Howcast » Fitness » Boating 101 » Boating 101: Avoiding Dangerous Boating Weather

Comments

Transcript

Hi, my name is Toby Stull and I'm captain with Out in the Water Sailing. We're an adventure sports sailing company, providing charters, sailing lessons, vessel training and consulting. Please visit our website at www.out-sailing.com. We're here today in Liberty Harbor to talk about boating. While the adage red skies at night, sailors delight often rings true, and a pink sky at sunset will mean fair skies the next day, inevitably in a boater's life, you will be caught out with bad weather. Look at multiple sources, there's internet, television, radio and marine radio all within your reach. Check it out and if the weather's bad, don't go. Know what to look for as far as weather approaching, know what clouds to look for, see where the sky's getting dark. In the Northern Hemisphere, when the winds turn counterclockwise usually the weather is going to turn bad. Conversely, when the winds turn clockwise, we know good weather is coming. If you're out there when a storm hits make sure that everyone has their proper gear. Everyone can stay warm and dry and safe. Have everyone wear life jackets and put on foul weather gear. Look for the closet port if the weather looks prolonged; go in, there's no need to stay out when the bad weather comes.

Featured Videos

Sign up for our emails! Twice a week we'll send you our best new videos.

Related Videos

How to Do the Extended Triangle Pose

How to Buy Your First Surfboard

Basic Training: What about Prescriptions?

How to Do a Pyramid | Home Back Workout for Men

Chapeu de Couro | Capoeira Advanced Moves

How to Do an Ankle Lock | Leg Locks

Expert

• Toby Stull

  • Website
  • Twitter
  • Facebook

  An American Sailing Association certified instructor and lifelong sailor, Toby Stull runs the first professional sailing school and charter business in the nation that is directed at LGBT sailors, Out on the Water Sailing. His gay owned and operated adventure-sports sailing company encourages diversity and welcomes all students regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, or skill level, offering sailing lessons, charters, vessel training, and destination vacations. Toby is an experienced yachtsman and instructor having raced through college, in multiple Block Island race weeks, as well as several Long Island Sound campaigns. Toby has restored and lived aboard several sailboats including a C&C 35 Mark 1, on which he won several regattas with in Eastern Long Island Sound and has held several professional crew positions aboard vessels up to 140 feet.