How to set up for downwind sailing without a spinnaker | Yachting World 367 13

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In part eight of our series on advanced sailing techniques, Pip Hare describes how best to set up your yacht for downwind sailing under white sails only. ► Become a FREE SUBSCRIBER to Yachting World's YouTube page now - https://www.youtube.com/user/yachtingworld?sub_confirmation=1 ► For the latest reviews, new gear launches and tour news, visit our website here - http://www.yachtingworld.com ► Like us on Facebook here - https://www.facebook.com/yachtingworldmagazine ►Follow us on Twitter here - https://twitter.com/yachtingworld ►Feel free to comment below! ►Remember to hit that LIKE button if you enjoyed it :)

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Wilfred Darr - 7 years ago

So you have a spinnaker pole, rigging septate spinnaker sheets, pole up haul, pole downhaul, you're 95% of the way there, that's your definition of hassle free, I'd hate to see what you would consider "a bother"! Why not just go the one extra step and actually fly the proper sail for your point of sail?!

B-SS - 7 years ago

Not every boat has a spinnaker & sails can tear.

Mauser M03 Blog - 7 years ago

Useful video - thank you - but why are three introductions needed? The first 45 seconds of this short video is wasted. Please get straight to the good stuff. :-)

Mauser M03 Blog - 7 years ago

Thanks for this explanation Wilfred. Much appreciated. :-)

Wilfred Darr - 7 years ago

Mauser M03 Blog YouTube rates videos by seconds watched (or rather seconds watched adds points to the algorithm) so the more extra seconds you watch, the higher their video rates…and both you and I and everyone else watched an extra 15 seconds…that's why.

Terry Peake - 8 years ago

move the vang out to the toe rail, pull down, this will stop the main sheet from rubbing on the spreadders. it also acts as a preventer to some extent.

Keith Thorne - 8 years ago

which of the two methods mentioned is the most efficient? twin headsails seems to be safest, but is it then less efficient?

ste - 8 years ago

i accidentally the whole spinnaker
what do

Nele Abels - 8 years ago

I don't understand this question.

Sam Dandashli - 9 years ago

Nicely demonstrated, thanks a lot.

tincoffin - 9 years ago

In a video you should demonstrate how to do things rather than talk about it in my opinion.

John Bourne - 10 years ago

Thank you I did learn a lot and who wants to produce a training video done in high wind conditions, Some of your viewers need to understand that it is what you know after you know it all that matters.

runeguldberg - 10 years ago

Women in light wind condition. I have put up a spinnaker in heavy wind manytimes. Did not learn a thing from this video.

Wilfred Darr - 7 years ago

Admiral Genius And to further clarify, if this was "Jim Bob's sailing blog" I wouldn't care (I wouldn't be here bordering on being an ass), in fact if Jim Bob had said I don't bother flying a spinnaker and instead here's what I do…fine, maybe even a thumbs up. But SHE does fly a spinnaker, and she's just instructed us to do 95% of the setup for flying a spinnaker, and called it "hassle free": it's disingenuous. When I come to Yachting World to see a video they have from a professional sailor, there are certain expectations, and this feels more like false pretext.

Wilfred Darr - 7 years ago

Admiral Genius No, he (and I) don't know everything, which is why we're here, and wasted 5 minutes of our day (which you might gather I don't much appreciate), AND we didn't learn anything (nothing to do with the presenter being a woman, and rather has to do with a lazy video). It's a video trolling for clicks: good title, but nothing presented you wouldn't learn on your first day out. I've already watched much better today and I'll find better yet I suspect before today is over. You want to call him on his sexism fine, but don't call him a moron for saying he didn't learn anything from a poorly made video.

Admiral Genius - 7 years ago

so. You're one of these guys who already knows everything about sailing? congratulations, thats a very small group. in fact You're the only one. MORON.

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William Jones - 10 years ago

Very informative. Thank you!

William McKelvy - 11 years ago

Very timely! About 15 minutes before watching this I was shopping for a whisker pole. Now I'm looking forward to seeing how the spinnaker pole works. I never thought of using a separate line to control the pole. Thanks! :)

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