Ep 55: Gybing Single Handed
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- Опубліковано 31 гру 2022
- Welcome to episode 55 of Carpe Diem Sailing. In this video I go over gybing single handed using an autopilot and no preventer. I plan to do a video on preventers in the future but just like lazy jacks they have their place but I'm personally not a fan.
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Your videos are so clear and helpful. Even for experienced sailors! I like how here, the vang is off, so when the gybe does happen, some of the shock is taken up by the sail moving the boom upwards rather than just 100% on the mainsheet. Hope all is well and more lessons coming soon!
Thanks for watching! Working on it.
I've watched all of your videos so far, such a great series and great information. I purchased your docking series and I'm looking forward to your anchoring series!
Thank you so much Richard. We are looking forward to the anchoring series too 😊
Thank you so much for your series!!! I am a semi-retired ER Doc just learning to sail on my Hunter 34. Your videos have been so well organized and informative as i take up this new activity. Learning the lines, learning to reef, learning to strap in and sail safely is invaluable. Thank you so much for your contribution!
Best to you!!
Doug Malcolm
Alameda CA
Ballard WA
Thanks Doc! I am delighted to hear that you are enjoying my videos and that they are helping. Feel free to reach out any time. Enjoy your boat.
PS: As a paramedic I work with lots of ER docs and many of them have sailboats.
Hope you're well Marco. I miss your videos!
Thank you Dr Frisbie. I’m fine, life getting in the way a little hoping to get back at it soon. 🙏👍
Nice video as usual ! Very sad that it is the last one on the list. I hope everything is going well, wish you the best. You have been very helpful for thousands of boat lovers across the world
Thank you very much! I'm hoping that there will be more. My boat is for sale but I will still be chartering and dinghy sailing and there is still a lot of theory to cover. Thank you so much for the support.
Yay! Dinghy sailing!
Sad to hear it, sir. Why do you sale your nice boat?@@CarpeDiemSailingMagazine
A few factors but mostly moorage and maintenance costs plus a real difficulty in finding people to work on the boat@@gllsbcdkdmdmsjjjsbbbh
@@CarpeDiemSailingMagazine 8 Months after binge watching all your videos, me and the lady have just purchased our first boat in Quebec last weekend. I came back to re-watch the videos about the mooring buoy. Still helping!
I prefer to gybe. Even with the main sheeted in all the way the headsail will keep you moving. When tacking there is always the chance that if you don't do it right you end up in irons or can't complete the tack and get pushed back the way you came. I also personally have trouble tacking on my new boat because it is cutter rigged and I haven't quite figured out how to smoothly get the genoa between the forestay and staysail stay. I've only tried a couple times so far so I'll eventually get it worked out.
Thanks for the comment Tracy. I agree that with some boats tacking in big seas can be an issue and one has to be vigilant. Other than going forward and walking the sail through, there are a couple of ways of dealing with the genoa. One is to install a furling system and furl or unfurl the genoa every time you tack, the other if possible is to rig your inner forestay on a pelican hook so you can disconnect it and run the boat as a sloop when inshore and tacking a lot. I have a friend who has a Valiant 40 and thats what he does. Granted not all boats are structurally capable of this. Talk to a good rigger.
Thank you so much for showing how to do this!
Any time!
Great Instructor
Thank you kindly Abdul. Much appreciated.
At least I am the first to like this video! Happy New Year, Captain!
Hey Gech Li. Awesome! Thank you and to you too. 🥳
I enjoy your videos very much. Even though I have been sailing for many years, watching these videos have "plugged a lot of holes" in my knowledge. Just wondering what your thoughts are on rigging up a gybe preventer. Is this a good idea, or not so much?
Thank you very much! Personally for most boats I am not a fan of preventers. Some people love them and swear by them. If you are going to use one make sure to rig it properly. Hoping to do a video specifically on preventers and boom brakes.
It's called a controlled Gybe...& should be done every time you Gybe the sails.
Additionally it takes the strees & strain out of the sails & the boom specifically the goose neck.
Thank you for your comment
As I understand it, tacking is turning the bow by using the jib whereas gybing is turning the stern by using the main. Both turn the boat 90 degrees but both use different methods. When is one method preferable over the other?
Not exactly. Tacking or Coming About is when the boat is turned with the bow going through the wind. Gybing is when you turn and the stern passes through the wind. Neither are done with sails, bot are done with rudder. It is situational but tacking is safer than gybing
Thanks Marco. Could you explain what you did with the Autopilot ? Did you add 40 - 60 degrees with 10 degrees incremental steps? Some AP have an accidental gybe preventer and you cannot change the course for a gybe with one push. Good and informative video. Well done.
Hi Marc,
I have an old Autohelm pilot and it has an auto tack feature which simply turns the boat through 90° by pushing the +1 and +10 or -1 and -10 buttons at the same time. It does not know whether I am tacking or gybing. For me when gybing with the AP I don't use the auto tack feature. From a broad reach I push the -10/+10 button 4 times which puts me on a very deep broad reach, almost a run. I leave it there to prevent "sailing by the lee" as I'm sheeting in. Once the mainsail is sheeted in as close to centre as possible I hit the button 4 times once again, initiating the gybe. Once the mainsail has gybed and I've eased it out I gybe the headsail and then fine tune my new course and trim the sails to the new course. Hope this explains things.
I've seen some sailors use a preventer line. In what circumstances would you use a preventer during a condition such as this, and how would you complete the gybe with a preventer, if it is advisable? Such a great video and happy new year!
Good question! There are preventers and boom brakes. This is an extremely controversial topic. Preventers are very commonly misused and setup improperly thus risking a boom failure. A preventer should be rigged from the end of the boom to a point as far forward as possible, then removed before gybing and setup again on the opposite side. I personally do not believe in them for most cruising boats. I prefer to control the boat thereby preventing a gybe and if the conditions are so bad that this is not possible I do not run (as it is I very rarely run wing and wing, preferring to broad reach and gybe under control) Finally if one gybes by accident with a preventer set up the sail is now backwinded but held to windward by the preventer causing a bigger problem so no thanks to preventers for me. Learn to steer the boat and actively prevent sailing by the lee when running or better yet don't run. If you are going to run, twin boomed out headsails is a much better option.
@@CarpeDiemSailingMagazine Preventers are better suited to passages, especially overnight if you are sure the wind will not pick up. André
@CarpeDiemSailingMagazine I can see that it's controversial 😅. Rarely should you attach the preventer on the end of the boom, it's very dangerous, especially in hard conditions. The location should be closer to or equal to the attachment of the main sheet. Not doing so could lead to damage to the boom.
I may be wrong with this statement, i know you're an exceptional sailor so you know what you're talking about, but it's how I've been taught and how it's explained in many text books. The main reason being that if strong forces are applied, they should be applied at their balance or midpoint. The far end of the boom is not that. There have been cases of bend or broken booms, so be careful.
I've sailed in force 8 conditions with 8m waves in the North Sea, even on halfand broad reaches, you want a preventer then 😅.
Do you ever use a preventer when running and jibing? I just completed a solo two-week cruise and made extensive use of the preventer and it was very "destressing". By having a preventer on, I could jibe with no concern of a crash jibe because the boom could not move so it got not inertial up when it jibed unexpectedly as it sped across the boat. When I jibed intentionally, I would do as you do with the main sheet to ease the transition but with the preventer instead of the main sheet or traveler.
I personally have never liked preventers. I don't like the extras trouble of setting one up and then having to deal with mainsheet and preventer and if you backwind the main with a preventer on you can be in big trouble. For me as I probably mentioned in the video I don't run wing on wing with main and jib. I broad reach and gybe under control. Safer and better apparent wind. If I was to run wing on wing it would be with two poled out headsails. Having said all that if you feel safer and less stressed that's all that matters. Thanks for the comment.
Hey Marco. Hope you're well.
I recently got interested in SailGP and started watching it but whole sailing lingo kinda went over my head.
My question is, will your beginner to sailing series help in making me understand SailGP?
Hey Zig Zag,
This one certainly should help. Sail GP is all high performance multi hull ie catamaran so there will be some specific language. If you have any questions feel free to reach out any time.
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Hope all is well in Canada. Missing your videos. Wanted to drop a line and see how it is going.
All good. Working on it. Still dealing with life stuff. Thanks for the check in
I have now watched all of ypur videos to date, they have been very useful to refresh my knowledge, which is very rusty after a 16 year sailing gap. However, your last video was posted 6 months ago, are you ok? Are you continuing to do this?
Thanks
I'm OK, thanks for asking, but due to circumstances beyond my control I will be selling our boat. I hope to continue doing videos but at his point I'm not sure when. Fingers crossed.
I will however continue to monitor the channel and comments and if you have nay questions please feel free to reach out.
@@CarpeDiemSailingMagazine appreciate your reply. Sounds like life bites us all at times. Best of luck with it. I hope you can do some more videos soon. Advanced sail trim would be really helpful. Thanks again.
May I ask a hypothetical based on your experience? - if there was a situation where one was at sea and could not enter any nation, for example due to covid lockdowns or a world war, etc. Is it still possible to find remote places to lay low and unnoticed? Or, is it a situation where no matter what small island you anchor at, you will be detected and apprehended? thanks very much in advance.
Probably. That's a very good question and unfortunately not one I can answer. It will depend on the individual country. Best to follow thew various FB cruising groups.
@@CarpeDiemSailingMagazine thanks. It happened to a couple during lockdowns, their video on youtube, they could not land anywhere.
Are you still doing this channel?
Not at the moment. Sold the boat, but hoping to charter and do more videos in the future.
woohoo~ incredible ~do you wanna more followers?- aCrpe-
Of course 🤪