Sailing Lessons: The basics (part 1)

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AsTheWheelsTurn - 7 years ago

I'll find another video to watch that doesn't involve some dude coughing over and over again ,someone tapping on a desk and phasing in and out of volume,just super annoying, couldn't hang, get that audio worked out.

Wade Patton - 8 years ago

The worst yo yo audio. Liked the talk but can't stand the speaker leaning in/out of the microphone. Far worse than cougher, but then I bailed at 3:39...hack

Man Bro - 8 years ago

C O U G H C O U G H

MichalBoguslawski - 8 years ago

good explanation thanx

Maciej Hajbert - 9 years ago

i didnt notice the cough until i read the comments. thanks guys.

kfa4303 - 9 years ago

sailing in Kansas?

SaxyDan54 - 9 years ago

+Lehmann Peters Well, I've lived in Florida most of my life, so I think bays or the Gulf.

Lehmann Peters - 9 years ago

Hell, I sailed in Iowa!

SaxyDan54 - 9 years ago

Yeah, that caught my eye, too. Next week, how to plow a farm from Jake in Key West.

Green Bear - 9 years ago

coughing guy probably masturbated before coming to class. That is why he is sick :) haha Don;t jack off before sailing; you need the energy.

Joel Bray - 9 years ago

stop coughing you piece of shit.

David WrighT - 10 years ago

Probably a very good video, but you need to put the coughing guy away from the microphone, His coughing and pencil tapping are really distracting and interupts the audio, which is just as important as the video

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Pepe Tora - 10 years ago

Great video! The "33 sailing tips & tricks" book brought me here :)

David Rodriguez Fregoso - 10 years ago

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KJ Aitken - 10 years ago

Nice info, I sail a lot. I race optis and its really quite fun. Thumbs up

brad s - 10 years ago

Anyone recommend a book title that covers the basics as this video does?

Nathan Burd - 10 years ago

+brad s http://www.amazon.com/Basic-Keelboat-U-S-Sailing-Certification/dp/1882502213 There may be a newer edition.

Gonz - 10 years ago

that guy who keeps coughing needs to get out.

Norm Rubin - 11 years ago

One small error: When Matt defines Freeboard, he refers correctly to the Waterline. But when he gets to Waterline LENGTH (LWL), he misdefines it as freeboard (distance from deck to water). Half of these terms are more interesting to a sailing geek like me than a first-day student, IMO.

Thomas Lomax - 11 years ago

Sailing a 420 with a THC sail? okay!

Mohamed Alborno - 8 years ago

Thats so cool!

Ken London - 11 years ago

Great job Mr. Cross. The only thing you did not do is throw the sick guy out of your class. I hate him

Norm Faber - 11 years ago

Excellent reminder of what its all about.Thank You. It wasn't the cough that was a problem it was how close he was to the microphone. Those were loud dynamics.

John Maddux - 11 years ago

Question Does Ku Sailing have a facebook page or a twitter? & is the club still going?
John T

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Ian Edmonds - 11 years ago

What you have is the back in the boat in your control. Push the tiller away the back of the boat goes with it. Maybe that's a personal point but I found it worked to the point that it became so engrained in my consciousness that when I moved to wheeled keel boats I spent much of the having to battle my instinct to steer the back of the boat with the wheel. Worked really well on dinghys and small keelboats tho. :-) I had a lot of fun in i420s over the years. Great boats.

Ian Edmonds - 11 years ago

Good lecture. A few points. You should tell them why waterline length is such a big deal in a dinghy. Some early mention of the three modes of dinghy sailing would be useful even just as a reference. Telling them hull waterline length is important without talking about displacement mode top speeds is not crystallising the lesson imho. About the tiller acting in the opposite way to the wheel of a car. I came to think about the tiller as steering the back of the boat.

Kimdino1 - 12 years ago

Excellent set of talks for starting sailing. All necessary info with no extraneous crap. All applicable to cruising, racing or pottering about, Whether dinghy or megayacht. If this could be professionally filmed with the same guy presenting to the camera, instead of a noisy audience (& ideally translated to English) then I would want to give a copy of all the newbie sailors before they first get on a boat. All they will then need is practical experience. Thanks, mate.

Jack B - 12 years ago

Tried to watch your video but between the terrible sound and the guy coughing I had to quit.

Nic - 12 years ago

Anytime you use an on-camera microphone, you have to have at least one smoker coughing up a lung in the audience. It's the law.

ceaser21i - 12 years ago

There are several lakes in missouri and kansas.

Reinis Miks - 12 years ago

yeah.

Trevor Townsend - 12 years ago

Make him the bowman, where everyone else on the boat can hurl abuse at him.

DodgyHagrid - 12 years ago

Thank you this is what im looking for! Dat coughing guy is a dick though

nadmenny - 12 years ago

THC, lol

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Dessertrunner - 12 years ago

Can a brother get some fuckin' claritin up in here? K&P

Michael Angelo - 13 years ago

amazing.. very well done, dud. :)

soundpromaster - 13 years ago

The guy with the cough should have shut up

John England - 13 years ago

Sweet man. I was just out sailing a 48ft boat yesterday and I loved it. Going out next Sunday again so I'm trying to learn the lingo a little bit.

Capitão Huzzé - 13 years ago

Very good. would be better to make available in English subtitles.

bamaH12 - 13 years ago

No, it is a Butterfly. The logo is similar, but the sailplan different

Cunty McShitterman - 13 years ago

he says its a butterfly but that is distinctly a moth logo.

Barb TheNurse - 13 years ago

You are an excellent speaker and teacher. Thank you for posting these videos. It helped me a lot!

saabna1 - 13 years ago

That guy coughing is driving me nuts

David Hochreiter - 13 years ago

Wow, I hope the popped collar does not mean this guy is not a good teacher.

Charisse L - 13 years ago

awesome ... just wish the kid in class with the lovely cough didn't come to class sick!

Reilly Jensen - 13 years ago

KU SUCKS GO K-STATE!!!

James Hinson - 14 years ago

wow i had my first lesson on a beach 5 feet from the ocean and 10 mins after starting i was on my boat!

Jonathan Newcomb - 14 years ago

Thank you for this good sir. I'm going to work on a sailboat for the first time this summer, and I want to study up before the season begins. Taking notes while watching this! Just like a real course. Cheers!

Cory Wright - 14 years ago

Your videos are exactly what I was looking for! Thanks for uploading them, I'm pretty sure they're the most thorough sailing basics videos on youtube (or darn close to it.) And from KU nonetheless! Looks like my Kansas State friends were wrong about ya'll ;)