Technology may have improved in the past 50 years, but the weather certainly has not. In that time Heavy Weather Sailing has come to be regarded as the international authority on surviving storms at sea, aboard sailing or powered vessels. When caught out in severe weather at sea there is no one simple solution to ensure a safe return to port. Described within these pages are numerous well-tried methods that have proven consistently successful for surviving fierce ocean storms. For this eighth edition, former Commodore of the Ocean Cruising Club Martin Thomas and racing yachtsman Peter Bruce have revised and updated the text to ensure it remains as relevant and as essential as it has for decades. There are major new additions on coping with lighting strikes, navigating in heavy weather, the choice and use of tenders in heavy weather and the special problems faced by the new generation of foiled cruising boats. For the first time the book also covers the unique challenges presented by weather in high latitudes. Book jacket.