Heavy weather and storm sailing: experience sharing

Name: Heavy weather and storm sailing: experience sharing
Start: 2025-11-06T19:00
End: 2025-11-06T21:00
Location: auer & co

Every situation is unique, so this is neither a theory lesson, nor a how to. Simply, the idea is for sailors to describe a real experience with heavy weather, explain the situation, their strategy, mistakes and learnings.

If you would like to share your experience, just think about how to tell your story. The following details might help people to understand the context.

Location? type of boat? crew? weather forecast before the navigation? how suddenly did the heavy weather occurred? what sails were up when the storm hit? was there any leeway or was there land downwind? what went wrong? what was difficult? what went good? anything you would do differently now? how did the crew react?

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Thomas Wacker · 4 months ago
from my side: a couple of stories, one from the Solent (HR 39''), one from the Mediterranean (Dufour 460), one from Kiel (Najade 390), but the most sudden ones from the lake of Zurich (J/70). Crew reacts well if the skipper is prepared and unstressed. Sails in most cases reduced in time. Weather forecast is sometimes hard to read - since recently I am looking for when the fronts transition (e.g. UK MetOffice). Main points: how to depower quickly, how to depower when you cannot add reefs, what if you cannot take down e.g. the jib because it just doesn't furl? what to watch out for in shallow water? Looking forward to this!
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