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Sail faster or hove-to in heavy weather?

am not sure I agree with your safety lesson number one from ‘2019: Sail fast in big waves’ (‘8 safety lessons from 2019’, December 2019). That may be true in a storm in a racing context, where speed may be more important than safety, but for the. Sailing fast in big waves like you can experience in Biscay may lead to the boat somersaulting with catastrophic effects, as described by Miles Smeeton in .

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