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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. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n 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.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Juan Gonz\u00e1lez-Aller. “Navegantes Oce\u00e1nicos”<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider divider_weight=”3px” _builder_version=”4.27.5″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”||12px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_divider][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.5″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n “Tom\u00b4s warm, humorous narrative style makes the book an enjoyable read while his depth of kwowledge & experience gives the text real authority<\/span><\/strong>.”<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n “Sailing Today”<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider divider_weight=”3px” _builder_version=”4.27.5″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”||12px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_divider][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.5″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n 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. <\/span><\/p>\n 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.<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider divider_weight=”3px” _builder_version=”4.27.5″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”||9px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_divider][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.5″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Tom Cunliffe is Britain\u00b4s 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.<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider divider_weight=”3px” _builder_version=”4.27.5″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”||7px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_divider][et_pb_button button_url=”https:\/\/amzn.to\/41Azlz7″ button_text=”See in AMAZON” button_alignment=”center” _builder_version=”4.27.5″ _module_preset=”default” custom_button=”on” button_text_size=”25px” button_text_color=”#000000″ button_bg_color=”#EDF000″ button_border_color=”#EDF000″ box_shadow_style=”preset5″ box_shadow_color=”#7CDA24″ global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_button][et_pb_divider divider_weight=”3px” _builder_version=”4.27.5″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”||24px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_divider][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” custom_padding=”11px||13px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/navegantesoceanicos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/living_through_the_gale_contents.webp” alt=”living_through_the_gale_contents” title_text=”living_through_the_gale_contents” _builder_version=”4.27.5″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tom Cunliffe, ocean navigator, instructor, and renowned author. This book, based on his vast experience, contains masterful insights and advice on all the essential aspects to consider before sailing in rough weather aboard a sailboat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47153,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books-for-sailors","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"\nReview of \u00abLiving Through the Gale: Being Prepared for Heavy Weather\u00bb de Tom Cunliffe<\/span><\/h2>\n
About Tom Cunliffe<\/span><\/h2>\n