Absolutely great episode. Too many people depend on digital stuff, also in their onshore lives. They are all convinced they need it buy someone saying: "You need this!" More stupid than parrots. Humans will never fully understand the force of the oceans, climate and wind. At least not digitally. Back in the days I got a new neighbour in my marina in Holland. The guy was loaded, never sailed, bought a Bavaria with the newest GPS aviable. He set off to Lowestoft. At least, that was what he told me the morning he left. To cut a long story short: 2 months later I saw his boat was back in the berth beside mine with a sign "for sale". I called the number on the sign and asked what happened. He said that the GPS failed and that he ended in Danmark, almost starved to dead. I am looking out for more videos like this and give Morty a big hug.
@@RiggingDoctor looking forward to it . Also really liked your one on rigs. I have made a few videos but nothing like yours , my wife is much better at it . Regards
This reminds me of the difference between relying on a GPS vs knowing how to read a topo map. Technology is great, until it breaks, runs out of power, gets dropped overboard, etc. Would really like to see this in a written format so I can follow along with the tools at my own pace.
Totally love it when you and other channels go old school. My generation wanted all of the technology and we strived to bring it into existence. Now that we have it, "sort of", I prefer checking my old analog instruments, using the Mark One Eyeball and the fleshy processor that I hang my hat on. I do like having a second opinion, especially for wide ranging and protracted forecasts. But weather guessers are just that guessing. More please.
You need to write a hack for PredictWind, where one of the choices is "Little Piece of Wood with a Lawn Chair." Wouldn't that be hilarious! Thank you for this wonderful video! 😁
Thank you for a simple explanation to a complicated theory. I had a good understanding of short term forecasts in local areas, but I learned so much in this very simple explanation. You really are a great teacher. Thank you.
Thanks so much! Too much reliance on high tech digital stuff these days and not enough weather knowledge and using simple things that work. Happy sailing!...well....all sailing is happy ~
Wowwed me again Herbie. I hate to disappoint but I plan on buying a barometer and Iridium GO/SAT phone kit/pkg. I'm single handed and If I do have crew they won't be any better sailor than me. Very impressed with this information because I was already thinking along these lines. Maybe by cheating I can become as good as you. Besides: I'm a software engineer and work from my boat now and plan to keep working no matter where or what the boat is doing (hopefully floating LoL). Thanks much.
It didn't even dawn on me that i hadn't been getting notification! I'm glad you're doing this :) very informative for this new sailor. Thank you as always for sharing your knowledge 🙂
14:44 Great Advice for using a Barometer. Just a correction: The Eddy's' not due to Coriolis effect but more likely due to air and current movement from to the force of the local moon and local sun energizing of the local atmosphere You will notice when you observe that the formation of hurricanes are are always opposite to the path of the sun over a geocentric azimuthal equidistant map looking exactly ylike the map used in the Logo's of the United Nations, the United States Geographical Society, The Gleasons Map (similar to the much older Arabic map used by all pirates to easily chart their destinations with Sextons and the North Star (you already know how to get your latitude simply with Polaris as shown in your other videos). PS: No self-respecting Pirate (apostate and conscientious objector (aka An-Archist) would have used a "globe" on his desk on a boat or a Mercator Map projection (only since 1569) This video is useful ua-cam.com/video/fErzgVeDoqQ/v-deo.htmlsi=av1XRsN3_JFzQcXU&t=387
That was brilliant.... look forward to more. Also I have very little idea on things like harbour navigation. Choosing and navigating an anchorage. and on and on. For the non/new sailor. Thanks
Can you direct me to whatever episodes you've done on your observations of clouds and their meanings and how best to judge the proper route based on what I observe
Another fantastic How To! Thank you. I’ll have to watch a few times because there is such an abundance of info. Btw - I think I saw that Lawnchair Multihull at the boat show this year! 😂
Great video Herby. How likely would it be to get surprised by a nasty low pressure system heading your way during the crossing without aid of the satellite update on the weather model, only following the 1020 line and cloud patterns?
No surprise at all. As the low approaches, the clouds and winds will begin to change. Checking with the barometer will confirm the change in the weather. Keeping a weather eye will never let a low creep up on you :)
@@RiggingDoctor Jekyll Harbor Marina until spring. I was on the hard in St Marys for I'm embarrassed to say how long and now I'm getting everything back on the boat and hanging out here before departing for parts unknown (New York) next spring. Unless I decide to do something else 😳😂⛵ I love that Ventusky app, thanks!!
Thank god, I was getting a bit upset at the beginning, I thought this was a predict wind plug, sorry don't got that kinda money. Sailing by barometer...that's the way to do it, and books will tell you currents.
WOW! YOU ARE MY MAIN MAN!!! Sorry Daniel 😞. HERBY, what can I say that I haven't already said? NOTHING! TEACHER/PROFESSOR/WIND DOCTOR! WIND DR. is new!!!😍 PLEASE keep me on your list. I didn't see any place else to sign up. These Tutorials, you know they are my FAVORITE!!!❤❤ Can't hardly wait for the next episode!! Thank you to Maddie for letting him hig the camera. Though I think you were behind it. Pray your having a great time with family and friends! 🙏🙏❤❤🇺🇸🇺🇸⛵⛵⚓⚓
That is a much more palatable price! My gripe with all these programs is the math is sound, but the numbers being calculated are not. I’m currently doing the weather routing for a couple coming across to the Caribbean and the grib files are telling me that they have 6-10 knots of wind but they also email me pictures of the sky! The sky yesterday said they were in for a rough and blustery evening while the internet data said it would be a calm night. Instead of 6-10kn winds they had 27-40kn winds. The pictures showed me their local weather and that let us make a game plan where they would stay reefed down and safe for the night as the squalls blew over them. Programs are only as accurate as the data they are fed and currently that data is very imperfect. I do see this becoming more reliable as the data improves, but as of now I still don’t trust it.
Going to be a very helpful series. Sure not justifying the present data option, might do weather fax first. Some books and historical data has been increasing looking unreliable at least in the Northern Pacific. Much to learn from you. Thanks
When crossing the North Atlantic, if it starts to fall, that means I’m going a bit too north and the wind will increase. If it’s too much, turning a little to starboard will correct the issue. The opposite is true of the barometer starts to climb, that would indicate that I’m going more into the high and the winds will disappear, which is corrected by turning to port.
I learned this by myself by reading what people did before electronics on boats. It’s always good to have backup knowledge incase your systems fail. I guess I just hope for the best but plan and learn for the worst
There are probably cheaper options for simple short satellite communications than Iridium? Anyone have any recommendations (e.g. something simple to get weather data by email and view offline? or just a few short text forecast descriptions? Especially for near-shore, caribbean, etc?)
Howdy gang! We wanted to ask your opinion on replacing our running backs... but you had quite the number of visitors everytime we saw you at Annapolis, and we wanted to give you breathing room. Anyway, 39' cutter, 6mm dyneema to a 4-1. Can we mill a dense polyurethane sheave to splice at the mast terminal?
I don't recall seeing a video of you guys getting caught in a storm and "scared for your lives". They're the scariest part of taking a boat out to sea. Have you just been lucky or you know how to avoid them? Or maybe I missed the video...
Never been scared for our lives except maybe once in the Med when we turned up to seek safe harbor during an awful storm in Almerimar. We tend to be very meticulous about choosing our weather windows based on pilot charts and current weather conditions
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Absolutely great episode. Too many people depend on digital stuff, also in their onshore lives. They are all convinced they need it buy someone saying: "You need this!" More stupid than parrots. Humans will never fully understand the force of the oceans, climate and wind. At least not digitally. Back in the days I got a new neighbour in my marina in Holland. The guy was loaded, never sailed, bought a Bavaria with the newest GPS aviable. He set off to Lowestoft. At least, that was what he told me the morning he left. To cut a long story short: 2 months later I saw his boat was back in the berth beside mine with a sign "for sale". I called the number on the sign and asked what happened. He said that the GPS failed and that he ended in Danmark, almost starved to dead.
I am looking out for more videos like this and give Morty a big hug.
Oh my goodness! What an unfortunate example of people staking their lives on technology
This is the kind of sailing videos people should be making ! Thank you !
I’m working on the next one right now!
@@RiggingDoctor looking forward to it . Also really liked your one on rigs. I have made a few videos but nothing like yours , my wife is much better at it .
Regards
What a fantastic episode, learned a ton. I have a barometer on my boat and now know how to use it! Thanks Herby!
This reminds me of the difference between relying on a GPS vs knowing how to read a topo map. Technology is great, until it breaks, runs out of power, gets dropped overboard, etc. Would really like to see this in a written format so I can follow along with the tools at my own pace.
Perfectly summed up
What Herb said, it amazes me how many people today cannot read a map.
Thanks for the masterclass. Very helpful, very informative.
Totally love it when you and other channels go old school. My generation wanted all of the technology and we strived to bring it into existence. Now that we have it, "sort of", I prefer checking my old analog instruments, using the Mark One Eyeball and the fleshy processor that I hang my hat on. I do like having a second opinion, especially for wide ranging and protracted forecasts. But weather guessers are just that guessing. More please.
You guys are brilliant
In my opinion.... one of the most valuable tips you have shared here. 🌞🌴⛵️
What a brilliant episode and you have a great knack of explaining stuff in a really easy way, thanks for sharing.
Thank you!
One of the most National weather videos I’ve ever seen thank you good job
in-depth information, easy to understand. awesome. thank you. signed up !
You’re welcome!
So very helpful. Thank you for sharing.
Great explanation be blessed
Herby, great content! Appreciate you letting me have some of that hard-earned offshore wisdom for free.
In my day(late 90's early 2000's) as a deck hand on the 165' Feadship Aurora, it was WeatherWidows with the very very good Bob Rice!
You need to write a hack for PredictWind, where one of the choices is "Little Piece of Wood with a Lawn Chair."
Wouldn't that be hilarious!
Thank you for this wonderful video! 😁
Thank you!
Clips like that are exactly the reason I'm supporting this channel! Thanks Rigging Doctor! :)
I got No Arms!!!
Awesome video🙂
Fantastic video! Thank you.
thank you.
Excellent
Fantastic explanation. Thanks for doing this. Probably the most useful weather related sailing video I've ever seen.
Great information, I've never seen this anywhere before.
Yep, I'll be watching those episodes, thanks man.
Great video. Y'all got this UA-cam thing down!!!
Geez - what an inspiration you are - thanks Herby -
You are very welcome
Thank you for a simple explanation to a complicated theory. I had a good understanding of short term forecasts in local areas, but I learned so much in this very simple explanation. You really are a great teacher. Thank you.
Thank you!
Thanks for the great info share!
Simply brilliant guys!!! Standing ovation...
Thank you very much
Nice job explaining this...love your adherence to simplicity.
Old Skool Cool! 😎 I can't wait to try this out!
Nice.
Great Video
Thanks heaps for showing us natural(cheap) options. Luv your show and have a good one!
thank you keep it coming ! cant wait to see how you forecast looking at sky
Thanks so much! Too much reliance on high tech digital stuff these days and not enough weather knowledge and using simple things that work.
Happy sailing!...well....all sailing is happy ~
👍 my sentiments exactly
Wowwed me again Herbie. I hate to disappoint but I plan on buying a barometer and Iridium GO/SAT phone kit/pkg. I'm single handed and If I do have crew they won't be any better sailor than me. Very impressed with this information because I was already thinking along these lines. Maybe by cheating I can become as good as you. Besides: I'm a software engineer and work from my boat now and plan to keep working no matter where or what the boat is doing (hopefully floating LoL). Thanks much.
Nothing wrong with a little technology, just having the backups and knowing how to use them if needed is the most important part!
Very helpful Herbie. Looking forward to more details of how to route and navigate using both low and high tech.
This is brilliant Herb. Well done.
One of the most Awesome !!!! weather videos I’ve seen. Thank you. Looking forward to more.
excellent. good stuf! thank you
Excellent video. Thanks for taking the time to go through the different options.
Thanks Herb. Really useful video which I will refer back to many times I'm sure.
So glad!
Thank you so much! Getting ready to do my first Transatlantic crossing late October. Your video are very informative
I’m glad it was enlightening
This is the best video on the basics of predictwind! Thanks!
Excellent thanks!
It didn't even dawn on me that i hadn't been getting notification! I'm glad you're doing this :) very informative for this new sailor. Thank you as always for sharing your knowledge 🙂
You’re welcome, and glad you figured out the notification issue
Yay! Weather nugs!
14:44 Great Advice for using a Barometer. Just a correction: The Eddy's' not due to Coriolis effect but more likely due to air and current movement from to the force of the local moon and local sun energizing of the local atmosphere You will notice when you observe that the formation of hurricanes are are always opposite to the path of the sun over a geocentric azimuthal equidistant map looking exactly ylike the map used in the Logo's of the United Nations, the United States Geographical Society, The Gleasons Map (similar to the much older Arabic map used by all pirates to easily chart their destinations with Sextons and the North Star (you already know how to get your latitude simply with Polaris as shown in your other videos).
PS: No self-respecting Pirate (apostate and conscientious objector (aka An-Archist) would have used a "globe" on his desk on a boat or a Mercator Map projection (only since 1569)
This video is useful ua-cam.com/video/fErzgVeDoqQ/v-deo.htmlsi=av1XRsN3_JFzQcXU&t=387
What about in the southern hemisphere where the hurricanes spin in the opposite direction?
I predict the skipper will pass wind
That is a guarantee on any boat!
Enjoyed that, thanks. Looking forward to the rest of them.
Herbie, can you recommend a good barometer? Prices are all over...don't care about appearance. Not a decoration! GREAT video. Thank you!
I use this one because it’s affordable and accurate: amzn.to/3TBY3Jq
That was the best explanation sharing websites have ran across yet great job
Thanks!
I just renewed my subscription last week. Time to head to Mexico.
Fair winds!
That was brilliant.... look forward to more. Also I have very little idea on things like harbour navigation. Choosing and navigating an anchorage. and on and on. For the non/new sailor. Thanks
Thank you! I need to repair some bird damage on the boat and then I will be filming more of these.
Great presentation. Learned a lot. Missed this one.
Glad you found it!
Nice, good info Bro👍 thanks for sharing I didn't know that 🤝💯
Such an informative clip. Thank you 🙏
Great video, please carry on more videos like this one! Ciao
Can you direct me to whatever episodes you've done on your observations of clouds and their meanings and how best to judge the proper route based on what I observe
Honestly it’s woven into a lot of our episodes….probably mostly the ocean crossings
Best valuable information . Excellent 👍 keep them coming, thank you
Cheers guys!
Very good video, weather made simple.
Thanks I’m signed up great video
Fantastic episode!
Really enjoyed, thanks for posting, looking forward to more like it
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Another fantastic How To! Thank you. I’ll have to watch a few times because there is such an abundance of info. Btw - I think I saw that Lawnchair Multihull at the boat show this year! 😂
Great video Herby. How likely would it be to get surprised by a nasty low pressure system heading your way during the crossing without aid of the satellite update on the weather model, only following the 1020 line and cloud patterns?
No surprise at all. As the low approaches, the clouds and winds will begin to change. Checking with the barometer will confirm the change in the weather.
Keeping a weather eye will never let a low creep up on you :)
@@RiggingDoctor makes sense, but will you still have time to get away from it before the sea state is most unpleasant?
Awesome información! Great explanation of finding the lows.
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Very good enjoyed easy to understand
Thank you :)
Awesome, thank you forthe information.
👍😎
Great video. Very helpful.
That was fantastic Thank-you
😎
Brilliant episode!!!
Thanks!
Thanks! that was a good one, hope you guys are well :)
Thanks! Where are you now?
@@RiggingDoctor Jekyll Harbor Marina until spring. I was on the hard in St Marys for I'm embarrassed to say how long and now I'm getting everything back on the boat and hanging out here before departing for parts unknown (New York) next spring. Unless I decide to do something else 😳😂⛵ I love that Ventusky app, thanks!!
No.... yes.....maybe...er
Damn, I'm going to have to watch this now.
👍!!!(looking forward to more!)
Great content. Pretty smart.
Love it!👍
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Great video, love the site suggestion. I never heard of it before, I used windy lol.
It’s a good resource
It’s a good resource
Great video the only trouble is its not loud enough found it hard to hear every bit keep up the good work John
Thank god, I was getting a bit upset at the beginning, I thought this was a predict wind plug, sorry don't got that kinda money. Sailing by barometer...that's the way to do it, and books will tell you currents.
Love it! Keep the good stuff coming!
It was so fun finally meeting you!
thanks
You’re welcome
Awesome episode !! this is a gem ! very informative and straight to the point without any bells and whistles. Thank so much Herby !
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WOW! YOU ARE MY MAIN MAN!!! Sorry Daniel 😞. HERBY, what can I say that I haven't already said? NOTHING! TEACHER/PROFESSOR/WIND DOCTOR! WIND DR. is new!!!😍 PLEASE keep me on your list. I didn't see any place else to sign up.
These Tutorials, you know they are my FAVORITE!!!❤❤
Can't hardly wait for the next episode!!
Thank you to Maddie for letting him hig the camera. Though I think you were behind it.
Pray your having a great time with family and friends! 🙏🙏❤❤🇺🇸🇺🇸⛵⛵⚓⚓
I won’t tell Daniel 😎
if you think PW is expensive i would give luckgrib weather routing a try
That is a much more palatable price! My gripe with all these programs is the math is sound, but the numbers being calculated are not.
I’m currently doing the weather routing for a couple coming across to the Caribbean and the grib files are telling me that they have 6-10 knots of wind but they also email me pictures of the sky! The sky yesterday said they were in for a rough and blustery evening while the internet data said it would be a calm night.
Instead of 6-10kn winds they had 27-40kn winds. The pictures showed me their local weather and that let us make a game plan where they would stay reefed down and safe for the night as the squalls blew over them.
Programs are only as accurate as the data they are fed and currently that data is very imperfect. I do see this becoming more reliable as the data improves, but as of now I still don’t trust it.
Going to be a very helpful series. Sure not justifying the present data option, might do weather fax first. Some books and historical data has been increasing looking unreliable at least in the Northern Pacific. Much to learn from you. Thanks
Wish I could have left 2 👍! Super clear and very helpful. Is there a free site showing currents that you recommend? Thanks
The pilot charts show them all: msi.nga.mil/Publications/APC
They are organized by ocean, and then by month for that ocean.
what corrective action do you take when the baro starts to fall or rise? GREAT INSPIRING work guys. New to your channel but loving it all!
When crossing the North Atlantic, if it starts to fall, that means I’m going a bit too north and the wind will increase. If it’s too much, turning a little to starboard will correct the issue.
The opposite is true of the barometer starts to climb, that would indicate that I’m going more into the high and the winds will disappear, which is corrected by turning to port.
any good replacements for currents while on way? Cant see myself spending an extra $250 for Predictwind currents.
Pilot charts
So informative, thank u 4 sharing, how do u learned this by yourself or did course.
I learned this by myself by reading what people did before electronics on boats. It’s always good to have backup knowledge incase your systems fail. I guess I just hope for the best but plan and learn for the worst
@13:25 NOV. 21st! WHAT YEAR? holy sh1t! so where are you now?
This was filmed outside our timeline as a video to put out when circumstances led to us not being able to edit an episode in time.
@@RiggingDoctor oh, ok thanks :-)
There are probably cheaper options for simple short satellite communications than Iridium? Anyone have any recommendations (e.g. something simple to get weather data by email and view offline? or just a few short text forecast descriptions? Especially for near-shore, caribbean, etc?)
We used to get weather fax on SSB radio. It’s free and completely worthless.
Howdy gang! We wanted to ask your opinion on replacing our running backs... but you had quite the number of visitors everytime we saw you at Annapolis, and we wanted to give you breathing room.
Anyway, 39' cutter, 6mm dyneema to a 4-1. Can we mill a dense polyurethane sheave to splice at the mast terminal?
This sounds interesting! Shoot me an email: riggingdr@gmail.com
Where do you get your ocean current information?
They are green arrows on Pilot Charts: msi.nga.mil/Publications/APC
They are free to download
Why would starlink not work out at sea, just asking?
This was before starlink
This is great! Exactly information I was missing. Are you using OpenCpn with weather routing?
I will be doing more videos on how I do my weather routing, but I mainly use pilot charts.
Ummm no description no link - is this because it's not public yet? I'm pretty sure I'm already on the list though!
Yep, it’s available just to the patrons at this moment and I haven’t written the description yet.
I don't recall seeing a video of you guys getting caught in a storm and "scared for your lives". They're the scariest part of taking a boat out to sea. Have you just been lucky or you know how to avoid them? Or maybe I missed the video...
Never been scared for our lives except maybe once in the Med when we turned up to seek safe harbor during an awful storm in Almerimar. We tend to be very meticulous about choosing our weather windows based on pilot charts and current weather conditions
Yo!
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