Excellent job! She is beautiful, and you two make a great team! Thanks for the multiple takes, it was useful to concentrate on what each person was doing. This is a great video.
Don -- stay tuned. We have footage of us righting a few capsizes. This footage is from 2014 Worlds in Jervis Bay, Australia. A clip from the video we'll be uploading shortly was used on Australian TV. It is pretty unique footage.
Thanks guys. Nice to see this done by someone who knows what they are doing. I have a question though: As you come out of the eye of the wind, why wouldn't you let out the mainsheet a little more to help you bear off and accelerate ?
Looks like a fun day sailing but the sidestays were very loose, they should not have so much give that you can see them swaying in the wind freely on the slack side, you can also see the mast is tilting farther from vertical than the hull because of this. You can end up with a broken mast foot on a tack if it is too slack.
Good comment, Spider. After 30 years of sailing the Hobie 16 I am still not convinced there is one and only one good way to set it up. For instance, by having the rig loose like you observe, it allows us to rake the mast forward at the weather mark to improve downwind performance. But you are right that a lot of people (including us at times) run a tight rig.
I had a mast foot snap on a tack on my old boat but it did not have the movement ability that the hobies mast has, still it makes me weary of loose stays. Thanks for responding on the reason why though.
Definitely better sailors than I but just have always thought wrapping the lines around your hands was a good way to loose them in a pitch pole or other hard capsize.
WildWind for life mate! A few more tips; I go abut it in two different ways depending on how agile me and my crew are feeling 1 keep the both flat (good trim) to keep the speed going into the tack 2 stay on that back corner (still on the trampoline) to help the boat pivot around. Beware of going backwards ;) There is 3 reasons for stalling your highwind tacks that i can think of 1 not enough speed, the solution is obvious 2 not close enough to the NGZ when initiating your tack. If you keep your travellers out (both jib and main) you will not be able to point as high and keeping the wind in the sails. Thus when you start tacking you have to turn further to get through the wind, dramatically loosing speed. 3 not utilizing your sails, by keeping the mainsheet pinned tight the boat will push into wind, vice verse by loosing it you will bear away. So to tack in strong winds it is crucial that you keep the main pinned until you go through the wind and then IMMEDIATELY open it (otherwise the boat will push into wind again but on the new side) sheet in the jib as soon as you can. Basically it comes down to speed and timing and the biggest problem people tend to have is the mainsheet. Extra (personal) tip : Every time you tack, while going under the boom, lift it with your shoulder/back (as if lightwind tacking) this way every tack is performed more in the same way making you learn quicker practice a lot especially when it is windy Hope it helped some
Excellent job! She is beautiful, and you two make a great team! Thanks for the multiple takes, it was useful to concentrate on what each person was doing. This is a great video.
Y'all are badass! I'm really enjoying your videos.
Thanks.. Can’t wait till spring, summer of 2019... you successfully got me ready to sale again
Don -- stay tuned. We have footage of us righting a few capsizes. This footage is from 2014 Worlds in Jervis Bay, Australia. A clip from the video we'll be uploading shortly was used on Australian TV. It is pretty unique footage.
Been waiting to see that footage... what's up??
Nice work
Did you keep the footage of the wash-offs and the righting???? Great to see how you use your movement on the boat to help the boat around... Thanks...
great boat.. great song.
great choice of music
Thanks guys. Nice to see this done by someone who knows what they are doing. I have a question though: As you come out of the eye of the wind, why wouldn't you let out the mainsheet a little more to help you bear off and accelerate ?
Thanks
So how do you tack a cat with 3~6 knots of wind while the waves are bashing you head on. That's what I really wanna see
Looks like a fun day sailing but the sidestays were very loose, they should not have so much give that you can see them swaying in the wind freely on the slack side, you can also see the mast is tilting farther from vertical than the hull because of this. You can end up with a broken mast foot on a tack if it is too slack.
Good comment, Spider. After 30 years of sailing the Hobie 16 I am still not convinced there is one and only one good way to set it up. For instance, by having the rig loose like you observe, it allows us to rake the mast forward at the weather mark to improve downwind performance. But you are right that a lot of people (including us at times) run a tight rig.
I had a mast foot snap on a tack on my old boat but it did not have the movement ability that the hobies mast has, still it makes me weary of loose stays. Thanks for responding on the reason why though.
Hobie University I set mine up in the middle and just deal with jt, since I do not race
Definitely better sailors than I but just have always thought wrapping the lines around your hands was a good way to loose them in a pitch pole or other hard capsize.
Do you recommend letting of of the tiller when you tack?
Does the bowman hold the sheet of mainsail traveller?
Sorry if I wrote badly :P
Why is the jib traveler so wide open, like on a broad run?
WildWind for life mate! A few more tips;
I go abut it in two different ways depending on how agile me and my crew are feeling
1 keep the both flat (good trim) to keep the speed going into the tack
2 stay on that back corner (still on the trampoline) to help the boat pivot around. Beware of going backwards ;)
There is 3 reasons for stalling your highwind tacks that i can think of
1 not enough speed, the solution is obvious
2 not close enough to the NGZ when initiating your tack. If you keep your travellers out (both jib and main) you will not be able to point as high and keeping the wind in the sails. Thus when you start tacking you have to turn further to get through the wind, dramatically loosing speed.
3 not utilizing your sails, by keeping the mainsheet pinned tight the boat will push into wind, vice verse by loosing it you will bear away. So to tack in strong winds it is crucial that you keep the main pinned until you go through the wind and then IMMEDIATELY open it (otherwise the boat will push into wind again but on the new side) sheet in the jib as soon as you can.
Basically it comes down to speed and timing and the biggest problem people tend to have is the mainsheet.
Extra (personal) tip : Every time you tack, while going under the boom, lift it with your shoulder/back (as if lightwind tacking) this way every tack is performed more in the same way making you learn quicker
practice a lot especially when it is windy
Hope it helped some
No unfortunately I will not be there this summer... hah yeah i know the maniac ;)
My guess is it's keeping the pressure on the leeward hull.