How to sail a catamaran part 5. Sailing on Lagoon 46.
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Foreign [Music] this is the this island and we have a full Journal we have a full Mainsail and now how can you steer this boat of course you can steer it you know just hand steer it that’s one option then you
Can set its normal autopilot so if press autopilot then he’s going to steer by Compass basically he’s just gonna keep the course and then we also have the wind autopilot which I’m using right now and
It’s super fun so I set it to the wind autopilot and I set the apparent wind angles is it a parent win angle and this is what I want 49 and that’s what he really is because you know he is going a
Little bit slower left and right he’s not very quick you can set this it’s called sensitivity but this is just fine so basically right now I set the sails and now if the wind changes you
See the boat will change because on the top of the Mast there is this wind indicator yeah I can see there’s like an arrow so that’s how the boat knows where the wind is coming from and then he
Also calculates the speed of the boat and that’s how he gets the real wind because on the top it’s actually only you know the apparent wind but to get the true wind speed or the train Direction he
Has to you know add or deduct the boat speed it’s you know just like when you’re not when you’re on the bicycle and not moving you have one wind when you start you know riding a bike you produce wind
That’s the apparent wind so right now because we’re moving we’re filling the apparent wind so this is a super cool way when there’s a lot of wind shift or you’re sailing upwind you know when you’re zigzagging zigzag so to you know get upwind you can set the angle so this boat would
Usually go like 33 42 maximum upwind and then you can just you know sit and watch because if you know the wind shifts then you know you will have to change direction or change the sails so
It can be you know like a lot of work so that’s why I love this wind autopilot because you just set the sails you know and you just observe what’s going on but let’s say now I wanna you know change the direction for a couple degrees see again I just press this button
So now I just increased c241 if I press one more you see to 42 degrees so now he’s gonna keep an angle to apparent wind on 42 degrees and basically I just you know steered a little bit off so it’s very easy to control the boat also with this wind autopilot
Fingers so like now I have it in Wind autopilot and now I can just you know play with the speed so let’s assume that the wind speed stands the same so it’s not going up or down so now I can
Play with the sails you know with uh you know to trim them better and then just observe the speed see the speed of the boat now SOG is five knots and now I can adjust a little bit trim
The sails and then see if the boat goes faster so see there’s a lot of theory how you should set the sails like you know you should do this this this but in the end it’s all about the boat
Speed if the boat is going faster then it’s okay if it’s going slower then it’s not okay so what can we you know like with the Genoa this boat doesn’t have much settings so what you can of course do this is the the sheet of course controls the you know the tension
And this is like what you’re mostly using and then you have these telltales which are telling you how the wind is going so right now you can see that the telltale’s on the top they’re like parallel
Which means they’re pretty happy but here you see the one on the inside is Happy the one on outside is not happy which means we should either go a little bit more upwind or we should release a
Little bit you know to open the sail and then we would make but now they’re again kind of Happy so the sale is like set pretty well now there’s another rope here so this is the Rope there’s a small stopper that just goes through here all the way to the top
And with this rope you control you know this like back side of the sail and it it’s not for making a shape it’s just like to control the vibration so you do want to have this Loose as much as possible
Uh but so the sail is not vibrating so if the sale starts you know doing this like on the back then you would tension this a little bit so it’s just like you know not to damage the
Sail and then we also have this adjustment here so there’s these four holes what are they used for so if I pull if let’s say I move it here see there’s going to be more pull down than now you
See this angle this angle is going to change so I’m gonna produce more Force pulling down than pulling here and then what happens I’m gonna get a little bit more stomach here a deeper say here
And now I’m gonna close the upper part see because I’m gonna pull down the upper part closes more but here I’m gonna get a bigger belly so theoretically then you wouldn’t be able to
Sell so much upwind but you would get more power if you’re going a little bit off wind and this is also a great way to control the tail Tails now in the racing boats you see there you have that rail
So we can very easily move you know forward and backwards to adjust this angle of the Rope but here you just kind of have to pre-adjust and we usually don’t touch it but just to know what’s
Used for now if we would go more on this one here then you would you know like make less stomach the more flat sail in this area and theoretically be able to go more upwind because you can have
More sharp angle but also you would open the sail on the top more now this is good when you wanna you know release a lot of wind it’s very windy they don’t have much you don’t want to have much
Pressure on the sail but basically what you want to do is you just want to have the happy telltales so with adjusting this angle you can control the telltales so let’s say right now the one on the
Top is kind of happy and this one says I have to release so I could in this case also put it a little bit more you know like up so I would make a deeper sale here I would get more power
Now this self-tacking which I’m not the biggest fan of I’ll just have to check quickly if there’s any boats you know whenever you’re doing and you lose concentration on where you’re going You’re gonna hit somebody so you have to go behind the sail do the 360. and now we can
Keep talking so this uh the rail you see you could theoretically move this stopper here and then when you’re gonna attack the sail is gonna be you know more in now I’ll show you on this side so if I move this stopper more here now the sail would be here
You can see it would be like you see like smaller Angle now there’s a thing it doesn’t really work I’ll have to do some more uh video on that but if you put the sail in the middle it doesn’t work because there’s this minimum angle that the sails need so I never touch
This I always keep it like this all the way out and I think this is the the best for and then why would you use these Stoppers so let’s say you’re not sailing or you’re selling downwind
And you have kids flying around whatever now you can move this one see all the way here so there’s no danger that this trailer would you know unpredictably go left and right if you mess it up if there’s a wind shift or
Maybe you know kids running around and you can just cut the fingers here we have a great example of why you have to make these things happen you see it actually came in so all these ropes and you see all these roads were closing the lazy Jack the back you have to
Kind of make sure they don’t go in because you can get stuck and then you wouldn’t be able to release the main sheet if it’s really necessary so see I’m just you know just do whatever like this seems fine and these things see they don’t really hold
So you always have to do an extra now it’s way better so it doesn’t go in another thing you always want to do is make sure these guys are always get kind of loose and also these bolts
So there’s one bolt here one bolt here and they just kind of stand especially when you get a new boat it’s all loose and you do want to double check this all the time I usually put zip
Ties but now somebody remove them and I put the zip tie through here and then it makes it cannot rotate this pin so always check this you know a couple times a year all around the boat
So what can we do with the Mainsail so the controls of course we have the main sheet but also the hellyard so right now you can see that this sail is not tension enough you see the front edge it’s a little bit loose it’s kind of okay but if I would release make
It even more loose then you would get this kind of line and you can deform the sail very quickly so this is like okay but it should be a little bit more tangent now you don’t want a tension when there’s a wind you know you should turn upwind
Or use engines or release the main sheet a lot so that the sail you know is empty loose and then you tension the main the main halyard because otherwise there’s just way too much pressure now here on the back of the boat we have this trailer which is a
Great thing it’s basically controls the angle of the sail you see so the Boom and it actually controls this angle to the wind and the main sheet also has I mean the same effect if you release the main sheet it will open but also the boom will go up
So once you release this one you see the boom goes up up and out so it opens and goes up and that affects the back of the sail see the back edge of the sail so then looking from here
We call it a twist so now the more I pull it down the last twist I’m gonna get the sail is more closed now it gets more power so let’s just say there’s like some normal winds like I know
10 to 15 knots I just want to have it closed so right now I could close it more and I would get more power now as the wind increases and there’s too much wind you want to release the main sheet
So that you open the sale and that’s my there’s you know much less forces on the boat on the sails and much less chances your capsize so basically it’s like on the sailboat on a monohull you have
A bank you know and he controls this uh you know Twist on the sail now on the catamaran this rope is like mostly should be used to control the twist and then the angle of the sail should
Be controlled with moving uh the trail this uh trolley trailer left and right but of course once you get all the way to the end and you want to open more then all that’s left is the main [ __ ]
Now in the catamarans like you know many racing boats they also have this I think it’s called out how so it’s basically the tension of the sail pulling there but on this boat it’s just fixed
And you would kind of control you know the depth of the sail but then again if you have these sales with the full button you don’t do much you know like it’s on hobby cat it’s you know very small
Effect so that’s why they just you know fix it and nobody touches and everybody’s happy and then of course when there’s too much wind the Mainsail can be Rift which means yeah you put it a little bit
Down and that’s why all these lines on the back are and also in the front because now you put the sail down and tension these lines which are now going to hold the sail down so you’re gonna decrease the sale area decrease the power because you don’t want to be overpowered because we’re
Going to either break or turn the boat around so very simply you can go down so this boat has three Roofing spots so you can go down a little bit even more or even more so there’s like three riffs
It all depends you know how much wind there is now you can do the same thing with the Genoa you know when there’s too much wind you just furl it a little bit
You know you would just like furl it a little bit and you see those two points and we call it like a roofing like so you know like this would be the third Ray of the second riff how much you furl
The sail but in this case you can just go by The Filling you don’t have to go to the point you just go as much as you think it’s okay so when there’s too much wind you just furl the sail a little bit
And then it’s going to produce less pressure and you’re going to decrease power and you’ll be able to sail in more winds now the furling you know once you furl the shape is never the same you know
I always lose the shape so I don’t really like it but of course it’s easy and that’s what the cruising boats have right now yeah getting close to this a great day not much waves nice sailing is thank you
Let’s talk about the I love this High field Dingus it’s aluminum bottom a little bit V like super cool stuff I love Yamaha I’m a fan of Yamaha I would always take it over other engines this is a electronic injection so there’s no choke like works like butter it’s a really
Good stuff so we don’t keep the fuel here some people keep the fuel here and then you know just on the Sun the water can get in so these boats you have a double floor which is great because
The water stays there so your feet is dry this is the plug you know to drain the water so now the hose goes under and comes in here where we have a fuel tank now most of the people take a
10 liter I think that’s like kind of standard but the 20 liter fits in here and you do want to have a 20 liter because hey you need fuel more fuel the better fuel so before we start you check if
There’s fuel there’s a gauge you can also open and check or just by you know looking here uh then you want to open the air so this is the air because when the fuel goes out to the engine if you keep
This closed it’s going to either collapse or it’s going to stop working so you have to keep the air open and this is good because it’s in a shade so it doesn’t get hot and I suggest having it like
This this is the small vent where the air comes in and then we have so this is the throttle so just by twisting you give more power this is the gear so this is forward this is neutral we have a
Reverse so whenever you’re doing this you know you shouldn’t have power but you should put minimum and then you should you see a switch now this is a safety cord so you put this on your wrist
And then if you fall in the water you’re gonna pull this off and the engine is going to stop now I should be using this more often for some reason I’m not but you should be using it uh then when
You want to shut off the engine you have to press here this button it just shuts it off so just go to the minimum press this button and there’s two lights they turn red it’s for oil and temperature
So if there’s no light it’s okay every engine is different but if there’s something like red lights that means either oil or temperature is the problem uh oh so this button here adjusts how hard it is to move the engine so you can like adjust now it’s harder firmer for higher speeds
Uh it’s good to know and then you want to keep these guys very tangent this is not like super well tangent the engine can like twist for in the water happens many times then we have the oars
Always bring yours because the engines fail and always bring the anchor so we have anchor and the line is like the umbrella anchor we just you know opens and closes and it’s really good to have not
Just for the Emergency you know let’s say you’re out there your engine fails and you’re gonna drift well you just drop the engine and you’re gonna be good or if you go we’ll go down there to the pier
And you don’t want your thing you’re rubbing you can always drop the anchor behind and it’s going to keep the boat from smashing you know to the pier and then we have the fenders which are most of the people don’t have but I suggest I just love these red ones it’s good visibility
So I like to keep the dinghy on a long line so actually because if it’s very short and the waves come it’s going to be not too much shock and what we have is so these are the things when we lift it
Up and I always have carbine so see I just do this in the water it’s very easy and it’s not gonna you know this attach now when I go into the dinghy I very trust this engine so sometimes I just jump
In and start but that’s what you shouldn’t do so what I do is unclip it I put it here and then I hold this line and just step in and I’m using this line as just you know like to stabilize myself I’m still you
See connected to the boat and because this is really good engine all I have to do is and now with other engines you’ll have to be clipped you know and start them I always attach
This here so you don’t want to get it in the propeller so the distance you see we cut it so it cannot go in a propeller if it even if it falls in the water but you know you just clip it here so easy I’m gonna go now reverse
And I can go neutral so when I wanna get you know to pick up the boat to people here what I do is I go at the sharp angle see all these standard pedals in the way I have my engine running now
So the best way is to use this rope you know as a balance so all you do is you just step in you see I’m using this super easy I clip this here the engine is already running now how to pick
Up people sideways so the best method is you want to copy the sharp angle and just before hitting you turn the engine go neutral see you come here and then you hold the boat so let’s do this again
So again I want to get at the sharp angle because it’s like a sharp angle I need some speed I turn the engine you see and then the momentum see how it brings me here so now I didn’t go close enough just to show the momentum but now I’m gonna
Like go even faster to show how the momentum brings me next to the boat that’s a quick turn power turn so the more speed I have the more momentum it’s gonna bring me so I go now with a lot of speed
You see I turn see how I get close to the boat it’s so easy now the mistakes so what people do is I’ll do another Power turn when you do power turn make sure the engine is well fixed because it can fall off so you just do a lot of power
And twist it’s a good method so what people do is uh they would usually come at like the angle you know too steep and they have a lot of speed you see and we’re going like this and then okay this time I’m lucky but still the boat is going so I
Have to pull it back so that’s why it’s much better to go uh like at a sharp angle and turn now there’s another way of picking uh persons from the boat now I don’t really like this one but sometimes it’s very useful so let’s say there’s a pier
Usually I don’t use it on a boat but there’s like a pier nice beer so yeah you can come very slowly now I put the boat in a gear it’s in a gear and by turning and see engine left
And right I keep the boat pushing to the pier or to the boat I don’t like it because it can get scratched but it’s you know like one of one of the methods now what you can do
Uh let’s say there’s a pier you can board people like this so you’re here and people board this way and you’re controlling the boat and still they can use your shoulder as the balance so now when you use the gear you shouldn’t have you know throttle on it’s not going to
Work so it should be off I put reverse I can drive the boat reverse I see it’s just fine you see left right I can go to the neutral and then I can put in a gear and I put a little bit
Of throttle now this throttle doesn’t go back like on the engine see when I put throttle it keeps going so it doesn’t go back it’s good to know and then I’m just you know driving the boat
Now there’s a lot about the balance of the boat where to put people because if you put all the people forward the boat is not going to have a good trim if you put all the paper backwards the
Boat’s gonna go like this so you have to find a good Trim in that matter let’s say if there’s a lot of chop you can put all the people behind so that the bow goes up and then there’s going
To be less spray or if you’re just two persons you want to have one person forward so that when you start planing you would plane much faster so the weight distribution does matter quite a lot
I’m docking you know like close to sometimes I just hold here so this engine is kind of cool this is strong enough but still be gentle and I’m just like you see like neutral where I’m
Approaching the pier and I hold it here so very quickly I can put neutral if you’re holding here you see this is just another step to get here but when you’re like very close to the pier and slow you can just hold it here so you turn you go natural
So it’s very easy okay so now we’re coming into the boat see I’m holding here I twist we’re drifting I hold up stuck a little bit so it’s all about going in and then drifting in and
Now you can exit using the shoulder very good now this boat has a really good system so let’s shut off the engine so you just press this button so it has a really good system for putting out so we’ve
Made these clips not everybody has these clips so well done and one here so I just clip the boat and then there’s a winch and a bottom this is the safety so I want to close this first and then
Just by pressing this you see the boat goes out of the water now be careful you see here these lines when there’s a lot of waves many times they would get stuck around the engine or something and then you lift up and you brake so make sure all the lines are going
Nicely and then you know we could just keep going up but no we don’t need we need a ding in the water so I’ll open the safety put it back in the water [Applause] okay and now I’m gonna board from that side it’s just easier you can feel them from here
Wait so then I just pull the boat I step in using this I unhook here I take my painter clip together I go out see it’s very easy now there is another cool way so let’s go all over again engine is not
Running so I go here I go here start the engine make sure the painter is clipped and now I’m gonna do the fancy way of docking so now I take the painter the Caribbean off I keep it in my hand pull this out now I’m approaching the boat
With the speed see I have a lot of speed now I turn off the engine I step forward I push the boat away see and all I have to do is just clip it somewhere and you’re good to go so that was using
The momentum so I was driving in I have enough speed so I can just turn the engine off and step off like a boss clip and that’s all I have to do and then you push it away because you don’t want
To crash like a dummy but just before you crash you push it away just right and then you step so now we have a pier and this beer is a little bit rough but it’s quite high and straight and I
Have this Fender forward so maybe you know I can afford to go straight in but then again you see I’m holding here for the gear slowly coming in when I get close I just go here see now
If you look carefully here you see I’m gonna crash even though I have a fender you see it would be crashing and it’s it’s sharp it will just you know damage damage everything so but
It’s fine if I just hold the boat like this so this is the pose I’m holding the boat and then people can board you see just by you know holding my shoulder so you want to jump in just to show
So you hold the shoulder very easy and if you want to go out it’s all the same you just walk yeah now go out and you use the shoulder you see it’s very easy okay so now I’m gonna come sideways drifting in and going reverse
So it’s very good because I have these fenders and you know I can use more speed so now you see I have a very sharp angle and just before I’m coming here I turn the engine I put neutral you see the boat automatic oh forgot
This one the boat automatically drifts in and then you’re again in a good position and people can board by using a shoulder okay you show so it’s very easy you grab a shoulder you go in and
The same to go out grab your shoulder and you go out and when you want to go out you just push away so I’ll do it again I’m gonna go with a little bit more speed now
So I’m gonna come you know too fast this is too fast see I have a lot of speed a lot of speed I turn I go neutral you see how the boat is going this direction
So the speed gives momentum and once I turn I just slide in and then you just have to get used to controlling this slide and this is just the best way to do it now if I want to go out here
Solo I would do the same as I did earlier on the boat so I take off the the rope in the Caribbean okay I need enough speed so when I stop the engine I’m gonna get there okay neutral stop I
Come forward you see just before hitting you push the boat away like a boss because I have a clip okay this one was too big or I just do this and I’m good to go away and then the same when I want to board the dingy I just take the clip
I bring the boat close now I’m gonna board without engine running which you probably shouldn’t do but anyway just for demonstration you see the boat is here I step push I use this for a balance clip start the engine it’s so simple okay
Good job so the ropes you know ropes on the boat some should be stretchy like this ones they should be stretchy because this is the line you put ashore you know like for docking and then
It should be a little bit stretchy so like it takes off you know the pressure but let’s say the hell yard it should be the name line it shouldn’t be stretchy because otherwise all the settings are going to be it doesn’t work so in the boat we have stretch lines and then
The Nema lines which don’t stretch they’re like still cable they don’t stretch at all now what do you do with these lines you just call them so there’s many ways I’ll show you how I do so
I just don’t see like these nice loops it kind of looks nice I say there’s many methods every Captain has its own it’s kind of like this one and then once it’s I go here and like you must
Go across you see this is the critical point that you cross if you go like if you don’t cross everything is going to fall apart so this is the the key point cross and then keep it tight
Do a couple the more the better and then pull it through see and now this rope it’s good so I can throw it I can pick it up it doesn’t fall apart that’s important some people call and then put
It on the floor and then once you lift everything is like this you lift and everything look falls apart terrible this one is never gonna happen and then you see I just usually hang them somewhere
Just like this but never in front of the boat you see if you do this it’s going to follow one day and get in the propeller so I usually just hang them on the back of the boat and
When they’re wet you just don’t want to put them in any storage because now they’re gonna mold so you should dry them out so we usually just keep them hanging out on the back because
We use them regularly it gets wet all the time just dry out although they’re on the Sun but uh you know they’re good for many years even if we keep them on the sand so so the knot I use to
Hang it it’s like you know just like a fender nut you see it’s this not nothing special uh and then I was thinking you see like a new system so that’s another line
And I just like done this for the first time and I kind of like it so you can go like this so I start one a little bit longer one a little bit shorter and I just start calling double
I just figured out this today it’s actually you know twice as fast see how cool is this see and then I take the longer part and I just do the same I have to cross here see this is the key
Thing okay I should have a little bit more line but it’s gonna be okay and then I go through see it was as fast as this one I mean it was double the fast twice as fast and you
See it looks just the same maybe this one looks even nicer and then there’s another good trick so let’s say see this rope this is the sheet for the Code Zero and so once you nicely coil it which I have just shown see I have to put it somewhere I cannot
Really remove it I want it to fall in the water so I do this trick see I go across and I pull it under see this this is so good this is like never ever gonna fall in the water
And you can leave it in front because it’s not going to get them propelled like no way you’ve done it correctly oh there’s always a way but this is a great method now see this we call it Epsilon
I think people call it Bridal call it Epsilon say once I pull it out I just cook this here pull the other end and I basically do the same knot it’s like the fender knot or the one I use
For the ropes you see I go over and although it looks like a mess but it’s basically the same knot but it’s just like done with two ropes and the same thing here is the same you see it’s like
What I do is I do kind of a fender knot but I go with see I have a line like this or in the middle and I do all the same you see it’s like same as the fender nut you see but then when you go on
The on the like thicker it’s not a thin wire but you know it’s thicker always do you know like the safety you know for some reason uh because that’s what I do with the fenders see like this is the
This fat fender I love these fenders because when they’re in between the boats you know they roll if you have the thin one it just scratches no but this one when you go this is the boat you see it’s
Rolling and it’s kind of uh really good and it keeps more distance see the thin ones are half so this one is great to have it forward and backwards now with the fenders see is this Fender not I don’t know the English word but anyway you’ll see so
When I go on this thin wire see I’ll just go put it lower down so it’s easier to work see so when tying a fender you go I do this naughty see I go it’s a fan or not see everybody knows
This one and if it’s on the thin one it holds like you can do the safety around the Rope or you can do like safety like the third one here but you know when it’s like this it’s good but then be careful when you go on these rails which are fatter
And if you do just a normal for some reason always slips it seems good right I always sleep so I always do a safety and I like to do the safety around the Rope it just seems like
This is a better solution now this you’re never going to lose a fender now what some people do is and then my hair goes like this gray terrible thing so what they do is they start normally but then they do this and this is Mamma Mia I I like don’t do this you
See because very quickly you see somebody just plays pools it’s gone another thing is if I see people doing this now you don’t know like what’s this like but if it’s like this see I see
From far away it’s good and then like this safety one I just see from far away it’s all good but then sometimes people do you know the safety now the normal but then they do safety like this now
You’re not sure is it this safety or is the original one then the kit comes oh that’s fun you know let’s play everything goes away I’ve seen so many people professional Skippers doing that
My hair goes like this you see when I get a boat after a skipper like that I’m like why you know like how many fenders have you lost oops so let’s put it back how it should be safety so you know
Think about this and then there’s a great trick it’s called lasso so let’s say you’re on the pier and you cannot go off the boat right I have to throw a line over the [ __ ] so now I’m on
The boat this is C and this small [ __ ] is gonna be the clip so you start by doing very big loops and you have to do very nicely as nicer it is the nicer it is the easier it is okay
And then of course one end has to be connected to the [ __ ] to the cleat of the boat so I’ll do this something quickly anyway so now so this is the boat let’s appear and I put this double hold this end maybe like this now watch carefully what’s going to happen
On that [ __ ] I have a line ready now and I have to swing so I don’t do just this it doesn’t go see I do a swing slowly and then I throw and open okay it’s not just this so
Angle a little bit see I go backwards nice swing and I just throw it over see so easy I pull and then I can tie it on my boat it’s like it’s so easy it’s the best method ever and
You should learn this because it’s so helpful you know you don’t have to jump off the boat maybe the pier is low and maybe nobody’s helping you this is lasso the best ever you know thing
How to tie a rope to the boat so this is the [ __ ] and I have a rope now many people do this and just do a bowline see it’s like it’s okay you know it’s like most of the people who do that it’s
All fine it’s gonna hold uh it’s not my preferred one I would maybe do this when I dock the boat for the winter but not for daily use so never do like this see now the pressure is here and it’s a big
Leverage if you do this has to be like this okay so the Leverage is here and not here breaking the [ __ ] so this is very dangerous to break now what’s the problem with these nuts let’s say
I am leaving the marina and the Rope on the pier you know gets stuck you see it’s stuck somewhere I cannot pull now I cannot release this one because everything gets under tension
You see I I cannot put it down and this knot is going to be too much because the Rope is going to be stretched I’m trying to leave the marina and you’re and you’re doing the knife see you’re in
Trouble so that’s why I don’t like this one this is the like the biggest thing now some people then would do a round see thinking oh it’s so easy you see and then there’s a problem I can put it off
Okay it is easy but when there’s a lot of pressure again are you gonna be able to like pull it off maybe not now there’s another method and this is like the worst one this is where my hair goes gray so people do this and usually the guys are very proud when they’re
Doing this and like hey I’ll show you how it’s done you look at this magic see look at this look at this fruit I go around wow you see this that’s how the real pros do
It like please don’t do this you know it’s uh I mean you can do it for the winter uh but again the same problem you see you won’t be able to release when it’s needed it looks really good
And it’s usually something that the experienced Skipper will show you like hey this is so cool and how did you do it don’t do this I mean it’s okay for the winter but not for daily usage so
How to do it how I do it I always tie a rope to the clip I have to go from this side and I go like this and I go like this see how nicely it looks and on this boat so you have
Always to think the thickness of the Rope the have how big the cleat is for this boat particularly this is great like it’s always going to hold now there’s a couple of tricks you see
It should be in this direction but if I tied it like this and I’m going to pull that direction see it’s not the same this is not the same as this let’s go again okay so now let’s say the
Rope is going to be from from that direction again you see I’m gonna go from this side across and do this see this is okay and always leave enough of this rope you know hanging now
This is good okay but what you don’t want to do is to go like this and then immediately up you see if you do this now the pressure of pulling to the [ __ ] is high
So that’s why if you notice I always go around it doesn’t have to be all the way but it has to be this much and then you go Tick Tock you see because now the center of effort is low
But if I go directly up which many many people do you see now the Rope goes high up see like this and now the center effort is this much higher and your [ __ ] might break you
Know sideways so that’s why I don’t do that so now how to pass a line so let’s say this is my boat say I’m on my boat and I want to pass to somebody who’s on the pier so my boat
Ends here this is the water and there’s the pier so I connected to one side we just talked about how to do it then you should get your rope ready see you get the Rope ready but nicely coiling it
And then you can also leave it ready you see like this this is the prepared thing so when you come speak it up and you’re ready if it’s a mess it’s not going to work now you need
A lot of rope on this side it has to be very loose if this is tight see you’re gonna throw it’s not gonna work and you need a space see if you’re gonna like go backwards
And hit here it’s not going to work again don’t do this you have no strength doing this doesn’t work and that’s what people do this just do this terrible just do a long swing take your time one
See take your time long swing and then when the guy is ready you gently pass the line see and then don’t hit the person the head you should be aiming here many people put like this the rope and
You’re aiming to grow like across because don’t throw it directly he said that’s what people do they’re trying to aim into the person which makes sense because you want to pass it to him but then
You finish hitting him in the head and he’s not going to be happy so try to go sideways or over the hand or just a little bit like here on the floor and then when the Rope Falls he can
Like stop it with a leg picking up but just don’t go you know for the head and then it’s all about the preparation so for the for the laser lasso you do the same you get your rope ready and you
Put it nicely on the floor and then you’re docking and you’re alone you come forward hold this line hold this and you’re ready see to do a lasso and you see it goes so nicely over the cleat is
See and you’re done it’s so easy we are again docked together on the buoy tied to the boy so there’s this block a big heavy concrete block and the Rope goes and we’re connected just to our boat
You see just our boat and so because I have it on this [ __ ] oh there’s some big waves coming here that’s not good or luckily there’s plenty of fenders We survive pretty well because we had loads of fenders oh yeah I have to be one crazy guy with a huge Act but anyway it worked out well so just another proof that we’ve done it very well so if like now this line would be too short
We would probably break something and the same goes for the line in the back so that’s why the key thing is that these spring lines have to take you know the load now this boat wants to go
Backwards right because only our boat is connected to the buoy see with this rope here on the [ __ ] now if this boat would be on the other side see it won’t make sense because we would like turn
So now we put it on this side so like this buoy rope is centered right makes more sense now this is good for low wind see there’s no winds once they pick up we’re gonna leave anyway but so the
Key thing is this line should be loose you see has to be loose if it’s too short you’re gonna break something now because the wind tends to push this boat backwards the spring line is taking that pressure now we actually have a second one which is not really needed but
There’s another spring line taking the load off and there’s one in the back it’s actually very cool thing is now that because you see the boat is a little bit more forward than our boat so because this line This has this angle it’s actually preventing this boat from
Going forward so it’s actually like super cool right now like if this boat would be here this rope will go like this it wouldn’t have this effect with another spring line in the other direction anyway now this line is preventing the boat from going forward we have two long spring
Lines this one and the black one preventing from going backwards which is what the boat tends to do because the wind is pushing it here and the one in front very loose and we had these huge waves
Which we survived very well now another thing you could do is like these big guys you know if you put them in between it would be even better like that’s probably what we should do we should
Put this fat ones you know here and another thing you want to make sure is that you see these boats have Windows see and you don’t want to have fender okay this one’s I’ll have to lower this one you
See because it’s touching my window you don’t want to put pressure so you just lower it down you cannot hear the safety one see now this is better you don’t want to apply the pressure on these windows okay this one’s low I’ll put it even lower just to make sure okay we’re good
And that is how it looks from the roof of the boat just look at this amazing colors like does it get better just look at this super shallow that’s a beach bar some music cocktails small beer for the visitors it’s just a small island see it’s all just a very small island
With perfect water that’s what you get in Croatia just look at this isn’t this perfect and all the way behind the same water just a paradise these clouds are a great example how the storm develops you see it’s going up
And then you get this top shape which is uh you know like a storm cloud it’s so nice just another perfect Anchorage again look at this water we anchored here for a swim the day winds are gonna come up and then we’re gonna Sail
Great wins today sea urchin one in so now we’re using a needle and we’re slowly gonna dig this and here is this is for you so just this is just empty it that’s enough [Laughter]
It’s like for each one you get out you get another shot but these don’t hurt until I just yeah so no just like play with this and then and then we’re gonna use this thing this is like uh very sophisticated machine tweezers tweezers and you’re gonna like play with these things and then
Yeah you’re not gonna die but that’s how it is so this sea urchin just don’t step on them they’re not gonna step on you just avoid them that’s exactly wear good shoes so does it hurt like it’s annoying
Annoying like a splinter it’s like exact like a splinter it’d be all right just just drink so we’re about to lift the sails up and what we’re gonna do is we can see here we have
Around 11 knots of true in speed uh and it’s like a relatively calm so the first thing I want to do I want to point the boat upwind so what we’re gonna do now is the easiest way to leave the
Sail so what I do is I put autopilot I go on wind autopilot and I make five degrees green Oh wrong way okay so I want to have wind not directly from front but a little bit like five degrees from here
And because now it’s in the wind autopilot it’s gonna automatically you know guide me up so then I have no trouble and now steering sometimes it’s very hard to hand steer these boats and then the
Wind shifts so it’s very smart to put it on the on the window to Pilot now how much speed now you should have enough speed that autopilot can handle it if the speed is too low the boat’s gonna go
Like this and you have trouble raising up the sail you go too fast the boats start jumping and you get the spray so whatever it makes sense now I’m on 1600 and low engines and seems uh pretty good
So I have already opened up the bag so I’m gonna now release this rope I have this boom preventer because I don’t like the boom Going left and right so it’s basically just a rope holding the Boom
Say just a rope making sure that at night the Boom is not swinging left tonight left and right because it’s just noise and it’s annoying so like this is the basic way to leave the sail up so I’m
Going to Center the traveler in the middle I’ve set my my uh wind autopilot now this is the Rope which is pulling the sail down not all the boats have this so you make sure it’s running smoothly
Now ideally you want to run it you know like make sure it’s not Tangled this thing’s usually tangle it’s okay I know we’re all human but the more preparation the easier it is so this rope is prepared make sure it’s not cool this this rope is holding the sail down
So I have to release it it’s just a small accessory now this is the hail yard this is the main Hillier that’s going to lift the sail up now I have the main sheet closed and locked
This is a little bit Advanced version because in the end I shouldn’t forget to open it otherwise I break when tensioning the sail so let’s just remember this is the way with the closed main sheet now I always hook the main halyard around the Mast so it’s not lifting the sail during
The night and when you’re releasing it it’s very important when you unhook it you very quickly pull if you don’t pull it might get hooked around the spreaders and then you’re gonna have a problem it happens sometimes it’s kind of annoying to unhook it so now I check that the boat is
Heading as it is I usually start with hand now I keep the stopper open because there’s much less friction although I could close it because you can pull it’s like one way you can pull I check there’s no boats very important because I’m going to be concentrating on all this area
It’s very clear with not not much waves now the problem can be the buttons so we have this gray stuff and I have to make sure that the buttons go in between so that’s why I Go just with a
Hand and I’m still releasing this one make sure it goes nicely okay so looking at the these buttons okay it’s going nicely okay the second one is through third one is not making trouble and that’s
Okay another third one make you a little trouble see that’s why it’s good to have it in the hand for the first distance because I can just release a hook and pull then once all of the free are
Through I can put it on the winch now I can close the stopper for the mental yard for the safety reason now it’s very important that the sail goes on the left side of the Boom Lift now the
Boom Lift is the Rope holding the boom up if you go Sail on the right side on the top it’s going to cross the ropes so it’s not good so that’s why we make five degrees green five degrees from here the
Wind to make sure that the sail goes on this side so this is the trick I’m gonna use now electric winch with other hand making sure this rope is going out nicely and I’m watching the buttons okay so now I have to make sure that the buttons go from this side because
The gas or the waves can swing the sail if it doesn’t want to go you can go a couple more degrees green so we’re now seven green and if we wouldn’t have locked the main sheet you know the boom would move so it
Would be harder to do so that’s why that’s a good trick to keep the main sheet tensioned okay we’re looking good so now we’re quite safe because the sail is now on this side of the boom hell yard and now it’s
Time to release the main sheet because if I don’t I can break something because the main [ __ ] doesn’t allow me to tension the main cell so very important now it’s time to release now I go very gently this is the see these problems so many times I will just put it here
Because it’s on the wrong way and it can pop out make sure this line goes out nicely and do the final tensioning and also make sure this one is loose very quickly these two are locked you’re
Trying to tension your brake I go just little by little now very little by little and just making sure that the front edge gets tensioned just right now how to explain well just right okay when this is done I’m gonna remove this and I’m gonna do the ropes later
Let’s put the Jano out now first so the Mainsail is set I’m still under engine and I’m still under the wind autopilot so now I’m just gonna go 40 degrees apparent wind angle so now the autopilot is gonna oops forgot to close the main sheet Pull It in a little bit
See these ropes it’s a little bit tricky on this boat I could do better preparation but these are just the small details so now we still have two engines we’re sailing motor sailing and the Mainsail is happy so the Mainsail is doing the job now it’s time to open the
The Genoa so we have this rope this rope furls the Genoa in and also controls the opening now you have to control this rope because otherwise the wind is just gonna open the sail it’s gonna
Go bank so that’s why I keep it just a little bit like this and I’m gonna take the general sheet that’s the Rope pulling the sail out so this one is here you can see in front
And I’m just gonna put it on a winch a little bit more it’s windy so now stopper is open now uh what is the best angle to open the Genova I mean I can do it right now but sometimes
It’s better to go a little bit more off wind so now I’ve chosen 60 degrees apparent wind angle and then just opens more nice there’s no flapping you’ll see so now we’re opening the Genoa so pulling the Rope out this is the white rope and releasing the black one which is oops
Which goes in front to the drum which is furling the general or opening foreign here because then this guy cannot open right this is more like controlling at the beginning I have it very loose very loose
You see and now as the wind is catching the sail I can just you know control opening when this you see it was super easy smooth because I went off wind a little bit now very important close the
Stopper give a little bit gentle pressure because otherwise in the drum the Rope can be loose fall out get stuck and you won’t see it it’ll break something I will put all the ropes call them later
This one here and now we’re basically sailing so now it’s time you know to put the engines neutral and now slowly because we want to go upwind never slowly gonna climb out which means we will have to
Tension the main sheet you can get this one ready and on this winch I already have a Genova sheet so and I’m gonna set my wind autopilot to 35 degrees apparent wind angle so now he’s basically going to
Keep angle to the wind on 35. if the wind shifts we change so if you have a normal autopilot he would keep a direction by compass but now it’s all by wind the wind shifts we shift
We just keep the angle now you can see the sail is a little bit loose so we have to tension it so we’re gonna sail sharp upwind and for Sharp up wind you always want to have all the sales like tensioned a lot
Oops and now doing the main sheet so let’s have to be a little bit gentle you have to listen you know don’t you just need to be a little bit like you know have a feeling it doesn’t sound good you’re doing something wrong something might be stuck and also it doesn’t go nicely
Check for the problem first okay so both sales tangent a lot so now we’re gonna stop the engines we love the silence this silence is just as good you know when you go skiing and after a whole day you put your leg out with the boots it’s just the same here
When you turn off the engine and it’s like ah so now we are officially sailing this was the basic way to put the sail up they see you and they don’t care they’re big enough so now
We’re sailing and what can we do well we have to watch other boats there’s one coming and once it starts moving that means you see it we have a big Ferry there but I go 20 knots so we’re safe
So it’s getting a little bit busy never forget to look around now you see this is the blind spot so you will have to step here and check because many times the boat comes just from this dead
Angle and always turn your head around you see you never know where something is coming from behind so what can we do now now because we want to get up there we’re sailing upwind Everybody Knows you
Cannot sell upwind and we have to get up here this is where the wind is coming from so we’ll have to tick-tock so you go a little bit left a little bit right you’ll see later on the map how it
Looks now the question is what is the best angle you see the catamarans should you go very sharp slow and you know like the the shortcut or should you go a little bit off wind have more speed but
Do a longer way so what’s better luckily we have this vmg and vmg calculates our speed directly upwind its velocity made good now all we have to think now is this number and to make it as
Big as possible so right now we are on 34 degrees apparent wind angle and it’s on the Wind autopilot so let’s just for fun let’s put it even sharper so let’s go further and now let’s observe what this
Is going to do when you’re doing this on your boat make sure that the wind doesn’t change you know because sometimes then the wind changes and of course it’s a fact now velocity made good you
See it’s went up now we are going more Sharp which means we’re gonna go slower now the speed is like four six four seven but our speed upwind is this now let’s go a couple degrees down so let’s go
245 so we went a little bit off wind and let’s see the numbers so now velocity May is good is dropping a little bit you say it was four before the wind seems to be similar and also when doing this you know we could also release the sales just a
Little bit you know just to be fair just like a little bit on the Genoa and the Mainsail well it’s quite loose anyway so we’ll just keep the main sail as it is so now you can see that the speed is higher and vmg is lower and if I go another five degrees
You know off wind the speed of the ground should go up and the vmg should go down so let’s wait a little bit you always have to wait you know it’s like an average you know don’t put your conclusions too quickly now the wind went up you see
So that’s also why the speed went up but the vng is 3.6 so I’m gonna go back now to 35 the wind is picking up so let’s see what happens with vmg should go up now it’s three six three seven see it’s going
Up three eight which means sharper upwind gives you better speed now let’s go a little bit more so I’ll go 32 let’s see what the vng is going to do I’m gonna just tension a little bit you know the Genoa you should always adjust the sales also you know not just change the
Angle but trim the sales to be you know the best stream for that angle and you can see the vmg okay we have now a lot of waves from the ferry so it’s not a fair fight
Let’s wait a little bit the wind went down a little bit see our speed dropped that’s because of the Waves so that’s why the vmg we’re doing right now see it also depends from the waves because if
You go like sharp upwind you go more directly on the waves and the boat’s gonna stop more so probably sometimes you know it’s faster to go a little bit off-wind but that’s why the
Vmg is you have to learn your boat uh so now it just seems everything is messed up a little bit let’s wait until the boat uh okay now it’s free seven the wind dropped so let’s go back to 35
And you have these two numbers this is what I want 45 and this is what it is you know because he’s messing up a little bit uh the autopilot so let’s see the vmg 3736 anyway it seems to be dropping but let’s give it a little bit time you know because the boat
You know sometimes hits the wave and then stops or autopilot messes it up oh we’re getting good wins now you see apparent wind is going up to 17. okay now it’s free seven let’s say it was three six three seven Max and let’s go now to 32.
So now slowly the boat is gonna be you know now we’re on 35 and 32 you see the vmg is going up four so it’s pretty obvious and it’s the same from my experience that with this catamaran
It’s the best to go sharp upwind slow and just do you know the shortest way possible you’re going to hear many people know the catamarans they have to have speed and go fast you know and have a longer
Way and you’re gonna reach your destination upward faster from my experience it doesn’t work we have raced a lot and we have won most of the races just because we were going slow and sharp uh like the
Rest of the people were going faster and longer way well we won because on this catamarans this seems to be uh the best way so with your boat you just play you know trim the sails try to figure
Out different angles to see what’s the best and also think about the sea conditions if there’s a lot of waves then the angles you know it might be a little bit better to go a little bit off wind
So trimming the sails so we’re still sailing we have our 42 degrees wind autopilot set to 42 degrees apparent wind angle so what can we do to make this boat faster so let’s see what like we could adjust there’s one rope which usually nobody knows what’s for and this is tangenting
The back side not just the back Edge it doesn’t do much it’s mostly to prevent from the sale doing this so you want to have this one released as much as possible just tension just enough so
The sail is not flapping and just you know because it would wear it out then we have this is the main uh the Jeep sheet so this is control this is the main control and then here we have a couple of
These holes and by changing the hole here you change the angle of the Jeep sheet so if you put here it’s going to pull more down which means the belly is going to be bigger and you’re gonna
Pull the back Edge more you know you can control the shape of the upper part you know like maybe close it more now if you’re gonna pull all the way down you’re gonna pull more pressure here
So the sail is going to get flatter here but then the upper part is going to open more which could be very useful when you have a lot of wind and you just want to spill some wind you know to put less
Pressure on the boat and then this is this called self-tacking rail which just you know self-tex when you turn it just go across now so you have these Stoppers so you can move this and some
People think that you know you could like put this thing all the way here you know just to have you know more sharp Angle now it doesn’t work because the sail needs you know this minimum angle and
Even if you put it in the middle it’s not gonna work I mean I can show you but it doesn’t work so why this is for is to move it across to make sure the sail is locked let’s say somebody’s
Walking here you know just like me kids are playing they put your feet here and the sail goes across so this is mostly safety so you could take this guy put it here and then this is locked it’s
Very useful when you’re sailing downwind when this sails you know sometimes just go across or the wind changes so this is mostly safety but you want to keep on setting up wind here you don’t want to
Move it all the way in because it just doesn’t happen now using this the Jeep sheet we control The Telltale so you have these two blue things ideally you know they would be parallel
Now one is on this side one is on the other side usually you have two colors they’re both blue here so it’s like outer and inner one now depending which one does trouble you have to adjust
Direction or adjust the tension of the Jeep sheet now if the guy on the outside is making trouble you have to go away from the trouble which means you go this direction if the guy on this side
Is there in trouble you go away you know you can steer the boat away or you can do it controlling with the Jeep sheet which means when the guy on that side is doing trouble you can release a little bit when the guy on this side is doing trouble your
Tension a little bit nice I’ll just show you this is not so complicated so we had a good sale and now I’m just gonna release to make it not happy so release and I will see you very quickly well it’s not good
See you can see this front edge it’s kind of empty it’s not catching the we’re still sailing but you can see that it’s not a happy sail the front edge is kind of you know backing and you can
See that tail Telltale on the outer side is Happy the one on the inside is not happy so to fix this we can either steer or tension this rope so let’s just try steer so I’ll go 20 degrees here
So I have a rather limit because once I released the Genoa the boat was not in the balance so the Mainsail pushed the boat upwind and because this autopilot is kind of slippy he didn’t react quickly so when too much upwind but we’re back on track okay
So the boat is coming back and let’s look at our telltales so you can see the sail is nice and full tell Tales are kind of parallel more or less you know we went a little bit too much off wind so let’s fix this
So we can go more upwind until we get them happy see I’m watching that Telltale on the outer side I hope you see it for this dirty window ah see and now it’s getting better because I went without a pilot more upwind it’s still
Not happy I’ll go another five degrees until the telltale’s stay parallel okay now it’s pretty good let’s look from here yeah it’s not perfect but you see they’re parallel so it’s uh it’s pretty good so now I’m gonna go back because now we’re on 40.
Apparent wind angle and because we want to go upwind that’s not good so I’ll go back to my 34 degrees and as the boat is going the sail probably is not going to be happy so let’s observe
The boat is slowly gonna go upwind you see the guy The Telltale on this side it’s like slowly getting not happy that’s because you know we’re going upwind now we’re gonna fix this earlier we’re fixing it by changing direction but now I’m gonna change it by pulling the uh Genoa sheet
So what I’m gonna do look at the Telltale and I’m gonna use uh see press winch and let’s see what happens you see we tensioned the a Jeep sheet and the telltales are happy I’ll go a little bit more a lot of pressure
And I’m also gonna go back a little bit more upwind like 33 because that seemed to be a sweet spot for today also sometimes you see depending on which Tech if you have sales on the left side these numbers might be different than on the other side because see this guy who
Tells you where the wind is coming from is on the top of the Mast there’s like an indicator and many times they’re just bent or off so which means that right now the 33 degrees apparent when angle is good but then when I tack it might be a little bit
Different and it’s just because the guy on the top is you know showing a little bit off vmg 4.1 so everything seems uh very good the sale is happy so what can we do with the main sales so mostly we have two controls see one control is from
Here with this button and you’re basically changing uh see this traveler left and right now let’s go here to see what this thing does so if you move this Traveler there you’re gonna open the sale you see you’re gonna increase the wind angle the wind is coming from there
So this is controlling how much the sail opens the boom opens it’s controlling the angle to the wind now by using the main sheet you’re also controlling the angle to the wind plus
You are controlling The Twist on the top it’s how much the top of the sail is open now in the light winds you want to close it in very strong winds you want to have that twist because you put less
Pressure on the boat and like instead of reefing you know you can just release this a little bit so the sale will open so now let’s uh let’s take a look how this works so first this is
The main sheet you can see from him I’m just like gonna I forgot to open the stopper okay so I’m now releasing say the Rope is going out the boat will slow down but let’s take
At the shape of the Sail on the top not sure you can see it from here maybe from this angle yeah here you can see on the top it’s like Twisted out the upper part is you
Know like more open than the lower part so now we are going to be slower in these conditions but also we’re putting much less pressure so in a very strong wind you can do this trick to de-power
The sail so now I’m gonna tension this back and we can also observe the speed of the boat so now now the speed is another speed has dropped we were over five earlier so it’s 4.8
And now as I’m going to be tensioning this we can observe the speed so speed overground for seven see I’m tangenting it always takes time see the boats needs time to react okay now it’s four seven what happened to the wind
So it should go up let’s give I see uh the boat went of course a little bit because whenever you trim the sails if you pull the main we’ll talk about the balance later but if you tension the Mainsail the boat goes more upwind
So right now it’s not exactly as I was hoping to show you uh uh but we should be you know faster but the wind messed up a little bit and the autopilot messed up but in these conditions
It’s going to make us faster if we close the upper part but then again you know just uh learn your boat to see what makes it faster so looking now you can see how the shape of
The sail on the back is much more closed see and this is going to give you much more power now if you look at here you see this autopilot is doing a little bit trouble now it’s too much
Upwind but anyway you see on the front sail front part of the Mainsail the sale is kind of backing so this is the effect of the Genoa see the wind goes in and if it’s tangent too much the wind then
Hits the Mainsail so you can either open the Genoa a little bit you see to let this air go nicer or whatever works on your boat but this is because of the journal I see the wind just goes into the Mainsail so let’s really is now the main at the Jeep sheet deep
[ __ ] a little bit just a little bit and now this effect should be much smaller because now oh it’s still pretty much the same but you get the idea what’s the point of this and the racing boats
You can set this much more accurately but here it’s not so sensitive then how much you should uh tension the main halyard so right now you can see maybe it’s a little bit soft you see to this Edge but it’s still okay until you get this stripe which obviously tells you
It’s not good and it’s going to deform the sale now we could tension a little bit more uh but it’s still kind of okay it’s not damaging the sail but if you go more so more loose so less
Tension on the main halyard you will get this stripe and this stripe will just deform your sail it will you know eventually if we lose the shape now if I want to tension the main halyard see or
Maybe I can show you so we cannot do it right now it’s just you know because it’s too much pressure so we have to de-power we can do it while sailing so I’m putting now the the red rope up I’m just doing with one hand should clean this but we’ll do this later
It’s not perfect anyway uh so I’m gonna put a lot of donuts and get the main sheet ready so if i tension now when the sail is under pressure it’s no good you break so what I’m going to do is I’m gonna open the angle to increase the angle
We’re going to lose some speed you see now the sail is kind of much more empty but also I’m releasing the main sheet see on the back so now I really depowered the boat see there’s not much pressure you will notice on the speed see the speed dropped or will drop
And the sail you see it’s very loose so now I can gently very gently you know still out of pressure just a little bit you see okay and this should be enough so let’s put this back one more donut
It’s kind of hard to do with one hand oh but standing saw Will tension now the back and put it in now as I’m doing this too quick and the autopilot is not following the boat tends to go more upwind because when you tension the Mainsail it goes the boat goes out of
The balance for a moment and the Rudders have to correct it so you want to go slowly I will go more or let’s just go all the way and let the autopilot figure this out
Yeah this time he was quite successful actually not you see because I want 33 and he’s going to 29 this is what really is and this is what I want now he’s slowly coming back
I’m just taking a lot of time this autopilots are not so so accurate so yeah let’s take a look at the I always put this off in case people want to play here and they break something so you see now
It looks way better it’s just right so basically I just went one centimeter just a little bit and now this front edge it’s tangent and you don’t want to go more so you don’t want to overpower this stuff over tension it just you
Know with with time it deforms so this would be kind of a kind of a happy sale right now and selling our points so down there this is this is whoever famous for Parkland islands and we’re slowly going upwind
Another thing is now we have tangent the main hell yard you can see that the sale is you see more firm in front so this effect of the Genoa pushing the sail into the Mainsail it’s still there but it’s you know because the sale is firmer it’s a little bit better
Now on the racing boats you would have a long rail and you can control this angle and everything way better so you can get a better shape to the Genoa and then you can you know make a nice
Airflow see not backing in but going you know just as it should go parallel to the to the sail the next question is when to Tech we said we have to go tick-tock and you wanna you know
The winds are never you know just like like the same direction I mean sometimes they are but we can see now because we’re using the same angle to the wind if you look carefully it’s an arc which means that actually we’re getting better and better direction right the
Boat is kind of going like this if we were sailing other direction we would going worse and worse so like this is now a good a good side a good Tech so we’ll just maybe keep you know going this
Direction a little bit before we change because you know the wind is helping us uh to go upwind so you always want to sail you know the site that you know is pushing you more upwind [Music]
Is behind now the rule is you want them to have like straight out the one on the top sometimes might go a little bit out just a little bit but especially the one down should go like straight out which means you know the air goes in and goes nicely out
Now this telltales I mean on these boats they’re not so accurate mostly I rely on a boat speed you see like the Genoa I usually set per telltal Tales but the Mainsail mostly for boat speed
Although both sales should be set to a boat speed so so you use the telltales and all the stuff I’ve said you know just to trim the sales roughly and then you would look at your boat speed or your vmg
And then you do a small tweaks to make it faster now each boat is different so you have to learn your boat and just you know play with all these settings another thing that
You can play with Genoa is the General Handler so we have here should be at the general lift so it’s the hail yard of this sail so by just adjusting the you know the hell yard You’re Gonna Change
The where the stomach is you know if you release the sail then the stoma goes kind of backwards and you’re gonna have more flat Edge in front which allows you for more sharp upwind sailing but it’s an armor racing if you tension the Jeep halyard this stomach goes forward which may gives
You more power because the stomach is here and you know you get more power it’s better for a little bit downwind sailing but on this boat it does make a big difference important is that the sail makes
A common sense shape because if it’s too loose and like if this is very loose you’re gonna get these stripes and you’re gonna deform the sail like this ones this is just normal because of the strong wind you know sales deform if you’re over tension you’re gonna get a stripe like this
And it’s not good again so basically you just want to make it look good in the strong winds you know the cell stretches so you sometimes have to uh pull a little bit you know tension a little
Bit the hell yard to lose the stripes so right now it’s like pretty okay so just use common sense but if it doesn’t look good you have to adjust the halyard now it’s time to do a tech it’s very simple of this boat so we’re gonna turn here so let’s
Start doing the zigzag and what I do is you see I just press Stand By and now I’m hand steering now the jib you know has this self tag so it’s gonna go across and then the Mainsail also has
Like needs no attention it’s just gonna pop on the other side so I turn this a lot very quickly because you need speed if you go too slow You’re Gonna Lose the speed and stop so you have to go
A lot now the sail is going across I keep going I don’t want to stop here because I’ll lose the speed sometimes better to go a little bit too much okay now coming back now you catch the boat
Okay now you could either hand steer or like the simplest ways I engage the autopilot and I set it back to to the angle oops this button doesn’t want to work so I’ll go here so I’m gonna set
It back to 43 so right now it’s 51. so we’re too much downwind and I said 33 and he’s gonna bring it here so you don’t have to you know overthink all the stuff so this is sailing with the wind
Out the pilot now I mean you can do everything manually and you get this information of the angles by watching on the top of the Mast watching the sails or also you see I have apparent wind
Angle here and that can help me if you sail by the instruments now Sailing by the instruments what they do when they break it’s a good question so it should you should always be able you know to hand
Steer so practice both but because now we are not racing it’s a relaxed day we just set the window to Pilot in he does everything for us we trim the sails and that’s how these boats are mostly sailed
Which is just fine it’s time to do all this spaghetti now this boat is not the best because you want to have more Wells for the ropes or to put them somewhere and it’s just a mess but the
Most important right now is the the hellyard okay so this is the the main sheet of the main cell this everything is kind of messed up so we’ll try to make this nicer give this one here
Now this is from the Genoa organize okay I’ll put it in here so the most important things what do you do this is to pull the cell down it is short now the main carrier this is the
Biggest thing you know what to do with it option A is so this is the other end why is there a knot anyway so what you can do is you can just feed it in here it’s like little by little
It’s option one so I’m not gonna go all the way but the idea is you see once you get like this once you’re releasing the sail it’s gonna go out and it’s not gonna be Tangled now you can coil you can coil with a figure eight
Because the figure eight is bad it doesn’t coin now but anyway you can coil it can be a figure eight whatever you want but what I prefer is to keep it down here so I put take it I put it down
So ideally you want to you know put it nicely down but now the Rope is set on the floor and that’s how all the racing guys are going to do rope is never in here the Rope is never coiled in the
Racing style the ropes are like everywhere but organized so now if I have to put the sail down you see the Rope is just gonna go because I put it nicely down and it’s you know gonna go very nicely
So this is a racing style that’s what I prefer some people always coil but once you coil you have to uncoil you lose the speed anyway whatever you do just make sure that when you need it it works
Many methods everybody has their own opinion but the thing is it’s just like the good knot the good knot holds easy to undo the good method is you can use it quickly and doesn’t get tangled and that’s
All all the trick the only downside that this rope is here so when people walk and this rope is here might not look good you know so for Holiday you know if you have a guests maybe not the best
But that’s not the point you know you will use the method you think is the best best for the moment a couple new improvements we have on the boat so we have switched this waste tank button
Here and uh in this area instead of being in there because it doesn’t make sense and we’ve done the same on the other side so now you don’t have to go to the guests cabin to empty and you can just
You know do it from here and then very quickly you can be up here to observe what’s going on other thing is we have a second pipe this is like just a usual one and this is the filtered water
So it goes same from the water tank but it goes through three filters so it’s super safe to drink so we don’t have to have loads of this plastic stuff as we used to have
So we just have a couple bottles but usually you used to buy a lot and now we can be more eco-friendly and still drink good water so it is water from the tank which is if we if we use
Water maker it’s water maker but if we feel it from Shore it’s very good water it’s not because water from the water maker lacks minerals so when we fill the water in the marina Croatia has really
Good water we drink that one with the minerals but then once we use a water maker it kind of mixes with that one so then it lacks a little bit of those minerals but it’s just fine you know
People spend one week here so maybe if one or two days they drink without minerals it’s just fine uh but if you’re going to be a long-term Cruiser maybe think about those minerals because the water from the water maker is pure h12 no virus no bacteria but also no minerals and no electrolytes
Now let’s talk balance of the boat see we have one sail here and one sail here now each sale has one point where all the effort comes so you can put you know everything that’s putting in one point
And you can do the same with this you know like a center of effort and you can make one point here now if you combine these two points you would get one point and that’s where all the forces are affecting the boat anyway that’s complicated
What I’m trying to say is if we furl the front sail which is pushing the boat down then the boat is not balanced because we have a main which is twisting the boat upwind you see the
Wind is pushing in here and then it’s twisting the boat upwind if we put the main down and have only the Jeep or Genoa it’s pushing the bow down so the boat tends to go down now we have the Rudders
Which compensate for that now sometimes if this effort is too big like you have a huge Spinnaker or like Code Zero and no main going sideways the you know the Rudders might not be able to control
That so the boat has to be in a balance and that’s when the Rudders are a little bit pushing the boat downwind see so right now the rudder should be a little bit like this couple degrees it’s called a
Weather Helm but mostly you know straight a little bit weather Helm but they should never be like way too much that means something is wrong so if I simplify again this sail is pushing the boat there
This sale is pushing the boat up if we have both up the boat is balanced if we put one of the cells down the boat is not in the balance the Rudders try to compensate if it’s too much
Then they cannot and the ball just you know goes whatever earlier we’ve seen that whenever you do a big trim on the Main and you have autopilot which is super slow the boat is just gonna you know turn whatever Direction whichever the sail uh you you were trimming but if you’re hand steering
You see you can be much more accurate but it’s good to know that once you’re on an autopilot of anyway either just by Compass or the you know wind autopilot do all this stuff slowly or just you know pay attention because yeah once you reduce whatever you do with this sale it’s
Going to affect the balance it’s same goes for the main so just like one thing to observe and that’s why maybe notice that the boat is doing some strange stuff it’s just the sale balance
What to do with the ropes we use them daily they get wet all the time so I just hang them here it just seems like a good spot they get dry and they’re like very quickly we can use
Them what you don’t want to do is put wet in here it’s just not gonna work it’s not gonna dry they’re just gonna get moldy and stinky so you want to keep them out of course if you’re
Not going to lose them for a long time you know don’t keep them out on the sun sun is not good but we use them all the time so here they are and it’s all good The Code Zero so this is this
Sale here in front fold I love this sale this is like the best sale ever and especially this one uh who was made by Supreme sales such a nice I’ve talked about this so I won’t talk too much anyway
So should you keep it up or you should put it down now there is UV protection but it’s not so good it’s a little bit thinner than on these ones so kind of would be better to put it off especially
If you’re not sailing now when you’re sailing should you keep it like furled or should you put it down now you can see this is kind of rough for Croatia and you can see it’s moving a little bit
You see I would say right now it just kind of makes sense it’s not too bad but when it starts banging left and right too much then you want to put it down it’s very easy so
Even uh you see I furled a couple times around and also make sure that this rope whatever the system you’re using is safe because these things aren’t furl and they aren’t firm when there’s
A storm and when it does happen in the storm you’re in a big trouble so you can keep it up if you’re using it regularly so we use it all the time so we keep it up if it’s very rough
I would put it down so it’s not banging too much but always make sure if it’s up that it’s rolled couple times more with the rope and then the blue line and now it’s fixed like so there’s
No chance it can unfurl but then again you know just put it down every time if you have a crew or you’re not using it all the time because the UV of course is not a friend for the sale
Now we here because this chain this is the chain well in you know when you’re lifting the chain it just goes on top doesn’t collapse and then eventually it hits the engine of the the motor
Of the winch windlass from down and it’s not good so we made this hole and now with the stick we can just hit it from here earlier we would have to climb in but it’s a great solution and it’s
Too small I mean it would be nice just to have a bigger opening and I keep the cover off because we don’t we sell in Croatia there’s not much waves so it keeps ventilation you know even when you close
You see you get air from here and it’s good for the chain that it’s not wet you know it’s salty already but if it dries out it’s much better for the chain now another thing you have to be very
Careful is this windlass these winches they get crazy and they just start releasing the chain for no reason so to avoid this always put this on this is the safety see I just hook it here and
In case the winch gets crazy it’s going to stop anchor from falling in if you don’t pull it on uh if it starts releasing you’re gonna lose all the chains so it’s a small detail but make sure
You put the safety on every time like on the 42 Lagoon the anchor is mounted over the beam so when you release the chain you have to also to push the anchor across so it’s less of the problem but here once the chain goes out the anchor goes in the water immediately
We’ve had this solution for the stand up and for the plank for a while for one season now it’s really good so basically just fits in here one rope goes over very easy to use it’s really good and the same for the plank say it’s just like stainless steel like mounts
You put it here it works really well and it looks uh looks good like I think all these boats we have two standard pedals one here one the other side and they’re nice blue color and the bow just looks very sharp from far away if they’re like
You know symmetrically and nicely put I kind of like now this system a lot so safety wires there’s free but we’re just using this one you know it’s just I mean I don’t like
The color because you don’t see and you know when you walk if you don’t see you just you know you’re gonna fall earlier if you don’t see so I think these things should be of the red color so that
You can see them anyway if you have very small kids close all of them but what I suggest is to have just a rope normal thick rope with the red color and put it across and that’s what we
Use when we’re crossing oceans so that people do see where it is and it’s way safer now the dingy the thing even there’s a lot of waves starts going left and right and that’s why we use two ropes so this is just the front painter this is just the normal rope we attach
It here and it’s enough for today if it would get rougher there’s already another rope ready here and then I put it to that side and it does magic it’s uh really firm now if there’s rain never forget to open your plug it’s closed now because there’s no rain
But don’t forget to do this I’ll put it back because we’re gonna need it in one hour but if your boat fills up with the water it might be too much weight everything might break and I
Still love my Caribbean on this side so wherever I come I can just hook to the boat or to the pier and I still love this note I’ve done here this is still the first rope it’s a special note that reduces friction we’ve talked this before my videos and the fenders you see
They’re all worn out but that’s because the boat is not worn out now it’s a good protection and I just love this red boys they do the job exceptionally well and this system we’ve done with the with these things you know for a quick release when you go in the water
It’s like the best ever so we figure out now the best solution I think it works really well okay so now we’re gonna put the sails down and there was one guy commenting that what I do is not right
So I’m gonna show you how he does or like we’ve done that way many times and I’ll show you my way and then you judge on yourself what is gentler so the typical way of putting the sails down is
And that’s how I don’t usually do I use this method sometimes but mostly not and I found this method very rough so I’m starting the engines and we’re gonna give some power slowly you want to be gentle you know once you start wait a little bit so the
Oils starts circulating and then slowly give some speed so uh you need a little bit of speed now usually what people do is you know you get ready here with the ropes so this is the the general we pull this to furl the sail so we’re gonna set it on this winch
And I’m gonna set the Gen of a sheet here now there’s a trick when there’s a lot of pressure on the stopper you cannot really open it you can force it so you put a little pressure here and then it’s very easy to open so usually what
People do is they say turn the boat upwind and release the sheet so that would look like this I’m just gonna use the wind autopilot so now we’re gonna Point straight upwind and you release this oh do you see what the sale is doing
All right so I need force and now my apparent wind is 60 knots so that’s how that guy was suggesting me to do that my way is not good so of course I can now foil the sail you know that’s how we used to do it it’s all good I use this method
But now let’s do it the other way so what I do is I steer the boat a little bit off wind first so I’m gonna release the Mainsail down okay and then maybe a little bit on the main sheet and then we go even more downwind
I’m also opening the Genoa now see basically I’m steering kind of a downwind so now I’m gonna Engage The autopilot just a normal one and you can see now apparent wind is only 10 knots earlier it was 17 knots
But because I’m going with the wind like much less wind much less forces so we have now apparent wind of seven knots super easy and now look how gently I can fill the sail You see that’s it so there was like No Force we halved the apparent wind speed much less forced it was so easy to do it now you know just judge by yourself is this is better or that other guy commenting was right now it’s nothing wrong to do
It upwind you know flapping but just like why not use this so much easier and you’re going with the way in window waves it’s safer it’s drier I just think it’s a better method I’m turning upwind now because for the Mainsail obviously you have to go upwind so I’m gonna
Engage a wind autopilot I’m gonna set it to zero so I want the boat to go straight upwind earlier I had those five degrees now it’s straight I’m gonna put a little bit more power so that the autopilot can handle I’m gonna put Mainsail in the middle and point straight upwind
Okay now we can see that the sail is empty so I get ready so this line This is the main halyard is already down there because we prepared and it should very easily go out hopefully it’s not
Tangled but you know it happens but always get it ready first we’ve set the stopper it’s very hard to open people take pliers and break no just put a little bit pull a little bit so easy to
Open this is set this is another rope I’ll remove this because always you know gets hooked and flies around so I have to pull ing the cell down it’s just auxiliary rope so just like tender gently
Sail is empty there’s nobody around autopilot has control so all I have to do is you see as I release this line but pull the other one see the sale is going to go in the laserjack I’ll go like
Oh like across these lines a little bit anyway it’s okay so it’s good to have a second person which is pulling this one now if you’ve done everything right so I can keep going like this slowly but if everything is set correctly and you’re lucky you can do just this
You say now it got hooked because it’s not good but it’s okay so this is a fast method and it kind of works so very simple very easy and then all I have to do is you know I always hook the halyard around the sail I climb up so I’ll show you
So I put these guys out climb up I hook it around here now I was still going upwind it would be much smarter when you’re you know fixing the sail to turn downwind again because
You go with the waves and you go with the wind so it’s much easier but okay this time I just did it like this but if you have a lot of wind a lot of ways once the main is down just turn downwind and
You’re gonna have plenty of time you know to do all the stuff so now we’re turning towards our Bay I’m gonna press just normal autopilot I’m gonna give a little bit pressure on the main Hillyard
If you put too much it’s gonna bang against the the must but you know just like just right not much rope left and then this one the black one we just nicely coil it
These robes just tend to you know kind of tangle all the time it would be nice to have more places you know like a dedicated place for this one maybe just in our sleeve but everything finishes
In here so it’s kind of messed up then I pull the down there the main area of the main sheet okay we’re more or less ready and I usually leave it like this until I get to the Bay which
Is down there and then I’m gonna close the back because we have to protect it from The Sun Also if it rains the water will get in the laserjack everything gets heavy it’s not good so always
Close the lazy Jack and don’t forget know the line behind which is holding the boom you see now how the Boom is swinging so that’s why we put that small line edges there it keeps it
Quiet and it doesn’t wear out all the time so that was the easy way of putting down the sets we have just stopped in this beautiful Bay and we have two ropes on the buoy and these new cleats we have are doing a great job now it wouldn’t be without my
Best assistant which is going to be promoted now so for doing a really good job we’re promoting you to the first officer so you can kneel foreign so I give you this hook uh because I trust you
And you do a great job and you’re going to be a captain one day all right so I’m gonna throw this spaghetti back into the laserjack so it’s kind of sometimes hard because you’re here I know it doesn’t look the best if they’re just hanging and then this is this rope
And this rope see I just attach it here like this make a knot so it’s very easy now it’s preventing from the boom Going left and right you see it just connected here there’s no noise
No wear and tear or easy and then I’m gonna climb onto the roof to go from this side and then I can close the lazy Jack sometimes not easy to get up here so I have installed this lines because
Without this it’s very dangerous so hold here a little bit and the sides are very slippery you see in this room goes like this if it’s wet step here you’re done so it’s pretty uh pretty hard so
Hey camera guy is going to help me so all you have to do is say it takes a minute to close the sail and then I’m gonna clip this under and that’s it see and then you protect from UV from the rain and it’s so easy so just clip clip
Now most of the most of the sailors are lazy doing this the owners would but usually just Skippers and people who rent don’t the sale is being destroyed but it only takes you know just a couple
Of seconds this is a good example you see the buoy we have two ropes now one rope is on the top and one rope goes under you see if you’re not sure that the point on the top of the buoy is a strong
Point many times we go under now you’re never sure exactly so it’s better you know to check the buoy in this example probably we could be both ropes on the top because this Loop is from steel
And goes through the buoy but now just in case we have another rope under which is connected directly to the line going to the concrete block so it’s like even safer you know sometimes you don’t know the condition of this Rod going for the buoy so you know when you’re tied to the
Buoy don’t just like think this is safe usually if I don’t know the area I would dive check the condition of the buoy check the Rope or the chain going to the concrete block or wherever
It’s attached so you know just make sure it’s in a good condition because the boys snap and the boys snap all the time I’ve seen I’ve heard many boats going ashore you trust the boy but hey boy
Is not always safe sometimes your anchor is much safer because you know you’re gonna drag slowly and you maybe wake up in a at night you can hear but when the boy snaps you see you’re down there
Ashore in like five seconds if your anchor is gonna slip I mean anyway you wouldn’t anchor so close to shore anyway but if you do still you see it might slip and you might not hit but when the
Boy snaps it snaps and you’re sure there’s no no safety now one of the method is if you’re not sure and the wind is going to be consistent it doesn’t work if the winds are variable let’s say this wind
Is going to stay like this for the next month I can drop my anchor just to touch the bottom and a little bit more in case or I can put you know like even more chain but the point is if this snaps
The anchor is going to start rattling or if I put a lot of chain in it actually even might hold you know about a little bit so it’s like a good safety feature we have this upgraded plank so we have these holes here one here one here is the same on the other
Side so there’s a pin that you’ll pull to the board in so it’s fixed here but then when you have a very high Pier that’s always a problem that the board is going to go left and right so this is a
Great solution so I put this rope here and around so when the boat starts moving going left and right up and down it’s gonna prevent from going left and right and it’s still flexible enough
So that it gets stuck you know it’s not going to break and it’s see if you have a long rope even if the tide goes up and down if the board comes more here or there you’re gonna have enough stretch
Or you can have just a board like this which will always trouble because they fall in not so stable this much is this one is much wider it’s a great solution just fix it like this with a rope
And very good to put the spring lines so we have one like here once like there but if you put the cross lines they’re going to prevent the boat from going left and right and then also the board is not going to fall off because that usually happens when the
Boat is moving a lot and then this board goes up and down and then just slips down the day wind is now slowly going behind the sun we just say because the sun you see is going
There so we say that he’s pulling the winds in this direction and there’s two things you can see if you look at our track you can see it’s kind of going more and more we’re set to win
Autopilot so the angle to the wind is the same but you see we’re going more and more and more like this and which is good because we’re going here so we want to go like this so it’s a good
Tech another thing you have the swing history so you can see how the winds are going behind the sun you see the angle is increasing and this is the two obvious signs that this day winds
Are going behind the Sun and they always go you know like as much as I know they always go like this and then when you’re doing your tactics uh just think about this there’s always one guy
Who wants to hit you going right behind you that’s how it is why would you do that the same you’re having super close well that’s how it is that’s what you get so finally he has passed us don’t let your idol down miles let’s see on his shirt it says real life
Is that bad wow that looks so fun she’s like she’s like Tom Hanks in that movie yeah and our boats in this beautiful water there’s this [ __ ] down there that’s a paradise just look at this in this pine trees and the Crickets what an amazing place this is okay one
Two three or the seven 38. 39. got it 41. oh god oh oh I have to jump in just another day Anchored In Blue Lagoon again I have filmed this spot so many times that I’m probably getting boring with all these videos here
But isn’t this nice I mean just look at this spot I love this look at the water Blue Lagoon for 20 minutes out of split going to the marina and there’s a huge storm coming you see when this
Is coming from the West you better run away and the good thing now we have in Croatia this radar so I can watch How It’s moving live so it’s a pretty bad storm it’s gonna be here an hour
So we have just enough time to get there dry hopefully a dog and then we’re gonna get the boat wash that’s good we need the rings of the boat so it’s nice to have a short storm
We’re gonna squeeze for this narrow passage now super nice here so on the chart it looks kind of this it looks super squeezy very narrow and a lot of fun so it’s right there behind this is a narrow passage we waited for the monohull to come through and now it’s our turn
So you can see down here it’s very shallow they probably dig this a little bit to allow for the boats you see you cannot fit two catamarans through here and there’s a little bit of current and the wind is pushing us
Uh so you have to think about all this stuff but hey we’re successful today good job captain but luckily it’s a really easy fix just take Allen key now I should put Loctite or something which I
Don’t have so what I’m gonna do is I’m just gonna say tighten this and check all the other pullers we have around six of this on board same problem with all of that since new boat on the delivery
They were like popping out such a bad design but I think Loctite might be a good solution for this uh but then again you see there’s nothing on the screw they didn’t put anything so if you ask me it’s the hurricane issue and they messed it up big uh with these guys
So I found eight more screws it’s very soft I’ve done this a year and a half ago when the boat was new but now see again eight of these were just soft this fan is the best invention of this here it could be even bigger but it’s fine because here
It just gets so hot and now it’s uh it’s like life is life is good so I can just sit here and I can feel the air coming before it doesn’t go through the boat and then it can be windy but here
Just shelter they’re just hot and uh yeah no even if you open all the windows there just doesn’t go through Andrea vergada Island this is very unique place in Croatia we have those sand clips it’s amazing swimming sport a small town down there and very popular for day trips like the water
Amazing as always behind there a beach bar and I sand the beach recommended to come here so nice look at this this is not like usual these trees are not gonna be here for long
And I got so lucky so I dropped the anchor for the dinghy now you can pull it out but hey I always have an anchor drop an anchor far out and then I just found this great uh Stone which has
A hole there’s actually a crab in there just tie it here and the thing is gonna wait I mean you can pull it out but it’s not nice to drink it this is way better this is like a style like a gentleman
On top of the cliffs and this is ridiculous look at this water just a short walk a great sheltered Bay like a Paradise Beach you see it’s not crawl it’s High season now it’s not crowded and then the other side that’s where the sandy beach is
A shallow water in between there be careful with the boat so we just caught this young adventurer so he sailed from that Island all the way to here just enjoying and that’s what we need we need young people like this adventurers
This boat was built by his grandfather his mother learned now he’s sailing it’s kind of The Optimist Style and here’s just enjoying a day sailing in these beautiful winds so he came all the way from that island and if you think that is close it’s pretty far especially for the boat like this
And yeah it’s so nice to see now young people and I think this young man is going to become a big Sailor One Day hopefully he builds a bigger boat and it’s gonna Sail the
Big Seas one day but that’s like me that is me 25 years ago exactly and that was like me that’s how I started sailing I had this laser boat and I was just cruising up and down Croatia and now just a
New generation I’m really really happy to see that see he’s down there hard to spot him looks like two small boat but with the right guy in the helm you can sail even the small boat in this big area
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First. Yeahhjhhhh budddeh
long-awaited movie finally dropped! <3
Buen Viento.
Thank you. Very well explained.
Thank you for this amazing video.
What is your Dinghy Size? Thanks for the nice vido by the way..
Looking forward to a great sailing vlog this weekend! Thanks for the sail training.
Thanks so much! These are by far the most instructive sailing videos out there. 🙏
Hi Captain! Great and fun video! Thanks! Regarding Crocs for urchins, some years ago I found out the hard way, sea urchins can come through the Crocs! I thought it would Never happened and Oh Boy! I was wrong!😅😅😅
Excellent, please keep making these "How to" videos' for those of us who don't skipper professionally. Loving the practical/walkthrough demonstrations.'
As usual, informative and interesting. Thanks!
Great job Igor, great job
Ciao Igor bellissimo video molto istruttivo , cosa ne pensi del catamarano Excess 14 … ?
E da Trieste in giu' per la Croazia chissa' magari ci vediamo …
As always, great video Igor. The water is so beautiful there. Also, liked that spunky young guy honing his sailing skills in that little boat and how you looked back and saw yourself in that moment. Looking forward to more of your videos.
Min 1.58.00 the cables on the buoy always below
Very good video. A lot of good advice in here! Maybe you could also put some timestamps here with titles, so one can find the parts they are interested in faster. 🤙
48:51 😂😂😂
First you have to steal a catamaran…
Oh my I watch a lot of Sailing videos, but rarely do they give any instruction like the detailed tips you’re providing. So valuable to many of us getting ready to head out on the water. I know a lot of your tips are not even presented in formal classes. Great job and I love your passion and sense of humor!