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Stress-free Sailing is the answer to single or short-handed crews’ prayers – a step-by-step handbook addressing the most common sailing situations that anyone cruising will have to manage. Here you will find clever, highly effective and successfully tried and tested shorthanded solutions for dealing with everything from getting off and then back onto the dock in a variety of wind and tide configurations, sail setting and reefing, picking up mooring buoys and anchoring, to sailing in heavy weather and new techniques for man overboard retrieval, all clearly illustrated with straight forward diagrams, photos and explanations.
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Stress-Free Sailing Accompanying Videos

  • 1

    Welcome to the Stress Free Sailing Videos

    • The Stress-Free Sailing Book

    • Password Clue (1st Edition Book & eBook) English

    • Password Clue (1st Edition Dutch, German, Swedish, Polish & Spanish editions)

    • Password Clue (2nd Edition Book and eBook) English

    • Password Clue (2nd Edition) - Dutch

    • Password Clue (2nd Edition) - German

    • Password Clue (2nd Edition) Polish
  • 2

    1st Edition Videos

    • Page 19 Coiling a rope

    • Page 21 OXO

    • Page 23 Setting up slipped lines

    • Page 28 Basic Seaman’s knots

    • Page 29a Double figure of eight securing knot

    • Page 31a Rustler’s hitch

    • Page 31b Tugboat bowline

    • Page 36 Tying shoe laces

    • Page 39 180º Turn

    • Page 48 Getting off – Bow Bridle

    • Page 63 Getting on – Stern Bridle

    • Page 67 Getting on – Midship spring

    • Page 84 Getting on – French fingers

    • Page 93a Sailing in a circle

    • Page 93b Heaving To

    • Page 108 Coding the anchor cable

    • Page 113 Alpine butterfly knot

    • Page 119 Coriolis effect

    • Page 151a MOB retrieval rig options

    • Page 151b MOB Lifesavers
  • 3

    2nd Edition Videos

    • Password Clue (2nd Edition) English

    • Password Clue (2nd Edition) - Dutch

    • Page 19 Coiling a rope

    • Page 21 OXO

    • Page 23 Setting up slipped lines

    • Page 28 Basic Seaman’s knots

    • Page 29 Double figure of eight knot

    • Page 29 Prusik & Klemheist knots

    • Page 31 Rustler’s hitch

    • Page 31 The tugboat bowline

    • Page 34 Tying shoe laces

    • Page 30 180º Turn

    • Page 50 Exiting the berth using a bow bridle

    • Page 50 Exiting the berth with a removable head spring and a head spring set on a rustler’s hitch

    • Page 50 Springing off using a rustler’s hitch

    • Page 63 Coming alongside using a stern bridle

    • Page 65 Coming alongside using a mid-ship spring

    • Page 72 Coming alongside using a mooring device

    • Page 84 An alternative approach to coming alongside when faced with short wobbly French fingers

    • Page 93 Sailing in a circle

    • Page 108 coding the anchor cable

    • Page 113 The alpine butterfly knot

    • Page 119 The Coriolis effect demonstration

    • Page 155 Man OverBoard - return to the MOB and retrieval

    • Page 155 MOB Lifesavers

    • Password Clue (2nd Edition) - German