Sailing Theory, Sailing Terms and Weather

Written by Linda Cullum


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As a sailor you should know about local winds. The cause of these winds is difference in temperature; cold air is heavier than warm air. The most popular of these local winds isrepparttar sea breeze. Warm air overrepparttar 110142 land rises...And is replaced by cooler air sinking overrepparttar 110143 ocean. At nightrepparttar 110144 opposite happens. The land quickly loses its heat at night and oftenfalls to a lower temperature thanrepparttar 110145 water. This results in a light offshore evening wind. On a lake or river,repparttar 110146 warm air can rise atrepparttar 110147 edges to be replaced byrepparttar 110148 cool air overrepparttar 110149 water. This can result in a nice breeze for sailing.

Forcast for a Typical Sea Breeze Day: Morning Very Light Winds -No Weather Systems Near -Clear Sky -High Temperatures But Cooler Nearrepparttar 110150 Shore

Afternoon: Wind coming from water starting Midday -Cumulus Clouds over land -Clear over water- Winds Speeds 8 - 12 knots

Evening: Winds Decreasing as sun slips over horizon.

Sailing Terms

Amidships-repparttar 110151 middle ofrepparttar 110152 boat.

Backwind-repparttar 110153 wind flowing offrepparttar 110154 sail.

Close Hauled- one ofrepparttar 110155 points of sail; sailing as close torepparttar 110156 wind as possible.

Dead Astern- straight behind

Flaking- Foldingrepparttar 110157 sail.

Glide Zone-repparttar 110158 distance it take a boat to stop after turningb head to wind.

Heave To- to headrepparttar 110159 boat intorepparttar 110160 wind in order to slow it down or stop it.

Linda Cullum is from Cape Cod, MA, with a second home in Vermont. She is the author of Learn to Sail! with Multimedia! an Interactive Sailing training CDROM which teaches all aspects of Sailing incliding Knots, Piloting, Rules of the Road, Weather with digital video from Sail Magazine, narration, animation and quizzes. Visit her site at http://learntosail.net Wishing you the best in your sailing endeavors!


Dem Graduation Invitation Blues...

Written by Ed Williams


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Seeing as how I’m bombing out like Perry Como at a punk rock concert, I decide to get down to brass tacks, “So, what we have here is basically some blatant pandering for a graduation gift. These people, who we knew for all of two months, have managed to remember us just long enough to hit us up for a gift.”

The acid toned response I received said it all, “We get a Christmas letter from them each year telling us how well they’re doing, and they even include a picture so that we can see how fast little Roscoe is growing.”

I sagely reply, “Well, little Roscoe means nothing to me, so let’s get out as light as we can onrepparttar gift - maybe a gift box of assorted socks?”

With ice dripping off each and every word, she frozenly replies, “Edward, my God, that’s so crass, we will certainly do better than that for little Roscoe. I was thinking maybe we’d give him a subscription torepparttar 105542 Wall Street Journal - he‘s going to take business in college, you know.”

“Hell, I don’t even getrepparttar 105543 Wall Street Journal! And this little two month old drooler will?”

At this point, I size up her facial expression and figure that shutting up and quietly absorbing my impending financial wound was best. So, I slunk off intorepparttar 105544 den, pulled out my Stevie Ray Vaughan biography, plopped down into a chair, and started reading. And one thing I discovered about Stevie Ray while reading about his life made me smile - we all know he was a great guitar player, we all know he was a great performer, but one ofrepparttar 105545 best things about Stevie Ray was that he never graduated from high school, which means that he didn’t force a bunch of his distant friends and relatives to buy him cuff links, dorm refrigerators, or watches far nicer than this 1986 Timex that I currently have on my wrist!

Ed’s latest book, “Rough As A Cob,“ can be ordered by calling River City Publishing toll-free at: 877-408-7078. He’s also a popular after dinner speaker, and his column runs in a number of Southeastern publications. You can contact him via email at: ed3@ed-williams.com, or through his web site address at: www.ed-williams.com.


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