C-Tow Vancouver

My latest episode is up on my channel. In this episode I talk about shortening sail for heavy weather. I cover all the reasons for shortening sail in the first... place (the obvious ones and some not so obvious), I talk about sail balance and I go over various sail combinations. Happy New Year and all the best to all my sailing friends for 21. See more

The C-Tow App has found and deployed a fix to correct Tide display issues for IOS latest update. An update for iPhones running iOS 14 has been deployed to the ...Apple App Store to fix the time zone issue in the tidal information. This was an issue where only new iPhones running iOS 14 or iPhones that updated to iOS 14 were defaulting to GMT as the time zone instead of your actual locale. This caused the tides to be off by the locales offset from GMT. After this issue was reported we worked as quickly as possible to find, update, test, and deploy an update to the application. We wanted to thank members for reporting the issue, and would like to let you know the fix has been deployed and the version of the application containing the fix is v3.0.7 https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/c-tow/id1001983653?ls=1

When you want to thank a tanker captain for coming close to your sailboat, the going really got tough.

It's a danger that can strike at any time. Be aware of carbon monoxide buildup on your boat, and the symptoms of CO poisoning.

"In the dark and swelly night we launched our dinghy as coming alongside with our vessel would have been way too dangerous. They gathered a few personal belongi...ngs (a day pack each), climbed into our dinghy and we circled back around, grabbed the dinghy line and brought all four of them onboard Sanssouci to await the arrival of the Coast Guard." Click to read the rest of this tale from C-Tow members Bren and Clay Scorah!