Viața este ca navigarea – Navigație Gennaker cu o singură mână

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1. Thanks for guidance Alfie, I'm glad you show it's easier to handle in light airs

2. Thanks for this simple explanation. And you proof that it really needs no bowsprit at all, which saves a lot of money! I will try my new asymmetric spinnaker in the Med this spring. Thanks again from Austria.

3. Am I correct in understanding that the sail can only be dropped the same side as originally raised? At least that's how I remember it the onetime I tried it.
   Thanks

4. Great video. I'm on coronavirus lockdown – temporarily in Cherbourg, France, progressively making rigging improvements to my Albin Comfort 30 (1978) – an old girl but sturdy and with almost an entire new rigging apart from boom and mast. I've just added a bowsprit to take the tack of the gennaker a nice long way forward – then I thought I'd also make a snuffer (sock) improvement – the loop rope that is used to raise and lower the snuffer is now two ropes, both of which are taken through pulley blocks near the end of the bowsprit all the way back to the cockpit. This means I don't have to leave the cockpit to open or snuff the sail. Halyard is back to the cockpit, too. We went into coronavirus lockdown here (I'm isolated solo on the boat for 12 weeks due to medical conditions) so I've not tried this at sea yet, but it works well when I've tried it in port (with hardly any wind and a loose sheet, of course! Great videos. Loved the symmetrical spinnaker one too – I've been flying those with crew for years but you've given me the confidence to try that single-handed as well (when the French authorities eventually let us out to play!)

5. Thank you

6. Dont talk much, just show it

7. with the gennikers shape, do you use the tack line in-lieu of the halyard tension for adjusting the luff, as it looks like the halyard just sets the head position at the top of the mast?, as on jib and genoa you use halyard tension with the tack locked down to the bow, and the main works similar, with the cunningham hole as an extra adjustment, but still using the halyard for luff adjustment.

8. nice video, it all went well, but one question, is it better for beginners to these sails to have a furler on the gennaker, as it might be safer to gybe and retrieve under stronger winds, than a loose sail?

9. I didn't quite understand, does gennaker jibe like a jib, with the clew attached, or like a spinnaker, with the clew and tack switching places, or like a jib, but turning inside out on each jibe, so that the clew goes all the way around the forestay and to another side of the boat?

10. Great tutorial! Thank you for all the hard work you put in to make this. It was very informative and we learned some tips to use with our Gennaker next time we go out!

11. Thank you! Very helpful and well done, I can see much more cl arly how to take advantage of the Gennaker. I have only flown a spinnaker with a crew, and at that time I followed the directions of the very experienced sailors onboard. I am wondering if it is necessary to have an extension at the bow, to locate the tack further away from the forestay?

    Thank you again, and well done!

12. Thanks for the video. I have what I suspect is an asymmetrical spinnaker on my boat, I am eager to try it but don’t know much about these sails. Are a gennaker and asymmetrical spinnaker the same thing? I have the red and green tack / clew on my sail. I see you used the green as the tack. Does it matter which is the tack?

13. HEllo, thanx for the video! I am jut about to get a genakker. One question: is it possible to leave the genakker in place with the sock down, for example if we take it down just for a short time. Can the sock+sail be streched enough not to wable around?

14. I used a genacker on a 40' cat. It made a sailing day out of a nonsailing day.
    Surprised how for up it would point. It sailed juslike a Genoa.
    On another day we managed to tear it when it caught a spreader. Tearing such a beautiful sail made us feel awful. Like accidently running over a kitten! The good news though was it tore in a perfectly straight line. A 3/4" ribbon the length of the leech. So we just re-hemmed it and it was back up next trip out.

15. Nice video

16. Thank you! Beautifully demonstrated! Like I’m right there on the boat. 👍👍👍

17. Thanks Alfy.

18. Love your videos! Everything shown in such a honest and humble way! I hit that subscribe button straight after the first one I ever came across! Thank you for the effort! You make it all look easy and self explanatory 😉💙🙏🏻 all the best to you Alfy and your beauty Moonshine ⛵️

19. Thanks Alfy 💪💪💪

20. Thanks, well done!

21. I’m a bit late to the game and just came across this channel. Really like it and thanks very much for doing. With Covid I’m more anxious than ever to get out on my boat but will be a while yet as I’m in a full Canadian winter. Is there any reason not to raise and lower the gennaker at the dock to minimize time on the fore deck? And can the sock lines be brought back to the cockpit? Thanks and keep up the great and helpful videos.

22. Brilliantly clear instructions, enjoyed it from the uk

23. Good to see a solo sailor using lifejacket and safety lines

24. I've had success by sailing, just for the jibe, a course that is less deep e.g 130* and easing the sheet until the clew is just ahead to the head stay. Then jibe and blow the sheet and pull like crazy on the new sheet. The gennaker flows forward of the head stay onto the new tack. Then set your course.

25. Thank you so much for unrushed step by step explanation and however you decide to set up the camera – you have a great knack.
    I’m not a year into sailing and already went from 17’ dinghy to a 1978 27’ cruiser (that needs to be rehabbed) and I’m totally screwed having been bitten by the sailing bug. Thank you for teaching 🙏🏼🙏🏼

26. cool thank you 🙂

27. Hey look it’s an actual sailor on YouTube.

28. Thanks for the demo. Can I use a spinacker as a genacker?

29. 🙂

30. cool .

31. That gennaker sure would have been easier to gybe with about 10 knots of apparent wind! I run mine pretty much the same way, with the ability to tighten the luff if needed. I've done races where I ran it while on a deep reach, then had to harden up to a close reach and really pull the gennaker in tight, both at the tack and clew, sailing it more like a genoa (didn't have time to switch sails because the finish line was only a half mile away from where we hardened up). Some people like to do an inside gybe with these sails but I've found the outside gybe poses less of a chance for a wrap around the forestay (which you nearly had in the video). Also, for asymmetrical sails, once it's up and flying, work the sheet out until the luff curls inward a bit, then tighten up the sheet a bit just enough to take the curl out. While racing in light air, this will need to be done more often and is best done by one crew who's not driving the boat. I love my sock and sometimes will leave the jib up but deploy the sock under and outside the jib or genoa, then hoist the sock and trim the gennaker/asym a bit before furling the jib/genoa out of the way. I can also deploy it from the gennaker bag which clips onto the lifeline, keeping the sail from being all over the deck while trying to hoist it!

32. Thanks!

33. this fella down at the marina seen me and my dog sitting in out sloop, and he asked me, "Sir, do you know how to sail that thing?" I said" Nope. I aint got a Clew!"

34. Watching this again, planning to hoist my gennaker with your assistance. Thanks. SV Brooklyn

35. Really great thanks!

36. Looks cold.

37. Thank you for taking the time to explain this in such simple terms keep going!!!

38. Thanks for the video. I found it to be most helpful as I sail single handed and I'm about to try out a new Gennaker.

39. wouldn't the sock ropes prevent you from dousing the spinnaker when it is on the other side of the forestay from where it was originally hosted? You would have to take those ropes around the forestay too.

40. Hello Glenn here. Are you at the Atlin dock or the Yacht Club? I'm also in Rupert I have a North Sea 34 pilothouse, currently tied up in Port Edward.

41. nice job, but why isn't the spinaccer attached to the outside of the pulpit?

42. have you upgraded to a furler yet?

43. Sail to Virginia please

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