First Sail on Dad’s Boat Part II | Sailing Eleutheros EP44
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
- In this episode we continue sailing along the Nova Scotia coast. Jeshua our youngest son is visiting for a couple of weeks and enjoys learning how to sail. Mark discusses how much he likes the ketch rig and the benefits of the mizzen sail. We stop and anchor in Blind Bay, one of our favourite anchorages. Four days later we sail on…
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Always enjoy watching your videos. Not much of a water person, in general, but have learned much!
Lots of nice sailing.
Indeed!
Ketch rig advantages well explained..Eleutheros is very agile and fast..A beautiful sailboat..
Thanks! We are very happy with her performance.
I love the yawl rig (my last 5 yachts have all been yawls). Yawl rig is very similar to the ketch rig and I am sure they both offer most of the sane advantages though I have never sailed a ketch. One advantage I can see for the ketch on larger yachts is that the mizzen doesn’t hang over the stern like on the yawl so it would be much easier to install wind-vane self-steering; on smaller yachts like mine, though, an advantage of the smaller mizzen on the yawl is that the mizzen mast can often be unstayed. Horses for courses but I reckon a cutter ketch (gaff rigged?) might be my preferred rig for serious off-shore sailing…
Great vids & like the soundtrack!
I’ve never sailed a yawl, but it definitely looks like it would have similar qualities to a ketch. Thanks for commenting, and we’re glad your enjoying the channel. 👍🏻
I think few have experience on sail plans beyond the single mast marconi rig. That means most are parroting what they have heard from others.
Too, sailors shy away from the ketch in the same manner as shying from wood. Because they have heard, or in the worst, one had a bad experience with a poorly maintained hull.
The ketch is quite practical. One of the benefits is a balanced rig can be self-steering, requiring very little hands on even in a seaway.
The history of sail plans shows a trend towards simplification. Balance that with desire for speed and practicality. The ketch achieves all of that.
Agreed. It seems that the ketch rig has been relegated to a big boat rig, as that is mostly what I see.
I really love watching your videos. it could be because I have always loved wooden boats
, but never owned one. I did own a Bayfield 32 that my wife and I had for 15 years. We sailed her from Goderich Ontario to the Bahamas and back for a year. Is there any chance that you might go South?
Keep on sailing it is a beautiful life.
Thanks for watching. I sailed for Bermuda in late October.
Thanks Mark, I will be watching as you sail to Bermuda. You mentioned an older couple who sail a wooden boat, how do I watch them on You Tube?
@@colinmontague4108 The only older couple that we have watched on UA-cam, recently retired from sailing; they were sailing a steel boat.
Mark what does Eleutheros displace? I have a similar sized wooden ketch built in 1932 in New Zealand with a full keel and transom hung rudder , she weighs 17636 pounds I suspect a lot heavier? Certainly not as fast!
Good Day. Eleutheros displaces 14700 pounds, she has certainly surprised me with her speed.
I had a 30 Dunigan sold it and bought a Farr 1104 in Idaho and brought it back to the Puget Sound this summer. I am wintering in Bellingham and getting it fixed up for summer cruising. Here’s a little video. ua-cam.com/video/-4rT72pL0T4/v-deo.htmlsi=rYuVLmxTyNqO1m2S
Thanks