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De ce navigăm – „30 de noduri”
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New book for 2018: "Philosophy of Sailing: Offshore in Search of the Universe" by Christian Williams. Preview here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwCbQ01HTRAT
she's a very nice sail 🙂 that boat .
wd sir
my biggest fear is the leaning in water. makes me think gonna flip.
Im an RYA yachtmaster, ex RYA dinghy and cat instructor. I'm 55 years old and have been sailing something for half a century of them. Ive raced international 420's, Fireballs, Cheribs. Ive done the fastnet twice as a crew.ive sailed a 40' Moody from the UK to the Med, the list goes on.. including my highlight of helming the BT global challenge boat Toshiba 2 around the Solent…Ive done nothing compared to some including this gentleman….and tonnes compared to many. Please can I offer some advice? Sailing is something you can never stop learning.
Watch what you can. learn from others mistakes or tips makes no difference.
But…. practice, practice, practice.
Don't wait until someone falls overboard in shite weather to do your first man overboard in x years…do it on a nice warm day with a willing volenteer.
Don't work out how to sail your boat with no rudder when it breaks in a storm or hits something or your tlller snaps ! ( Yep this one is personal…twice in one year on an 18' dayboat and a 6.6m Gibsea racer)…but every year i practice steering a triangular course without a rudder on something or other.
My dad always used.. over used at times this old adage.
'fail to prepare, prepare to fail'
This is a great video, well explained from experience.
Listen to this chap, he is talking a lot of sense.
Favorable winds and calm seas to all.
"Something almost always breaks" sailing in 30 knots. Racing design philosophy. If things aren't breaking, they are overbuilt. Sailing as a sport has so permeated recreational sailing that none question if things really need to be so complicated and highly stressed just to sail.
ur children r lucky i went out on 72 foot schooner n 80s northern ireland in YOC……. just wish id of fallowed this
Excellent. Thank you.
Great video, thank you Sir for this lesson from an experienced sailor ; everybody should find something to lear in it
Best way to learn is learning from other peoples mistakes.
Cave Diver proverb
Why did they not put on their engine?
The helmsman is constantly turning down the wind! Why ?????? actively drive and do not put on the position as it seems right.! In case of danger of overturning aground to go to the extreme points of the bow and stern, life is more expensive. But they had a staysail with ropes, why the hell was there to mess around ?! Tie the loop in a knot, insert the free end into the loop, tie and fasten it to the fence and the sail works! And the helmsman? Work the wheel like a paddle and furiously, like on a sprint distance, take the yacht out to sea! And always wear life jackets in such weather! Find comfortable. And you always need a reliable engine for such cases.
Excellent advice… thank you!
Every time I want to get a Sailboat I think of what happened to that second boat.
Fair winds never a true sailor made.
Enjoyed listening Christian
Thank you!
Went out in 25kt wind with my 26ft a few weeks ago. Sailing downwind in Coos Bay real nice, lost rudder control through my steering wheel, i was on the front if the boat and when we lost rudder it spun into the wind so fast i nearly got taken out by the genoa, we ended up slipping the genoa line and struggling to bring that back in all the while trying to keep the boat out of the jetty. Caught the rudder on some rocks tweaked it a bit but got back and learned alot. Like we need longer lines and better clutches and to get rid of the steering wheel and run just a rudder handle.
Christian are you up to teaching an old attorney wanting a new life change?
Your videos are exhilarating makes me want to jump in if possible
One of the best advice videos I’ve seen – thanks.
When you showed that boat that got to close to the peer and flipped, That’s the only fear I have about being tied in. I was in a burning truck and could not get my seat belt off quick and that scared me. Being tied onto a flipped boat like that would also scare me. But then again watching that man being thrown is another fear. He could have easily been thrown into a peer pole. So I guess it all comes down to doing what’s right.
"dont we need to practice?" Nah not me. I learn from youtube videos at home, not so windy here
Wow! I don’t sail but I learned a lot from this video! God bless you and yours!
That looks like an absolute blast!
Sailed yesterday in 25kts, think it gusted up to 35kts at some point, and I tried to reef a boom roller furling system, one of these old ones. I wanted to replace it earlier, but c'est la vie, and then it happened: Never practised reefing this boat, and while I left the helm to run forward and roll the boom the jib shackle broke. Now back in the cockpit I noticed "Damn, the main doesn't look right". That was due to the mainsheet wrapped around it, which then also caught the topping lift, too. It was a disaster. In high winds, in a channel (and not open sea) I had to climb forward to fix the jib shackle (and almost was knocked out by the flapping sail..) and then also had to secure the main somehow and get the mainsheet off. So I climbed up and tip toed in crushing waves to just about reach the end of the boom where the mainsheet fouled around and it was under tension, due to the wraps and thetangling with the topping lift, that was almost impossible. I also had the issue now that a nuclear submarine was passing by, and they have huge wakes, also they required me to get out of their way, as the navy has right of way.
So while I was fixing that, a gust caught the main and blew the boom out, which I was hanging on and I swung out to sea, and swung back….
At the end I managed, I fixed it. I rolled the mainsheet off, I tried my best to save the topping lift (but ended up cutting it), and I ran back to the cockpit and below to find a new shackle, went forward and fixed that (almost impossible to get a hold on to the clew)….
What a story! I made it, my boat made it. But it's all preventable, just practice and keep your boat in good shape.
But I came here to find out about sailing techinques in high winds, not that I am disappointed, it's a nice video, but I do would like to learn how I make better headway close hauled. I think I made like 9 nautical miles in 6 hours or something like that. Not sure why I couldn't get up to speed. Was it the waves that slowed me down? Was it sailshape? I do not know.
Maybe I reefed too early, the waves slowed me down and I had the sails too close in (trying to sail like lower winds)?
First time my topsiders slipped, in the trash.
30 knot, 40 knot then to 50 knots wind force increases with the square of the speed.
Thanks! great instructions
Excellent advice, I learn something every time I watch. Thanks.
Your videos are fantastic! This one in particular, was excellent! Practice on your own terms instead of learning where you or your boat is lacking at the worst possible time.
Equipment failure can be a killer. Preparation and practice are the key.
YES! exactly, ood point! -Good video!
What's your next long distance sail, Christian?
If you don’t go out in the strong stuff, you’ll never learn.
It not really sailing until the wind reaches 30 knots.
Then the mast and headsails need keeling design to have lateral resistance ahead of the sail effort and sail easily in 30 knot's.
A properly keeled boat could sail without reefing in 30 knots of wind.
Never boom keel a sailboat..
If you really want to learn how to sail in gale winds and really rough water, get into racing sailboats.
I like your narration style. I would love to have been trained by you.
as a novice sailor I gotta just thank you for this video. I think i needed a reality check on a couple points.
It looks like the halyard was not tied off tight enough on that boat that capsized. Either that or some of the sail clips broke off the forestay. Really important to inspect these two parts of your foresail before taking off.