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😂 Sound advice that in these times!

Thanks sometimes it's hard to juggle the two especially using by phone as a camera! Lost my phone in Bembridge harbour in the summer, but I was walking along the pontoon when I turned around admiring a wooden yacht my hand hit one of the electricity bollards and it flew out my hand into the drink! Water was about 10ft deep I made several dives to try and find it but after I came up under the pontoon scared the hell out of me so gave up. Used it as an excuse to go back there the next week and so sailed the mirror over there to search for it with a gopro on a stick - check out that video... Thanks for watching.

Hi, glad you like them cheers. Dagger board down maybe 2ft, dagger board up rudder up maybe 6inches! As for the mainsheet it's not complicated, tie off one end on the port side transom, then run it through a block at the boom end, then through the block on the starboard side of the transom and into your hand. So it forms a triangle off the transom to the boom. Tie a stopper knot in the end. Maybe I'll do a rigging video next time I drag her out the shed ay might be good to do.. Thanks for watching!

@ okay mate thanks for that! A rigging video would be great! Look forward to it 👍🏼

Cheers! Longer reply on other comment here's the short version: WaterBugger all, if you can see water you can float her. Mainsheet - fasten to transom corner - boom - other transom corner pully- hand.

So glad to hear this that's what the effect I'm aiming for. Sometimes when I'm a bit stressed just seeing a painting of a sailboat does that for me!

😂 Good man!

Glad I entertained! Sure I'm not the first that was probably a bronze age trader but I'll take the heroic part! Some interesting local knowledge there thanks for sharing thanks again for watching!

Cheers 😏 Spelling is corrected!

Glad to hear that Jimmy! Bet its glorious.. What boat is she?

@@backtothebarky a Hartley TS16, like a dinghy but with a lid on it

Googled it looks perfect mate smaller the boat the more the fun. Cosy for a week but has to be done have a good un!

Tis the right true Christian way to describe it yes! Yes I almost bottled it and didn't go through, all those high voltage warning signs etc! As for the famous Jaba well if you're genuinely interested email me and I'll let you know the details: backtothebarky@gmail.com. Thanks for watching!

Wow that's a few miles out into the channel pretty epic sailing a mirror that. Twas normal in the 70s tho I'm sure! Did you capsize out there?

@@backtothebarky Never. It's generally calm on the land side of the Goodwins, and besides, we were fearless (A.K.A. stupid) teenagers. We did wear PFDs, and carried a small box of flares, just in case.

Yes I should do more research beforehand to improve my tour-guiding 😏 Love the fact Portsmouth is an island, Wikipedia says it's the 3rd most populated island of the British Isles after Great Britain and Ireland! Thanks for watching all the way.

That's the one! Thanks for watching shipmate.

I know I had the game but didn't remember the rules... Sounds like hours of fun 😂 cheers for watching again Al.

Yer it was. Only wish I could spend more! Thanks man

@@backtothebarky roll on spring me ol mucker.

Thanks matey! Yes they are good fun, plenty out there in need of use/rescue, shame to let them fall to bits, and spares are abundant so a cheap way to get out there. Thanks for watching.

Glad to hear this cheers! What sort of boat/s you sail? Have you ever sailed through there though? I bet v few do! Thanks for watching

Yer tis v lovely there love going back every time.

Yer I do look sus 😂 Glad to provide some nostalgia thanks for watching.

Glad to hear it. You should get back out there again! Thanks for watching 👍🏻

Cheers matey! Simple sailing feels good.

Love those Hawk 20s, should be good.. Watch again at the 24m40 point I show the quayside and say it's HW and just under a 5 meter tide that day. Date was 27Aug22 if you want to look up what it was exactly. As I say in the video satellite pic was more useful than the navionics chart, finding the correct way through will be more important for you, it is quite a maze! Make sure you arrive there too early and bump your way up, wouldn't want to be late then get stranded. I wouldn't go up there if it's too windy either. I managed to sail all the way in wind behind me but the meanders and narrow channels mean you'd be very lucky to get the wind fair for both the way in and the way out so defo take your outboard. Some withies and a long punt pole would be useful too! Love the comment thanks for watching, good luck let me know how you get on..

@@backtothebarky Thanks for the tips (I somehow missed the bits about tide at the end of your video). We didn't go in the end: too windy one day and too late to get back before sunset on the next; will try again sometime. But I spent a couple of hours watching the water levels. For others planning this trip, HW at Sidlesham Quay was an hour later than the 6m HW at Pagham Beach - couldn't tell where the channel was by then (though Navionics would probably help) because the entire area of marsh vegitation was covered. So on a 6m tide suggest aim to arrive at the quay an hour *before* Pagham HW and on a 5m tide aim to arrive *at* Pagham HW. (And take care to avoid the submerged concrete structure about 20m past the quay (in the tempting continuation of the channel!).

@@GeorgeMetcalfe-h2b Thanks for replying with the info. V useful observations those well done. Will return to this before I go there next time! Shame you didn't get there but there's always another opportunity. The withies suggestion was for that reason - went back to that pub for a meal (by car) a month later on a higher high tide and whole lot was under. Might pay to mark the critical junctions if you wanted to leave on HW. Defo want to arrive earlier for that reason too as you'll have no chance if it's all under on the way in. Mind you the Google sat image this year is a LW shot and much clearer you could navigate with that pretty well.

They are really great fun boats wish I could get out more often get the kids sailing it. Was a fun little trip thanks for the comment!

Yes this boat has been upgraded with an emergency forestay that's what I've bent that sail onto. It's about a foot or so inside the furler. Need to get a shot of it going upwind next time, never occurred to me when I filmed this. You could of course do this with 2 x hank ons on one Forestay. Again, thanks for watching!

Hi no problem really, obvs sits more level when you counterbalance it when sitting on the opposite side. Yes I use the tiller to steer. That is a very light one though that old 2hp two stroke. That seized up in July, last two trips I've used my heavier 2.5hp 4 stroke still not too heavy goes well. Biggest issue with the Outboards is that the mainsheet snags up on them a lot, that and when they bloody break down 😂 Thanks for watching, check out my latest vid crossing the Solent with the 2.5..

2 years to the day, 28th isn't so bad! Need to go back. I'm really tempted to attempt the little estuary on the other side of the Bill... Thanks for watching.

@@backtothebarky I was looking at that place too - which they call Medmerry. I never knew it existed till this year. Hope you get there mate.

Hi mate.. Good question, it's a radar reflector - I do have one of those tin diamond ones I nearly rigged then thought actually this one would be better as would also hopefully act as a float too if that situation did arise! Glad you liked it.

Mostly it was, I'm always in a hurry in the summer unfortunately! Could have sailed the whole way v v easily in those conditions. Wind was force 3 and 4 ESE ish. Perfect. Shame I had to rush but fun none the less.

😂 Cheers matey!

And your comments light up my day! Was considering launching her in the pond to practice a capsize, definitely will do now! Get out there Joe summers not over yet..

I just looked it up; They're called "Pudding", or" Bow Beards" or something like that... :)

Needs it the amount of stuff I run into! Thanks for watching. I did another video last week I sailed up the river to Rye Harbour, but then lost my phone in Bembridge Harbour at the weekend, all the footage gone. Gutted!

Bad for the lungs but in moderation good for the soul.

V True cheers Joe 👍🏻

Did you catch much?

Yer boy!! The sticker is rigged on the Barky!

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Yes she was fine. Not much sailing in this one but half the reason I make these is so the kids can easily watch them back in the future. Thanks for watching!

Nice one thanks. Yes they have a forward mast step position for using main only. Takes the balance point forward. Believe it's then a 'Cat' rig. I can't be bothered faffing around with the jib really, I'm not racing, I'm sure it will go a bit faster with the jib but only if there's a decent amount of wind, it doesn't seem to do a lot on light airs which I like sailing in.

Well I sailed Mirror in sailing regattas here in South Africa for many hours. What a fabulous buoyant little boat. My father actually ran a company in Joburg building Mirror dinghy's under licence to the Jack Holt designed boat sponsored by the Daily Mirror in the UK

Oh wow love hearing this. Tis High praise coming from someone who's built their own boat. Is it wood or fibreglass? Either way those things are so fast I'd love to sail one one day.

Ps if I did it again I wouldn't bother with a winch and a strap roller I'd just use pully blocks and a cleat.

True words them. Wish I could get out there more!

Glad to hear that Phil. UA-cam is an amazing thing!

Fantastic, glad you enjoy them. I've got a 25ft sailboat but often think and say it's probably as much if not more fun and adventure on the dighy. Roger Barnes is right! Good luck thanks for watching thanks for commenting.

I should think it is like riding a bike. I started boating by buying a speedboat at 20 (still have it 20 years on see my latest vid 😏) then I learned to sail initially via the army. They use sailing a lot for adventurous training. It's good for that as it puts you in genuine danger at times amongst random people where you need to work together etc. Increased my sailing skills only really by going out solo on my own boats though. That's how you truly learn when there's none around to help you! The books do help too. Thanks for watching my vids matey, get back out on your own Barky it is glory!