Product Details

• Actors: Lin & Larry Pardey
• Directors: Chris Gurr
• Format: NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: All Regions
• Number of discs: 1
• Studio: Pardey Video
• DVD Release Date: November 1, 2002
• Run Time: 84 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000F9UEES
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #79,432 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Theory and techniques of storm tactics visually demonstrated in actual heavy weather conditions at sea. Demonstrations include setting and retrieving a para-anchor, setting storm sails, heaving to-with or without an para-anchor.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

24 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars ParaAnchor Usage, January 22, 2003

By A Customer

The Pardeys are awesome and inspirational, especially to small boat sailors. In this day of big, high tech yachts, they remind us that 15 years ago, a 30ft cutter was way more than anyone needed. And the Sea hasn't been the one changing.
This video was advertised on the Pardey website as having footage of their 29ft yacht rounding Cape Horn in extreme conditions, safely and competently, east to west. The DVD however, fails to show more than a few brief seconds of intermittent sea time and leaves the route and journey, in Lin & Larry's memories alone. It does show the deployment and theoretical use of a para-anchor along with a good review of hove-to principals. Both of which are done in what appears to be a windy lake or at the dock. Yep, much of the film is at a dock or inside their boat via monologue. Their yacht is beautifully shown shouldering through some swell, chop, and a fresh breeze, but as to rounding the Horn the wrong way against even 20ft seas and 60kt winds, that film has yet to be made.
I'll keep the video and my para-anchor, but $15 would have been much more appropriate from the authors of "The Cost Conscious Cruiser" for so little content.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing amount of info here, highly recommended, February 25, 2003

By A Customer

Bought this as an Xmas gift for my partner and it has cost me a bundle. We both found it so encouraging he asked me to buy more copies for several friends who are getting ready to go cruising.The Pardeys not only discuss their ideas of what to do in a storm, but also try to put it all in perspective - taking a lot of the scare out of being at sea. I liked seeing some of the ideas used to secure gear inside boats, liked their detailed discussion of storm sails. Though they mention thier voyage around Cape Horn, they show that with planning they always had loads of searoom around them when they hit the worst storms. Though it would have been great to see shots of thier boat battling around the Horn, I know this would have meant hiring Heliocopters, camera men etc. This program is definitely not Hollywood, nor Discovery channel, it is good solid how to stuff. Hope to get to one of thier seminars if they ever do one in our area.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good production, but I was expecting more, January 9, 2007

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This review is from: Storm Tactics - Cape Horn Tested (DVD)

The production is very well done, they explain very clear. But frankly, I was expecting a bit more. I understand that it is not easy to film "on the spot" with "real" bad weather, but it all seemed "too perfect". Another flaw, is that they only show the storm tactic that they like most. That is, "to heave to"