I've watched UA-cam sailing channels for a decade. Each time they quickly show some details about how to actually sail I pay close attention. I wish that I had these videos a long time ago and it's greatly appreciated.
I just bought a boat in and trying to visit Croatia. Your videos theyr perfect. So some Croat friends out hear in San Pedro,ca are teaching me Croatian before my visit. They said to greet everyone meet I meet with "yebbi si pederu". They said it's warm hello.
Your love of sailing and Croatia are apparent in your videos Igor. Genuine thoughts and insights are a breath of fresh air. I watch many sailing channels and really appreciate your honesty regarding the boats you sail. Keep up the good work.
Best video on sail trimming we have run into after years of studying videos and getting first 4 ASA certs done - wish I would have seen this before our first non instructor charter of a 45ft cat.
I've been sailing monohulls since I was a young boy in the early 1970's with many miles under various keels. I have a bare boat catamaran coming up and these videos of yours are fantastic. After the BVI, I want to come and sail Croatia.
boy lucky that you live in such a great area! I have a good friend from Bosnia that keeps telling me to meet him in Croatia, he says nothing but great things.
Thanks Igor, for a excellent tutorial on how to sail a catamaran. The explanation was very clear and to the point. Keep up the good work and I look forward to the next tutorial.
Wow how times have changed, grew up on a 70s piver tri. Had a high use radar, OP was a thing out of the stonage.. worked sometimes!!! Hand 🔧 everything and we weren't fast but heavy by skippers choice. Oh SF Bay, always cold and windy, lots of fog and low clouds but always fun, I think!! Don't miss the maintance of that boat.
Really enjoy your channel. You provide excellent hands-on technical commentary on what you are doing, and why. Thanks! My only critique is that here in the US we never sail with our fenders hanging off the topsides.
Remember.... spaghetti on boat are good only in boiling water.You have to spend time to coil rope because that's really dangerous, you can skid or stumble over bord. I use snaps hooks and a couple of ropes to have the deck clean and safe. Great video! and not for for rookie sailors only. I subscribed to your channel🖖
finally some real teaching hands on video. I follow Multihull group , nice as well. Really love theses tuning details, and tips. great Igor !!! Thank you
Great walkthrough - I'm going to be going through this training early next year and plan on living on trimaran soonish, so learning these skills is critical - love this
Love your channel bro. I learn so much about sailing. Looking at buying a catamaran in the near future... You state an honest review about all the boats, love it! I have been a boatie for almost 20 years now. Own a 6.4 Aluminium half cab with 150 Mercury, Love the fishing and continues exploring. Keep-Up he good work and enjoy yourself! Greetings from a Bosnian, Down under, east coast Moreton Bay
Mirko's wine cellar is definitely not for the average american tourist. They would have to rub themself with olive oil before they squeeze through the tunnel 😂.Absolute love this hidden gem and also the secret beach entrance! Nice beginner tutorial also from you Igor, as a non skipper/sailor i learned a lot!
Excellent video taking your viewers through all points of sail with a self tacking jib. This is quite the sailing lesson in one video, and your attention to details is key. I hope many who would like to sail but think it’s too difficult to learn watch this video. With proper instruction, sailing is not difficult. Seamanship is different, and comes over time with experience, but learning to to move the boat under sail is not complicated once the fundamentals are understood, which is what you have taught here. We’ll done Igor! A bit different from monohulls, but the principles are the same.
So thankful for such a good video and information in it. Have you considered to make a How to video about 1. anchoring and 2. sailing in stormy conditions. Once again so thankful for your work. I am sure, you have really helped people to have fun sailing and avoid damages to the boats etc.
So Good, Thanks In two weeks we will put in water our Lagoon 500 after winter, here in Vigo and it's perfect to remember, even your cat is much easy. Thanks for your videos
Love it Igor! So when you say "once the boat has speed, I can steer better", that's known as authority. You gain authority on the rudder when moving faster through the water.
I to owned a Piver Lodestar ketch 5yrs in SF Bay great live aboard and sailer obviously all sail and technology has change would have been great to own now! Currently from Canton Georgia USA.
Bok Igor, a really great video!! Hvarla! You are a really good teacher. If i will have a catamaran, i will need your help for sure. Cant't wait for another video like this! Greets, Michi
@@IgorStropnik I agree. It would be great to teach good seamanship with stowing the lines. That spaghetti of main halyard and genoa sheet is a disaster waiting to happen. Very scary. What would you do in an emergency with that spaghetti. I hope you have a good knife on you, or within reach.
Great videos, Igor. We chartered a Moorings Cat in 2007 when there were very few in Croatia. It looks like there are many more nowadays. I wish you would mention the islands and establishments you are visiting.
Very good Igor. As a cat owner I prefer to use the throttles only in a marina or mooring with rudders central. More control and not unpredictable directions from driving with helm turned in another direction. BTW FP cats do have a connection for the bridge on the inside of the bow near the front and it works well. André in Sydney
Thanks Igor for your compliments. If you need extra info about code 0 material, handling etc, we can help you out. For example, 1:2 halyard is a must have for the code 0, otherwise you cannot get the tension for the antitorsion rope in the luff. Take care. Best regards from Supreme sails
Hi Igor . Love your videos . Have been a nautical nut all my life. You are an excellent teacher and Captain and all around Nice guy .Keep up the great videos and teaching .
Hi Igor! Great video! Thumbs up! 👍 If I may suggest something, I'm sure that many of us would really appreciate a video dedicated to handling a catamaran, anchoring, docking!
Thanks, I want to film it but kind of hard to dedicate time. I am filming something similar now but I want to film all that with drone. Would need some support to film it like boat, more cameramen, ..,
Nice video Igor I’m sure those guys learned a lot during this trip ! Really nice. We don’t have a bow spirt so we don’t use a code Zero or code D but us a asymmetrical spinnaker which we fly off one of the bows. We have wishard bow eyes on each bow. We can push up to 65 degrees before the luff starts folding and down to 150 degrees. Most of our sail across the Southern Atlantic Ocean was done with this sail. Sadly a mistake lead to the sail being up near Brazil and a squall destroyed the sail making the rest of our crossing across the top of South America very tough with a main and Genoa in light winds at 140+150 degrees. (We have ordered new asymmetrical and symmetrical sails from Australia.) . In terms of the water makers the pleated sails are to filter the saltwater and the carbon filter (particles) is for reverse flushing with possible chlorine particles not to damage your membrane. Rgards Mike Odličen video Igor,zajel si v se pomembne stvari,ki jih uporabljamo,ko jadramo,zares odlična predstavitev!Bravo,gledala sva do prve do zadnje minute,ker je bilo tako zanimivo.Kot sem rekla Miku,mislim da je tole privacy predstavitev jadranja s katamaranom,ki mi je pokazala praktičen posted jadranja,upravljanja jader itd.Se veselim tvojih prihajajočih videov.Hvala,ker deliš svoje znanje z nami.In ja,Hrvaška je s svojimi otoki in hrano preprosto magična.Kje točno je bilo posneto to?In tista vinska klet…fantastično!Lep pozdrav is Surinama.Maja
Hi Igor, very good video, clear explanation. Just one remark: I don't like people to push buttons putting their arm through the weel. Even on auto, strange things can happen and this weel is not forgiving. Thanks.
!!!!!!! 53:00 "Make sure there are no other boots around" ........ That is possibly the most important thing in a tack or gybe. Anyone that does watersports knows what I am talking about!😂😉
Hello Igor, great videos and explanations about catamaran sailing in every detail. It seems that cats are not good sailers regarding upwind and straight downwind. However, I want your opinion on Bali 4.6 double mainsheet system. How to manage the twist and angle of the sail to the wind. With traveler, it is easy you adjust the traveler and the twist with the main sheet. But when it comes to the double mainsheet system I find it confusing which side does what and when. Thank you and keep doing these videos.
at 22:50, it looks like a good time to release the spinnaker ....The spinnaker would have balanced the boat out nicely for smooth sailing......You don''t have to release the line for jenoia.. Siinikers would resresove this quite nicely, and pull uou along respectively.
Excellent & timely video! We're leaving in two days for Split and renting a Moorings 45' catamaran. Can you tell me where Mirko's place is? We want to go there!
Hi Igor, thank you for all you have brought me in these videos. I wonder if you can tell me when this video (week or month of year?)? I'd like to charter in early season like this. Not thrilled about Jugo winds, but this looks great! Please share time of year! And I hope we can buy you a beer someday! Havala Von Ma Pumiji!! Dovedjenia!
I just got back from helping to crew a Lagoon 42 from Lanzarote to Mindelo. You referred to a self-tacking Genoa which maybe you meant self-tacking Gib? The Lagoon I was on had a self-tacking Gib and a Code zero and despite the advice given, we sailed in classic tradewind conditions wing on wing with the Gib cleated on the port hull and the code zero out to starboard and created our own customised backstay with a line holding down the boom to both aft quarters. What struck me after sailing a lot of mono hulls with in-mast reefing was how potentially dangerous it was handling the mainsail on the Lagoon, particularly with the owner insisting that it was ‘safer’ to raise the mainsail heading dead downwind rather than upwind. As an aside - I have never herd you mention just how noisy it is on passage in the aft port cabin! Oh my God - how can any manufacturer think that banging and clattering is acceptable lol 😂
Another great and informative video. Great job, Igor! Would you mind sharing the details about that Code 0 from Supreme Sails? Looks really nice. Thanks!
Hi Igor, I learned so much from this video, thanks a lot. I will be at Biograd at September this year and I will contact you at Oktober for end of Saison 23.
Nice video.. fun to watch.. small things though.. there are no ROPES on the boat, they are lines.. and the self tacking JIB is a JIB, not a Genoa.. A Genoa is a jib that overlaps the mast. but other than than, good video.
I have watched many of your videos on sailing, and you know there is no perfect rig. I would like to see you sail a Chris White 72foot leopard. With a front cocpit it was covering 360 miles in 24 hours with 15 knots of wind. The head sail was self tacking, and club footed. The two backstays let the boom swing 90 degrees port, or starboard, and the shroud lines did not touch the main sail, and one person can handle all of Chris White's designs
Chris White for the WIN! His ideas have influenced the likes of Gunboat etc. without getting the deserved credit. My favorite design is a Nigel Irens cat based on Chis White's ideas.
Excellent tutorials on Cat, as usual, brilliant voyage. Is there any way I can find more info about your friend the best winemaker? I mean the name of the island or the name of the guesthouse? Thanks for sharing 🙏
Thank you for this “life” instruction. I am used to sail singlehanded much smaller catamarans up to 30 feet with a helm and with handoperated winches for the codezero only. When I see this sailing in a much bigger boat I think I am more looking at the work of a process-operator than sailing. Also the rigging of this boat is kind of strange to me. The squaretop mainsail is causing the troubles with the hoisting it past the boomvang. It also limits the use of the traveller on backwind courses. Then there is the short traveller for the selftacking jib that doesn’t allow for proper setting of that sail on broad reaches. All in all I wonder howmuch of the total sailarea is not 100% efficiently useable. So I learned a lot from you about what to look for if I would ever be tempted to buy a bigger boat.
I also wonder how much the squaretop makes it more risky to gybe. On my boat with conventional narrowtop mainsail, short battens and double mainsheetsystem gybing is what I do many times with great ease. Actually my boat is quite light and it is more difficult to tack when there are some waves. Then I gybe. Even in windspeed 6 Bf. The faster the boat goes before the wind the less appearant wind. But I realise now that the full battens and the squaretop makes that a very different operation.
squaretops with fullsize battens on much smaller catamarans like Nacras and A-cats (or on high performance cats and tri’s are great) but those cats are much much faster so their apparent windangle is also much sharper. They never sail flat before the wind but use their gennakers whereby the speed increases so much that the mainsails are positioned as if they sail upwind courses to the apparent wind. The riggers of these larger cruisingcats seem to have just copied this sailplan without considering it’s functionality to these larger boats.
Thanks Igor, for interesting videos. Which catamaran would you recommend for going between Croatia and Caribbean, approx 45-49 feet, rigged for shorthanded sailing? Maybe you could make a video about it🙂
Is it some sailing course or just new crew? Very informative video in nice environment.. And with good food :) I see there are many compromises on the cat (mainsheet holding the boom, self-tackling jib), yet it is on my bucket list to sail one
Can you give any recommendations/tips for chartering a crewed (skipper/cook) boat in Croatia? It would just be for my wife and me. We're flying to Europe (from the US) on Sept 15 and have around 6 weeks for vacation. We both past 60, but still in good shape. Lots of questions: where to start (Split, Zadar,...?), how to find a good boat and crew, how to get a fair price....It looks like you do this for a living...Thanks!
I've watched UA-cam sailing channels for a decade. Each time they quickly show some details about how to actually sail I pay close attention. I wish that I had these videos a long time ago and it's greatly appreciated.
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Your English is perfect, your teachings are also perfect. I'm loving what your doing man
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Im just beginning my interest in learning to sail and im going to watch everything this man makes.
I just bought a boat in and trying to visit Croatia. Your videos theyr perfect. So some Croat friends out hear in San Pedro,ca are teaching me Croatian before my visit. They said to greet everyone meet I meet with "yebbi si pederu". They said it's warm hello.
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By far the best sailing channel. Combining theory and practice, as well as a good sense of humor 😆
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Your love of sailing and Croatia are apparent in your videos Igor. Genuine thoughts and insights are a breath of fresh air. I watch many sailing channels and really appreciate your honesty regarding the boats you sail. Keep up the good work.
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Best video on sail trimming we have run into after years of studying videos and getting first 4 ASA certs done - wish I would have seen this before our first non instructor charter of a 45ft cat.
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I've been sailing monohulls since I was a young boy in the early 1970's with many miles under various keels. I have a bare boat catamaran coming up and these videos of yours are fantastic. After the BVI, I want to come and sail Croatia.
Thanks 🙏 Croatia is the best 👌
Simply excellent! Igor, you are a great teacher. I wish you would do a sailing class video that people could purchase.
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Love your vids man, actual sailing and not just some fancy drone shots of beaches
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boy lucky that you live in such a great area! I have a good friend from Bosnia that keeps telling me to meet him in Croatia, he says nothing but great things.
This is truly an amazing video showing the whole strategy of sailing. I've not seen this before and it's great content. Thank you.
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Absolutely brilliant. Love your videos. So informative, so educational. Thanks.
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A great teacher loads of patience and so knowledge for one so young I'm never board
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Thanks Igor, for a excellent tutorial on how to sail a catamaran. The explanation was very clear and to the point. Keep up the good work and I look forward to the next tutorial.
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17:40 I love the way you teach Igor! Haha. ‘Watch what you are doing and figure it out’.
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When I am ever going to buy my dream catamaran, my budget will cover to hire you, to teach me everything. Thanks
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Excellent Igor, another very well explained tutorial/video. I've just watched this one and already looking forward to your next upload!
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Wow how times have changed, grew up on a 70s piver tri. Had a high use radar, OP was a thing out of the stonage.. worked sometimes!!! Hand 🔧 everything and we weren't fast but heavy by skippers choice. Oh SF Bay, always cold and windy, lots of fog and low clouds but always fun, I think!! Don't miss the maintance of that boat.
Should come sail to Croatia. Perfect weather.
Hello Igor !
Thank you so much for your fantastic material and fun and honest videos .
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Great, Igor! It looks so simple. It tempts me to try myself.
It is simple 😀
Very good Igor, your tone of voice for learning is perfect!
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Really enjoy your channel. You provide excellent hands-on technical commentary on what you are doing, and why. Thanks! My only critique is that here in the US we never sail with our fenders hanging off the topsides.
Thanks 🍻 In calm weather I lift them high and easier for crew to walk on deck.
Remember.... spaghetti on boat are good only in boiling water.You have to spend time to coil rope because that's really dangerous, you can skid or stumble over bord. I use snaps hooks and a couple of ropes to have the deck clean and safe. Great video! and not for for rookie sailors only. I subscribed to your channel🖖
Thanks 🙌 And no ketchup on pasta 🍝
@@IgorStropnik I am italian 😅
I agree. That was completely dangerois, and setting an example of bad seamanship.
I like these real life how to videos more than any other
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What a very interesting video. Whith your explanations, using a catamaran seems to be so easy. Good job and what a beautiful country 👏
Thanks 🙏 It’s easy.
Dziękuję za piękne widoki. U Mirko to chyba kryształ i inne kamienie. 🙂
finally some real teaching hands on video. I follow Multihull group , nice as well.
Really love theses tuning details, and tips. great Igor !!! Thank you
Thanks Eric 🍻
Great walkthrough - I'm going to be going through this training early next year and plan on living on trimaran soonish, so learning these skills is critical - love this
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Love your videos. Croatia is stunning.
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I must say you do teach very well. you explain very well.
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Very nice video. Finally somebody who really explains the details of cat sailing. I missed the name of the restaurant....
Thanks 🙏🙌 It is Konoba Arsenol on Hvar.
Love your channel bro. I learn so much about sailing. Looking at buying a catamaran in the near future... You state an honest review about all the boats, love it! I have been a boatie for almost 20 years now. Own a 6.4 Aluminium half cab with 150 Mercury, Love the fishing and continues exploring. Keep-Up he good work and enjoy yourself!
Greetings from a Bosnian, Down under, east coast Moreton Bay
Thanks 🍻I dream about aluminium sailboat like Ovni,allure
Mirko's wine cellar is definitely not for the average american tourist. They would have to rub themself with olive oil before they squeeze through the tunnel 😂.Absolute love this hidden gem and also the secret beach entrance! Nice beginner tutorial also from you Igor, as a non skipper/sailor i learned a lot!
Thanks 🙏🙌 His wine is worth every drop off olive oil 😀
Very good Igor, looking forward to the next one🏋🏻♀️🤟🏋🏻♀️
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That was really nice to watch! Great job Igor, you are a good instructor. Want to visit that house and drink wine someday : )
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Excellent video taking your viewers through all points of sail with a self tacking jib. This is quite the sailing lesson in one video, and your attention to details is key. I hope many who would like to sail but think it’s too difficult to learn watch this video. With proper instruction, sailing is not difficult. Seamanship is different, and comes over time with experience, but learning to to move the boat under sail is not complicated once the fundamentals are understood, which is what you have taught here. We’ll done Igor! A bit different from monohulls, but the principles are the same.
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Great sailing enjoy all your knowledges and topics keeping us on track on all sailing tactics from Georgia USA
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What a super teacher!
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I was so excited there was another video, I always learn so much xx
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Yes true grate explane and clear voice and many good explane inside out and sailing
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One of the best vids for cat sailing ❤ only missing techniques for reefing or sailibg in heavy seas.
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Great videos .. love watching your channel .. I learn something new on boats , sailing on every episode..
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Prejako, kralju najveći !!! best video ever
Hvala 🙏
Need more of this kind of sailing videos
More coming 😃
So thankful for such a good video and information in it. Have you considered to make a How to video about 1. anchoring and 2. sailing in stormy conditions. Once again so thankful for your work. I am sure, you have really helped people to have fun sailing and avoid damages to the boats etc.
Thanks 🙌👍 I have more on anchor, docking,… will edit it in October.
So Good, Thanks In two weeks we will put in water our Lagoon 500 after winter, here in Vigo and it's perfect to remember, even your cat is much easy. Thanks for your videos
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Love it Igor!
So when you say "once the boat has speed, I can steer better", that's known as authority.
You gain authority on the rudder when moving faster through the water.
Thanks 🙏 Authority sounds so official.
@@IgorStropnik Rudder authority is a term used in aviation too.
Nice video with good points. Wish you also have one like this for monohulls
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I to owned a Piver Lodestar ketch 5yrs in SF Bay great live aboard and sailer obviously all sail and technology has change would have been great to own now! Currently from Canton Georgia USA.
Too much technology these days or maybe better say we are forgetting how to sail without.
Bok Igor, a really great video!! Hvarla!
You are a really good teacher. If i will have a catamaran, i will need your help for sure.
Cant't wait for another video like this!
Greets, Michi
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Excellent instructor. I appreciate the value of your videos ⛵️👍🏽
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Great videos! So clearly explained and illustrated. Thank you for your efforts in putting this together. 🙏
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NO Its to a great video ! it teaches partly un safe ! tricks and not common ways to sail !
@@sggr7708 Explain it please. We all want to be better.
@@IgorStropnik I agree. It would be great to teach good seamanship with stowing the lines. That spaghetti of main halyard and genoa sheet is a disaster waiting to happen. Very scary. What would you do in an emergency with that spaghetti. I hope you have a good knife on you, or within reach.
Great videos, Igor. We chartered a Moorings Cat in 2007 when there were very few in Croatia. It looks like there are many more nowadays. I wish you would mention the islands and establishments you are visiting.
Thanks 🙏 Lots of cats now.
Very good Igor. As a cat owner I prefer to use the throttles only in a marina or mooring with rudders central. More control and not unpredictable directions from driving with helm turned in another direction. BTW FP cats do have a connection for the bridge on the inside of the bow near the front and it works well. André in Sydney
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Thanks Igor for your compliments. If you need extra info about code 0 material, handling etc, we can help you out. For example, 1:2 halyard is a must have for the code 0, otherwise you cannot get the tension for the antitorsion rope in the luff. Take care. Best regards from Supreme sails
Thanks 🙏🍻Will do video about SupremeSails.
What is your website at supreme sails - cannot find you.
Odličan video Igore, hvala :)
Hvala 🍻
Please Please
Do a series of SAIL tutorials.
You have a decent following now ....of food lovers LoL.
Trying.
Thanks Igor!! love your videos!!
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Best tutorial I've seen .
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Hi Igor . Love your videos . Have been a nautical nut all my life. You are an excellent teacher and Captain and all around Nice guy .Keep up the great videos and teaching .
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Hi Igor! Great video! Thumbs up! 👍 If I may suggest something, I'm sure that many of us would really appreciate a video dedicated to handling a catamaran, anchoring, docking!
Thanks, I want to film it but kind of hard to dedicate time. I am filming something similar now but I want to film all that with drone. Would need some support to film it like boat, more cameramen, ..,
Love your vids bro, super nice, super helpful just awesome.
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best video ever! tx Igor!
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"Usually people are not looking forward and then you crash into something. " 😂 important lessons, folks.
Borat goes sailing, this is awesome 😂
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Nice video Igor I’m sure those guys learned a lot during this trip ! Really nice. We don’t have a bow spirt so we don’t use a code Zero or code D but us a asymmetrical spinnaker which we fly off one of the bows. We have wishard bow eyes on each bow. We can push up to 65 degrees before the luff starts folding and down to 150 degrees. Most of our sail across the Southern Atlantic Ocean was done with this sail. Sadly a mistake lead to the sail being up near Brazil and a squall destroyed the sail making the rest of our crossing across the top of South America very tough with a main and Genoa in light winds at 140+150 degrees. (We have ordered new asymmetrical and symmetrical sails from Australia.) . In terms of the water makers the pleated sails are to filter the saltwater and the carbon filter (particles) is for reverse flushing with possible chlorine particles not to damage your membrane. Rgards Mike
Odličen video Igor,zajel si v se pomembne stvari,ki jih uporabljamo,ko jadramo,zares odlična predstavitev!Bravo,gledala sva do prve do zadnje minute,ker je bilo tako zanimivo.Kot sem rekla Miku,mislim da je tole privacy predstavitev jadranja s katamaranom,ki mi je pokazala praktičen posted jadranja,upravljanja jader itd.Se veselim tvojih prihajajočih videov.Hvala,ker deliš svoje znanje z nami.In ja,Hrvaška je s svojimi otoki in hrano preprosto magična.Kje točno je bilo posneto to?In tista vinska klet…fantastično!Lep pozdrav is Surinama.Maja
Thanks Mike, Hvala Maja. Posneto med Hvarom in Korculo. 🍻
@@IgorStropnik čudovito!!Lep pozdrav iz Trinidada🥂
Very good instructional video. Small correction, the headsail being used is a jib, not a genoa
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Wait ! Hold my beer..
I love to see you sail a dufour 48 and see your thoughts on the boat .
Hopefully one day😃
Hi Igor, very good video, clear explanation. Just one remark: I don't like people to push buttons putting their arm through the weel. Even on auto, strange things can happen and this weel is not forgiving. Thanks.
Exactly 🙌 Design is bad and people keep sticking their hands in.
Verder good tutorial. Thank you.
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!!!!!!! 53:00 "Make sure there are no other boots around" ........ That is possibly the most important thing in a tack or gybe. Anyone that does watersports knows what I am talking about!😂😉
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Hello Igor, great videos and explanations about catamaran sailing in every detail. It seems that cats are not good sailers regarding upwind and straight downwind. However, I want your opinion on Bali 4.6 double mainsheet system. How to manage the twist and angle of the sail to the wind. With traveler, it is easy you adjust the traveler and the twist with the main sheet. But when it comes to the double mainsheet system I find it confusing which side does what and when. Thank you and keep doing these videos.
Thanks 🙏 leeward sheet adjust twist and windward adjusts angle.
thanks a lot, it makes perfect sense @@IgorStropnik
Hi Igor, I loved your video. Can you provide the location of Mirco's cellar? Thanks
Thanks 🙏 Editing video about Mirko and info. 1nm down from sv nedjelja. Call him first.
great training video
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at 22:50, it looks like a good time to release the spinnaker ....The spinnaker would have balanced the boat out nicely for smooth sailing......You don''t have to release the line for jenoia.. Siinikers would resresove this quite nicely, and pull uou along respectively.
Parasailor is the best🙌
man i liked that video i would like more instructional stuff like online course
Thanks 🙏 I should film it.
Hey ..Igor... your very funny 🤣
Excellent & timely video! We're leaving in two days for Split and renting a Moorings 45' catamaran. Can you tell me where Mirko's place is? We want to go there!
Thanks 🙌👍 Mirko likes it peaceful.
Hi Igor, thank you for all you have brought me in these videos. I wonder if you can tell me when this video (week or month of year?)? I'd like to charter in early season like this. Not thrilled about Jugo winds, but this looks great! Please share time of year! And I hope we can buy you a beer someday! Havala Von Ma Pumiji!! Dovedjenia!
June is good month.
I just got back from helping to crew a Lagoon 42 from Lanzarote to Mindelo. You referred to a self-tacking Genoa which maybe you meant self-tacking Gib? The Lagoon I was on had a self-tacking Gib and a Code zero and despite the advice given, we sailed in classic tradewind conditions wing on wing with the Gib cleated on the port hull and the code zero out to starboard and created our own customised backstay with a line holding down the boom to both aft quarters. What struck me after sailing a lot of mono hulls with in-mast reefing was how potentially dangerous it was handling the mainsail on the Lagoon, particularly with the owner insisting that it was ‘safer’ to raise the mainsail heading dead downwind rather than upwind. As an aside - I have never herd you mention just how noisy it is on passage in the aft port cabin! Oh my God - how can any manufacturer think that banging and clattering is acceptable lol 😂
Exactly 👍 When sailors sail these cats for first time they go…what?! Why!? Shouldn’t be like that. Future is furling main in cats.
Another great and informative video. Great job, Igor! Would you mind sharing the details about that Code 0 from Supreme Sails? Looks really nice. Thanks!
100m2. Thanks 🙏
Hi Igor, I learned so much from this video, thanks a lot. I will be at Biograd at September this year and I will contact you at Oktober for end of Saison 23.
Thanks 🍻Ok, thanks 🙏
This channel is awesome.
Thanks 🍻
Nice video.. fun to watch.. small things though.. there are no ROPES on the boat, they are lines.. and the self tacking JIB is a JIB, not a Genoa.. A Genoa is a jib that overlaps the mast. but other than than, good video.
Thanks, lost in translation…
Also wind on the BEAM, and REACHING.
Great job! Great teacher!
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Thanks 🍻
One of the Best Videos ive Seen in youtube about how to sail.
Just One question: for cruising you prefer Cats pr Monohauls? Dobre
Thanks 🙏 Cats for comfort and mono for sporty fun.
Great video!. Have you ever sailed an adventure catamaran ? They look nice but I haven't actually seen anyone sail one.
Thanks 🙏🍻 Haven’t sailed it yet.
I have watched many of your videos on sailing, and you know there is no perfect rig. I would like to see you sail a Chris White 72foot leopard. With a front cocpit it was covering 360 miles in 24 hours with 15 knots of wind. The head sail was self tacking, and club footed. The two backstays let the boom swing 90 degrees port, or starboard, and the shroud lines did not touch the main sail, and one person can handle all of Chris White's designs
That sounds good 👍 Hope to sail it.
Chris White for the WIN! His ideas have influenced the likes of Gunboat etc. without getting the deserved credit. My favorite design is a Nigel Irens cat based on Chis White's ideas.
When is the next 4 hour sailing vid coming Love your vids.
Thanks 🙌 In October 👍
Where is the wine cellar 36:38? Maybe a contact could be great. It looks a tempting place to visit
One of last places hidden from the crowds.
Excellent tutorials on Cat, as usual, brilliant voyage. Is there any way I can find more info about your friend the best winemaker? I mean the name of the island or the name of the guesthouse? Thanks for sharing 🙏
Thanks 🙏 Hvar.
Hey @IgorStropnik. Where is this location of the pirate wine cellar please? Nice video by the way.
Thanks 🙏 I will post video about that place soon 👍
Thank you for this “life” instruction. I am used to sail singlehanded much smaller catamarans up to 30 feet with a helm and with handoperated winches for the codezero only. When I see this sailing in a much bigger boat I think I am more looking at the work of a process-operator than sailing. Also the rigging of this boat is kind of strange to me. The squaretop mainsail is causing the troubles with the hoisting it past the boomvang. It also limits the use of the traveller on backwind courses. Then there is the short traveller for the selftacking jib that doesn’t allow for proper setting of that sail on broad reaches. All in all I wonder howmuch of the total sailarea is not 100% efficiently useable. So I learned a lot from you about what to look for if I would ever be tempted to buy a bigger boat.
Thanks Alfred 🙏🙌
I also wonder how much the squaretop makes it more risky to gybe. On my boat with conventional narrowtop mainsail, short battens and double mainsheetsystem gybing is what I do many times with great ease. Actually my boat is quite light and it is more difficult to tack when there are some waves. Then I gybe. Even in windspeed 6 Bf. The faster the boat goes before the wind the less appearant wind. But I realise now that the full battens and the squaretop makes that a very different operation.
@@alfreddaniels3817 I am not fan of square top. I prefer normal sail as it is easier and safer to jibe and rise.
@@IgorStropnik your video made me realize that too. 👍👍
squaretops with fullsize battens on much smaller catamarans like Nacras and A-cats (or on high performance cats and tri’s are great) but those cats are much much faster so their apparent windangle is also much sharper. They never sail flat before the wind but use their gennakers whereby the speed increases so much that the mainsails are positioned as if they sail upwind courses to the apparent wind. The riggers of these larger cruisingcats seem to have just copied this sailplan without considering it’s functionality to these larger boats.
Please, Igor, always show on a map, where you are, so what we can go there!!!
Ok 👍
Thanks Igor, for interesting videos. Which catamaran would you recommend for going between Croatia and Caribbean, approx 45-49 feet, rigged for shorthanded sailing? Maybe you could make a video about it🙂
Thanks 🙏 Don’t like recommending boats. The best is to rent and test.
Which kind of camera did you used for that video? Pic and sound is very good.... thanks
Thanks 🙏 DJI Pocket 2.
Is it some sailing course or just new crew? Very informative video in nice environment.. And with good food :) I see there are many compromises on the cat (mainsheet holding the boom, self-tackling jib), yet it is on my bucket list to sail one
Just people learning. There is no perfect boat.
Nice video!
Can you give any recommendations/tips for chartering a crewed (skipper/cook) boat in Croatia? It would just be for my wife and me. We're flying to Europe (from the US) on Sept 15 and have around 6 weeks for vacation. We both past 60, but still in good shape. Lots of questions: where to start (Split, Zadar,...?), how to find a good boat and crew, how to get a fair price....It looks like you do this for a living...Thanks!
I can help you. Send me email igor_stropnik@hotmail.com