailboat.
Juan González-Aller. “Navegantes Oceánicos”
“Tom´s warm, humorous narrative style makes the book an enjoyable read while his depth of kwowledge & experience gives the text real authority.”
“Sailing Today”
Review of «Living Through the Gale: Being Prepared for Heavy Weather» de Tom Cunliffe
Heavy weather is a lurking spectre that most of us hope and plan to avoid, but not even internet forecasting can make it go away. Anyone intent on crossing oceans must be ready to deal with it if it comes, as well it may. Even well-informed inshore and continental-shelf sailors will inevitably be caught out sooner or later.
The object of this slim, quickly absorbed volume is to give everyone, whatever their passage-making aspirations, a sound brief so that whether they find themselves at the wrong end of a force-six blow along the coast, or confronting serious waves far out at sea, they are fully aware of their options for taking it in their stride.
About Tom Cunliffe
Tom Cunliffe is Britain´s leading sailing writer. A worldwide authority on cruising instruction and an expert on traditional sailing craft, he learned his sextant skills during numerous ocean passages, many in simple boats without engines or electronics, voyaging from Brazil to Greenland and fron th Caribean to Russia. He is a consultant of US sailing and author of numerous maritime books.
