Kayak Sail at Max Hull Speed while Reaching
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- čas přidán 12. 10. 2022
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5 Kayak Sailors had perfect October conditions for an amazing day of kayak sailing at the East End of Lake Erie. Everybody had 1.0 square meter Falcon Sails with Carbon Fiber Masts and Booms.
We reached across the wind from South Bass Island State Park to Manila Bay on North Bass Island and then reached across the wind back to South Bass Island. Our round trip was about 14 miles and we barely had to paddle.
It was amazing. The sky was beautiful.
This was an exciting kayak sail outing. You can have fun with a lot less wind as well.
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Great video!
Hope that will be me from South Africa to Britain. 7000miles.
Excellent !
20:10 Spider somehow ended up on the camera lens!!
I like it. :)
Great video! How did you get back to the start?
We sailed back. It was a little easier to sail there.
You can sail across the wind and make 15 degrees up wind progress on both tacks.
So you can sail 210 out of 360 degrees with about zero paddle strokes.
If you throw in a few paddle strokes the 210 grows to quite a bit more.
If you throw in a lot more paddle strokes you can have useful sail propulsion on 300 out of 360 degrees if the wind is not really big.
If you watch the weather and plan for wind shifts you can have a day where you a lot more than 210 degrees of sailing options.
On this day we had a very easy sail there, then the wind increased and we had slightly bad wind shift and it became a bit more difficult.
Our group split up. If you look at the video linked to here you can see Patrick and Andy sailing back in some bigger winds.
czcams.com/video/tDpmn9ZcwCE/video.htmlsi=067swb_MSEudECGL
If you look closely you can tell we mirror imaged this video to make the mirror image graphics showing through the sail appear to be normal.
So it looks like we were on a port tack on the way there and a port tack on the way back.
But we were on a port tack on the way there, and a starboard tack on the way back. On the way back the video is a mirror image of reality. :)
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What is your main kayak for padle sailing on big water?
I have used a Falcon Sail on every one of my Sea Kayaks. If I am on the water with a kayak, I put a sail on it.
For years I used a Valley Nordkapp, then I used a Epic 18x for quite a few more years, and now I am using a inexpensive Jackson Journey Plastic Boat. The Jackson Journey is basically an extended white water kayak. It is great for super rough days.
I also kayak sailed with my wood clc west river 18 for years and enjoyed it. Now I gravitate to my Jackson Journey 14.
If I am on the lake, I am rigged and ready to sail. Any kayak will sail surprisingly well. Falcon Sails will make a rigging kit for your kayak. The best kayak is the kayak you already own and like. You can always move your sail to another boat. All of my kayaks are rigged to accept my sail. I move 1 sail rig between all of my kayaks.
Where on the lake? Presque isle?
We were at the western end of Lake Erie.
We traveled from the South Bass Island State Park were we camp, and worked our way to North Bass Island where we landed in a cove called Manila Bay.
We went around Rattle Snake Island. The video shows our run just after Rattle Snake to Manila Bay.
This video here shows a map at the beginning that shows were this is.
czcams.com/video/RkbSSlYEYl0/video.html
@@1234superduper oh OK. I was confused. You said eastern end of the lake. I think you meant western end.
So. Theoretically, all I need to order from you is the deck plate, hull brace, stay connectors, cleats, and halyard pulley, in order to adapt my sail to the a.i. correct?
@@mpcguy yes found a mistake I wrote. Yes. I was wrong when I wrote east end of Lake Erie. We were at the West end of Lake Erie. I edited my comment to make it correct. Sorry about the confusion.
More than half of the time you had to lean on your left; that must have been very uncomfortable.
A little bit of leaning is no problem. It is just amazing fun.
It is a lot like leaning into a turn when riding a bike. Worse yet is having a outrigger dragging in the water.
A little bit of leaning goes a long ways. If you want to sail across the wind, on a windy day, you need to lean into the wind. It is just part of sailing.
On this day it was pretty darn windy / pushing is close to max hull speed so of course you need to lean into the wind.
One other point I will make is the guy in the video / me, had one of his bigger sail on. If it were a 1.0 instead of the taller and bigger 1.115 there would have been less leaning.
And of course, I was going up wind and down wind / taking longer lines so I had to keep tight sail trim to keep up with those going in a straight line.
If I were uncomfortable I would let the sheet line out and have less healing force. But in this case I preferred the speed so I could do a lot of turning to have more fun.
If you want to see some real leaning, here is a clip from later in the day.
czcams.com/video/tDpmn9ZcwCE/video.htmlsi=AN8QMkG-4B_kTuRJ
Some people decided to go down wind, but 2 of us were trying to go aggressively as possible up wind, we leaned a lot.
You can just take the easy route or limit your sailing to light wind days if you like. Or you can go for it as well if you like.
@@FalconSails, good to learn there was no unnecessary strain on the man in the kayak.
@@1234superduper, all makes sense; thank you for the taking the time to write such a comprehensive answer!
Thank you, too, for the link; I am taking a look at the video right now!
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