Yachts & Yachting magazine

Don't live on the kedge... get a grip

Advice this month includes...

- Perfecting your anchoring techniques
- How to get ahead at the windward mark
- Taking the stress out of a man overboard situation

Anchoring, mooring and docking your boat are skills that require practice. Docking a boat in tight quarters has many variables; wind, currents, tides and your boats manoeuvrability never mind an audience so get a coach, practice, and have many helping hands as you learn. Picking up a mooring buoy isn’t usually

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