Nick, being in my late 30s I'm clearly not going to be the eldest person watching this but I've been in and around sailing vessels and the marine industry my whole life and I think that was the clearest introduction to foresail trim I've ever heard! 👏👏👏
Very interesting! Thanks! One request, some of your fans have aging eyes. It is really difficult for me to read the flashing graphics between each chapter. Please consider just a normal, stationary bold text. (Music is ok, the letters just don't need to dance to the beat! Thanks!)
Nick, I've been sailing for almost 40 years. I have owned my 30 footer for 25 years, sailing great lakes, lake Erie. This season I'll be sailing with a new main and 155% Genoa. So your video today finds me today, perusing UA-cam, boning up on sail trim. Yeah I'm experienced and raced at one time. Still I am lazy and have forgotten the Nuances of good sail trim. Great video Nick, well done.
Am I the only one who didn’t recognize Nick’s voice at first? I truly thought it was someone else. In any case, I’m glad it’s finally changed. Congrats, Nick! 😀
Sure glad I didn't pay attention to your introduction. As a former America's Cup sailor I found the video a great, easy to understand, primer. I have forwarded to all my crew and their spouses. It will make sailing more fun for everyone aboard as they will be able to contribute to sailing!! Thanks. Great job.
If you have all your tell-tails flying horizontal you will have maximum lift but you will have increased drag to a point where your net gain is reduces so a little lifting on your front tell-tails will give you best results.
I’ve been on UA-cam for a hot minute looking for good sailing videos. This channel’s educational videos are unbelievably helpful. Great work man, please keep generating more content.
Is it possible to overtension the backstay, especially if they are hydraulically operated. Taken to the extreme the results could be rather catastrophic.
@@sailingrubyrose On fractionally rigged boats it much more, as You also bend the mast to flatten the main. Years back I had a Soling and there We moved the top of the mast a meter or so, but that is extreme (on Star boat's it's even more)
A great explanation there, Nick. I, like you, learnt a lot of this stuff from crewing on other people's boats. Whilst you don't push a boat to its limits when cruising, the knowledge you gain from being part of a racing crew is invaluable (and free!).
Very good explanation of jib trim. Keeping it simple made it easier to understand. Continue making more technical videos. You have a nice way of explaining complicated sailing techniques
Great video Nick and very instructive but the Tell-tail I'm most interested in is the Tell-tail sign chocolate on my chin when I'm supposed to be on a diet ! Stay Safe & Fair Winds !!
Thanks did your Tech Tuesday briefing. I tried to look for your Precision Sails promotional link last year but couldn’t find it. Has it been removed or is Precision Sails still offering such. Many thanks!
Thanks you for your clear technical explanation. I would like to understand how to manage better with a selftacking genova in the last 2 scenarios you described. Thanks in advance.
Clicked through to watch the main sail trim video first and came back and watched this one. Great series for me as a beginner. Thank you so much for the work that went into the graphics. The combination of the two videos explanations plus graphics was an excellent boost to my sailing education. Also glad to see that you listened to the feedback from the first video (mainsail) and found ways to incorporate some of the missing info into this one. Love that you two are learning just as much as you’re teaching! Great job all around. Keep it up. ❤️
Thanks! Really great graphics and real video combined for a simple but comprehensive explanation. I’ve a self tacking jib on a Hanse 350 and haven’t played with the clew board - yet - went for safe midpoint connection 😀. In your experience is it worth trialling? Obviously more to it than car adjustments.....
I first sailed some 50 years ago in an 6’ Dink and have owned multiple sailboats over the years, yet I’ve never had any lessons. Now with your instruction I’m finally understanding the reason for each aspect of trim that experience has burned into me, as well as how much each aspect of trim effects a particular situation. Thanks Mate.
Sorry, Nick. The quarantined bored-silly guy (me) would like to retract that comment. I guess my anticipation for another exciting port adventure was disappointed. Its clear you have many subscribers who appreciate the technical points of sailing; I'm just simply not in that group, knowing little about your sport. You two are on my hit parade of terrific UA-cam celebrities, and will remain there. Again, my apologies.
@@bobhidley9037 Try sailing! A fun way to learn is to join a local sailing club and take lessons there. Renting the club's boats is also much cheaper than owning a boat. There are sailing clubs far from oceans in places like Colorado, Nebraska, etc.
in ballooning parlance , right with high. but ballooning is with greater altitudes how it effects sailing I have no idea.... but it may give newbys idea how air moves not only with wind ......
I like this video but the speed of discussion and description of sail twist withal, that jargon and technicals is just ridiculous and I thought this was aimed at beginners.
Dont we want more twist in light winds, meaning the genoa cars more aft? Otherwise the foresail will not match the shape of the (twisted) mainsail. Or am i missing something here?
Nick, this and the video on mainsail trimming for greater speed are great. I've sailed small boats for a few years, but never understood the effect of the sheets, foresail cars, traveller or vang on sail trim. We just purchased a 30 ft cruiser and needed to quickly learn more details on all aspects of sailing a larger boat, and your technical series is a great resource. Thanks for making these available for us less-experienced sailors.
Great summary video that I can easily come back to for a nice refresher! Many good tips that are never covered in basic sailing classes. This just became my latest 'favorite' video. Thx Nick! Nicely done.
You seem to be associating right winds and smooth water along with heavy winds and rough water. Now heavy winds and smooth water is unlikely come up but what do you reckon then for heavy seas and the light wind.
Mate, waves are generally created by wind. The higher the wind the bigger the waves. You can very occasionally get rough seas and light winds, but it’s normally after a weather system has passed through and the sea state has yet to settle. In this situation it is just bloody uncomfortable as you don’t have the stay of the sail to keep the boat from bobbing all over the place.
@@sailingrubyrose My understanding is that there are 2 sources of waves one is wind and the other is swell. Or am I missing something? Honestly I'm working towards motor yacht but I was intrested in the technical information as information.
It normally doesn’t last that long. In all our years of sailing offshore and coastal, you may get a few hours of swell with no wind, but as sure as eggs is eggs, the wind fills back in before too long.
Bloomin' fantastic! This should be one of the first videos any and all sailors should watch (short of 'Vendee Globe/America's Cup' skippers). It is undoubtedly the best guide to trimming the fore sale and particularly has great info re the tell-tales.... compulsory viewing!
Thanks so much for these lessons in sailing your channel is so informative and yours is the only channel I’ve seen that go’s into so much info on sailing. Enjoy your new Cat.!!
I have an unrelated question, I see other youtubers complaining about sleeping in rougher water while on anchor. Would sleeping in a hammock be better in these conditions? I'm still working towards my own SV, I haven't had the opportunity to overnight on board so far.
Under extreme load they do become more difficult to move, but not impossible. With performance oriented monohulls you can adjust the cars with lines leading to the cockpit
As Nick said and it depends on your situation and boat... I race in Western Australia and moving cars while beating upwind when it is usually blowing 20knots or more is difficult and potentially dangerous, so I always ask crew to move cars when we are on the opposite tack to the car that needs moving. Obviously, this can be done in this situation because you're tacking regularly. Even so, if I was cruising, I would still try to release some of the tension on the sheet... makes life easier and safer.
@@geoffwright7110 The leeward cars are under high load. The windward cars are under minimal load usually. As David says, you can often move the windward cars on each tack.
A great way to start sailing is to join a local sailing club and take lessons there. Also, using club boats is much cheaper and easier than owning a boat. There are many sailing clubs far inland in places like Colorado and Nebraska. They're not all on coasts.
Hi Nick. The Cp ratio of a boat seems to be instrumental in determining how fast it can sail. Would you be willing to tackle an explanation of it and how to take published boat statistics like LWL and Beam to calculate a boat's Cp ratio? Thank you!
Hi Nick, very interesting video (although it felt a little rushed) will have to go over it a couple of times - ideally when we have our yacht under us!, Thanks.
Good technical discussion, Nick, but I expected at least a bullet point explanation of a practical sail trim problem. What does one do if one has to put down a beer in order to trim?
Great stuff as always Nick. I have never sailed a boat with an adjustable backstay or running backstays so I learned some great info here. Thanks! Can't wait for the next one. Hope you get out of quarantine soon. Take care.
Nick, being in my late 30s I'm clearly not going to be the eldest person watching this but I've been in and around sailing vessels and the marine industry my whole life and I think that was the clearest introduction to foresail trim I've ever heard! 👏👏👏
Ah thanks mate.
I agree! I have always understood the aerofoil part but hadn’t completely understood why sails need to twist... Thanks Nick 👍
Watched it too. It is pretty dang good. Really. But there is a guy called giulietta sailing. He has the advantage here I think ;)
Very interesting! Thanks! One request, some of your fans have aging eyes. It is really difficult for me to read the flashing graphics between each chapter. Please consider just a normal, stationary bold text. (Music is ok, the letters just don't need to dance to the beat! Thanks!)
Great information, dreadful graphics on the intros....
Nick, I've been sailing for almost 40 years. I have owned my 30 footer for 25 years, sailing great lakes, lake Erie. This season I'll be sailing with a new main and 155% Genoa. So your video today finds me today, perusing UA-cam, boning up on sail trim. Yeah I'm experienced and raced at one time. Still I am lazy and have forgotten the Nuances of good sail trim.
Great video Nick, well done.
A pleasure mate. Always good to brush up on skills
Love the instructional video, though nearly had a fit with the exploding text graphics... ;)
Not a sailor here, but hit 'like' anyway just becasue you're a good ol' sod ! Keep healthy young man.... :-)
Am I the only one who didn’t recognize Nick’s voice at first? I truly thought it was someone else. In any case, I’m glad it’s finally changed. Congrats, Nick! 😀
I had the same experience! I was right confused for a bit until I could hear it was actually him.
Sure glad I didn't pay attention to your introduction. As a former America's Cup sailor I found the video a great, easy to understand, primer. I have forwarded to all my crew and their spouses. It will make sailing more fun for everyone aboard as they will be able to contribute to sailing!! Thanks. Great job.
Absolute pleasure mate
Sail porn music. Otherwise very good stuff!
Great information, but try slowing it down a bit to give time to digest what you're saying.
Interesting stuff and well explained, thank you.
Just in the process of learning, but this made it all very clear. Great vid, cheers.
Yes the graphic lettering is bugging my eyes out
Thanks Nick, very informative video! My husband and I bought our first boat and are spending the cold Canadian winter studying in our cabin.
Great stuff Nick, very useful for us who aren't american cup sailors
If you have all your tell-tails flying horizontal you will have maximum lift but you will have increased drag to a point where your net gain is reduces so a little lifting on your front tell-tails will give you best results.
I’ve been on UA-cam for a hot minute looking for good sailing videos. This channel’s educational videos are unbelievably helpful. Great work man, please keep generating more content.
Great advice and explained in simple clear terms! 🙏🙏🙏
Nick I've been sailing for over 50 years and I must say a very good and concise explanation. Well done. Cheers!
Is it possible to overtension the backstay, especially if they are hydraulically operated. Taken to the extreme the results could be rather catastrophic.
Yes mate it is possible. On Ruby Rose the difference In tensioned backstage vs loose was half An inch
@@sailingrubyrose On fractionally rigged boats it much more, as You also bend the mast to flatten the main. Years back I had a Soling and there We moved the top of the mast a meter or so, but that is extreme (on Star boat's it's even more)
A great explanation there, Nick. I, like you, learnt a lot of this stuff from crewing on other people's boats. Whilst you don't push a boat to its limits when cruising, the knowledge you gain from being part of a racing crew is invaluable (and free!).
Very good explanation of jib trim. Keeping it simple made it easier to understand. Continue making more technical videos. You have a nice way of explaining complicated sailing techniques
Ah cheers mate
Great video Nick and very instructive but the Tell-tail I'm most interested in is the Tell-tail sign chocolate on my chin when I'm supposed to be on a diet ! Stay Safe & Fair Winds !!
Step 1: stop dragging a heavy keel through the water for stability.
Yes, as a new sailor I look forward to these instructions. Well done, thank you!
Thanks did your Tech Tuesday briefing. I tried to look for your Precision Sails promotional link last year but couldn’t find it. Has it been removed or is Precision Sails still offering such. Many thanks!
Thanks you for your clear technical explanation. I would like to understand how to manage better with a selftacking genova in the last 2 scenarios you described. Thanks in advance.
I suppose I didn’t know enough coming into this video. Too fast for me to follow.
Clicked through to watch the main sail trim video first and came back and watched this one. Great series for me as a beginner. Thank you so much for the work that went into the graphics. The combination of the two videos explanations plus graphics was an excellent boost to my sailing education. Also glad to see that you listened to the feedback from the first video (mainsail) and found ways to incorporate some of the missing info into this one. Love that you two are learning just as much as you’re teaching! Great job all around. Keep it up. ❤️
Ah thanks so much
Thanks! Really great graphics and real video combined for a simple but comprehensive explanation. I’ve a self tacking jib on a Hanse 350 and haven’t played with the clew board - yet - went for safe midpoint connection 😀. In your experience is it worth trialling? Obviously more to it than car adjustments.....
We rarely changed the position on ours. Too much of an embuggerance.
Ha! Thanks - PS - thanks for sharing your season, the French tourist board owe you guys a few 🍻
great stuff mate,easy to reference!
Super
Awesome, concise content with no waffle. Thank You!
I first sailed some 50 years ago in an 6’ Dink and have owned multiple sailboats over the years, yet I’ve never had any lessons.
Now with your instruction I’m finally understanding the reason for each aspect of trim that experience has burned into me, as well as how much each aspect of trim effects a particular situation.
Thanks Mate.
Pleasure mate
Hi Nick, excellent, thank you very much. Kind regards Gavin
I’m just glad you’re not speaking to the French guy again. That was hard to understand.
Hey Nick, I'm an older guy in the US who loves your adventures. Sorry, but this classroom lesson was a disappointment.
Sorry to hear that mate. Any particular reason why?
Sorry, Nick. The quarantined bored-silly guy (me) would like to retract that comment. I guess my anticipation for another exciting port adventure was disappointed. Its clear you have many subscribers who appreciate the technical points of sailing; I'm just simply not in that group, knowing little about your sport. You two are on my hit parade of terrific UA-cam celebrities, and will remain there. Again, my apologies.
No worries mate. There is a new travel blog live now
@@bobhidley9037 Try sailing! A fun way to learn is to join a local sailing club and take lessons there. Renting the club's boats is also much cheaper than owning a boat. There are sailing clubs far from oceans in places like Colorado, Nebraska, etc.
in ballooning parlance , right with high. but ballooning is with greater altitudes how it effects sailing I have no idea.... but it may give newbys idea how air moves not only with wind ......
I like this video but the speed of discussion and description of sail twist withal, that jargon and technicals is just ridiculous and I thought this was aimed at beginners.
Dont we want more twist in light winds, meaning the genoa cars more aft? Otherwise the foresail will not match the shape of the (twisted) mainsail. Or am i missing something here?
Nick, this and the video on mainsail trimming for greater speed are great. I've sailed small boats for a few years, but never understood the effect of the sheets, foresail cars, traveller or vang on sail trim. We just purchased a 30 ft cruiser and needed to quickly learn more details on all aspects of sailing a larger boat, and your technical series is a great resource. Thanks for making these available for us less-experienced sailors.
Wed night club racing. On calm races our tell tails point to our cold beer. Carefully open the beer and soon you dont give a hoot about tell tails.
Great summary video that I can easily come back to for a nice refresher! Many good tips that are never covered in basic sailing classes. This just became my latest 'favorite' video. Thx Nick! Nicely done.
Well explained..one for the memory hard drive!👍
Great videos but please leave out the flashing intros, I have to close my eyes
An excellent video!!! This is combination with your regular videos, really sets your channel apart!!! So so so good. Thank you 🙏
Absolute pleasure mate. Feel free to spread the word ! 😉
You seem to be associating right winds and smooth water along with heavy winds and rough water. Now heavy winds and smooth water is unlikely come up but what do you reckon then for heavy seas and the light wind.
Mate, waves are generally created by wind. The higher the wind the bigger the waves.
You can very occasionally get rough seas and light winds, but it’s normally after a weather system has passed through and the sea state has yet to settle. In this situation it is just bloody uncomfortable as you don’t have the stay of the sail to keep the boat from bobbing all over the place.
@@sailingrubyrose My understanding is that there are 2 sources of waves one is wind and the other is swell. Or am I missing something?
Honestly I'm working towards motor yacht but I was intrested in the technical information as information.
Swell is normally generated by weather systems that are further away from the position you are in. They are however still wind generated
@@sailingrubyrose So I would be correct to that you could get into a situation with a lot of swell and not much wind over an extended period of time?
It normally doesn’t last that long. In all our years of sailing offshore and coastal, you may get a few hours of swell with no wind, but as sure as eggs is eggs, the wind fills back in before too long.
Please stop the flashing of the wording
Bloomin' fantastic! This should be one of the first videos any and all sailors should watch (short of 'Vendee Globe/America's Cup' skippers). It is undoubtedly the best guide to trimming the fore sale and particularly has great info re the tell-tales.... compulsory viewing!
Ah thanks mate
Thanks!
A pleasure mate. Hope you found it useful
Thanks so much for these lessons in sailing your channel is so informative and yours is the only channel I’ve seen that go’s into so much info on sailing. Enjoy your new Cat.!!
I want the x5 or the 526 personally .!! See you out on the sea some day !!
Sweet vid guys....many cruisers are missing these basics
great demo and explanations
I found this very helpful
Thnx a lot so simple!
Right on time for me. Thanks.
Very good thank you.
Got that noted and printed onto a laminated paper I shall stick into the cocpit until I recall by heart... Always got confused... Thank you Bernd
If in doubt let it out 😉
I have an unrelated question, I see other youtubers complaining about sleeping in rougher water while on anchor. Would sleeping in a hammock be better in these conditions?
I'm still working towards my own SV, I haven't had the opportunity to overnight on board so far.
Thank you makes sail trim easier for me to understand
Glad To help
I'm fluent in English and yet I couldn't keep up
Do like I do...
Watch it over and over until it makes sense.
:P
can you explain moving the genoa cars under sail? would they be loaded and hence difficult to move safely. A newby sailor question i guess.
Under extreme load they do become more difficult to move, but not impossible. With performance oriented monohulls you can adjust the cars with lines leading to the cockpit
As Nick said and it depends on your situation and boat... I race in Western Australia and moving cars while beating upwind when it is usually blowing 20knots or more is difficult and potentially dangerous, so I always ask crew to move cars when we are on the opposite tack to the car that needs moving. Obviously, this can be done in this situation because you're tacking regularly. Even so, if I was cruising, I would still try to release some of the tension on the sheet... makes life easier and safer.
Thanks for the feed back. will discuss and give it a go. kind regards
@@geoffwright7110 The leeward cars are under high load. The windward cars are under minimal load usually. As David says, you can often move the windward cars on each tack.
Lekker man lekker
As a 71 year old land lubber I will probably never be on a sail boat, but I love this stuff, 👍
And which land are you lubbing on? If there's water nearby i'm sure there is a boat owner who'd be happy for some crew.
A great way to start sailing is to join a local sailing club and take lessons there. Also, using club boats is much cheaper and easier than owning a boat. There are many sailing clubs far inland in places like Colorado and Nebraska. They're not all on coasts.
Cheers guys
Hi Nick. The Cp ratio of a boat seems to be instrumental in determining how fast it can sail. Would you be willing to tackle an explanation of it and how to take published boat statistics like LWL and Beam to calculate a boat's Cp ratio? Thank you!
good !
Very good!
Hi Nick, very interesting video (although it felt a little rushed) will have to go over it a couple of times - ideally when we have our yacht under us!, Thanks.
Good job!
Thanks, very clear and simple to understand advice. I just hope my wife remembers it longer than one day. Thanks again
Good technical discussion, Nick, but I expected at least a bullet point explanation of a practical sail trim problem. What does one do if one has to put down a beer in order to trim?
Mechanical Monday? Oh I get it, it's Tuesday where you are! Great video. Clear explanations for us beginners/amateurs. (nice neon!)
I love your videos!! Thanks for being so clear and giving thorough explanations.
Keep it up, it's great to see examples of the correct techniques. looking forward to your catamaran.
Great stuff as always Nick. I have never sailed a boat with an adjustable backstay or running backstays so I learned some great info here. Thanks! Can't wait for the next one. Hope you get out of quarantine soon. Take care.
Will you be discussing hard and soft sails as well? That pretty new technology, but I'm starting to see it at the top end amateur craft.
I’m still waiting for your chenal du four trip .....
Great 2 videos part 1 and part 2. Now I need to go out and practice, practice, practice!
Always been curious about this.👍🏻
Thanks for sharing, was very useful.
Easily explained. Nice job Nick! Cheers 🍻
Good mid-winter refresher. Nicely done Nick.
Nice one!
Nice video. I'm off to watch the main sail vid that I missed some how.
Thanks for that. Very interesting.
Thanks, I saved this for later reference.
great video friends, fair winds!
You too mate. Stay safe
class dismissed!! thank you
Good stuff nick.
A pleasure mate
Thanks, very useful.
Where is this main trim video You mentioned ?
Ok ok I've found :)
Hahah. Beat me to it mate. Enjoy
clear and concise. thanks
Brilliantly explained.
Technical Tuesday on a Monday!! You sneaky sneak sailor.
Turns out I use that more than a calendar, and I thought I was off.
In Australia mate! It’s Tuesday here 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺
@@sailingrubyrose You're in the future!!
These are always awesome, Nick. Thank you!!!
A pleasure mate
No better sailing channel than this, to give great explanations!
Ah thanks mate
Good stuff,,
Nice one Nick