Thank you Pip Hare!!! We watched this a few times and put your excellent instructions to good use today and gybed our asymmetric spinnaker for the first time today! It worked perfectly
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Do you have to rig the sheet differently on inside vs outside gybe? I always get confused if sheet has to be inside tack line for inside gybe - or does sheet always go outside the tack as in outside gybe
Interesting how no two sailors will use same tecnique. Pip says to bring a third of the spi windward before gybing. In this video from J Boats ua-cam.com/video/9KcNYmU_3FM/v-deo.html instead they gybe when the spi is still flying leeward
@@LoanwordEggcorn taking for granted that if gybing you have to move the sail from one said to the other no matter the technique, in my opinion they could not be more different. Replying also to your initial comment: "The difference is that in the J Boat video, the boat is on autopilot on a steady coarse due to single handing. In the present video, the helmsperson can turn the bow to the wind to start to reduce some of the force on the sail before moving it across. So really they're different techniques for different numbers of crew" The autopilot can easily do what the hellsman is doing in Pips' video. I agree that they are differnt tecniques as i said above, but I would used them the other way around: Pip's tecnique single handed and J Boats double handed. With Pip's tecnique you play it safe (first the sail to the other side then gybe), with J Boats you loose less speed and time but there is a risk you get timing wrong (not fast enough to pull the sail to the other side) and at that point someone at the helm becomes handy. Personally I sail single handed and use a tecnique that is more similar to Pip's but i just get the clew over the forestay (not a third of the sail) and then gybe with the autopilot.
@@madario Agree Pip's technique would be safer singlehanded too. Your technique makes sense too, but I can see her point that getting a bit more of the sail across would increase the chances of getting the rest across. In a sense, the hard part is getting the clew (started) across the forestay. In that sense your technique and hers are similar. Cheers mate.
@@LoanwordEggcorn I will have to try hers, I think in moderate to strong wind it might be a challenge if not impossible to get a third of the sail or more to windward , what do you think?
@@madario She depowered the asym by pointing just to one side of dead downwind. That should make it easier. Also a spinnaker in general would be for moderate winds, right? The nice thing about her idea is that 1/3 of sail would start to pull the rest of the sail across as the bow swings through the wind. Sort of a helper.
So much easier than gybing the symmetrical. Nicely done!
Thank you Pip Hare!!! We watched this a few times and put your excellent instructions to good use today and gybed our asymmetric spinnaker for the first time today! It worked perfectly
Well that's the sort of feedback we like! Will pass your comments on to Pip.
Great video. Have been looking for some time at videos on this topic and this is the best. The drone footage really pulls it together.
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Good technique. Thanks much mates!
I really would love you to teach me how to go back to vertical when the symmetrical went crazy and we are already capsized... not nice... Thanks !
Nice! No stress 😉
TY!!
Do you have to rig the sheet differently on inside vs outside gybe? I always get confused if sheet has to be inside tack line for inside gybe - or does sheet always go outside the tack as in outside gybe
And make sure that the snapshackle at the head of the kite is over the lifeline (depending on snapshackle type)
Pip, do you use this tecnique (1/3 of the sail around) while racing offshore single/double handed?
would love to see these gybes with a pole
Interesting how no two sailors will use same tecnique. Pip says to bring a third of the spi windward before gybing. In this video from J Boats ua-cam.com/video/9KcNYmU_3FM/v-deo.html instead they gybe when the spi is still flying leeward
The two techniques seem more similar than different. Pip moved more of the sail earlier, whereas the J Boat video moved it when gybing.
@@LoanwordEggcorn taking for granted that if gybing you have to move the sail from one said to the other no matter the technique, in my opinion they could not be more different.
Replying also to your initial comment: "The difference is that in the J Boat video, the boat is on autopilot on a steady coarse due to single handing. In the present video, the helmsperson can turn the bow to the wind to start to reduce some of the force on the sail before moving it across. So really they're different techniques for different numbers of crew"
The autopilot can easily do what the hellsman is doing in Pips' video. I agree that they are differnt tecniques as i said above, but I would used them the other way around: Pip's tecnique single handed and J Boats double handed. With Pip's tecnique you play it safe (first the sail to the other side then gybe), with J Boats you loose less speed and time but there is a risk you get timing wrong (not fast enough to pull the sail to the other side) and at that point someone at the helm becomes handy. Personally I sail single handed and use a tecnique that is more similar to Pip's but i just get the clew over the forestay (not a third of the sail) and then gybe with the autopilot.
@@madario Agree Pip's technique would be safer singlehanded too.
Your technique makes sense too, but I can see her point that getting a bit more of the sail across would increase the chances of getting the rest across.
In a sense, the hard part is getting the clew (started) across the forestay. In that sense your technique and hers are similar.
Cheers mate.
@@LoanwordEggcorn I will have to try hers, I think in moderate to strong wind it might be a challenge if not impossible to get a third of the sail or more to windward , what do you think?
@@madario She depowered the asym by pointing just to one side of dead downwind. That should make it easier.
Also a spinnaker in general would be for moderate winds, right?
The nice thing about her idea is that 1/3 of sail would start to pull the rest of the sail across as the bow swings through the wind. Sort of a helper.