For a better grip when hauling on a halyard, pull the line with the pinky forward. Never wrap a loaded line around your hand. This line passes around a winch and through a partially closed jammer which prevents over overloading.
Seamanship is about big concepts and small skills. They work together, but we see them differently and they represent different types of learning. Big concepts involve passagemaking and piloting decisions, like knowing when it’s time to bear away from a lee shore even though it adds miles to the passage, or recognizing that you and […]
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