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Hello Chris. Thanks for this video, learned a lot. In 32:30 you mentioned demonstrating how to spin the loads off the drum e.g. for a tack. I've been struggling with this ever since we purchased new jib sheets out of high tech line, and they keep getting "pig tails". We must be adding more and more twist with every tack and tired of flaking the lines to get the twist out. Did you ever upload a video that covered this topic, or, have some recommended reading/watching? Cheers!

Beautifully done. I just used this technique to replace my lifelines and they came fantastic. So easy, and much less expensive then buying all the stainless hardware.

Really enjoying your videos. Super clear. I'm new to sailing after motor boating for a few years. Got myself a Westerly Konsort. Whatever happened to yours?? That's how I came across your channel. Lucky I did because I'm now hooked.

Just watched your video as I just bought the torqeedo 1103 LS shaft for my fishing boat. Yes a bit expensive but well worth it. Certainly won't be going back to lifting a leisure battery up a dam wall again with 70 steps.

this is a great instructional video...one of the best i've seen. i have subscribed and hope to learn more. i have one suggestion, which i learned from old books on sailing and rigging...if you put a final turn around the attachment ring before hitching, after you've rove the required number of lashing turns, it's like a turn around a cleat before cleating off. it allows you to easily release the hitches on demand, and lessens the friction of the hitches, which is mostly taken up by the final turn around the ring. after that i love the polish method of hitching alternate sides of the lashing, since that is bound to spread the load the most.

Explaining de-gloving / consequences to clients is brilliant ! Someone hire this man to write some basic life skills lessons for the younger generations. A little more fear of reality would go a long way with them in other areas of life.

This is the way. I call it ‘goofy ears’ my wife calls it ‘dogs bollocks’.

You keep calling that an EPIRB and it is not an EPIRB. It's a PLB, Personal Locator Beacon. And you call yourself a trainer? lol

Hi man, I buildt one a while ago. Sadly, because of family matters, I had sold it, and I miss my sailboat every day. It´s a great and capable boat. Don´t believe to much on the negative comments you may find around, It´s a great sailboat. It´s fast, it´s safe, it´s confortable. Have fun, we are looking forward to see you sailing around with this beautiful vessel. For the mast, I used a tree, a eucaliptus tree, with 4 inches at the base. Unbreakable, and not that heavy, and super cheap solution. The pictures of my weekender are at the Mr. Stevenson website, page 18 I think. Again, it´s a pain in my heart, how I miss her.

I built one of these and LOVE it. Wouldn't be too hard to just make a new mast, update paint and varnish, transition the steering wheel to a tiller, get sails and your off! Hope you're able to bring her back to life!

I built a Weekender about 17 years ago. Took about 6 months. Fun boat, sails well. Kickup rudder steers the boat really well. I ditched the wheel steering whilst building and extended the rudder stock up high enough to attach a tiller. I would highly recommend that. I powered the boat with a high thrust trolling motor and placed the battery in a dedicated box just in the companionway. Made a good place to sit and still have access to stuff inside. I used white poly tarp with white duct tape pounded around the edges with a rubber mallet. Those sails lasted me two years and cost $30 and looked and performed just fine. Boat is not a racer but it's performance is really respectable, as you will see. Have fun with it!

For now, usually becomes permanent 😊

Hi Chris, great to see these videos of you bringing Spirit back up from Antigua. I also stopped in Bermuda when I took her down to Antigua for the Caribbean 600 race you and I did together with AJ and Viv. I just want to give a sincere shoutout to Steve & Suzanne Hollis of Ocean Sails in St. George's. They are really wonderful people and Steve went way above & beyond in helping me source replacement batteries when the lithium iron phosphates became problematic (the BCU kept shutting everything down and dead-shipping the vessel). Steve also tidied-up the solent batten pockets and bolt-rope with which we had some issues. Anyone needing high quality work on sails and canvass whilst in Bermuda should call Ocean Sails. You might recall me telling you what a fast and furious time my mate Tony & I had sailing between Salem and Bermuda. Top speed was 23 knots and we covered 308nm in a 24 hour period. 560 in 48 hours. After all these years, as Spirit was built in 1990, she is still a fantastic boat to sail shorthanded and never felt out of control at higher speeds. But she is very wet and the saltwater firehose at those speeds made our eyes literally feel like they were bleeding. The little autopilot just couldn't handle the 25-35 kt broad reaching conditions, which was the other consideration (along with the battery problems) that made us want to diverted to St. George's. Thanks for reminding my how much fun we've had on Spirit. I look forward to sailing with you again soon! Cheers, Pete

great to see you looking at something smaller, all your videos are educational but this might be closer to most peoples yachts

Run away!

Hi there. I'm wondering if there is any other way to start this than an eye-splice. Would you do it with a bowline?

What's not to like? IT'S A WESTERLEY

How did you make it right twist reverse? Mine is right twist forward.

Perfect! I really have to remember "donkey ears" or better "granny's tits". 😂😂😂 Love it! 👍

Excellent!

WTF! You jumped into the ocean with trimaran sails up?!? What if some slightest wind came in? Tied to a line or not - that'd be the end - it would drag you down and drown you. AND no proper swim-ladder -- I'm speechless. You were VERY lucky that day! 3,500 views - congrats! Although tempted, but I refused doing this even 1nm off the coast.

Is there a reason that the boat doesn't have a wind vane as a backup for the autopilot? My dad always preferred an auxilliary rudder type, like a hydrovane. If you were to get hit by lightning and lost your electronics, you'd be stuck with only hand steering. On a passage from Bon Aire to Florida, we got hit by lightning. We lost all the electrics except the house batteries, alternator on the engine, and the backup radio (which we stored in the oven during the storm). We had a Hydrovane, our sextants, charts, a calibrated compass, and good charts . . . so we decided to keep sailing, as Florida was better for repairs anyway. I crossed the Atlantic three times with my dad on a Pearson 39-2 (monohull). We also sailed from Maine to Santa Barbara, CA through the canal and then to Hawaii (my graduation trip). Of course that was before GPS or Solar cells. He and I had a bit of a competition every day, plotting our location and updating the chart, (my lines were Red, his were black).

This is why fools always drown, keep doing stupid shits!

41:35 Is it possible (theoretically at least) to operate a 3-speed winch with 3 people? 2 on the coffee grinder and third person cranking handle at the top of the winch.

I'm a windsurfer for holland and when i surf in a river or lake i always take my phone and an ais beacon with me. The phone is for alarming and the ais to be found. When i go surfing on the sea i also take my Plb with me. Just to be sure.

wasn't expecting a cooking show😂

Because the ancor are going up they use water to take out the seaweeds or mud

So a month later ......... I happily re watched your Utube...No bell rope comments this time.👍. Since then I have been pinged on my Honda 1100 40k over the limit and I think I spat the the dummy a little bit by deciding to stop being an inebriated commentator and a revenue source for a sad State government, and get my arse back to sea whilst I can. So that $1100 ticket (matches the CC of my machine) has been the inspiration to go looking for a boat...... I found one......! But its in SF and I am in Qld Oz, I am ready to make a booking for a flight to inspect but I am in a bind (work commitments) to get it moved (needs new standing rigging B4 moving) to a port for transshipment to the Med. So dear sir, banter about rum and bourbon aside, I would welcome like some sage opinion & advice (39' folding Tri) about getting it either north to Vancouver or south to Costa Rica/Panama for a pick up. I have my own opinion, but a second opinion is more than welcome.

I liked your instruction on positions of your body while turning the winch, but I would like see the same position on a small 30ft boat, while kneeling on the bench.

I thought it's automatic 🤔

Great job, thanks

Learned and Informative; I had few close calls with winch handles.This requires consideration..

You mentioned super b talking about colours of the rope. Were you referring to Superbigou later renamed Medallia for the 2020 vg?

ROPE - Only one rope on a sailing vessel the Bell Rope..........

I have been watching that boat since it showed up in the Whitsundays (what seems eons ago). I absolutely love Antigua but my last visit was before that boat showed up in the aforementioned neck of the woods. When it was for sale with J & C (in hindsight) I should have been the next owner...... I like your style so subbed. I used to run a HSW70 (004) I ran a crew of 2 + me whilst the sister-ships ran 7 + Skip between West Indies and New England. Less was always better. Cheers. Ps That boat at sea with no fence is like a KTM at full noise dodging kangaroos in the bush near sunset with no fence.

Dude, that is so not a code zero. Code zero measures as a spinnaker, which means mid girth is AT LEAST 75% of the foot length. In IRC racing currently there is a new definition of an oversized jib called a “tweener”. Intended for boats that have non overlapping jibs rather than genoas. There is a rating penalty associated with this sail that a Code Zero doesn’t incur (because it’s actually, technically, a spinnaker). What you are flying in this video may have started life as Code Zero and was cut down (perhaps why the back part of the graphic is absent). But it is effectively now a Jib Top, which has a high clew so it is relatively insensitive to lead position when cracked off a bit. Good close reaching sail.

Thanks for this. Been doing the gasket bit for 50 years (after Dad learned it from somewhere) but had never seen the folding. Looking forward to using it now.

You mentioned that even a slip of a few mm would throw the rigging tunning off, and it sounded like the point of that approach was adjustability, but I don't understand how you maintain the tension exactly where you want it while tieing off the lashing or adjust it afterwards......is there another video that talks about that?

27:04 approaching the dock at ramming speed! Yep, done that, too.

12:09 It's just my wetsuit it's not a dead guy... I'm subscribed!

Great video! Thank you! What could you say about overriding turns, why they happen? Some say because the winch is overcharged with turns?

I’ve been sailing for twenty years, this video had at least three tips that I found really helpful. 👍thanks !

Good material! I especially liked the instruction on releasing and easing self-tailers.

Learn a lot in this 45 mins! Thanks!

Before you get to degloving, I tell crew to make sure they keep their pinky finger towards the winch, not a thumb. Better to lose a pinky than a thumb. It can feel unnatural working that way, but that keeps them focused on what they're doing and avoid becoming complacent around a winch.

Well done Chris! One issue I have with my Swan is getting the right strong egronomic body position over the various winches. One of the curses of flush deck winch system. Keep them coming. Any thoughts on doing Newport to Bermuda this June? Hope to touch bases with you soon.

oh well stove pipe hats for the crew is going to be another sailing expense :( , I'm not sure how happy the woman are going to be wearing beards.

Hey Chris, good to see this up- this is where you shine! Looking forward to seeing more !

Hey Chris! I was just watching some of your older videos... i was just wondering about heaving to on a race boat. Or, what to do if you need a flat boat in rough weather???