Hi Everyone! Thanks for SHARING, commenting, subscribing, and showing your support with your TIPS! Would you like to see more Sailing Tips from Hank and other captains like him?
I think this is a good idea. I especially appreciated your instructional comment on the reefing Patrick - it adds the “personal” touch and it helped clarify the issue.
Good video Patrick...I learned a little something.....and a good way to keep your videos going - interesting and useful topics during a time when you are in the yard, where video after video of repetitive yard work (to keep the channel active) can quickly lead to clicks and move on! This is a super interesting option - we still get Patrick but you defer to others who you respect to present other unique instruction. Far and away a cut above of some (many) filler videos in which neophyte sailors attempt to instruct on everything from epoxying bulkheads to monos vs cats.....all topics they should steer clear of! Well done, a pro’s view on passage...thanks, Andrew
Andrew, I used to sail these Swans for Hank. I always wanted to sail with him and a couple of the other captains to see how they do things. These guys just do things without thinking so there will be some good pointer I hope to pick up also.
Super cool captain helping teach his crew with positive informative comments. What an experience this would be to get confidence to become an offshore sailor! Nice job on the editing Patrick.
Stoked for this new series Patrick! I follow your vids from both of my channels and also read your articles in Ocean Navigator. We sail a Crealock 37 and are gearing up for long term off shore voyaging. Looking forward to more in this series. Thanks to both of you guys, I know it's a real team effort. Peace
I sailed with Hank from Newport to Bermuda for the America’s Cup races, he was a pleasure to sail with. Great captain. We stood watches together and I learned everything I could from him. I am a sailboat owner and plan to do extensive cruising. With the vast experience on the ocean as he has, I would sail with him anytime, anywhere. Heck of a nice guy!
I would recommend to tigthen The clew line on the boom This way the main sail flattens results in higher pointing in the wind Other suggestion the other lines on the boom that hold the reefed part of the sail make knots that can loosen easily because if for some reason the clew reefline loosens the mainsail might tear up
I do believe the captain says just what you suggest about tightening the reef/clew line. What sort of knot would automatically loosen under tension but yes, good point about a quick release knot, but I would think that was done.
Hi Rob, Yes, there was already a tear in one of the reef gromments which is why I tied the sail around the entire boom and not just the sail.It is fixed now.
Hi Ed,Thanks for taking the time to watch the video and have the time to make comments. Patrick thinks I need to take the time to answer you back. I think it is a big world and people are free offer free advice. There are many ways to do things aboard and I tell all my crew to sail with as many people as possible so you can add what you like to your own style of running a boat and not add what you do not like. It what makes sailing so great, you learn, make mistakes and carry on. Some people like to wear shoes, some don't. Some where PFD's as soon as they get near the water and others only wear them when the conditions dictate. I help people get the experience and confidence to create their own style of how they run their boats. We are not in the film business and it shows. Patrick asked me to take some video so we did and he did a great job of doing something with the crap I sent him. It was done with one "take" with an amateur crew who were not their to make a film and do a number of takes until we got it right. I just sent Patrick some more video before I take off on another trip and I look forward to see what he can do with the recent crap I just sent him. I would love to see Patrick continue to build a library of "Tips from the Pro's" videos and will encourage a few of my fellow skippers to send him raw footage. Maybe you will be able to send him some to help build his library and you show people your own style of how you do things.Best Regards,Hank SchmittOPO
LOL It took a long time for me to realize that if my crew feels better barefoot, then Let Them. Personally, growing up sailing dinghies, I feel right at home wearing a lifevest. Maybe I have doubts about someone else's ability to plant the boat hove-to on top of me and I would like to float a little longer while they figure it out. And I don't mean an inflatable vest, which i guess is better than nothing but is it really? Some people can't get past feeling some kind of stigma like being seen wearing a lifejacket is for losers. Fine. Your call.
Thank you for adding that correction about reefing. When I first bought my first boat I didn't know any better. I was lucky enough to run into this information on my own before I needed to reef or I could have done damage to my sail, and at that time I didn't have any extra money for a new sail!
What a idea for a much needed and appreciated sailing series! Obviously not all sailors can edit video, but with your real life cruising and video experience you can cobble together a great "how to series". BTW, which is worse, sanding your hull on the hard or editing on a laptop for hours? ;)
Hydraulic vangs are such a luxury. No other type of rigid vang can compare. Thanks Hank; so what if it's not a hollywood production. The common thread I noticed throughout this is how you show your crew ways to Anticipate and prepare for what's going to happen next. I don't want to get off on a tangent, but sailing with just a main is a different animal. If it's going to move the boat, you have to keep it powered up. I just want to point out: that is what I see you're doing. If it's blowing 45-50, yeah, board flat just as you said. What I see over and over is people sailing to weather under main only but it's centered like there's a 150 up. Going nowhere. If you're sailing with the main only, Don't pull it in past the corner of the transom. The top batten telltale will tell you everything. Even beating. Keep it FULL, don't feather! "But we're not pointing!" No, you're not going sideways, and all that speed is your friend once you start to trust it. If you want to just hit shit like some kind of pinball loose in the anchorage, feather the main, destroy your ability to steer, and cruise around at 2 knots. Phew, thanks I needed to get that off my chest. So, the message is: If you want to cross oceans (watch How To Sail Oceans) and START by signing on as many deliveries as you can. They are everywhere, all you need to do is ask or just show up where the boats are. Many skippers, including this one, will favor someone with no experience but a willingness to pull together over someone who feels the need to show everyone how they're doing it all wrong. If you want to scare your loved ones away from your passion for good, just start by buying some high-speed floating condo and set deadlines. Hint: The ones who have the most fun are the ones in the smallest boats. I'm not talking about crossing oceans in a san juan 24, but starting small is way less of a drain on the checkbook, and you will actually learn what makes the boat move vs what makes the boat stop. Sorry Rebecca, that's pretty random, as always. I say, Look For The Good, and highlight it.
Nice patrick and you're lovely lady I find you're channel very informative,my dream do what you're doing keep up the good work all the best to you look forward too you're next informative learning curve cheers from Mal in Australia.
AJ, great to hear from you. Sure would be fun to do another south trip. In October, we should be on the move again to Cape Town then across the Atlantic to Uruguay.
Hi Patrick, thanks for your tips. We are planing on leaving in 2021 from Northern Sweden on a cruise as long as we can , hopefully around the world. Be safe and good sailing, always looking forward to your videos. Sylvia from the little town of Östersund, the sailing boat though in Herräng , Ålands Hav. ( we only have to drive 500 km to our beloved boat)
That is a long drive and shows determination. Like wise, here in Richards Bay, S.Africa, there are people who drive for 8 hours from Johannesburg to work on their soon to be cruising boat. It will all be worth the effort for you. I can't imagine ever going back to live in a house. I hope our paths will cross one day!
Patrick love your UA-cam flat out keeping myself afloat like the info I've used hear in Australia we can get poly pipe PYHd pipe I use a 10mm garden dropper pipe for chafing for all lines and yes mate it's all black just lasts in the sun down hear your cables types are good but only get about four years before they are no good use stainless steel one now all good hay I had to leave a gillie on your mate that tiyed he's reef types around he's boom rip out the bottom islets in a small wind very dum it was good to hear you say a not a good idear thanks for your channel like it can't whate to get a single too watch a new one keep it up Roy
Thank you Roy, for your very nice comment. Hank knows more about sailing and crossing oceans than I can ever hope to. One of the reef grommets had a weak spot in it and might have ripped more supporting the loose foot of the sail, so it was safer to tie around the boom and have the boom help support the sail. The grommet is now repaired so he will be tying up the loose foot as shown in sail #2.
too right Roy plus that polypipe makes a ball tearer of a substitute anchor roller. Just a square lash it to the headstay say 3 feet long with half of it out off the bow. Yes, you have to feed it over the inboard end but you can leave it already strung in the locker ready for when you need it and out of the way when you don't. One thing I notice most people don't get is the black color is the secret to it lasting forever. This is how I anchor boats that don't have a decent anchor roller (97%)
Hi Patrick - Your sailing tips IS a good idea but as you know in sailing there's lots of method and opinion. Usually I've found 3 core ones. The right way, the wrong way and the skipper's way. So...you're going to get a lively comments section! So my own humble contribution is about the bunt. You neatly covered (by video editing) that tying the bunt to the boom via the sail grommets has risks. I'd go further. the stress on the grommets will be uneven. The tightest will give, followed by the next before it goes like a zip. If there exists a reason to fix through to the boom, use ONE length of cord or tape through the hole, around the boom to the next, tie off at each end. this will spread the load a little more evenly. But I'd not attach to the boom, just flake it upwards (as your video edit) and tie to itself, the way I described, with one length. Strangely there's a knot called the bunt knot Patrick! My suggestion is to tie a bunt knot at the furthest (from mast) bunt-eye/grommet. Then take the standing end around and along the bunt and simply through the next hole and so on to the mast. There you can tie a 2nd bunt knot OR be clever. I'm not clever though and hoped to use your own creativity here. so don't tie off at the mast but double back and along the boom or bunt and affix somehow to the first bunt knot. so now you'd have both ends available for a nifty cockpit based reef shakeout. No I haven't tried the clever bit and am in hospital so wondered if you'd give that a try and let me know if it worked or not? If it works it could be the start of a new section for you. "Tips from readers - tested"
This going to be great information. Well I have now watch the video. I don’t normally say anything bad but I am sorry this got to me. I am sorry to say that in my words and as Professional Captain as myself he didn’t do a very good job about telling the new crew what the lines are for what the names of them and which one to let go and WHY. Ok I watch it again and he DID SAY SOME NAMES for the lines but not all, also The Captain Tells you which lines to let go, crew just don’t let lines go .
CCM, The people on these trips are not beginners. They have to know how to sail and qualify to join the boat. This is no place for beginners who do not know the terminology. Many of these people own their own 50 foot boats but join these passages to get offshore experience before taking their own families across an ocean. Thank you very much for making this comment. I just went into the video description and added this same information so other viewers will understand the level at which this boat is operating.
Capt Chef Mark SV Alcina I went on one of these trips once upon a time, and Patrick is right...all of us knew the terminology for lines...and all of us owned boats...this was just a reinforcement of how this boat was gonna work, getting to know eachother and the captain getting to know their crew and vice versa, before the real learning starts out on the sea. Most of us had sailed our own boats in up to 30 knots. But we all got to learn better how to sail in 40 and 50 knots of wind....even 60+. It was nice to do that for the first time with a pro instead of in our own boats. This trip had a profound effect on all of our lives and sailing futures. Many of us did it a couple more times, with other captains to pick up other tips. Every time I sail now in that much wind, lessons from that trip pop in to my head. The captains on these trips are maybe not great video demonstrators/movie stars...but in real life, especially when the shit is hitting the fan, there are no better guys than the captains in this organization to have in charge! I may be biased, because I married one of them...lucky me :)
Love your videos mate you are a true mariner .So many sailchannels on youtube offer nothing except some hot girl who is e begging and offers no insight on how to become a sailor .If anyone asks me what do i need to do to learn about sailing is to pay your channel a visit
Thank you for your comment, Cameron. There is so much sailing entertainment on UA-cam, we thought we would try a different approach. There are crew on these passages from St. Maarten to Rhode Island that do it multiple times to see how different captains will handle a similar situation. I have always wanted to sail with Hank Schmitt, but now I get to but without having to put in all the time.....
cameron Gibbs You have to love some of those “Sailing entertainment” channels though...with their gorgeous photography, enthusiasm, and...the gorgeous ladies, and handsome young men. I enjoy both kinds...and it’s what makes the world go round :)
@@rebeccachildressmichaelhay6420 yes i understand that but a lot of them just rely on patreon instead of working etc .there was that couple who started a channel sunk on their first voyage got a go fund me and ended up with a better yacht .There are ways to make money while on passage i have a moonshine still and make rum gin vodka which i sell for 25 a liter and a bottle of soda for 5 .I make enough to get by .Was thinking of getting a mini lathe so i can machine pars or do repairs for people
Hi Hank. In this episode, whilst moored alongside the dock in St Maarten (Port side to) there is a yacht moored on your Port side (On the other side of the same pontoon) that is also moored Port side to (Stern to). Would you happen to know what design or make this yacht is? I am very interested as I do not recognise her. (Possibly a very late model C&C, or perhaps even a Baltic???)
I go with all crew have life jackets on when on deck. This is enforced before leaving dock. Guy falls other way and falls off hits head on dock and is laying in water. Not a good start. Just me. Can’t swim when unconscious
@@danieloliver20 The windward side will stay tight, the leeward will be loose and can flop as long as it is not chafing on anything. Really though, in the weather pictured, with the sails reefed, the running back stays are not needed. The rig is strong enough so the runners are extra. Those Swans are made to handle pretty much any weather.
@@shanekonarson First, if you boat does not have room to store your fenders you bought a shitty boat. Secondly putting them on the deck is not putting out them of the way, it is causing a trip hazard. Either way as a general rule, people who make excuses not to put something as basic as a fender away, are people to avoid sailing with. As it shows a lack of basic safety at sea skills and a good chance other corners have been cut.
@@bobbob6472 There are lots of valid reasons for doing and not doing things on a boat. Real sailors think about what they are doing and why they are doing it. Too many sailors throw their wet lines in a locker to rot simply because "God forbid someone catches me with my lines on the deck and says something!". My favorite is the "sailors" who use the Flemish flake on the dock "because it looks good and nautical". This is the worst thing you can do with a rope or line: more surface area baking in the sun, more surface area in contact with the dock so it never dries after the rain, more surface area in the wind so it catches the most possible grit, and then when it rains the grit is not washed through the line but INTO the line. The ONLY time a Flemish flake should be used is when making a boarding mat from old line BECAUSE it catches dirt and water so well, and because it looks nautical!
@@wilfdarr A "real sailor" coils and hangs lines when not in use and also does not wait until there is an issue, they make sure they minimize possible issues by properly storing gear that is not needed.
Patrick, Rebecca I have recently watched many of your previous videos from Brick House, and I liked , enjoyed, learned and agreed with all of them.... So, I watched this video twice , to review my own opinion and comments. And in my opinion the techniques shown in this video are not good. To wit, If it’s a crew that has previous sailing experience - as you suggested, then showing them how to rig the main halyard on the halyard board and keep it from tapping on the mast is a bit condescending. And as someone commented, if going offshore he should have moused that shackle... Undocking procedure, would be better done by doubling up the lines and slipping them free when everyone is onboard I thought that was standard procedure...Also suggested by others Having shore crew climb onboard a moving boat is a good way to hurt someone The Reef, as you mentioned the bunt is tied in , in such a way that the sail could be badly ripped As well that reefing line is still not pulled down tight, and makes for a baggy mainsail. I good training exercise would be to fix that problem, slack off the main sheet, and take in the reefing line. At around 6:20. A crew member is knocked down and falls on the deck, and ignored, not good “Making the captain look good” reeks of self aggrandizement, a training session on a sailboat is no place for a big ego. The entire crew should look good. Sailing on the main alone usually means the sail plan is unbalanced, and stresses the rig, but seems OK as shown. On a positive note though, that skipper sure has a loud voice! Useful when offshore. Contrary to the skippers hopes and wishes he did not “look good” No life jackets, or tethers while sailing offshore? Brick House , I suggest that this video is not up to your usual high standards I know you can do better. You have done better. Lastly I am trying to help not be critical for no good reason. Regards Ed
Thanks again for your comments. Part of the risk we take in doing a series on OTHER skippers is that not everyone will agree with all the methodologies used of the various captains featured. We are all entitled to our opinions of these captains good and bad, and I respect your opinions here. The videos are here to create discussions, present ideas, so we can all learn and form our own opinions and come up with even better methods in the end, which this video seems to be achieving. I once heard someone say, ask 5 captains how to do something and there will be 5 right different answers. It sounds like you are an experienced Bluewater captain...who could film a bit for us! If you are willing, we would love some footage of some cool tips and tricks by you out doing it. Not an easy filming task for sure, and to make it entertaining to boot is always even harder... but get in contact with us if you would like to be featured on an upcoming episode. It could be fun for you perfecting it...and showing us and many others your ideas of how it should be done. We can provide a shipping address for your usb stick. Again...not trying to challenge you in any way...and your points are understood and are good points...it’s just a first time for this guy on film on the boat, and I’m sure it was no easy task, and videos don’t always reflect the reality very well, and the nuances of why something is happening that way can’t always be understood and projected. We realize that some of it looks to be less than the perfect way of doing things, but it has worked for this Captain fo decades without incidence so he’s doing something right, and his crew without exception speak very very highly of him after trips with him. We truly would love some good quality clips from you, along with a list of your credentials so we can give you credit on your video. Thanks again for your very thoughtful comments. -Rebecca
Hi Patrick love your videos but I have a thing about people going barefoot on yachts. Yes it looks cool padding around like your a native yachty but bare feet can be darned slippery and when you have to do anything quick or climb you will be compromised and risk some serious injury.Not really a habit for a novice. Awful reef BTW. The reef has been put in without easing the boom. Even with a reef, the clew should be down tight to the boom. They were in danger of damaging the sail because they were trying to grind the reefing clew down to the boom instead of letting the boom come up before trimming the sail. So much damage is caused on yachts by people blindly winching lines and not understanding the forces they are applying. Over the years you sail with many different people, I'm not sure I would choose this guy. Just have visions of the crew all waiting by the forepeak hatch so they can put the gear away in one go.
I know Hank will have a very viable answer to your comment so I will not jump in here. I will say though, Hank has been doing this for decades and wins a lot of big races in the Caribbean. He has other tier one captains who are equally as experienced and skilled.
It may not look like it on camera...but Hank, the captain in this video, is truly a super nice guy. Not the best on camera perhaps...but I can totally relate to that! Thanks for your comments though...we appreciate hearing what’s on your mind! -Rebecca
Sorry Patrick, but that was an appallingly dangerous slip. He actually told people to go ashore and untie lines before negotiating an increasing gap to re-board?! WHAT!!!!! That's called endangering your rookie crew. Your skipper spends 99.99999% of his time at sea and probably gets a shore volunteer to let go the line....and it shows. Really basic. your final release lines (the tight ones) should be "set for slip (FROM ABOARD). That means looped around a shore cleat with both ends fastened aboard. It only takes 30 seconds per line. THEN, from the dock or pontoon, release the lines that aren't doing anything (the slack ones).....tidy them away. Before leaving, GET ALL CREW ABOARD! Yes get a roving fender...even two if conditions are difficult. But please. that's plan B...Plan A? Know where your stern, helm and all the bits between are likely to go. Finally, release your slipped-set lines in the order the conditions need, usually the most windward/upstream last. For each...Untie ONE end and pull it through the shore cleat and aboard. Lastly...if training a rookie crew. Please do explain that wearing a life jacket is not the opposite to maleness and that they only work if worn. Best way to do this is to set an example. I mean come on....Harsh weather gear and no safety ..... Just an aside. The crew obviously haven't a clue about mob or boat handling.... what if it were the skipper that went over...with or without his life jacket?
Maybe Hank will reply to this. These are not "rookie" crew. This is no place for newbie sailors. There is a bar of competency to be met for a person to engage in this sort of passage. Most of the crews own their own boat and have extensive coastal sailing experience. They are wise enough to get real ocean time, with a very experienced captain, before taking their families on an ocean passage. But for me, your method certainly has merit but is only one of several ways of doing it right. There is no big deal to the method used by Hank. With the wind blowing them backwards, there is little problem using the engine to slow the backwards movement of the boat. If a crew is not coordinated or agile enough to step from the dock onto a boat, of which the lines have just been released, they should not be engaged in sailing at any time as they would be a danger to themselves at sea.
I wonder what you do when you come with your experienced crew, on your boat, to a new dock. Do you wait until there are people waiting at the dock to take your lines so nobody goes from boat to dock?? Just saying...
@@csplitter809 You don't leave the boat before it is secured either! Nor do you use anybody you don't know to "help" with the first shore lines; you have no idea what action they will take....usually they will select the worst cleat and prevent your ability to get control by driving against the line. Strange dock. Prepare stern, mid-ship and bow lines on both port and starboard (yes thats 6). Fender both sides too, boat/gunwale height. Tie them to the lower safety rail and loop over the top rail. Un-looping over the top will quickly reset them to pontoon height. Assuming you're unlucky and get a finger allocation. If you can reverse against the stream, lasso a cleat with the (port or starboard) stern line tie it off and hang off that before lassoing a mid-ship line. Otherwise ferry glide forwards against the stream before dropping in backwards (stern to) ...depending on conditions ...get a stern line lasso on and drive forward against that or If conditions are difficult, go straight for the mid-ship line first. When you have a couple of these lines secured. THEN get off and set springs and breasts how you want them. It's just about good practices. It's about risk aversion. Leaping off or onto moving boats isn't cool....it's reckless. Saw a lad break multiple foot bones on the dock edge trying to leap the gap. Somebody else managed to find the dock cleat! Another was an ankle sprain from simply landing with a twist on the flat planks. Heard of a guy trying to get aboard after untying from the dock, slipped off the gunwale and was an instant MOB ....the line in his hand provided the propwrap that caused subsequent tee-bone damage downstream across the aisle. Imagine jumping across and the line snags aboard pulling you back and so into the drink. Now you between the dock and 5 tons moving towards it.
Don’t like the skipper, Shouts orders from behind the pedestal, shows no real leadership, The many names of boat parts confuses most people and makes real communication difficult. He could put someone else on the wheel, it’s the safest place on the boat, and work directly with the crew himself.... The video is good , it shows you how to alienate your crew👍
Hi Edward, I will answer this comment while Rebecca answered your next comment. There is a minimum requirement for crew to be able to sign on to these ocean passages. This is no place for a new sailor who does not know the terminology or basic functions of a boat. The crew are experienced coastal sailors and many own their own 40-50 foot sailboat. I put together a ton of clips which were sent to me and made it into a video. The camera man had a real wind over microphone problem so most of the usable footage was taken while he was shaded by the dodger. Hank is the subject along what he was saying. The other crew were not instructing anything and chit chat was not part of this video. It is like video recording a seminar, no one cares about the audience, it is the person on the stage, with the microphone, who gets all the air time. Thanks for your comment, always appreciate it.
I don't hear an accent at all. Never have. In person, especially in the thick of bad weather on a boat, you can't ask for a nicer person. See my response, the last in this string.
A nice person or not isn't always the thing. When finding an instructor, it's important to find a good fit, both for you and the instructor. I know that I rubbed my favorite flight instructor the wrong way, though he was patient enough to put up with it: when I don't understand something, I usually state the way I currently understand the problem and ask (or more usually imply) that the instructor should correct the points where I'm mistaken. Sam interpreted this as 'argumentative', which really isn't my intention, I mean I know I'm not perfect, and with a direct instructor this approach works really well because they can identify exactly what I've understood and what's confusing me. But with Sam, my learning style caused quite a bit of chafe between us. Both learning and teaching can be extremely stressful on occasion, and neither should be insulted if the other says 'were just not cut the same and were not working out'. If you find someone's style is annoying to you, it's best to say so up front (perhaps I'd instead say "I'm sorry I find your teaching style incompatible with my learning style") and find a different instructor, or suggest a different instructor for your student. At a minimum, you have to have a conversation about it. If you go on not saying anything, there's likely to be a blowout. With Sam, he told me how he felt, and I tried to explain why I phrased my questions like that, and from then on, anytime I could remember, I phrased my questions differently, and he patiently listened to my questions in my way when I forgot. And we're still in touch 15 years later.
@@wilfdarr That is interesting that you can be so honest about your own personality. For many, many, years I captained Swan 46, 48 and 53s for Hank, making the Newport to St. Maarten run in early November and the return trip in the spring. All the people who signed on for these trips were well educated, successful people who knew how to get along with others.....well the biggest majority of them any way. I remember a court judge on one of these trips who Hank took on his boat. This judge was an obnoxious, egocentric jerk which one could clearly see just by being in his proximity. The judge would not have done well on my boat or with some of the other captains. Hank is far more patient and a better personality "fit" than some of us other captains. But if one is annoyed by ones perceived accent, they show they are not well traveled and best stay close to home. Certainly they are too sensitive and narrow to get along well in a confined group situation. What if the other 5 shipmates have "accents" or a frown line or something quirky. All those things do exist among the crew on every fully crewed sailboat passage I have ever made. There are some people who are best left on the dock.
@@RVLifeNOW I don't know that he was talking about the accent necessarily. I took it to mean he was talking more about the attitude: Now I don't know Hank, but from this video he seems very assertive and and "always right"(I thought that was what he was implying by "New York"), more so than would be polite in the parts where I come from, but he is also very experienced and instructing several adults on critical safety aspects, so I'd personally be happy to roll with it. For this particular person I'd suggest instructors who are much softer, probably women. And this works better for some, where some would have a hard time respecting a soft personality and fair better under someone who is downright authoritarian. Different strokes for different folks as they say.
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I will definitely use the main halyard trick. Even just motoring out marina I can now avoid the clang, clang, clang. Thanks.
Hi Mike,
Glad to be able to pass on an easy trick that you can add to your style of running your own boat.
Thanks for watching…
I think this is a good idea. I especially appreciated your instructional comment on the reefing Patrick - it adds the “personal” touch and it helped clarify the issue.
Thanks, Michael.
Good video Patrick...I learned a little something.....and a good way to keep your videos going - interesting and useful topics during a time when you are in the yard, where video after video of repetitive yard work (to keep the channel active) can quickly lead to clicks and move on! This is a super interesting option - we still get Patrick but you defer to others who you respect to present other unique instruction. Far and away a cut above of some (many) filler videos in which neophyte sailors attempt to instruct on everything from epoxying bulkheads to monos vs cats.....all topics they should steer clear of! Well done, a pro’s view on passage...thanks, Andrew
Andrew, I used to sail these Swans for Hank. I always wanted to sail with him and a couple of the other captains to see how they do things. These guys just do things without thinking so there will be some good pointer I hope to pick up also.
Super cool captain helping teach his crew with positive informative comments. What an experience this would be to get confidence to become an offshore sailor! Nice job on the editing Patrick.
Yeah...Hank is an awesome captain. We know him personally, and there is not a nicer guy to be found! -Rebecca
Stoked for this new series Patrick! I follow your vids from both of my channels and also read your articles in Ocean Navigator. We sail a Crealock 37 and are gearing up for long term off shore voyaging. Looking forward to more in this series. Thanks to both of you guys, I know it's a real team effort. Peace
Thank you Sun LS. The Crealock is a great, solid boat that will do you well. Hope to see you out here some day.
Love all your videos! Nice to see some other perspectives from experienced sailors. Thanks!!
Wow I’ve never sailed just became my dream but I feel like that was explained well thanks again for sharing 👍👍
I like this Idea Patrick !! i want to learn more about sailing offshore for sure, so i'm looking forward to this series that your doing thx
Great, Mark. We will se about putting some more of these videos together.
@@RVLifeNOW Thank you !!
I sailed with Hank from Newport to Bermuda for the America’s Cup races, he was a pleasure to sail with. Great captain. We stood watches together and I learned everything I could from him. I am a sailboat owner and plan to do extensive cruising. With the vast experience on the ocean as he has, I would sail with him anytime, anywhere. Heck of a nice guy!
Agreed! -Rebecca
Hi Patrick. The idea of Tips From The Pros (TFTP) is genius! Always a great idea to capitalize on the knowledge and experience and hear other voices.
Thanks, Eddie, for the feedback.
Hank Schmidt is the man, hands down. I will be reaching out to him again this fall. We appreciate you all you do Hank!
I used to captain these Swans for Hank. Maybe now, through these vids, I can learn how he nearly always got to our next port sooner than I did!
Nice. Keep them coming. The bugs will be worked out. Like your comments that complete a segment. Looking forward to the next one.
Thanks
Patrick, great idea, so glad you started with Hank.
Yeah…
Ahh, OK, thanks for letting me know Hank. I’m enjoying your episodes! :-)
Thanks for watching…
I would recommend to tigthen The clew line on the boom
This way the main sail flattens results in higher pointing in the wind
Other suggestion the other lines on the boom that hold the reefed part of the sail make knots that can loosen easily because if for some reason the clew reefline loosens the mainsail might tear up
I do believe the captain says just what you suggest about tightening the reef/clew line. What sort of knot would automatically loosen under tension but yes, good point about a quick release knot, but I would think that was done.
Hi Rob,
Yes, there was already a tear in one of the reef gromments which is why I tied the sail around the entire boom and not just the sail.It is fixed now.
Hi Ed,Thanks for taking the time to watch the video and have the time to make comments. Patrick thinks I need to take the time to answer you back. I think it is a big world and people are free offer free advice. There are many ways to do things aboard and I tell all my crew to sail with as many people as possible so you can add what you like to your own style of running a boat and not add what you do not like. It what makes sailing so great, you learn, make mistakes and carry on. Some people like to wear shoes, some don't. Some where PFD's as soon as they get near the water and others only wear them when the conditions dictate. I help people get the experience and confidence to create their own style of how they run their boats. We are not in the film business and it shows. Patrick asked me to take some video so we did and he did a great job of doing something with the crap I sent him. It was done with one "take" with an amateur crew who were not their to make a film and do a number of takes until we got it right. I just sent Patrick some more video before I take off on another trip and I look forward to see what he can do with the recent crap I just sent him. I would love to see Patrick continue to build a library of "Tips from the Pro's" videos and will encourage a few of my fellow skippers to send him raw footage. Maybe you will be able to send him some to help build his library and you show people your own style of how you do things.Best Regards,Hank SchmittOPO
LOL It took a long time for me to realize that if my crew feels better barefoot, then Let Them. Personally, growing up sailing dinghies, I feel right at home wearing a lifevest. Maybe I have doubts about someone else's ability to plant the boat hove-to on top of me and I would like to float a little longer while they figure it out. And I don't mean an inflatable vest, which i guess is better than nothing but is it really? Some people can't get past feeling some kind of stigma like being seen wearing a lifejacket is for losers. Fine. Your call.
Thanks for your comments guys!
Thank you for adding that correction about reefing. When I first bought my first boat I didn't know any better. I was lucky enough to run into this information on my own before I needed to reef or I could have done damage to my sail, and at that time I didn't have any extra money for a new sail!
Yes, it was a damaged grommet at a sail tie point. The boom helped to carry the load without worry of causing more damage to the grommet.
What a idea for a much needed and appreciated sailing series!
Obviously not all sailors can edit video, but with your real life cruising and video experience you can cobble together a great "how to series". BTW, which is worse, sanding your hull on the hard or editing on a laptop for hours? ;)
Thanks for watching…
Hydraulic vangs are such a luxury. No other type of rigid vang can compare. Thanks Hank; so what if it's not a hollywood production. The common thread I noticed throughout this is how you show your crew ways to Anticipate and prepare for what's going to happen next.
I don't want to get off on a tangent, but sailing with just a main is a different animal. If it's going to move the boat, you have to keep it powered up. I just want to point out: that is what I see you're doing. If it's blowing 45-50, yeah, board flat just as you said. What I see over and over is people sailing to weather under main only but it's centered like there's a 150 up. Going nowhere. If you're sailing with the main only, Don't pull it in past the corner of the transom. The top batten telltale will tell you everything. Even beating. Keep it FULL, don't feather! "But we're not pointing!" No, you're not going sideways, and all that speed is your friend once you start to trust it. If you want to just hit shit like some kind of pinball loose in the anchorage, feather the main, destroy your ability to steer, and cruise around at 2 knots. Phew, thanks I needed to get that off my chest.
So, the message is: If you want to cross oceans (watch How To Sail Oceans) and START by signing on as many deliveries as you can. They are everywhere, all you need to do is ask or just show up where the boats are. Many skippers, including this one, will favor someone with no experience but a willingness to pull together over someone who feels the need to show everyone how they're doing it all wrong.
If you want to scare your loved ones away from your passion for good, just start by buying some high-speed floating condo and set deadlines. Hint: The ones who have the most fun are the ones in the smallest boats. I'm not talking about crossing oceans in a san juan 24, but starting small is way less of a drain on the checkbook, and you will actually learn what makes the boat move vs what makes the boat stop.
Sorry Rebecca, that's pretty random, as always. I say, Look For The Good, and highlight it.
Thanks, Marty, for all your good information. Comments from someone who has experience and knows what they are talking about are always welcome.
Awesome video 👍🏻
Thanks, SV Genie.
Great, great info.
Thanks for watching
Nice patrick and you're lovely lady I find you're channel very informative,my dream do what you're doing keep up the good work all the best to you look forward too you're next informative learning curve cheers from Mal in Australia.
That is the thing, no matter how long one is out here living the life, the curve never flattens out!
Lots of good things to know :)
Thanks for watching Vivian!
Excellent idea. Thanks.
Thanks for the comment. We will see about putting together some more of these. In 2 weeks, I will put up an interesting video, so stay tuned!
Patrick
Great videos
I hope to see you in Newport this October.
Cheers
AJ Smith
AJ, great to hear from you. Sure would be fun to do another south trip. In October, we should be on the move again to Cape Town then across the Atlantic to Uruguay.
Hi Patrick, thanks for your tips. We are planing on leaving in 2021 from Northern Sweden on a cruise as long as we can , hopefully around the world. Be safe and good sailing, always looking forward to your videos. Sylvia from the little town of Östersund, the sailing boat though in Herräng , Ålands Hav. ( we only have to drive 500 km to our beloved boat)
That is a long drive and shows determination. Like wise, here in Richards Bay, S.Africa, there are people who drive for 8 hours from Johannesburg to work on their soon to be cruising boat. It will all be worth the effort for you. I can't imagine ever going back to live in a house. I hope our paths will cross one day!
Patrick love your UA-cam flat out keeping myself afloat like the info I've used hear in Australia we can get poly pipe PYHd pipe I use a 10mm garden dropper pipe for chafing for all lines and yes mate it's all black just lasts in the sun down hear your cables types are good but only get about four years before they are no good use stainless steel one now all good hay I had to leave a gillie on your mate that tiyed he's reef types around he's boom rip out the bottom islets in a small wind very dum it was good to hear you say a not a good idear thanks for your channel like it can't whate to get a single too watch a new one keep it up Roy
Thank you Roy, for your very nice comment. Hank knows more about sailing and crossing oceans than I can ever hope to. One of the reef grommets had a weak spot in it and might have ripped more supporting the loose foot of the sail, so it was safer to tie around the boom and have the boom help support the sail. The grommet is now repaired so he will be tying up the loose foot as shown in sail #2.
too right Roy plus that polypipe makes a ball tearer of a substitute anchor roller. Just a square lash it to the headstay say 3 feet long with half of it out off the bow. Yes, you have to feed it over the inboard end but you can leave it already strung in the locker ready for when you need it and out of the way when you don't. One thing I notice most people don't get is the black color is the secret to it lasting forever. This is how I anchor boats that don't have a decent anchor roller (97%)
Hi Patrick - Your sailing tips IS a good idea but as you know in sailing there's lots of method and opinion. Usually I've found 3 core ones. The right way, the wrong way and the skipper's way.
So...you're going to get a lively comments section!
So my own humble contribution is about the bunt.
You neatly covered (by video editing) that tying the bunt to the boom via the sail grommets has risks. I'd go further. the stress on the grommets will be uneven. The tightest will give, followed by the next before it goes like a zip. If there exists a reason to fix through to the boom, use ONE length of cord or tape through the hole, around the boom to the next, tie off at each end. this will spread the load a little more evenly.
But I'd not attach to the boom, just flake it upwards (as your video edit) and tie to itself, the way I described, with one length. Strangely there's a knot called the bunt knot Patrick! My suggestion is to tie a bunt knot at the furthest (from mast) bunt-eye/grommet. Then take the standing end around and along the bunt and simply through the next hole and so on to the mast. There you can tie a 2nd bunt knot OR be clever. I'm not clever though and hoped to use your own creativity here. so don't tie off at the mast but double back and along the boom or bunt and affix somehow to the first bunt knot. so now you'd have both ends available for a nifty cockpit based reef shakeout. No I haven't tried the clever bit and am in hospital so wondered if you'd give that a try and let me know if it worked or not? If it works it could be the start of a new section for you. "Tips from readers - tested"
Thank you!
This will be a useful good series.
Thanks, Roger. We will see if we can get another one in a month or so.
This going to be great information.
Well I have now watch the video.
I don’t normally say anything bad but I am sorry this got to me.
I am sorry to say that in my words and as Professional Captain as myself he didn’t do a very good job about telling the new crew what the lines are for what the names of them and which one to let go and WHY. Ok I watch it again and he DID SAY SOME NAMES for the lines but not all, also The Captain Tells you which lines to let go, crew just don’t let lines go .
CCM, The people on these trips are not beginners. They have to know how to sail and qualify to join the boat. This is no place for beginners who do not know the terminology. Many of these people own their own 50 foot boats but join these passages to get offshore experience before taking their own families across an ocean. Thank you very much for making this comment. I just went into the video description and added this same information so other viewers will understand the level at which this boat is operating.
Capt Chef Mark SV Alcina I went on one of these trips once upon a time, and Patrick is right...all of us knew the terminology for lines...and all of us owned boats...this was just a reinforcement of how this boat was gonna work, getting to know eachother and the captain getting to know their crew and vice versa, before the real learning starts out on the sea. Most of us had sailed our own boats in up to 30 knots. But we all got to learn better how to sail in 40 and 50 knots of wind....even 60+. It was nice to do that for the first time with a pro instead of in our own boats. This trip had a profound effect on all of our lives and sailing futures. Many of us did it a couple more times, with other captains to pick up other tips. Every time I sail now in that much wind, lessons from that trip pop in to my head. The captains on these trips are maybe not great video demonstrators/movie stars...but in real life, especially when the shit is hitting the fan, there are no better guys than the captains in this organization to have in charge! I may be biased, because I married one of them...lucky me :)
Ha ha, "job of crew is to make skipper look good".... So true.
YeH...I love that line...it was fun how Patrick repeated that scene ;) -Rebecca
Yeah...I loved that comment too ;)
This is great
Thanks for watching!
Oh, by the way, it would help if I mentioned at what point in the episode! (It was at around 6:18)
Thanks for watching…
Love your videos mate you are a true mariner .So many sailchannels on youtube offer nothing except some hot girl who is e begging and offers no insight on how to become a sailor .If anyone asks me what do i need to do to learn about sailing is to pay your channel a visit
Thank you for your comment, Cameron. There is so much sailing entertainment on UA-cam, we thought we would try a different approach. There are crew on these passages from St. Maarten to Rhode Island that do it multiple times to see how different captains will handle a similar situation. I have always wanted to sail with Hank Schmitt, but now I get to but without having to put in all the time.....
cameron Gibbs You have to love some of those “Sailing entertainment” channels though...with their gorgeous photography, enthusiasm, and...the gorgeous ladies, and handsome young men. I enjoy both kinds...and it’s what makes the world go round :)
@@rebeccachildressmichaelhay6420 yes i understand that but a lot of them just rely on patreon instead of working etc .there was that couple who started a channel sunk on their first voyage got a go fund me and ended up with a better yacht .There are ways to make money while on passage i have a moonshine still and make rum gin vodka which i sell for 25 a liter and a bottle of soda for 5 .I make enough to get by .Was thinking of getting a mini lathe so i can machine pars or do repairs for people
Hi Hank. In this episode, whilst moored alongside the dock in St Maarten (Port side to) there is a yacht moored on your Port side (On the other side of the same pontoon) that is also moored Port side to (Stern to). Would you happen to know what design or make this yacht is? I am very interested as I do not recognise her. (Possibly a very late model C&C, or perhaps even a Baltic???)
Hi Michael,That is a Grand Soliel next to us. Italian brand. Pretty good boats, well build and look like some of the Scandinavian brands.
Glad you got your answer Michel
Perfect
Thanks Tom. we just put up another one with Hank Schmitt in it that you may enjoy : www.sailopo.com/h1.aspx?
I go with all crew have life jackets on when on deck. This is enforced before leaving dock. Guy falls other way and falls off hits head on dock and is laying in water. Not a good start. Just me. Can’t swim when unconscious
Thanks for watching…
Flogging lines 9:24?
Do you know what that is? Sail on one of these big Swans and you will find out what is happening there. Hint, hint....running back stay, leeward side.
I was wondering what that line was
@@danieloliver20 The windward side will stay tight, the leeward will be loose and can flop as long as it is not chafing on anything. Really though, in the weather pictured, with the sails reefed, the running back stays are not needed. The rig is strong enough so the runners are extra. Those Swans are made to handle pretty much any weather.
As they say watch learn and listen lol :)
Yes…so true..
Con todos mis respetos:porque el título está en Castellano si el vídeo es en inglés??
Joder con las captaciones..
Google translate does it that way
👍👍👍!!!
Thanks for watching!
I like how he talks about putting lines and fenders away, far too many youtube sailors are guilty of not doing this
Bob Bob some boats don’t have the room to stow fenders . So you just tie them off out of the way in deck .
@@shanekonarson First, if you boat does not have room to store your fenders you bought a shitty boat.
Secondly putting them on the deck is not putting out them of the way, it is causing a trip hazard.
Either way as a general rule, people who make excuses not to put something as basic as a fender away, are people to avoid sailing with. As it shows a lack of basic safety at sea skills and a good chance other corners have been cut.
@@bobbob6472 There are lots of valid reasons for doing and not doing things on a boat. Real sailors think about what they are doing and why they are doing it. Too many sailors throw their wet lines in a locker to rot simply because "God forbid someone catches me with my lines on the deck and says something!".
My favorite is the "sailors" who use the Flemish flake on the dock "because it looks good and nautical". This is the worst thing you can do with a rope or line: more surface area baking in the sun, more surface area in contact with the dock so it never dries after the rain, more surface area in the wind so it catches the most possible grit, and then when it rains the grit is not washed through the line but INTO the line. The ONLY time a Flemish flake should be used is when making a boarding mat from old line BECAUSE it catches dirt and water so well, and because it looks nautical!
@@wilfdarr A "real sailor" coils and hangs lines when not in use and also does not wait until there is an issue, they make sure they minimize possible issues by properly storing gear that is not needed.
@@bobbob6472 You should make some videos.
You need a wind cover for the mic....
Don't we all?!
Yes
R.I.P.
Yes
Patrick, Rebecca
I have recently watched many of your previous videos from Brick House, and I liked , enjoyed, learned and agreed with all of them....
So, I watched this video twice , to review my own opinion and comments. And in my opinion the techniques shown in this video are not good.
To wit,
If it’s a crew that has previous sailing experience - as you suggested, then showing them how to rig the main halyard on the halyard board and keep it from tapping on the mast is a bit condescending.
And as someone commented, if going offshore he should have moused that shackle...
Undocking procedure, would be better done by doubling up the lines and slipping them free when everyone is onboard
I thought that was standard procedure...Also suggested by others
Having shore crew climb onboard a moving boat is a good way to hurt someone
The Reef, as you mentioned the bunt is tied in , in such a way that the sail could be badly ripped
As well that reefing line is still not pulled down tight, and makes for a baggy mainsail.
I good training exercise would be to fix that problem, slack off the main sheet, and take in the reefing line.
At around 6:20. A crew member is knocked down and falls on the deck, and ignored, not good
“Making the captain look good” reeks of self aggrandizement, a training session on a sailboat is no place for a big ego.
The entire crew should look good.
Sailing on the main alone usually means the sail plan is unbalanced, and stresses the rig, but seems OK as shown.
On a positive note though, that skipper sure has a loud voice! Useful when offshore.
Contrary to the skippers hopes and wishes he did not “look good”
No life jackets, or tethers while sailing offshore?
Brick House , I suggest that this video is not up to your usual high standards
I know you can do better. You have done better.
Lastly I am trying to help not be critical for no good reason.
Regards
Ed
Thanks again for your comments. Part of the risk we take in doing a series on OTHER skippers is that not everyone will agree with all the methodologies used of the various captains featured. We are all entitled to our opinions of these captains good and bad, and I respect your opinions here. The videos are here to create discussions, present ideas, so we can all learn and form our own opinions and come up with even better methods in the end, which this video seems to be achieving.
I once heard someone say, ask 5 captains how to do something and there will be 5 right different answers. It sounds like you are an experienced Bluewater captain...who could film a bit for us! If you are willing, we would love some footage of some cool tips and tricks by you out doing it. Not an easy filming task for sure, and to make it entertaining to boot is always even harder... but get in contact with us if you would like to be featured on an upcoming episode. It could be fun for you perfecting it...and showing us and many others your ideas of how it should be done. We can provide a shipping address for your usb stick. Again...not trying to challenge you in any way...and your points are understood and are good points...it’s just a first time for this guy on film on the boat, and I’m sure it was no easy task, and videos don’t always reflect the reality very well, and the nuances of why something is happening that way can’t always be understood and projected. We realize that some of it looks to be less than the perfect way of doing things, but it has worked for this Captain fo decades without incidence so he’s doing something right, and his crew without exception speak very very highly of him after trips with him. We truly would love some good quality clips from you, along with a list of your credentials so we can give you credit on your video. Thanks again for your very thoughtful comments. -Rebecca
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Thanks!
Hi Patrick love your videos but I have a thing about people going barefoot on yachts. Yes it looks cool padding around like your a native yachty but bare feet can be darned slippery and when you have to do anything quick or climb you will be compromised and risk some serious injury.Not really a habit for a novice. Awful reef BTW. The reef has been put in without easing the boom. Even with a reef, the clew should be down tight to the boom. They were in danger of damaging the sail because they were trying to grind the reefing clew down to the boom instead of letting the boom come up before trimming the sail. So much damage is caused on yachts by people blindly winching lines and not understanding the forces they are applying. Over the years you sail with many different people, I'm not sure I would choose this guy. Just have visions of the crew all waiting by the forepeak hatch so they can put the gear away in one go.
I know Hank will have a very viable answer to your comment so I will not jump in here. I will say though, Hank has been doing this for decades and wins a lot of big races in the Caribbean. He has other tier one captains who are equally as experienced and skilled.
Patrick, Rebecca
KK. I will try to stop being so negative, and give him the benefit of the doubt,,,
It may not look like it on camera...but Hank, the captain in this video, is truly a super nice guy. Not the best on camera perhaps...but I can totally relate to that! Thanks for your comments though...we appreciate hearing what’s on your mind! -Rebecca
Sorry Patrick, but that was an appallingly dangerous slip.
He actually told people to go ashore and untie lines before negotiating an increasing gap to re-board?! WHAT!!!!! That's called endangering your rookie crew.
Your skipper spends 99.99999% of his time at sea and probably gets a shore volunteer to let go the line....and it shows.
Really basic. your final release lines (the tight ones) should be "set for slip (FROM ABOARD). That means looped around a shore cleat with both ends fastened aboard.
It only takes 30 seconds per line.
THEN, from the dock or pontoon, release the lines that aren't doing anything (the slack ones).....tidy them away. Before leaving, GET ALL CREW ABOARD!
Yes get a roving fender...even two if conditions are difficult.
But please. that's plan B...Plan A? Know where your stern, helm and all the bits between are likely to go.
Finally, release your slipped-set lines in the order the conditions need, usually the most windward/upstream last. For each...Untie ONE end and pull it through the shore cleat and aboard.
Lastly...if training a rookie crew. Please do explain that wearing a life jacket is not the opposite to maleness and that they only work if worn.
Best way to do this is to set an example.
I mean come on....Harsh weather gear and no safety .....
Just an aside. The crew obviously haven't a clue about mob or boat handling.... what if it were the skipper that went over...with or without his life jacket?
Maybe Hank will reply to this. These are not "rookie" crew. This is no place for newbie sailors. There is a bar of competency to be met for a person to engage in this sort of passage. Most of the crews own their own boat and have extensive coastal sailing experience. They are wise enough to get real ocean time, with a very experienced captain, before taking their families on an ocean passage. But for me, your method certainly has merit but is only one of several ways of doing it right. There is no big deal to the method used by Hank. With the wind blowing them backwards, there is little problem using the engine to slow the backwards movement of the boat. If a crew is not coordinated or agile enough to step from the dock onto a boat, of which the lines have just been released, they should not be engaged in sailing at any time as they would be a danger to themselves at sea.
I wonder what you do when you come with your experienced crew, on your boat, to a new dock. Do you wait until there are people waiting at the dock to take your lines so nobody goes from boat to dock?? Just saying...
@@csplitter809 You don't leave the boat before it is secured either! Nor do you use anybody you don't know to "help" with the first shore lines; you have no idea what action they will take....usually they will select the worst cleat and prevent your ability to get control by driving against the line.
Strange dock. Prepare stern, mid-ship and bow lines on both port and starboard (yes thats 6). Fender both sides too, boat/gunwale height. Tie them to the lower safety rail and loop over the top rail.
Un-looping over the top will quickly reset them to pontoon height.
Assuming you're unlucky and get a finger allocation. If you can reverse against the stream, lasso a cleat with the (port or starboard) stern line tie it off and hang off that before lassoing a mid-ship line.
Otherwise ferry glide forwards against the stream before dropping in backwards (stern to) ...depending on conditions ...get a stern line lasso on and drive forward against that or
If conditions are difficult, go straight for the mid-ship line first.
When you have a couple of these lines secured. THEN get off and set springs and breasts how you want them. It's just about good practices.
It's about risk aversion.
Leaping off or onto moving boats isn't cool....it's reckless. Saw a lad break multiple foot bones on the dock edge trying to leap the gap. Somebody else managed to find the dock cleat! Another was an ankle sprain from simply landing with a twist on the flat planks.
Heard of a guy trying to get aboard after untying from the dock, slipped off the gunwale and was an instant MOB ....the line in his hand provided the propwrap that caused subsequent tee-bone damage downstream across the aisle.
Imagine jumping across and the line snags aboard pulling you back and so into the drink. Now you between the dock and 5 tons moving towards it.
@@RVLifeNOW Never thought I'd disagree with you. Bad practice is bad practice.
Doing it right means I'll be able to sail on, regardless of my age.
Must agree with Ellul, most definately a situation for rigging to slip, no panic, no leaping aboard moving boat.
Sorry, unwatchable. Too much wind noise
Watch on, it clears up.
It was literally perfect😂
Don’t like the skipper,
Shouts orders from behind the pedestal, shows no real leadership,
The many names of boat parts confuses most people and makes real communication difficult.
He could put someone else on the wheel, it’s the safest place on the boat, and work directly with the crew himself....
The video is good , it shows you how to alienate your crew👍
Hi Edward, I will answer this comment while Rebecca answered your next comment. There is a minimum requirement for crew to be able to sign on to these ocean passages. This is no place for a new sailor who does not know the terminology or basic functions of a boat. The crew are experienced coastal sailors and many own their own 40-50 foot sailboat. I put together a ton of clips which were sent to me and made it into a video. The camera man had a real wind over microphone problem so most of the usable footage was taken while he was shaded by the dodger. Hank is the subject along what he was saying. The other crew were not instructing anything and chit chat was not part of this video. It is like video recording a seminar, no one cares about the audience, it is the person on the stage, with the microphone, who gets all the air time. Thanks for your comment, always appreciate it.
Hank seemed a bit annoying to me. Too new yorkee
I don't hear an accent at all. Never have. In person, especially in the thick of bad weather on a boat, you can't ask for a nicer person. See my response, the last in this string.
Not everyone has an Aussie accent mate!
A nice person or not isn't always the thing. When finding an instructor, it's important to find a good fit, both for you and the instructor. I know that I rubbed my favorite flight instructor the wrong way, though he was patient enough to put up with it: when I don't understand something, I usually state the way I currently understand the problem and ask (or more usually imply) that the instructor should correct the points where I'm mistaken. Sam interpreted this as 'argumentative', which really isn't my intention, I mean I know I'm not perfect, and with a direct instructor this approach works really well because they can identify exactly what I've understood and what's confusing me. But with Sam, my learning style caused quite a bit of chafe between us.
Both learning and teaching can be extremely stressful on occasion, and neither should be insulted if the other says 'were just not cut the same and were not working out'. If you find someone's style is annoying to you, it's best to say so up front (perhaps I'd instead say "I'm sorry I find your teaching style incompatible with my learning style") and find a different instructor, or suggest a different instructor for your student. At a minimum, you have to have a conversation about it. If you go on not saying anything, there's likely to be a blowout. With Sam, he told me how he felt, and I tried to explain why I phrased my questions like that, and from then on, anytime I could remember, I phrased my questions differently, and he patiently listened to my questions in my way when I forgot. And we're still in touch 15 years later.
@@wilfdarr That is interesting that you can be so honest about your own personality. For many, many, years I captained Swan 46, 48 and 53s for Hank, making the Newport to St. Maarten run in early November and the return trip in the spring. All the people who signed on for these trips were well educated, successful people who knew how to get along with others.....well the biggest majority of them any way. I remember a court judge on one of these trips who Hank took on his boat. This judge was an obnoxious, egocentric jerk which one could clearly see just by being in his proximity. The judge would not have done well on my boat or with some of the other captains. Hank is far more patient and a better personality "fit" than some of us other captains. But if one is annoyed by ones perceived accent, they show they are not well traveled and best stay close to home. Certainly they are too sensitive and narrow to get along well in a confined group situation. What if the other 5 shipmates have "accents" or a frown line or something quirky. All those things do exist among the crew on every fully crewed sailboat passage I have ever made. There are some people who are best left on the dock.
@@RVLifeNOW I don't know that he was talking about the accent necessarily. I took it to mean he was talking more about the attitude: Now I don't know Hank, but from this video he seems very assertive and and "always right"(I thought that was what he was implying by "New York"), more so than would be polite in the parts where I come from, but he is also very experienced and instructing several adults on critical safety aspects, so I'd personally be happy to roll with it. For this particular person I'd suggest instructors who are much softer, probably women. And this works better for some, where some would have a hard time respecting a soft personality and fair better under someone who is downright authoritarian. Different strokes for different folks as they say.