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thanks but I'm too cooked today

First "fail" I've come across on your videos... This is not a true bowline knot, it's referred to as "cowboy" style.

Watched one video and immediately bought your book! 😅 Thanks for the information!

I'm an Instructor, and these videos are perfect for learning English sailing vocabulary...

Very helpful! Thanks a lot. I always capsize when jibing😢

Excellent instruction !

I have watched many explanations of how to heave to, and this is by far the easiest to understand and follow, thank you.

Congratulations on your excellent video. Do the words CLOSE HAULED, LUFF UP and WEATHER HELM have the same meaning when we are sailing on a boat?

Thanks, this video worked for me. The model and showing all the component details helped me to understand it. I saw the term "heave to" on a television show and wanted to know what it meant. I read several definitions and did not understand what they were saying. I watched another video and I was still confused. This video made it completely clear to me and I even understood why it can be tricky to implement.

Good-hearted captain 👍 love the simplicity of demonstration of all the techniques 🙏

I have trouble with this maneuver in my Catalina 27 fin keel. 🤷

Your bowline is actually a cowboy bowline, or left-handed bowline, and is a variation of the official bowline, per ABOK and others. The tail should end up inside of the loop. If you take the working end around the standing end from the right, it will result in the tail resting inside the loop, and you will not end up with the cowboy bowline you've tied here. I say this only because as a newbie learning these, it was frustrating to encounter all the misnamed knots and not be able to know when, if at all, the variation mattered in terms of the functional aspects of the knot. Even tiny variations result in a different knot, i.e. the midshipman v. tautline hitch.

I’m a sailing instructor and at first I thought the hands on “puppetry” would be a little ridiculous but as I watched more, I started to see how perfectly it’s used. You describe use of sails, tiller, even a wind vane! Incredible work here

I've just stumbled across these! Wow I'll have so much fun watching them all.

You are severely underrated. You earned a sub🙃

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Good knowledge!

Thank you for helping me learn how to cleat! It's gonna be so useful on GTA World

Great, I bought the book, looks great as well. Congratulations

very clear and simple explanation! Would love to purchase your book Capt.!

Thanks

Thanks for explaining this but At 1:25, would it not be better just to pull down the main sheet?

Give me til payday and I WILL buy this awesome book! The color version even. While I could never afford to sail in real life, this book could give me knowledge to sail in my dreams at night.

Loved it. Straightforward and practical! (the boat is awesome too ;-)

Like all videos in your series, this one is also excellent. So easy to visualise and understand. Uncluttered and to the point. Thank you for taking the time to make these video's. They are invaluable for either those that believe they know, but need to "brush up on technique", or those that are just learning.

thank you very much! I want to try to get into a sailing boat of strangers to go from canary islands to peninsular spain and this video gives me confidence that, if I learn it well, I can be of good help!

A very important feature about this knot is that it can be tied and untied under tension giving it a great advantage over some other knots

Thank you captain sailnator

Thank you Captain! Although you say this is a supplement video only for sailing, I think if these supplements don't exist we wouldn't be able to understand sailing books. Your videos are very valuable!

Excellent and very clear explanation. Really thanks. I whish you a good wind ⛵

The rolling hitch, Ashley's version 2 (ABOK # 1735).

What a wonderful explanation!

Well done!

Thank you. Your explanation helps me understand adjusting the sails for the different sail positions.

Good explanation. Thanks!

Thank you Captain Sailnator ! First good explanation I have found on YT.

Are you leaving the main sheet completely slack? If so, then won’t the boom constantly flap around in any kind of seas or gusts? I think Skip Novak sheets the main so that it works with the rudder to balance out the bow going to leeward.

Hi captain. Can you please help me with adjusting the Cunningham, outhaul and kicker for speed in a sailing dinghy? I couldn't find it in the book

What if one end of the line is not free?

How about not putting the bow through the wind but winching the jib when on closehauld to the opposite side, releasing the main and turning the ruder to windward?

I have watched about twenty heave to vids......these people can sail ,but they cannot show a decent heave to video for nuts,,,,,teachers they are not,,,,,even skip novak for gods sake.

I've watched a few videos on this topic, this was far the best! Thank you!!

love your book...i take your book with me in a water tight bag when we sail...Today I am going to show my sailing partners how to Heave 2 using your book as my Authority...(in case I experience Disagreement) (:

Very informative and wonderfully presented in an easy to understand way. Thank you! Loved the video :) <3

Awesome video! I am a visual learner and this helped me understand running so quickly. I appreciate it and have subscribed. Thank you

What about the centreboard? Should'nt it be retracted to some degree when running downwind?

Your videos are really helpful. Thank you. How would a boat sail away from dock with an East or West wind?

nice video for learn more about MOB

I was waiting for Mr Bill