Day Sail to Russia by Woods Designs Sailing Catamarans
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- Опубліковано 15 жов 2024
- Three 24ft Strider Club catamarans were sailed singlehanded from Plymouth UK to Tallinn USSR in 1989. This is a video, taken from on board one of the boats, of that 3000 mile voyage. You can build a catamaran like this from plans by Woods Designs
We have a complete range of multihull designs, power and sail from 14ft - 45ft. See www.sailingcatamarans.com
Please note, this was the first film I made and was much more work than I had expected. These days one sees many travel documentaries and it is easy to forget that there are usually at least three unseen people involved, the cameraman, the sound man and the director. We had none of those. Nor did we have an accompanying helicopter , drone or even motorboat! I had to sail while I filmed, and it is much easier to video while motoring than while bashing to windward in big seas! (especially with a broken autopilot)
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Glad to hear you enjoyed it. It was the first film I made and was much more work than I had expected.
These days one sees many travel documentaries and it is easy to forget that there are at least three unseen people involved, the cameraman, the sound man and the director. We had none of those.
Richard Woods
This video was interesting and well-presented. I watched it all the way through, without interruption, and found it very compelling. Well done to all 3 sailors and to the designer. It looks like an excellent voyage. Thanks for posting!
What a great video of a fantastic journey. Very relaxing, many thanks.
Thank you for watching and for the compliments!
Great video! The clear narration and audio was much appreciated. Looks like tillerpilots and outboards haven't improved much in 30+ years.
Thank you for the compliments! It was the first video I'd made, so took a long time. In part because it was all recorded on vhs tape, ie analogue, not digital. And that was way, way harder to edit than the digital systems we have now.
@@WoodsDesigns I grew up in the bridge years between VCR's and UA-cam so I feel the pain of doing anything with tape and film. Many early UA-cam channels I watched still used a camcorder.
I've just come across this film whilst watching various more recent videos of small catamaran open water sailing. It is a wonderfully well made film of what today would be termed an epic adventure. Truly inspiring!
Thank you for the compliments! It was all filmed on analogue tape, so quality isn't good. And editing took a very long time. Its all so much easier now.
@@WoodsDesigns amazing stuff
Very good for promoting the hobby. I,m sure russkies were interested in richards designs.
Glad you liked it
Richard Woods
Thank you for your kind comment
Richard Woods
Whenever I show this video I always say. "We didn't sail to Russia, we didn't do it in a day, apart from that it's a good title'
Richard Woods
I really enjoyed watching your whole trip. Thanks
thank you!
Richard Woods
What a great trip, a well-narrated story, and a wonderful video! The kind of stuff dreams are made from!
Thank you for your kind words
Nice adventure. I,d build some of james wharram wind vane auto pilots to back up those electronic auto pilots. Simple is the best!
Thanks for posting. It is inspiring.
What a wonderful adventure, thank you for sharing the video :-) happy sailing:-)
That was a real adventure! I enjoyed watching this.
Thank you for watching. Can't believe its over 30 years ago! My own Strider Club (the blue one) was for sale earlier this year in Northern Ireland. Check my website for more
Thanks for sharing this video, its really well edited and photographed (considering the tech at the time) I’m impressed by the boats and the journey.
Thank you for the compliments!
Looks like it was fun...
Hello! now i am sure! I can report that the strider club 24 with sail No 106 will soon
go to navigate in the baltic see departing kiel, north germany
it´s very nice to have such a beautiful boat with history
will try to continue doing the best to refit the boot
thx for the nice fotos, will help a bit.
rgds
Great film. It might just inspire me to buy a Strider Club!!!
Well done and really enjoyable. Sure looked you a great trip. Filming was good and the narrative super. Thank you so much.
Nice film and boats also! Got me wanting to sale my mono hull and build a cat thank y'all. Quite a trip
Just a short correction: Tallinn was a part of the USSR. It is, however, not in Russia, but in Estonia. For Estonian eyes the title of this video would be like about sailing to Buenos Aires, the capitol of the UK.
and still to this day most people estonia speak russian not estonian strange
Very nice.
Awesome 👌
Look at my photo, a Strider 24ft Woods design, too...I had a lot of fun in the Med
hello richard, I'm sorry i could not take you up on your deal you were willing to give me awhile back, life happened. I still plan to build your skoota 28 someday, its still a thrilling design to me. Your customer service won me over.
No worries. thank you for letting me know. I hope your 'life happened" events sort themselves out for the best
At least the title says that you sailed. And I regard your voyage as great, because normally you did not sail to the SU by private sailboat. And, by the way, this video led me to look closer your cats. I am sorry I cannot build any of them.
Great video of your voyage. And well done on capturing so much of it. Do you all still own striders these days? Sail together? I own a Telstar trimaran 26ft of about the same age... But these are half the weight so I bet they sail well. I would love to do a voyage in company like this some time, might have to get on the Telstar association website... or buy a Strider and try on their website. Small beachable boats are so much better for exploring than the deep blue water boats marketed to everybody these days...
Nearly a quarter of a century has passed since that voyage...
Light and fast as a wharram without the lashings to hold it all together
Thank you for watching and your comment. A Wharram has deep V hulls and a gaff rig. The Strider has round bilge hulls and keels as well as a conventional beach cat style rig. So really the only similarities are that they both have two hulls and an open deck
its the streamlined hatches and the lack of a wheelhouse salon that they have in common .superficially they look similar,but they are distinct from each other on close examination.both are proven ocean crossers
im going to your website and check out your designs,they are truly nice looking boats,looking forward to the inside accomidation views
When you lowered the masts towards the end of your trip, then made a 20 mile open water crossing, she said that you couldn’t use the masts again. Was this because you needed to be near a dock, dry land etc. to do this? I’ve seen your article on mast easing/lowering using the boom, almost seems like you could do it from the deck. One of my favourite films btw, great stuff.
Thank you for watching and the compliments. It was easy to lower the masts with three people. Especially as they were shorter than most beach cats and we had a big flat stable deck.
So it was because we had a lot of low bridges to go under both before and after the sea crossing. And we were in a hurry as we wanted to catch the tide (failed in that as you know!) There was also a big gale forecast but fortunately we had got off the sand and into port by then
@@WoodsDesigns Thanks for the rely, makes total sense now :D
That's a very depressing thought
And no more USSR either
Richard Woods
Not a lot of sail ? can you uprate the sail area
Yes you can. The original Strider Club was designed for novice sailors and sold at a very low price - hence the small (thus cheaper) sail area. However I also have a bigger rig sailplan available which certainly improves performance. My boat, the blue one, was later upgraded to the new rig. It made a big difference to speed
Excuse me, but they didn't sail to Russia. Former USSR and Estonia yes, but not Russia.
see my comments below from 5 years ago!
What are they like to handle in a force 5-7
not a problem at all. However it was a bit too challenging to video and
steer when it was windy and we were sailing to windward singlehanded (try it sometime!). Remember we had
no support, unlike most travel documentaries. We went to windward the
whole way from Goteburg to Denmark in open water, but no video
if you go to my main website www.sailingcatamarans.com and view the owner pages and cruising articles for Strider, Shadow and Elf you will read stories of people sailing in bad weather in all my designs
Hope that helps
this seem very old film
BEFORE LAGOOON AND FUCKIN PAJOT,,,