Product Description

The Pardeys have been called the "enablers" Their books and videos have encourage sailors of all ages to stop dreaming and start doing Now they take you well out to sea and demonstrate methods to help you bring your boat and crew safely through storms with your gear and dreams intact. Join them near South Africa's windswept Cape of Storms to watch a live demonstration of setting and retrieving a para-anchor, then sail on board Taleisin during Lin and Larry's voyages across the Atlantic, through the windswept waters off Cape Horn as they round contrary to the wind and use the storm management methods they share here. You will see their storm sails set and working in winds of 70 knots. The Pardey's use this visually explicit medium to demonstrate the technical details of storm tactics for both modern and classic boats, and they show how you can adapt their ideas for your own use.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #39626 in DVD
• Released on: 2002-11-01
• Format: NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 84 minutes

Review
Lin and Larry present a hands-on demonstration of how to deal with heavy weather sailing. The suggestions are clear and practical. Anyone venturing offshore will have an easier time of it if they watch this video first. --Gary Jobson, author, TV presenter and Olympic Class sailor

Review
I find it most interesting, most clear and most valuable. There are so many good principles brought out. It is a real help in focusing on the subject. Quite simply, I loved it. --Peter Bruce, editor, Adlard Coles Heavy weather Sailing

Review
This DVD and its companion handbook should be well viewed and digested before venturing more than a few miles offshore in a yacht. They should also be in the ship's library for future revision. --Robin Bailey, New Zealand Herald

Customer Reviews

ParaAnchor Usage
The Pardeys are awesome and inspirational, especially to small boat sailors. In this day of big, high tech yachts, they remind us that 15 years ago, a 30ft cutter was way more than anyone needed. And the Sea hasn't been the one changing.
This video was advertised on the Pardey website as having footage of their 29ft yacht rounding Cape Horn in extreme conditions, safely and competently, east to west. The DVD however, fails to show more than a few brief seconds of intermittent sea time and leaves the route and journey, in Lin & Larry's memories alone. It does show the deployment and theoretical use of a para-anchor along with a good review of hove-to principals. Both of which are done in what appears to be a windy lake or at the dock. Yep, much of the film is at a dock or inside their boat via monologue. Their yacht is beautifully shown shouldering through some swell, chop, and a fresh breeze, but as to rounding the Horn the wrong way against even 20ft seas and 60kt winds, that film has yet to be made.
I'll keep the video and my para-anchor, but $15 would have been much more appropriate from the authors of "The Cost Conscious Cruiser" for so little content.

Amazing amount of info here, highly recommended
Bought this as an Xmas gift for my partner and it has cost me a bundle. We both found it so encouraging he asked me to buy more copies for several friends who are getting ready to go cruising.The Pardeys not only discuss their ideas of what to do in a storm, but also try to put it all in perspective - taking a lot of the scare out of being at sea. I liked seeing some of the ideas used to secure gear inside boats, liked their detailed discussion of storm sails. Though they mention thier voyage around Cape Horn, they show that with planning they always had loads of searoom around them when they hit the worst storms. Though it would have been great to see shots of thier boat battling around the Horn, I know this would have meant hiring Heliocopters, camera men etc. This program is definitely not Hollywood, nor Discovery channel, it is good solid how to stuff. Hope to get to one of thier seminars if they ever do one in our area.

Good production, but I was expecting more
The production is very well done, they explain very clear. But frankly, I was expecting a bit more. I understand that it is not easy to film "on the spot" with "real" bad weather, but it all seemed "too perfect". Another flaw, is that they only show the storm tactic that they like most. That is, "to heave to"