LEARN HOW TO SAIL IN 20 MIN - Ep 52
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I will TEACH you HOW TO SAIL in 20 minutes from LEAVING the DOCK to ANCHORING in the new location. I had SO MANY QUESTIONS when I started sailing and had a difficult time finding all the answers. I hope this video will answer most of yours too! Addings: 1. In addition to Navionics, it's good to use Google Earth or Google Maps too (you can download areas offline for free) when you're sailing in an area with lots of reefs, just to be sure. 2. Of course, whatever the official rule for boat traffic is, you must avoid hitting the other boat :) 3. Navigation rule 4: The Wale: when sailing in the night, most motor boats (except a few exceptions mentioned in the navigation rules book) still have to avoid you (they see on the lights a sailboat has that you are sailing). Not sure? Call the ship on channel 16 :) This is my biggest project I've ever done. And I hope you like it! Become part of the Patreon community for 'behind the scenes' and early access: https://www.patreon.com/huubvandermarkvlogs Here's the link to my first eBook! Live An Easy Life: A Practical Guide to a Joyful Life: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B07GMVCCJX Follow me on Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/huubvandermark Follow me on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/HuubvanderMarkVlogs/ Website: http://www.huubvandermark.com/ #hula #hoop #hulahoop
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Buy a sailors costume!!! im officially a sailor! the details in this video alone is extremely comprehensive
WELL DONE AND MANY THANKS!
Thank you
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We are even making some videos too. I (Alex) do the editing, and Chris does all the music. You all rock though, so thank you for the inspiration!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfX6qHQdqGE&t=5s
We are just starting down the east coast of the US and have made it from Maryland to South Carolina. We are still heading south, despite the fact that everyone else is going AWAY from the storms haha. But it's all worth the adventure, right?
Maybe we will even see your boat someday, that would be awesome!
Keep living the good life :)
Is that a fucking shark in the bottom right corner ????
I hope you do one on docking into slips that includes;
- what to do when getting into trouble (wind direction, speed, communication, etc)
- docking on difficult turn radius taking into account left handed vs right handed props (e.g. left handed props don’t turn well to the right and vice-versa).
It's a 25 minute video !
THANX A THOUSAND DUDE
Explained in such an accurate, simplistic, and attainable fashion... i tested myself in an hour after watching it and still had retention of the basics for Sailing...
I guess it's true, [You remember it if it's Fun] CmeL8r
I don't like Scrooge
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Simple, fun and concise!
respect!
How much will fuel cost if we just buy a Lagoon Seventy 8 with no sail?
And would that be nautical miles? Right?
Yeah it says it had 4500 liter tanks and a 4000 mile range.
What woukd it cost to fill up?
This would mean constantly changing the angle of the sails?
Wouldn’t it make more sense to have a wind turbine directly geared to the propeller so the boat can travel in a straight line REGARDLESS OF WIND DIRECTION?
The video is on YouTube, he also has a much smaller wind turbine mounted probably for batteries.
I think it’s great especially as the tri blade mast could act as a back up for a makeshift normal sail in an emergency.
Just type wind turbine catamaran guernsey in YouTube.
Just remember to be looking toward the front of the boat...
Also, were you able to recover your drone? - Commercial drones really should be required to be sold with buoyancy bags for use around water.
i thought wrong.
this was actually really good and surprisingly entertaining.
thumbs up and subscribed!!
Thanks for this easiest tutorial ever!
In less than 10 years, I'll own a boat!
Thanks David
Sailing is great fun! If you get seasick try ginger root pills with lots of water or food. Sailing more usually makes the seasickess go away as your body gets accustomed to the motions.
As a 100-ton licensed captain for forty years, with more than 100,000 sea miles under my keel (that's the long thing under the boat that helps the boat go straight), I give this video a thumbs up.
As to how to remember the names of the sides of a boat . . . remember, it is not left and right. Why, because left and right are position in relation to your body, not the boat. The boat has two sides. One is called the Starboard side and one is called the Port side . . . don't ask me why, but I'm sure there is a reason way back in sailing lore.
So, how do we remember which side is Starboard and Port, and remember the color of the running light on each side? Simple . . . . . . . . . . "There's no Red Port Left, it's all gone down my Throat". This teaches you that the Red running light and the Port side of the boat are on the same side - always. And if you are on a gaff-rigged boat, you will remember that the Throat Halyard is also on the Port side of the boat, and therefore the Peak Halyard must be on the other side of the mast. For Marconi rigged boats (triangular mainsail) the Jib Halyard is ALWAYS on the Port side and the Main Halyard is ALWAYS on the Starboard side. This is not optional, it is traditional. Here in this video, The Dutch Seaman does mention Right and Left when following the Rules of the Road, he is referring to your position, in relation to the front of the boat, where you should be looking when maneuvering. But the Starboard side the boat and the Port side of the boat never change.
Other old adages to keep in mind:
"One hitch is enough for a king's yacht."
"Never put a hitch on a line where the cleat is horizontal (i.e. mooring lines, sheets, etc.). Only put a hitch on a cleat that is vertical, i.e. halyards, etc" . Just trust me on that, I can't go into a long explanation, but you will learn if you ever try to release a main sheet quickly when a sudden squall hits you, or cast off a mooring line after a night of storm surge . . . .
Always remember the four "E"s of sailing: Exciting, Entertainment, Experience and Expensive.
Some say the two happiest days of a man's life is the day he buys his boat, and they day he sells it . . . . .
Happy sailing. Like the cantankerous yacht designer, L. Francis Herreshoff, said, "There's nothing quite like messing around in boats."
Rope is what you buy on a spool. When you cut it and put it to work (install on the furler, eye splice the end and devote it to mooring, run it in the rigging tackle, etc) now it becomes line or a line.
A line that is attached directly to a sail itself is a sheet.
How to remember the names of the sides of a boat . . . Left and Right are position in relation to your body, not the boat. The boat has two sides. One is called the Starboard side and one is called the Port side . . . don't ask me why, but I'm sure there is a reason way back in sailing lore. So, how do we remember which side is Starboard and Port, and remember the color of the running light on each side? Simple . . . . . . . . . . "There's no Red Port Left, it's all gone down my Throat". This teaches you that the Red running light and the Port side of the boat are on the same side - always. And if you are on a gaff-rigged boat, you will remember that the Throat Halyard is also on the Port side of the boat, and therefore the Peak Halyard must be on the other side of the mast. For Marconi rigged boats (triangular mainsail) the Jib Halyard is ALWAYS on the Port side and the Main Halyard is ALWAYS on the Starboard side. This is not optional, it is traditional. Here in this video, The Dutch Seaman does mention Right and Left when following the Rules of the Road, he is referring to your position, in relation to the front of the boat, where you should be looking when maneuvering. But the Starboard side the boat and the Port side of the boat never change.
There's a good reason for why it's called port and starboard. The words come from the old Norse (yes the inhabitants of Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Iceland whom did "Viking". Yes there called Vikings, but this isn't correct). The words are "styrbord" and "barbord" and it translates to steering wheel-board and empty board. This is because the steering mechanism was on the starboard side. And it still is on boats ;-)
John
now what? :-O
That was the typical layout of proper vessel tie up at the sea port.
I remember Starboard from Port by saying in my mind, Stars are up, and up is good, right is good and green is good, So the Starboard side is Right and the light on the Starboard side is Green. Once I remembered that, the other side was easy. Port, Left, Red.
So how do I get Right is good? For several reasons.
#1 Most people are Right Handed, which is considered normal or good. Left handed (people like me) are considered odd. In fact, in the old days, teachers would whack left handers if they seen them writing left handed. Lefties were forced to learn to write with the right hand.
#2 For thousands of years, when judging the good and bad people, the good people are put on the right and the bad people are put on the left. So in the old days, right, front and up are good, and left, rear and down are bad.
#3 When taking sides, in an issue being decided, there is the right side and wrong side. Again, the reference of Good is up and wrong is down. In sea legend, Davy jones Locker is not a good place to go and that is down. Hell is down and that is not good. Heaven, Valhalla and Eternal Life is up, which is good. So people who are on the side of right, are good.
So most every analogy in human history, Starboard would by natural terms be Right and that leaves Port to be left. Same with the red and green lights on the bow. Green good and Red bad. Green Right and that leave Red as left. Green Starboard and Red Port.
Oddly, even though I am left handed, I kick a ball with my right foot. I also play the guitar right handed.
On old larger sailing ships, if it had a cargo door on the side, it was usually on the port side, because it would be opened and cargo could be loaded or unloaded.
I still like this video. He has very good ways to remember things, and when you are out sailing, it is best to remember, no matter why you remember, it is WHAT you remember. 8-)
As to how to remember the names of the sides of a boat . . . remember, it is not left and right. Why, because left and right are position in relation to your body, not the boat. The boat has two sides. One is called the Starboard side and one is called the Port side . . . don't ask me why, but I'm sure there is a reason way back in sailing lore. So, how do we remember which side is Starboard and Port, and remember the color of the running light on each side? Simple . . . . . . . . . . "There's no Red Port Left, it's all gone down my Throat". This teaches you that the Red running light and the Port side of the boat are on the same side - always. And if you are on a gaff-rigged boat, you will remember that the Throat Halyard is also on the Port side of the boat, and therefore the Peak Halyard must be on the other side of the mast. For Marconi rigged boats (triangular mainsail) the Jib Halyard is ALWAYS on the Port side and the Main Halyard is ALWAYS on the Starboard side. This is not optional, it is traditional. Here in this video, The Dutch Seaman does mention Right and Left when following the Rules of the Road, he is referring to your position, in relation to the front of the boat, where you should be looking when maneuvering. But the Starboard side the boat and the Port side of the boat never change.
And that's from me, a licensed 100-ton captain for forty years with over 100,000 sea miles in sailing boats 22 feet to 197 feet.
Cheers.
Formerly, larboard was used instead of port. This is from Middle-English ladebord and the term lade is related to the modern load. Larboard sounds similar to starboard and in 1844 the Royal Navy ordered that port be used instead. The United States Navy followed suit in 1846. Larboard continued to be used well into the 1850s by whalers. In Old English the word was bæcbord, of which cognates are used in other European languages, for example as the present Dutch bakboord, the German backbord and the French term bâbord (derived in turn from Middle Dutch).
They also exist so that instead of spending an entire sentence to describe a manoeuvre, or a component, you just use a word. It's unambiguous and fast.
Wanted to tell everyone the way my navy grandpappy taught me to remember left/port/red and right/starboard/green. Always match up the short words and long words! Super easy!
The little I knew, don`t go a long way wen you don`t know the English terminology.
Thanks. To bad with your drone-
Greetings from Norway.
Avoid collision at all cost. There's no such thing as right of way on the sea. You can be burdened to give way, but you never have right of way. Even if the other boat is burdened to give you right of way, you still have to actively watch out and if you don't get right of way you still have to take action to avoid a dangerous situation.
Basically if you ever have a collision between two boats, then both boats are at fault. Always. Maybe one a little more than the other. Say 30/70, but never 0/100 as you might expect from a car accident.
So if you want to learn sailing in 20 minutes, just stick to avoiding other boats. That's one simple rule. No mice, snakes or sharks involved! :-P
If you want to learn the nitty gritty details, look at COLREGS 2 and 17.
That was for one item. Plan on paying that amount monthly for an old boat that you can afford. It's easy for people who don't own a boat to chime in...
My 89 Catalina 30 has a Raymarine steering wheel autopilot that doesn't work at all in heavy weather. It's several thousand dollars for a new model that may or may not work. Replacing it is not an option because it is too expensive. Fortunately, I won't be cruising in this boat.