Tony and Coryn Gooch stopped by in their lovely and beautifully maintained aluminum sloop Taonui. If you don’t know who they are, that is simply because they go out there on the ocean and do incredible things without fuss or drama.
Like Tony deciding, when he was into “senior citizen” territory, that it might be a good idea to sail around the world non-stop single-handed. So he did.
Here are Tony and Coryn’s thoughts on heavy weather tactics:
Most interesting. I read a lot about heavy weather sailing and very early on I learned that safety was offshore, which helped me decide to sail a SW gale close hauled for 48 hours off the coast of Portugal, rather than risking an hypothetical shelter inland…Back then, no GPS and not so good radio beacons…
Now I’m looking for books written in the 50s or 60s by a British couple who sailed around the world several times, I think. They wrote extensively in British magazines, had a bigger steel boat built in their later years &, I think, ended up living in New Zealand. Could you help me find their names? Thanks
Very good advice about staying offshore. It is not the sea that kills sailors, it is the hard bits abound the edges.
Sounds like you are looking for Eric and Susan Hiscock.
You might also want to look for books by Peter and Ann Pye, who I had the privilege of sailing with as a boy, and Miles & Beryl Smeeton, all contemporaries of the Hiscocks. We can all learn a huge amount by reading and rereading these classics.