SAILING SINGLE HANDED. A tutorial with hints tips and techniques to make it nice and easy
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Some people like doing it, others not so much, but being able to sail a yacht on your own is an important skill to have. This is a short film that we shot at the end of the year, on a gloomy day, that gives you some idea of the way we go about it. Please let us know what you think below and if you have any observations or hints and tips of your own we would love to hear them. Music from http://www.purple-planet.com/
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Its a Hanse 291.
The first boat that Hanse ever made that was itself taken from the moulds for an Aphrodite 29 which was a very well regarded Swedish boat pf the 80's. They are a little cramped by modern boat standards but sail exceptionally well
Thanks you, glad you enjoyed it
It is probably the most import part of sailing single handed, controlling the tiller. If you have a long keel boat you can do most things without worrying about it but on more modern fin keel designs it gets much harder.
Tacking is just practice and technique, and to be honest I cant help much more without actually being on the boat with you but with time I'm sure you'll find a system that works for you
Raising the sails etc, well on our Beneteau 32S5 I could do a lot with just a line tied between two deck cleats, one on each side of the cockpit, with this line wrapped around the tiller to provide some drag. Alternatively if your main sail goes up and down easily enough you can try just going hove to, and raising and lowering the main with the boom to one side.
But to be honest it will make life much easier if you can got hold of one of those simple tiller pilots. Thats all we have used in the past and although they often struggle to control the boat if your sailing in a blow when it comes to raising and lowering sails, putting out fenders and lines, or making a cuppa while under motor they are great.
Have fun with your adventures
Its a Hanse 291, they arent all as well equipped as ours but they are lovely little boats
https://youtu.be/OHtTPXqMK_8
https://youtu.be/xbT5KJvezyQ
Thanks for watching
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That was said with my tongue firmly in my cheek, however there is a trend for smaller and smaller boats to have wheels now-a-days and unless your boat is over say 40f, to my mind they offer more disadvantages than advantages
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Thank you, glad you enjoyed it and found it useful. And thanks for all your kind words. I'm not sure i have the patience to be an instructor and as I am basically self taught, or at least I have learnt everything the modern way from books and films etc rather than other sailors, Im not really qualified to teach, but always happy to help any one that I can. Have fun in your own sailing adventures
Nice to hear from you, glad your enjoying our films. I would say the right boat for single handing depends on a lot of factors and size is only one of them... But for the sort of sailing we do 29ft (the size of Sea Horse) is just about perfect. If you were sailing inland on small pieces of water then something smaller might be easier to manage and if all your sailing was off shore then you would get away with something larger? Horses for course as the saying goes
Thank you. It was a bit cheesy and I felt a bit silly doing it but it was fun. Glad you liked it
Thank you. Like everything, it gets easier with practice but as you slowly learn what to do and get to know your own boat everything starts to fall into place.
Have fun
Thank you, glad you enjoyed it, have fun in your own adventures
I'm afraid every boat is different in that regard. Even boats that left the factory the same end up different 10 years on, as owners tweak and fiddle with the setup to suit there own personal requirements.
Otherwise that would be a great idea
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Nice to hear from you and glad to hear that you enjoyed the film
Thanks for watching and commenting and have fun with your own adventures
Thank you and glad to hear that you are enjoying our films. You have probably worked out already now but we have some playlists set up for people that might want to catch up all the sailing we have done in the past. If you just want to see what we get up to you can look at all the vidoes, but if for example it the sailing single handed that you interested in then we have a playlist just for that... or if its the boat then there is one for that and so on.
But however you choose to watch, well thanks for watching
Thank you. Yes, I just bought a 1989 Catalina 25 (quite popular here in the States) for lake sailing in Kentucky. I learned a bit on my one person Sunfish dinghy prior. The Cat has a very lightweight telescoping whisker pole so no need for uphaul.
I like your Lexan/Lucite hatch door - less brightwork to maintain. I subscribed and will view your other videos.
Oh, I should drop my mast soon (sitting in the lake for 8 years) to replace standing rigging for safety. It has a set of three shrouds and worry they may slacken too much while I use the jib halyard to lower the mast, and it could get away from me port or starboard. I'd rather not build a V-frame for it. Never lowered or stepped the mast before.
Best,
Thomas
Ive no idea what the weight of a Catalina 25 mast is but it will be substantially more than any dinghy mast so I would give this some careful consideration before lowering... if your not going to use a crane of some sort.
We raised and lowered the mast on our 20ft trailer sailor on our own
https://youtu.be/JGy_pqVDqP4
https://youtu.be/FhklEU5MlLk
But used a crane for sea Horse
https://youtu.be/NSrvuB0TI4Y
Having an uphaul on the pole is a useful thing to have if its a big pole as it makes man handling it all much easier. But if its a small pole and your short handed then yes its a complication that can be avoided when cruising. If your racing of course then anything that helps you optimise the shape of the sail is worth having. Thanks for watching
Good question but not applicable to the kind of sailing that we do I'm afraid so I dont have an answer for you. We just cruise and race around the east coast of England and plan all our journeys/events around daylight hours.
Sorry we cant help, have fun with your own adventures
Hi Homefront
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Nice to hear from you and glad to know that you both enjoyed the film and liked the music :-)
Trots can be a pain but really they are not that much harder than a swinging buoy. Just make sure you pick up the up tide/wind end first and dont let your prop get any were near the rest of the floating lines.
Have fun
Yup as I was only gone for an hour or so I just tied the painter onto the mooring lines. This has the added benefit of making the mooring lines longer and with what amounts to a nice big buoy ion the end making retrieval that much easier on my return.
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Thank you, glad you enjoyed it, have have you seen the follow up film on flying the spinnaker single handed?
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Yup that is the conventional wisdom however I would counter that with the distraction and added complication that this brings with it, especially short handed, means that it isnt worth it. If I dont have complete faith in the engine of if the maneuver puts me in a situation in which any loss of drive would be a disaster then I woudl reconsider this.
God comment though, thanks, nice to hear from you
Thanks for commenting, nice to hear from you and great to hear from another hangglider pilot.
You will find, just like flying, that you never stop learning and that modern day sources of information like YouTube help the learning process better than we have ever had it before but nothing compares to how much you will learn from just doing it yourself.
So nice to hear from you and have fun in your own adventures
Ironically having confidence in your motor is a key factor really in being able to fully enjoy your sailing. Being able to switch it off and knowing with a fair degree of certainty that it will restart when you want it to makes it all so much more relaxing.
We are fortunate in that we do trust our motor and spend a large part of our time sailing in sheltered waters so I've never felt the need for a secondary troll motor but I can see why if you cant tick both of those box's that a secondary power supply would make sense.
Thanks for commenting and have fun in your own adventures
Thanks, glad you like the films and good luck with your own sailing adventures. If you do get the bug you will find that its a great hobby to get into
Very hard for us to comment on your situation, one of the things that we find really important in sailing is that crew should take responsibility for their own safety. You see it more in dinghy's were crews get in trouble and then moan about the safety cover but its becoming more common now in yachting as well. Here in the UK for example people just trust that the coast guard will get them out of trouble!
Not trying to put you off but go sailing with others for a while, even if you ask them not to do anything unless asked and then with experience you will come to find what your comfortable with and what your not.
Hope that this helps in some way, we arnt trying to put you off here just tell you how we like to do it. For example have you seen our recent film about flying a spinnaker on your own. We didn't do this day 1, or even day 100 for that matter, but over time we gained enough experience and practice to give it a go and so add this to the things that we are comfortable with.
So luck with your own adventures and have fun, its a great hobby
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Nice to hear from you, glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching
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Thank you for this sailing alone video.
Yup there are worst places to sail. Are you local to us then?
Thank you, nice to know that you found it useful. Have fun
Thanks glad to hear that you liked it. Thanks for commenting
A sailboat under power usually has more than a forward gear. If you are coming in too fast, try out reverse for a moment. Yes, prop walk may play with your stern, but running around in circles for 10 minutes because you didn't use reverse to slow down or back off is not nautical. Practice and get a feel for what the whole boat does when reverse is engaged.
I find it funny, that sailors who are advanced boaters appear to be the worst at remembering reverse. My whole family (including kids) have practiced stopping and navigating the mooring field and docks in reverse on our sailboat. In my opinion, it is a powerful skill to have to get a boat out of trouble.
Yup overlapping head sails are a pain at the best of times but doubly so when your on your own.
If its the knots holding the sheets on that are catching you might like to try a long single sheet attached with a cow hitch (google it if your not sure what I mean) but other wise yes reef the sail. If you can then move the fair lead to suit so that it still sheets in and sets correctly it wont hurt your speed that much but will make a big difference to your ability to tack. Have fun
My pleasure... have you seen the latest one on sailing single handed with a spinnaker?
Yup mistakes happen when you least expect them, the important thing is to learn from them. So yes I should have had my life jacket on right from the off but as soon as I realised I did some thing about it. Thanks for commenting there are lessons for all of us, including myself :-)
Great to hear from you and good to hear that you have found something of use. Sounds like your going to have a fun trip, all the best, have fun
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Thank you, glad you liked it
Nice to hear from you and good to know that you liked the film. Hang gliding... lots of reasons but one of which was that I discovered sailing. A good days flying is way better than a good days sailing its just that most days flying either aren't good or aren't even flying at all!!! were as every day on the water is fun.
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it. Just working on another in the single handed series, flying the spinnaker, hopefully we'll have that one out this week
That is the plan but life is getting in the way at the moment, some day soon though hopefully
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Thanks, glad you liked it and yes, we do plan to try and do more its just getting the time and weather to coincide at the moment... but one day
Again you're marvellous. Fantastic video. Best instructional sailing video I've seen on youtube for years. Or even ever! thanks greetings from Sweden
Nice to hear from you and good to know that you think its informative. We like the music as well and for reference we always put the name and artist of any music we use at the end of each film. In this instance the first piece was 'Do It' by 'Joe Joe Bagale'
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Thanks!
Good to hear that you enjoyed the film and thanks for commenting. And yes it all follows that same basic lesson that you get in life... dont start something you cant finish :-)
Glad you liked the film and good luck with your adventures, it's one of those dreams that I have but I cant see life letting me do it for a while... one day perhaps
Have fun
Nice to hear from you and thanks for the kind words. Good luck with your own adventures
Thankyou, we dont pretend to be experts at this kind of thing but it is fun trying to put it all together. Its just a lack of time that stops us doing more, but when our lives settle down again we have plenty of other ideas for films that we would like to make
Nice to hear from you and glad to know that you found it useful. Good luck with you own sailing adventures, have fun
https://vimeo.com/205946242
It is one of the many skills that you have to learn :-)
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Nice to hear from you and thank you for the kind words
Have fun
That advice alone make this a great video. (the rest was good as well, of course) Good stuff !
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Its a Hanse 291 called Sea Horse. It was the first boat that Hanse put into production and is based upon the well regarded Aphrodite of the same size
Thank you, glad to hear that you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching and commenting
Glad to hear that you liked it and found it useful.
Have fun
Great video man! I've got a Westsail 32 now...also sailing in a river off a mooring. I like how you mounted your cameras. And did you use a mic for these?
Agree jibing is nothing to be scared of but it dopes demand respect... take your eye off it for a minute and if the wind is up it can bite you.
Re mics. We have an external microphone on the camera which has one of the those furry sleeves over it to cut down on the wind noise. Hope this helps
Thanks, glad to hear that you enjoyed it
Have fun
Nice to hear from you and glad to know that you liked our film.
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Nice to hear from you and to know that you found our film useful.
Dont be scared of having a go, just pick the right time and place for your first attempt and you will find its all much easier than you feared.
Have fun
Thank you, glad you found the film useful. Re the mooring costs I'm not sure what it works out to be on its own as we pay for it along with all the other fees associated with being a member of the club.
But if you search for Medway Yacht Club in the UK I believe they have the costs printed on their web page some where.
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Thanks, glad to hear that you liked it. Thanks for watchinig
Thank you. Now that Sea Horse is back together and in the water again we will try and do some more... watch this space
good sailing
Thankyou, and now that the season has started again we may well make some more sailing single handed films so we'll add that to the list of possible topics.
Great to hear from you.
Technically not that much in common with the sailing that you guys do but I guess the principles are still the same.
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It is a great little dinghy to use as a tender but your right, when the 3 of us get in there isn't much free-board left !
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Thanks, glad to hear that you have taken something from it and that you enjoyed the film
Nice to hear from you and thanks for commenting, glad to hear that you liked it. Hopefully with the new season just starting we can now do a few more films covering other aspects of single handed
Nice to hear from you and glad you liked the film. Sorry about the audio, we aren't natural communicators and make these films as just a hobby... we know its lacking in many ways so can only apologies. We hear what your saying though so we will try and improve it on future films.
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Elizabeth loves that Moana movie so we know what you mean :-)
You can have a lot fo fun sailing, get yourself down to your local club and see if any one weants a crew... some one always wants crew.... that way you can try it out and see what you think.
Thanks for watching
Nice to hear from you and thank you for the kind words. We dont pretend to be experts in the field, we are just keen sailors who would like to encourage others to enjoy sailing on their own so its great to hear that even an experienced sailor such as yourself can take something away from it.
Have fun
Thats very kind, thanks for commenting
Thank you. We are very much amateurs when it comes to making films, and this did take a while to do, but we learn a little more with every film we make.
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I have gone right over the boat over the past few weeks, learning all the while, starting the motor, clearing water out of fuel lines, completely cleaned the hull off barnacles and growth, and all inlets/outlet pipes(while in the water), fixed water pumps and am confident furling/unfurling headsail. I get concerned about crossing bars and seaways(an old childhood scare), the main thing is checking the conditions I suppose.
Nice to hear from you and glad to know that our film is helping you to get out on the water on your own. I would say though for your first sail try to make sure that everything is right. There is nothing worse than getting put off by a bad experience because the weather was to strong, or your engine wouldn't start, or the sails jammed when hoisting, that sort of thing. Once you have done it once and have the confidence that you can do it, then it all gets so much easier.
Have fun
Thanks for the kind words and glad you found it of some use. We are planning on doing some more 'sailing single handed' films this coming season so we will try and do more about controlling the jib.
Stay tuned
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Absolutely if you feel the conditions warrant it, and this point of course is different for everyone. For us sea state and angle of heel are the primary factors but of course we are sailing here on a river, when we are out at sea this also changes our thinking.
cant wait to watch the next 1 , do you teach sailing ? if not you should , Im on holidays at the moment so trying to learn some theory on it , I have watched about 20 on the subject but yours is by far the best.
I first sailed in a 18ft Hartley a few times , but that was 20yrs ago , its always been my ambition to get back into sailing , 1 mth. ago i put a deposit on a 25ft Trailer Sailer, havent even seen it yet! but its been in storage for 15 yrs so hoping its as good as it sounds & looks in the Pics. Anyway Im hoping to teach myself Sailing with the help of youtube . Thanks again , off to watch your next clip. regards Wayne
Great to hear from you and glad to hear that you have been finding our channel useful. We havent done many 'how to' films so far but as this one has had such a good reception we are planing on doing some more sailing single handed films this season.
If you look back through some of our older films you will find we spent 18 months sailing a little 20ft trailer sailor and had loads of fun on her, you might find some useful stuff in them.
Have fun
yup we do use safety lines when going forward although we can do pretty much everything, except hook a reefing ring onto the horn at the goose neck from the cockpit so dont have the need to so much. As to when we start using them... well that's a bit like what constitutes bad weather. Even in quite mild winds if the sea state is bad we'll clip on, conversely in our river we could have 20+ knots and not feel the same need.
Thanks for watching, all ways good to hear from you
errrr not sure we get what your saying here?
No problem, thank you for thanking us :-)
Have fun
Thanks, glad to hear that you liked it
I love taking my 25 footer out solo. It is the absolute best way to relax and enjoy life. It was great to include your arrival and preparation, it rings so true.
btw- your dingy looks like you could snap a plastic lid on it and it would keep your leftovers fresh.
I look forward to watching your other vids. Nice to discover you.
Awsome video!
Nice to hear from you and thanks for the kind words but to be honest, apart from having the notion of doing a film about sailing single handed we did make it up as we went along :-)
And yes the dinghy would arguably make a better food container than it is a seaworthy means of transport however it does have a few things going for it. It was free, its incredibly light weight and it doesn't mind being dragged up a stony beach all things that make it ok in our book :-)
We plan on trying to make some more films on sailing single handed in the new year, keep watching.
Lovely to hear from you and glad to know that you are finding some of what we say useful. I (Ian) have never had a lesson either and came to sailing later in life... although not as late as you :-) I taught myself to sail in an old Firefly dinghy that I found rotting in one corner of a sailing club that a friend had joined. That was 15 years ago now and I'm still learning.
All the best with your own adventures, have fun
No problem, glad you enjoyed it.
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Well I'm lucky I guess in that regard. I sail single handed because I enjoy it but have just as much fun, or more, when sailing with my family.
Have fun
That was in wind wind mode! We're sure that by fiddling with the settings we could improve things but what we have found so far is that if we tell it to tack through a smaller angle then it takes to long too come onto the wind. Its better for it to over tack quickly, and then learn, which it does, and come back up onto the wind.
If we were racing and depended on it then we would put more effort into sorting it out but in practice, as you can see, Sea Horse is so easy to tack any way we dont really need it.
Thanks for the input though, good to hear from you
Thank you, we like it :-)
I completely agree that for beginners, genoas are stupid. Every beginner ought to have a jib and you don't have to backwind the entire jib to start.
Rather while you are still at the mooring and the dinghy has been tied to the boat's mooring line, on the opposite side you want to leave the mooring on, grab the leech of the jib (the side facing away from the boat and the rigging) with your hand (or whatever you can grab )and push it against the wind on the side of the boat, so the boat turns the way you want. (It also helps to have the tiller facing in a direction that it at least not opposed to your desired direction.) Once the boat responds and starts to want to pull away from the mooring the way you want, drop the mooring line and return to the helm to adjust the tiller and pull in the sails as needed.
But we hear what your saying and are planning on doing some more films on other aspects of sailing single handed later in the year when we get Sea Horse back in the water so we will add this to the list. Thanks for commenting
A problem I'm experiencing is maneuvering/docking into a 4 post berth (much wider than my yacht) with a firm a cross wind, almost single handed (as the admiral is not keen on participating in this "Sailing stuff" lol!) .... Thanks for all the time and effort you put into this.
Thankyou for the kind words, we are glad you liked it and found it useful. We are planning on doing some more 'sailing single handed' films when the new sailing season kicks off however we're not sure we could offer much help re the 4 post berth. We dont find many of them around, we certainly havent used one, plus compared to most boats Sea Horse is really well mannered in reverse so it would be much less of a drama for us than you. But we will keep it in mind, thanks for the idea
If your referring to our mooring.... well funnily enough we have just finished a short film were we describe our mooring ball/line setup. As they say in those old and cheesy american TV shows tune in next week to find out :-)
So gald you enjoyed the film and found it useful, thanks for commenting
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Have fun
Good to hear from you and glad you liked the film. We do plan on making some more sailing single handed films when our season starts up again so do keep in touch
Yup we will have to do more in better conditions, and in fact the forecast for that night was for better than that... but thats life isnt it. You just have to make the best of what you have.
Nothing about the sailing is any harder you just have to plan further ahead and give yourself more time and space in which to do it, filming it effectively however is whole different ball game. Especially on our river were time and space are often at a premium and wind noise and spray play havoc with the results.
Keep watching though we will try one day.
Thankyou, glad you liked the film and good luck with your own adventures, sounds like fun
Loved the video. Reason I watched it is that all things being equal I hope to be returning to the UK in June/July and plan to buy a Dufour 38 sailing yacht. I plan to use it single handed. I have virtually no sailing experience, but many lifetimes of diverse life experience!! Will be watching your other videos next few days. Thanks
Its is in deed, well spotted. We are based in Medway YC at Upnor.... are you a local then
Nice to hear from you, glad you enjoyed the film.... and thanks for subscribing
Nice to hear from you and sorry if you found it hard to hear what Ian was saying. We are planning on doing some more films about single handed sailing when our season starts again so we will keep what you say in mind
Thanks for watching
The boat is awsome and the suzuki, yes It is actually. We aren't the kind of people that like big 4wd's and we only bought it for pulling our Red Fox around but even though we have now sold that boat we have kept it as its such a good practical car. Even though its quite long its small as 4wd's go, well built and really easy to drive.
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Thankyou, glad you liked it
Thanks for your input
Yup good call, some one else mentioned that so we will add it to the list. We made that film at the end of our season and it has had such a good response that we will follow it up with some others.
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Thank you for the enjoyable video.
Glad you liked the film and thanks for commenting.
Happy new year to you as well, thanks for commenting
Techniques & Tacticsactics For Singlehanded Sailing by Andrew Evans and this video is very good. you mention the jib sheet when polled out: does that mean you also use a guy on the pole, or just the sheet through the hook? I couldn't make it out in the video. Also, I completely agree with motoring off of a mooring: if the motor doesn't start, you don't want to go anywhere anyways, but coming back, to me the conditions looked good do it under sail. To me, it's one of those things I want to be well practiced at: with my luck, it will be that day that I want to motor home because the weather got ugly out of nowhere that my motor decides to go on strike, and I'd rather not be "practicing" picking up the mooring ball under sail in those conditions. Thoughts?
Also whens the spinnaker video come out!?
We dont know that book but glad you found the film helpful. Re polling out the jib, yes you can just clip onto the jib sheet and it works fine the only problem comes when you need to do something in a hurry as the jib is effectively now locked in position. On our river with lots of traffic etc Ian likes to clip one of the spinnaker sheets to the jib and pole off of this, that way if something needs to be done in a hurry he can let this guy go and he still has control of the sail with the sheets. Its invariably a bit of a pull but you can still sail the boat.
Yes picking up a mooring buoy single handed in a miserable day would be a challenge. We have a couple more films that we want to make about single handing when sea Horse goes back in the water, reefing and flying the kite, so perhaps we will add that to the list.
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Glad your enjoying it, and yes we plan to keep on sharing our activities with you
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But as the saying goes, do as we say not as we do.
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Thanks for watching, glad you enjoyed it. Yup we filmed this at what was the end of our season so we couldn't follow it up with anything but we have a couple more single handed films that we want to make, flying the spinnaker and reefing. Do you have anything specific that you would like to see more of.
Great video, with great practical advice. I sail solo on my Catalina 27 all the time, and agree it's the planning ahead that makes it go well. Planning ahead would mean putting in a reef before you leave if you think you might need it, but would like to see how you put in a reef if the wind picks up and it gets bumpy.
Jealous of your self tailers - I need to get a set of them as one handed winching can get tough when it's bumpy !
Andrew.
Ian, I do fly my asymmetric solo, but pick a good day- things can get exciting very quickly.. On reefing, yes, pick a windy day - there are loads of "how to reef" at 10 knots, not many who show how to do it when you screwed up and now really need to and it's hitting 25knots and the water is bumpy...I sail on Lake Erie on the west end, and the shalllow water gets choppy very quickly..
Which estuary / river were you sailing on? In one of those clips you put in, there were huge container craned in the background. Looked like a view of Felixstowe docks, from along the river Stour?!?!
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Keep up the good work!
We are based on the river Medway in Kent, the cranes you can see in this film are from Kingsnorth power station that is currently in the process of being dismantled.
We have been up to Felixstowe but that was a couple of years ago now so you will have to be looking at some of our older films to see those.
Have fun
Have fun
For help in picking up a mooring I lead a line from the bows aft to the cockpit. Picked up the buoy from the cockpit (where I had control over speed and direction and closer to the water) looped the line through the eye and cleated aft. Once the boat settled down make off the mooring properly and retrieve the temporary line. Works a treat.
Fair winds, Roger
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Its a fitted, under deck B&G Triton system, and its excellent. Although they arnt cheap and it does take a bit of fitting.... not that we fitted our one, it came with the boat when we bought her but we would highly recommend it.
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Thanks,
I was going to be cheeky and suggest that you click on the subtitles button but great as YouTube is... even that cant understand what we are saying.... O dear, its worth switching on though just for the giggle :-)
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Nope never used a snuffer/tube, they dont really appeal to me, to much to go wrong. For a cruising shute/asymmetric spinnaker i would be interested in a top down furler but they are loads of money and wouldn't really suite our sails.
To be honest if I'm not comfortable getting the kite up or down on my own then I'm probably not comfortable flying it as well so it might as well just stay in the bag.
Black mark though for using tender out to Seahorse without lifejacket, alone.
The real difference is just the size. Forces on a boat scale up exponentially with size so although on paper Sea Horse isnt that much smaller in practice she has quite a bit less volume and the loads and forces on the boat are much lower. That's not to say that White Magic wasn't manageable, just that for Hannah and Elizabeth Sea Horse is much easier.
The only other real difference is that the SF32i is a much flightier boat, she needs sailing in any kind of real wind. You cant let go of the helm at any time without her changing direction and it often pays to play the main like you would on a dinghy. Sea Horse is much more forgiving in that respect and with her descent autohelm is more relaxing to sail if you want to just sit back and relax.
Any way thanks for watching and commenting... we have just subscribed to your channel as well, and are looking forward to watching you on your adventures.
Thanks for commenting, nice to hear from you