There is a book getting great review on single-handed sailing and an earlier edition is available for free as a pdf. Single-handed sailing may be another good subject for a Best Practices paper. Please feel free to share your thoughts about your single-handed experience here.


sfbaysss.net/resource/doc/SinglehandedTipsThirdEdition.pdf

Vice Commodore, OCC 

Hi,
Very interesting conversation and a lot of insights for a newbie.
I have two questions:
1) not headsails?
2) how about electronic autopilots? a wind vane will be much better but on heavier boats, it seems that they are not as rugged to hand the heavy loads. I know they are power hungry but the new models are quite efficient and with solar panels you can somehow reduce the battery charging by engine.