Hey guys!!! Way to hang in there, Terror is just one of the many ingredients of becoming a real sailor!!! The Montra of a sailor is always expect the unexpected 😮 Especially when it comes to the weather 😂 Just a old dude from Pender Harbour BC 😎👍🇨🇦
One of the best pieces of advice I was ever given came from small boat adventurer Howard Rice. He said when the weather gets heavy and the sound of waves gets intimidating to put ear plugs in! Damping down the wind and wave sound can really calm you down and make things less scary. Sound can really impact your psychology, give it a try!
Love seeing video from our home waters, Sidney was home. Currently still sailing, we left the PNW in 2016. Currently in Thailand 🇹🇭, loving every day even 8 years in, see ya when we get back 🇨🇦👍
Hi Scott, thanks so much for all your comments. Visiting Thailand is on our bucket list. What an awesome adventure for you guys. Let us know when you make it back home!
Great vid Jim and Ingrid, a lot of points and experiences that ring true with Adelle and I as well as many other sailing couples. We have had some sheer terror moments with our gennaker too, especially last summer off brooks peninsula 😮
Another great adventure! Enough to make my head spin a bit... I'm super sensitive to motion sickness and carry sea-bands with me always. Have you tried them Ingrid?
i lived on a small boat for a year up on the north coast of BC and travelled the inside passage many times. There are some days u just should not be out on the water which is why i believe anything smaller than 42 feet can be sketchy even at the best of times. stay safe
I spy a flawed concept I see yourselves and far to many other are incorrectly doing. A couple of things that come to mind; When the going gets tough as it often does, the mainsails is a friend. And without it, your options are severely limited. For one thing without the main up, you can’t heave-to. What if you had to sail closer than 90 degrees to the wind when it’s blowing is not possible without the mainsail set. With that said, a number of sailors, and many that I respect, advocate taking the main down when the wind is aft and carrying on under one, or even two, boomed out headsails. I agree that the dangers of not having the main up in this situation are less than when not near land, but most certainly not when inshore. Even offshore, I still like to have the mainsail up, primarily because of the ease of heaving-to at a moment’s notice and also using the main to blanket the asymmetrical for hoist and deploy. I also find that the boat balances very nicely(COE) with the jib poled out on one side and the main controlled by a proper preventer on the other. My observations from your Asym set. Why the heck did you strike the Main? I know can hear it now" "blankets the asym". You should consider to keeping your rig balanced as possible. Think COE. With your main set for performance VMG and or CMG sailing. This way you can bring the apparent wind forward for ease of steering and slot effects. Here is one simple hack that me and my wife came up with on our 53-foot Swan years ago that makes setting and striking a spinnaker with a sock easy and safe, even with just the two of us aboard. Pass the loop of the continuous sock control line through a snatch block. You might say That’s it? Yup…well, there’s a bit more to know. And that’s reasonably easy in smooth water inshore. But offshore what happens is the boat rolls, and each time it does, to windward and back, the spinnaker pops out from behind the main, fills, and the sock control line loads up to the point that the person pulling it either: lets go ,loses all the skin off your hands, as seen and leaves the deck in a big hurry. We secure the spinnaker sock line down side after the block at a mark that will just keep it firm when the sail is hoisted but the sock still down. This stops the wind in the exposed foot of the spinnaker from pushing the sock mouth up before we are ready. Bear off to blanket and then hoist the spinnaker behind the mainsail while keeping the sheet firm, which does not cause problems because the sock is held down by the cleated down line and will not foul as easy. The sail is now well and truly under control behind the mainsail. Leave the tack firmly attached forward, the halyard all the way up, the sock all the way down, and tensioned by the down side of the control line, and the clew pulled aft by the sheet, and so keeping the foot from twisting up. Hoist/trim, adjust course to proper angle and trim. As I have mentioned before, I see you and others not properly using your Main sail. Remember the main is your friend in so many ways. Even if you have a problem with your sock control line it is simple to drop your chute on the deck. Of course easy to speak of when viewing and much more challenging in real life. Nothing is more gratifying than a well executed chute set and douse. Unfortunatley always lots of ways to get it wrong. I have found for a short handed crew the above tecnique to produce consistant results. 15 Reply
Thanks so much for the comment. A good suggestion I hadn’t heard before - will have to try it! Being the first time flying without other crew on board, we were trying to keep it straightforward. Thanks again!
One of your best videos ever! We really appreciate your courage in sharing the parts that don’t work. Thank you.
@@erikalaurentz1521 thanks so much!
Hey guys!!! Way to hang in there, Terror is just one of the many ingredients of becoming a real sailor!!! The Montra of a sailor is always expect the unexpected 😮 Especially when it comes to the weather 😂 Just a old dude from Pender Harbour BC 😎👍🇨🇦
Thanks for the comment! You're so right!
One of the best pieces of advice I was ever given came from small boat adventurer Howard Rice. He said when the weather gets heavy and the sound of waves gets intimidating to put ear plugs in! Damping down the wind and wave sound can really calm you down and make things less scary. Sound can really impact your psychology, give it a try!
Thanks, we’ll have to try that!
Love seeing video from our home waters, Sidney was home.
Currently still sailing, we left the PNW in 2016.
Currently in Thailand 🇹🇭, loving every day even 8 years in, see ya when we get back 🇨🇦👍
Hi Scott, thanks so much for all your comments. Visiting Thailand is on our bucket list. What an awesome adventure for you guys. Let us know when you make it back home!
Another great video! Thanks for sharing the ups and downs of sailing life. Mostly ups!!! Looking forward to another adventure!! 🍻
Thanks! Yes so are we!
Great vid Jim and Ingrid, a lot of points and experiences that ring true with Adelle and I as well as many other sailing couples. We have had some sheer terror moments with our gennaker too, especially last summer off brooks peninsula 😮
Thanks! Yes we thought the episode might resonate with a lot of sailing couples. 👍🏻
Another great adventure! Enough to make my head spin a bit... I'm super sensitive to motion sickness and carry sea-bands with me always. Have you tried them Ingrid?
Thank you! Good tip! I did buy a digital one that works pretty well.
i lived on a small boat for a year up on the north coast of BC and travelled the inside passage many times. There are some days u just should not be out on the water which is why i believe anything smaller than 42 feet can be sketchy even at the best of times. stay safe
Thanks for the comment. Would love to have a bigger boat. Someday...
42 feet?! Good grief, you don’t need a huge boat to be safe, you need experience and practice, and a well found boat set up for heavy weather.
Thanks for sharing.
Thanks Andre!
I spy a flawed concept I see yourselves and far to many other are incorrectly doing. A couple of things that come to mind; When the going gets tough as it often does, the mainsails is a friend. And without it, your options are severely limited. For one thing without the main up, you can’t heave-to. What if you had to sail closer than 90 degrees to the wind when it’s blowing is not possible without the mainsail set. With that said, a number of sailors, and many that I respect, advocate taking the main down when the wind is aft and carrying on under one, or even two, boomed out headsails. I agree that the dangers of not having the main up in this situation are less than when not near land, but most certainly not when inshore. Even offshore, I still like to have the mainsail up, primarily because of the ease of heaving-to at a moment’s notice and also using the main to blanket the asymmetrical for hoist and deploy. I also find that the boat balances very nicely(COE) with the jib poled out on one side and the main controlled by a proper preventer on the other. My observations from your Asym set. Why the heck did you strike the Main? I know can hear it now" "blankets the asym". You should consider to keeping your rig balanced as possible. Think COE. With your main set for performance VMG and or CMG sailing. This way you can bring the apparent wind forward for ease of steering and slot effects. Here is one simple hack that me and my wife came up with on our 53-foot Swan years ago that makes setting and striking a spinnaker with a sock easy and safe, even with just the two of us aboard. Pass the loop of the continuous sock control line through a snatch block. You might say That’s it? Yup…well, there’s a bit more to know. And that’s reasonably easy in smooth water inshore. But offshore what happens is the boat rolls, and each time it does, to windward and back, the spinnaker pops out from behind the main, fills, and the sock control line loads up to the point that the person pulling it either: lets go ,loses all the skin off your hands, as seen and leaves the deck in a big hurry. We secure the spinnaker sock line down side after the block at a mark that will just keep it firm when the sail is hoisted but the sock still down. This stops the wind in the exposed foot of the spinnaker from pushing the sock mouth up before we are ready. Bear off to blanket and then hoist the spinnaker behind the mainsail while keeping the sheet firm, which does not cause problems because the sock is held down by the cleated down line and will not foul as easy. The sail is now well and truly under control behind the mainsail. Leave the tack firmly attached forward, the halyard all the way up, the sock all the way down, and tensioned by the down side of the control line, and the clew pulled aft by the sheet, and so keeping the foot from twisting up. Hoist/trim, adjust course to proper angle and trim. As I have mentioned before, I see you and others not properly using your Main sail. Remember the main is your friend in so many ways. Even if you have a problem with your sock control line it is simple to drop your chute on the deck. Of course easy to speak of when viewing and much more challenging in real life. Nothing is more gratifying than a well executed chute set and douse. Unfortunatley always lots of ways to get it wrong. I have found for a short handed crew the above tecnique to produce consistant results.
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Thanks so much for the comment. A good suggestion I hadn’t heard before - will have to try it! Being the first time flying without other crew on board, we were trying to keep it straightforward. Thanks again!
@@SailingSVIndigo I hope works for you, Sorry I get get a bit long winded.
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