Skip Novak's Storm Sailing Techniques Part 1

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speed racer - 5 years ago

Why do this?

Petyr Kowalski - 5 years ago

"Storm sailing techniques"- find some storms and sail in them.

HagenSteele - 5 years ago

Please change the title of the this video to "chick goes sailing with dudes down south" please, as there's no useful storm sailing information here.

Mos Kito - 5 years ago

cape horners ... even the words Kap Horn makes me shiver

Lars Walker - 5 years ago

The technique was go home by land? You just wasted 7 minutes of my life.

man in the jar - 5 years ago

Bullshit Horn.

Travis Neill - 5 years ago

No techniques in the video. Huge disappointment.

Ga Wa - 5 years ago

Somewhat underwhelmed.

peter mickelsen - 5 years ago

what the heck. Anticipated technical stuff as what are you doing with the cool looking deck gear?

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VideoNozoki - 5 years ago

"Storm Sailing Techniques" .... 000 techniques discussed..... (-_-;) (clickbate titile)

762fullmetal - 5 years ago

techniques? Huh/ I must be masturbating

Eastern Cape experience on land and sea - 5 years ago

I know photography can be misleading, but I've been out sailing in 30 knots easterly winds here in Port Elizabeth South Africa and the swells (waves) look much bigger than in this video. Like I said, maybe the video doesn't show how rough the sea really is. Maybe you should come practice your techniques here in South Africa along the Wild Coast or the Cape of Storms.

Gee Tee - 5 years ago

Not 1 technique shared

maddocmuc maddocmuc - 5 years ago

What about the announced sailing techniques???

Keith Barker - 6 years ago

Just an advert. No technical discussions. I liked it, though. More accurate tag-lines, pls.

James Graham - 6 years ago

Totally pointless video

Iouli Andreev - 6 years ago

Дельфины плывут перед кораблями потому, что принимают корабли за китов. Киты обнаруживают косяки рыбы раньше, чем дельфины, у них мощнее гидролокаторы, которые действуют на более длинных расстояниях. Это моя догадка, я не знаю, что думают по этому поводу биологи.
Dolphins swim in front of the ships because they take the ships for whales. Whales find shoals of fish earlier than dolphins, they have more powerful sonars, which operate at longer distances. This is my guess, I do not know what biologists think about behavior of the dolphins.

JCBs Sailing Into the Sunset - 6 years ago

Pretending it was their first time to be there....this video leaves much to be desired.

Henrik Segercrantz - 6 years ago

A Cape Horner is an maritime officer of a commercial sailing ship having rounded Cape Horn. Not many left. They even closed down the club.

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Arctic Haze - 6 years ago

OK, I'll skip them.

mnpd3 - 6 years ago

I have a good sailing technique for storms.... Don't do it. I started to be a keen weather watched after a 1974 experience 100 miles west of Patras, Greece.

Dingo Capo - 6 years ago

O elaboration on heavy weather sailing just red headed pie hole spewing nonsenses!,, WTF

bodybait - 6 years ago

I like how they stow the anchor but latter while sailing its there tied down.

Rainy Sunday - 6 years ago

What a crap video . . . .

rui pedro silveira - 6 years ago

whay is this place so mystic?

rui pedro silveira - 6 years ago

This is Cap Horn

Rykehuss - 6 years ago

Read the video description. "An introductory film on the making of the series". Rest of the series features the techniques.

michael d - 6 years ago

My friend was on Flyer in 1976 Whitbread! Roger Janes do you know him?

Thecapn_uk - 6 years ago

This has nothing to do with sailing at all.

kama motumotu - 6 years ago

you want real storm,come to the south pacific in around December and April,you would love it!

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John-Michael Bellamy - 6 years ago

Please stop waxing poetic and give actual technique or tips...there are people who are genuinely looking to learn and reduce the chance of dying.

michael boguslawski - 6 years ago

Skip v good video you are 100 % right

Sven Lima - 7 years ago

clickbait

Kens Crack Of Doom - 7 years ago

1:40 before anything happens. 4:00 and they raise a sail. Average and very sailable conditions at Cape Horn.

Kens Crack Of Doom - 7 years ago

How is that Skip Novaks storm tech part 1

Damien Crous - 7 years ago

Durban South Africa. 29ft steel hull yacht.. 30ft Rouge wave. heave to or run? lets say its daytime and i have enough time to turn or c it comming.

myermedia - 6 years ago

Not a single mention of a storm sailing technique in the entire video.

Melody Storm - 6 years ago

Rogue wave? You don't seem to understand the concept of a rogue wave..
...Either way, what gets you usually isn't the waves but the wind, if you're in a sailboat with a ballast keel and not one of those tugboat "yachts" you're almost unsinkable, the crew will give up before the boat.
Now hurricane winds however..

St Michael - 6 years ago

Say "Oh Chit", all passengers and yourself don life vests, Start your engine , ease off all sheets, turn bow into wave, throttle up to full, say prayer, ready the life raft, tie off EPIRB to your belt loop, prepare to abandon if needed. I have never sailed a day in my life but, someday want to. From watching videos, they say to take waves bow first. Definitely, never take a large wave with it on side of boat or behind, I have seen videos of a boat summersaulting.

Kamasiri Koh Kood - 8 years ago

Wonderfully shot and narrated. As a fair weather cruising sailor, I'm in awe at what you guys seek out and do. Would like to experience something like this one day. Thank you!

Bernadette Husch - 8 years ago

ic commYou should go to woodprix if you'd like to make it yourself guys.

gyrovague - 8 years ago

Rather than techniques this is just the sailing 'elite' saying 'i rounded Cape Horn' na naaa! How many times does she say 'Cape Horn'?

Michael Piccirillo - 5 years ago

gyrovague where did she sail around again?

Dave Soderlund - 5 years ago

The easy way W to E.

Kaptain Kid - 5 years ago

@Send it!! . . . in the next eight videos in the series, turkey.

Send it!! - 6 years ago

YES WHERE WERE THE TIPS AND TECHNIQUES

Robert - 6 years ago

I would like to see you having ago at rounding Cape horn in a Southern Winter storm as I have done with a 40ft Trimaran. It's no picnic especially when you can't whether its day or night and you have great watery mountains coming out of nowhere.

Rykehuss - 6 years ago

Look at the video description, you idiots. "An introductory film on the making of the series". There's 9 more parts after this.

beans86543 - 7 years ago

Exactly

James G - 8 years ago

There is no mention of techniques in this video?

Rob Shook - 8 years ago

There are 10 videos.

terrence simms - 8 years ago

Is it fair to say; you sail through the Cape, not around it

stagmite11 RS - 9 years ago

whats the opening music

Jodave Fletcher - 9 years ago

Did the The north sea race from Hull to Ijmuiden a few times.as crew for my then Landlord.Loved it. First time coming back from ijmuiden we missed judged the weather and flipped the ship over , lucky for us it righted it self again me and the helmsman were washed over board, but we had life lines on .but all was ok in the end. Did the race another 3 times , would love to go sailing again.

Jodave Fletcher - 8 years ago

have you done it

Mandy Taylor - 10 years ago

I've been in a force 9 - 10 for 3 days and nights and moored in 65 knots of wind. I would consider twice before rounding the horn ! Well done everyone.

Mandy Taylor - 9 years ago

Yes - it was hell - thankfully only myself and my partner on board - my son (now aged 9) was 9.1 months away !

SwagMaster420 - 9 years ago

@Mandy Taylor That sounds like hell.

Mandy Taylor - 10 years ago

Oh - in a 35 foot Warriar Mk III with 2 on board.

rolf Bensdorp - 10 years ago

me and my brother sail the laser 2 together on my channer there are some movies of us doing this

MR PLAYLIST - 10 years ago

GREAT VIDEO
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David Browne - 10 years ago

Such BS

David Bravo - 10 years ago

Hope you enjoy this video can we ame for 100 likes that would be a awesome. :)

Andy Wilson - 10 years ago

I was hoping to learn something from this video (re the Title). It turned out to be some woman's travel log ! and not very interesting at that.

Kaptain Kid - 5 years ago

@Andy . . . did you watch the other 8 videos in this series?, this was just the first, an introduction into heavy weather.

Swabby - 10 years ago

This is absolutely fascinating. I am completely amazed and truly intrigued with your drive to push the limits. You have quite the lucky crew. One could only dream of experiencing an adventure such as this. May fair winds and following seas grace your journeys. If you are ever looking for an additional crew member I am more than willing to assist!

LeCrazyCanuckEh - 10 years ago

Well said and DIDO!!!

Cheers

Windchaser - 10 years ago

Great video by Richard Langdon... captures a beautiful, forbidding place and an enviable 'assignment' for you guys! How come Skip doesn't have any grey hairs after 24 seasons Down There?

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Conrad Green - 10 years ago

Jeeeez! I want to sail with Skip! Great video.

Isaac Wilks - 10 years ago

I read a cape horn book with skip novak in it

Nathaniel Jack - 11 years ago

I have sailed an Optimist in 55kt winds in 4.5 meter swells. not many people have done that. :D

Kaptain Kid - 5 years ago

@Nathanial Jack . . . Wow! You are some courageous dude! An iron man on a wooden ship . . . but for those who don't know the ship Nathanial Jack "sailed", an Optimist is a small, single-handed sailing dinghy intended for use by children up to the age of 15.

Henrik Segercrantz - 6 years ago

At Cape Horn?

Byron Pratt - 6 years ago

Been in the 4 ft swells but not the winds only like 30 knots and that was on my sail in to the bay.

Federico Lucchi - 7 years ago

I wouldn't like to be in an Opti anywhere close to a swell! ;) Nice balls! ;)

FrekeOne - 10 years ago

sounds wild and rough. I planed inside a harbour at 29 knots.

William Jones - 11 years ago

Great footage. Looks like a lot of fun. Because of the title I thought this was a video about storm sailing techniques.

TheSailingChannel.TV - 11 years ago

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Александр Гуткович - 11 years ago

super!

Brawndo - 11 years ago

do you know who Skip Novak actually is? He's not bullocks. google the name before spouting non sense.

Jake - 11 years ago

Sailing around cape horn doesn't mean flying down there, jaunting around the cape in nice weather and then flying home. Bollocks!

Edward Dudgeon - 11 years ago

Ahh, the joys of fairweather sailing here on Mobile Bay

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