Dr. Thomas V Taylor – Getting To and From the Shore during Your Sailing Trips

Dr. Thomas V Taylor is a gifted surgeon with a lot of interests outside the surgery room and the classroom. One of them is sailing.

Setting off for a sailing trip and returning afterwards are usually the most complex parts of the trip. The shore represents an obstacle that may be potentially hazardous if you don’t know what to do about it. You also need to know what to do about onshore and offshore winds, changing tides, and obstacles such as other boat boats on the water.

The main component that will influence the ease or difficulty of you leaving and returning after your trip is the direction of the wind. If the wind is blowing towards the water, it is called an offshore wind. In this scenario, it will be easy for you to leave the shore because not only is the wind blowing in the direction of the movement of your boat, but also the water is flat and has no waves.

Leaving the shore may be difficult is if the wind is blowing towards it. Once you launch the boat, try to get away from the shore as quickly as possible. To return, simply sail in the direction of the wind. Landing on a shore when the wind is blowing towards it is difficult and is not recommended.

Launching your sail boat is easy when the wind is blowing along the shore. You can simply sail from and to it whenever you want.

While most small boats and dinghies can be launched from a beach, it is not as easy as launching from a slip way. You need several people to carry your boat to move it across the sand. Some beaches also have a shallow slope into the water which makes launching especially difficult, underlines Dr. Thomas V Taylor.