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Storm Tactics DVD Extras
- Introduction 0:00:56
- Welcome aboard Taleisin 0:02:45
- The first rule of Seamanship 0.03.42
- What is heaving-to 0:06:00
- Why not run? 0:08:49
- When do you heave-to 0:10:40
- Sail balance refresher course 0:16:15
- How to get boats with different rigs to heave-to 0:17:00
- Details of setting a para-anchor 0:23:57
- Para-anchor size 0:39:50
- Cocos Keeling Atoll interlude 0:42:32
- Other reasons to know how to heave-to 0:46:16
- Brazilian Interlude 0:50:03
- Preparing you and your boat for heavier weather 0:51:21
- Rigging details for safer voyaging 1:00:48
- Heavy weather sails 1:04:00
- Irish Interlude 1:09:00
- Boat Preparation details l:10:05
- What is a good offing, a sailors point of view 1:15:08
- Credits 1:19:14
This program was shot on location in Chile, South Africa, Cocos Keeling Atoll,
Rio de Janiero and Isla Grande, Brazil, and on the west coast of Ireland including
Dingle, County Kerry, Kinvarra and Carraroe, County Galaway. We used a Hi8 camera
powered by two 13 watt solar panels connected to a 31 Amp gel-cell battery. Editing
was done on an Avid suite onto Digibetacam stock using PAL format, then transferred
to NTSC on a VISTEK system. The final NTSC program was compressed to DVD by RLX
Video in Florida,USA.
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YACHT CLUB BARI love to sit around the yacht club bar
and talk about the things we’re going to do.
I love to sit around the yacht club bar
because it doesn’t move.
The swells are big and the winds are high
but that don’t bother me.
Cause I never get lost and my tummy doesn’t toss
It’s a wonderful life on the sea.
My boat it is a big one boys. My crew it is the best.
We race around the entrance buoy beating all the rest.
We’re the first ones home with a bent elbow and a powerful salt spray thirst.
We sit around and drink all night and see who comes in first.Chorus- I love to sit around the yacht club bar
I took her out one Sunday, we got about five miles out
The wind it was a screaming, right dead out of the south.
The waves they must have been two feet high, the swells at least one more.
I’m so lost and my tummy is tossed, I’ll never get back to the shore.
My head it was a reeling, my feet got tangled up.
Those damn old sheets were everywhere, just trying to trip me up.
The halyard broke, the boom fell down, the main took off like a bird.
Mayday was my final cry as I dived beneath my berth.
My sailing days are over, cause of that great scare.
You others take a warning, and don’t you go out there.
There’s winds and seas and swells so high, how can you stay afloat.
Be like me and drink to the sea and don’t untie your boat.Written by Glenn Marsden in 1987, arranged by Dick and Chris Todd. These musically
inclined folks met while cruising the lagoons of Baja California, Mexico. They
all hailed from Newport Beach where, for most of the year, the average wind speed
at the "entrance buoy" is from 5 to 12 knots.


