Sail with New Freebooters

The Red Alert was correct. And yet late last night the ordinary forecasts for Bordeaux and Biarritz were still talking about 50Km/hour gusts.
Around 8:00 this morning, an all-time record gust of 159Km/hour was recorded at Cap Ferret, just south of Bordeaux, and even mainline trains stayed put in Bordeaux station. About 500,000 homes in Aquitaine [...]

The Volvo crews are preparing for heavy weather tomorrow morning in the Luzon Strait south of Taiwan, with 6 metre seas and gusts up to 50 knots. The real problem is that they’re beating into it.
Meanwhile, Mich’ Desj’ and the Vendée Globe organisers will be glad he’s not going to reach Biscay for another week. [...]

Square-rigged sailing ships were labour-intensive. It required the co-ordinated muscle of several men to weigh anchor and to hoist and trim sails. The working shanties were the songs used to provide that co-ordination and to encourage greater effort.
Most were in call-and-response form. The shantyman - a skilled crew member who had a powerful voice - [...]

While researching the subject of electrical installations on boats, I came across warnings about poisonous and corrosive gases that could be given off by lead-acid batteries in various situations. They were always just baldly stated, with no references to chemical or medical literature to corroborate them, so I have been doing a bit of research [...]

You are lucky enough to be moored to the outside of a marina pontoon, with no more fingers between you and the open fairway. However, a fresh breeze is blowing you hard against it.
The classic ‘foolproof’ way of getting off is to lay a kedge upwind and pull the boat off before motoring up to [...]