When you set sail in a sailboat, make sure you have prepared yourself and the boat properly. If you are racing a small sailboat, you need to make sure you know where the course is, and that the rig is as good as you can get it. If you are cruising in a bigger sailboat, you need to wort out the passage, prepare a passage plan this is compulsory in some waters now and make sure you have adequate equipment and provisions.
Most important of all, if you are cruising you need a good weather forecast. Also, don’t set too much score on the forecast. If you are going on a short passage, and returning the next day, that is not much of a problem. The forecasters reckon on 90% accuracy for the next day, 30% for the day after that,, and only 10% for three days out.
Even so, you can still get caught out. Twice, I hit gales when returning from a short passage the next day once was when I as still doing my sailing course, and ours was the only boat from the school to get back that day.
Of course, on a longer voyage you have to rely on your knowledge and on the boat boats can keep going long after we humans have cried ‘enough’.
On the other...
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