Seafood Recipes revealed! Learn seafood cooking from genuine sea salts! Fisherman, sailors, mariners! There’s nothing better than a simple piece of baked codThere’s nothing better than a simple piece of baked cod, but this sauce is kinda nice! Lime-Cilantro Aioli A friend shared this wonderful recipe with me and I’d like to pass it on! Baked Cod with Lime-Cilantro Aioli Sauce 
Start off with a nice piece of codfish. Roll in seasoned flour, brown both sides in a little butter. Chuck that into a 300° oven for maybe 20 minutes. This gives you time to make the Lime-Cilantro Aioli Put several cloves of garlic into the little cuizan art processor seen in the background there, Pulse ’til mush – a dash of salt won’t hurt. Add coarsely chopped cilantro and lime juice to taste ( I like a heavy handful of the former and maybe half-a-good-lime-worth of the latter) Pulse some more until finely chopped. Add a healthy dollop of commercial mayonnaise, then hold the control down until well mixed. A little on the side, dust with Spanish paprika and there ya go. Also very good with blackened fish or something like that…. Enjoy! From my friend, Captain John Milliken
Seafood Recipes: There’s nothing better than a simple piece of baked cod!
Leaving a Mooring or Dock: Sailing a Triangular Course
Leaving a Mooring Under Sail A mooring is a stationary anchor for a boat. Instead of anchoring your boat each time after you have sailed, you simply tie up to a mooring. This is most appropriate for those who keep their boat in one area such as a harbor or right in front of their home. A mooring consists of three parts…a buoy at the top attached to a chain which is attached to a weight on the bottom. Once the sails are up and you’re ready to go, follow these steps to leave a mooring.
1. The crew walks to the bow of the boat.2. Uncleat the mooring line from the boat. 3. With mooring line in hand, walk back to the cockpit on the windward side of the boat, pulling the mooring line. This will force the bow to fall off the wind. 4. The skipper heads down and the crew pulls in the main. 5. Let go of the mooring line, watching out for moored boats and other obstructions as you sail off.
Leaving a Dock When leaving a dock, always step into the center of the boat and lower the centerboard. Head the boat into the wind when raising the sail to leave. This is a very important thing to remember! If the wind is coming directly perpendicular to the pier, raise the sail. Have the helmsperson keep the tiller in the center while the crew givesa tremendous push at the bow.Keep the tiller in the middle until the boat has cleared the dock. The put the tiller onto the side of the boat in which you want the bow to go. Hold it there until the bow is off the wind. Then quickly pull the tiller back, trim the sail and go. If the wind is coming at angles other than perpendicular, push the bow away from the dock, head down and sail away!
Sail a Triangular Course The purpose of sailing a triangular course is to practice all of the Points of Sail… Beating to windward, Reaching and Running. In sailing this course, you will also use both Coming About and Jibing. Get in your boat and do this excersise: Go to a place that has three buoys forming a triangle. If you cannot find one, make your own course. This is demonstrated and included on our Learn to Sail Vol 2 App and our Learn to Sail CD
Step 1. Start at buoy #1, the leeward mark. Your next buoy, #2, is directly upwind, or windward. This leg of the course is where you will need to beat.
Step 2. Round buoy #2 with the buoy on your port side.
Step 3. Between buoys #2 and #3 proceed on a reach.
Step 4. Jibe around buoy #3.
Step 5. Proceed on a reach to buoy #1 and round it.
Step 7. Proceed on a beat again to buoy #2 and round it, then proceed on a run.
Sailing Terms
Fore, Forward-Toward the bow of the boat.
Foul-When a line ends up somewhere it does not belong and becomes jammed. Lines can foul on blocks, winches and other objects on a boat.
Furl-To lower a sail. Sails are sometimes partially furled to reduce the amount of sail area in use without completely lowering the sail. This is known as reefing.
Moor-To attach a boat to a mooring, dock, post, anchor, etc.
Mooring-A place where a boat can be moored. Usually, a buoy marks the location of a firmly set anchor.
Mooring buoy-A buoy marking the location of a mooring. Usually attached to an anchor by a small pendant.
Mooring line-A line used to secure a boat to an anchor, dock or mooring.
Mushroom anchor-A type of anchor with a heavy, inverted mushroom-shaped head. Mushroom anchors are used to anchor in mud and other soft ground.
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Sailing Tips: Running Aground And Getting Off
Welcome aboard to my Sailing Tips Blog! Today we have Running Aground! and Sailing Terms. Please feel free to comment! RUNNING AGROUND AND GETTING OFF In every sailor’s life lurks the inevitability of an eventual grounding. If you’re a sailor and you haven’t yet run aground, chances are very good that one day you will. What to do When You Run Aground DON’T PANIC — doing the wrong thing can put you on harder. Now that you’re on the bottom, take a minute to evaluate the situation. Check the bilge to be sure that you haven’t holed the boat and aren’t taking on water. What is the nature of the bottom? If it’s soft sand or grass, chances are good that the boat is undamaged, and that if you need to motor or kedge off you won’t grind a hole in the boat.Your objective is to get safely into deeper water. Motoring off — If you have a motor or engine your first inclination will be to start it up and try to back out. This may work, but be careful. In sandy or muddy bottoms you are likely to suck sand up into the cooling system and render the motor useless. A powerful engine in shallow water can actually push sand from the stern to under the keel, making the situation worse. If you’re on rocks and you reverse hard, you may drag the hull along the rocks and damage or even hole the boat. Set out an anchor. One of the first things to do is to set out an anchor to keep your boat from being pushed even farther onto the shoal. If you have a dingy you can use it to carry out an anchor. If you don’t have a dingy, and if conditions are calm, maybe someone wearing buoyant flotation gear can swim an anchor out. Be aware that this is not an easy task and a person can become totally exhausted very quickly. If your boat is a small one, your anchor is also probably small enough and light enough for you to be able to throw it far enough for it to work, but be careful if you do this. You don’t want to go overboard with it. Keep as much tension on the anchor line as you can. This alone may help free you up, especially if you have a rising tide, or if passing boats create enough of a wake to raise you up momentarily. What is the state of the tide? If you’ve gone aground on a rising tide, you may just be able to wait a couple of hours until it rises enough to refloat the boat. If you’ve gone aground on a falling tide, however, you need to get into deeper water fast, or you may be stuck where you are for an entire tide change. If this happens, and if the boat is likely to end up lying on its side, close up hatches and companionways to keep it from flooding. If you’d be better off lying on one side than on the other, try to kedge off an anchor from what you want to be the low side. You may also be able to control which side ends up high by shifting crew and gear weight. Where is the deeper water? It may seem obvious that deeper water lies behind you, but it might be even deeper beside you. Of course it’s not directly in front of you — if it were, you wouldn’t have run aground in the first place. To find where the deeper water is, you have some options. If you have a lead line you can lower it off the boat from all sides to get a measurement of the depth. You can make a lead line by taking a light line and attaching a weight to the end. You could also very quickly put a boat hook or an oar in the water. How do you get there? If you have a centerboard, raise it. This will decrease the draft, possibly enough to free the boat. Can you sail off? If you were sailing down wind when you ran aground, harden up and try to go to windward. If you were sailing close hauled, tack immediately and move crew weight to leeward. If sailing off on a reach or downwind would put you into deeper water, ease the sails and fall off toward the deeper water. Move crew weight around to heel the boat in the direction which is most likely to help it to slide off – this alone may reduce the boat’s draft enough to free her up. If this doesn’t work, drop sails, as the wind on the sails will continue to push you harder onto the shallow water. Furl them out of the way. On deck they will become a slippery liability. Kedging off — Once you’ve set an anchor in deeper water, you may be able to winch it in and pull the boat off that way. Again, moving crew weight around may help immeasurably. It may help to rock the boat by shifting crew weight back and forth as you winch in on the anchor. Use a halyard — If you know that heeling the boat in one direction will help, hand a halyard to someone in a dingy who can then carefully motor off the boat’s beam and pull it over farther. If you don’t have a dingy, a crew member can grab a halyard and swing out over the beam of the boat to try to increase heel. Get off and push – This technique is obviously only safe and effective in very shallow water, and thus will only work with a very shallow draft boat, such as a day sailor or a multihull. Before getting in the water, be sure to put shoes on. Make sure that the boat won’t sail off without you, and that you have a way to get back onto the boat. Accept tow? As a last resort, if all other options have failed. This may require a VHF call to a towing company. Be careful — a big powerful powerboat may be able to pull with more force than the boat’s equipment can handle–the boat’s hull can be damaged. The boat must have a cleat strong enough to take the strain of a tow, which may be considerable. If there is no cleat strong enough, consider tying off to the base of the mast. If the mast is stepped through the deck it will take the strain, if it’s stepped on deck it may not. The line used as tow line also must be strong enough to take the strain of towing — if it breaks under the strain of the pull of a tow boat, it will become a lethal weapon. When you may not want to refloat the boat — if you have a hole in the bottom you may be better off right where you are, at least until you’ve been able to carry out enough of an emergency repair to keep the boat from sinking. Sailing Terms After bow spring line– A mooring line fixed to the bow of the boat and leading aft where it is attached to the dock. This prevents the boat from moving forward in its berth. Its opposite, the forward quarter spring line, is used to keep the boat from moving aft in its berth Bilge– The lowest part of the interior hull below the waterline. Centerboard – a fin shaped, often removable, board that extends from the bottom of the boat as a keel. Cleat– a device used tosecure lines made of metal or wood. Halyard – a line used to hoist sails. Keel – centerline of a boat running fore and aft; the timber at the very bottom of the hull to which frames are attached. Kedge -To use an anchor to move a boat by hauling on the anchor rode; a basic anchor type. Rode – The anchor line and/or chain.
Sailing: Person Overboard!
Person Overboard! Sailing Rescue Techniques
Most one man-overboard drills usually consist of throwing over a cushion and returning to pick it up by the strap. A good sized fireplace log is a better way to do the practice because it is much more awkward to get aboard.
There are four important steps to retrieving a person who has gone overboard. The first is to return withoutdelay to a position near the victim. The second is to maneuver your boat close enough so you connect him or her to the boat. The third is to get the person aboard, and the fourth is to see that they are ok.
The moment someone goes over the side, a boat cushion or life preserver should be tossed to him/her.
Make sure to keep him/her in sight, and as the distance widens, it is increasingly important to maintain visual contact.Even when you are alone on the boat, keeping the victim in sight is second only to getting the boat back to him.Everything becomes more practical as you get in closer proximity to the person in the water.
Here are three methods of rescue.
Method One…This method involves jibing to rescue the person over board. Only do this in light winds to avoid capsizing. Remember to stay in constant communication with the victim. 1.When a person falls overboard, immediately yell “Crew Overboard!” 2.Next, throw a flotation device toward the victim and keep a close eye on them.3.Jibe the boat.4.Now quickly head up to a close-hauled course. 5.Retrieve the person on the windward side of the boat. Let the mainsail out to stop.
Method Two… If the wind is too strong to jibe the boat, then tacking in a figure eight is a good way to go. Remember to stay in constant communication with the victim. 1.When a person falls overboard, immediately yell “Crew Overboard!” 2.Head on a broad reach for about 15 to 20 seconds. Keep your eyes on the victim.3. Then come about and head up.4.Go beyond the victim and come about again, proceeding on a broad reach. 5.Head up to the leeward side of the person and let the mainsail out.
Method Three…The Quick Stop maneuver is a new, widely recommended method that calls for the boat to go head-to-wind as soon as a person goes in the water. The jib is backed to further reduce speed while the continues turning until the wind is abaft the beam. The course is stabilized on a beam- to broad-reach for two or three boatlengths, then altered to nearly dead downwind.
If the wind is light, you can tack immediately after the person falls overboard and leave the jib cleated. Remember to stay in constant communication with the victim.1. First, immediately yell “Person Overboard!” and toss them a flotation device.2. Keeping an eye on the victim, immediately come about and backwind the jib by leaving it cleated. 3. Let the mainsail out so that it luffs and drifts towards the victim.4.Let the mainsail all the way out and uncleat the jib.
All these methods are good and each will benefit from practice. Most practice sessions are held in calm water onclear days, which is rarely the condition in which a man-overboard emergency will occur, so think about handlingthe situation in a storm, or at night, or in fog. The wise sailor reviews his plans for handling man-overboardscenarios every time he goes aboard a boat. He applies his plan to the conditions prevailing whenever he goeson deck. When a crewmember goes in the water there should be no delay in starting the best retrieval method.
Many safety authorities believe that the victim should be picked up on the windward side, but I believe that with a sailboat the leeward side is likely to be both lower and more sheltered, with the boom readily available as a mounting for the hoisting block. As the boat drifts to leeward it will drift away from a victim who is to weather, but will remain close to the victim to leeward. Watch out, though, to make sure that the boat bouncing in a seaway does not slam down on top of the swimmer.
Resist the temptation to have someone go in the water to help the victim – you may lose two people. If the person in the water is unable to help himself you then may have to send a spare person into the water to help. In this case make surethere is a line securely attaching the boat and the would-be rescuer. Plan ahead how you are going to get this person back aboard.
Of course the more you know about how your boat behaves under differing circumstances, the better will be your performance in any emergency. Picking up a mooring under sail, particularly in winds over 30 knots,teaches you a lot that you can use to save a friend’s life. At all times handle your sails at racing speed.Whenever you can, practice and think about what you are going to do in a man-overboard situation. The seconds yousave may be important in an emergency.
Best to you, Sailor Cull _/)_
Rules of the Road..Who has the Right of Way?
Welcome aboard the Learn to Sail Blog! Here we have Determining Risk of Collision, Sailing Terms and Deviation and Variation. The Right of Way rules do not technically come into effect between boats until there is the possibility of collision. Sailboats should never get so close to each other so that a risk of collision exists. vessels should pass portside to portside and as far to starboard as water depth permits. When two sailboats meet there are three rules to follow. 1. The boat on the port tack gives way to the boat on the starboard tack. 2. When on the same tack, the windward boat gives way to the leeward boat. 3. The overtaking vessel keeps clear of the slower vessel. 
Sailing Terms Piloting-Navigation performed using visual references such as aids to navigation. Aids to Navigation-Established markers on land or sea that aid sailors to avoid danger and fix their position. Bearing-The direction of an object to an observer, such as a buoy or other boat. Chart-A nautical map. Demarcation-Boundary. Nun- A buoy that is not lit but numbered, red and pointed, and always on the starboard side when returning from seaward, port side when going out. Can- A buoy that is not lit but numbered, green and flat, and always on the port side when returning from seaward, starboard side when going out. Piloting- Deviation and Variation There are two types of Poles; the Geographic North and South Poles, also called True North and True South, and the Magnetic North and South Poles. The Geographic poles are stationary. The earth is a big magnet with magnetic lines of force running from the magnetic north pole to the magnetic south pole. The magnetic pole is located in northern Canada; somewhat west of the Geographic Pole. It’s location changes over long periods of time. Variation is the angle between the magnetic north and the true north. This is indicated by a compass when it is free of any nearby magnetic influences. A magnetized pointer, or needle, that is allowed to spin freely, will point to the magnetic north pole. On a boat compass, this needle is situated in the middle of a ring which shows 360 degrees. Now matter in which direction the boat heads, the compass still points to Magnetic North. Deviation Boats with lots of metal have their own magnetic fields and the compass may respond to it and be pulled somewhat away from the direction of magnetic north. When this happens, it is called compass deviation and needs to be compensated for. This can be done by installing small internal magnets in the compass, or, you can make up a deviation chart for your boat and refer to it when figuring out what course to steer by your compass. This especially applies to the small boat sailor who won’t be using a mounted compass with magnets. Variation Often you will be given a course to steer from one place to another in true directions. This means that you will have to convert this to magnetic in order to steer this course with your compass. There is a very consistent and simple rule to follow when going from true to magnetic. In the Eastern US and Canada, to go from a true course to a magnetic course, you add a west variation. To go from a magnetic course to a true course, you subtract a west variation. In the Western US and Canada, to go from a true course to a magnetic course, you subtract an east variation To go from a magnetic course to a true course, you add an east variation. Wishing you the best in your sailing endeavors! Sailor Cull _/)_
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