Don't Do This on YOUR Sailboat
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- New to sailing? These are FIVE mistakes you can EASILY avoid, and be a better, safer sailor. Captain Follow captain James as he helps these new sailors get ready for a 1000nm passage. He will go over deck safety, line stowage, anchor safety, how to properly tie down ANYTHING, plus other fixes for these common shipboard problems.
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Love you Mario, sorry about all the rookie mistakes. You just need your own CZcams channel with you just being you talking with all your funny stuff. You could also talk some smack about James! Lol. Love you too James!
I just started watching this channel two days ago. Have been binge watching ever since.
Many thanks for all your good hints! Love that Alaskan knot! I guess one may use it for the anchor chain snubber as well. Right?
Excellent points. I especially like how you show people to visualize their boat in the dark, in 35 knot wind with waves flying across the deck. Better to visualize than to face the challenges in the storm. Told my kids, "You don't want to learn to sail in a squall." Learn first, then go sail. Thanks James!
I wanna see a deck side fight between Mario and James. The only weapon they're allowed to use is a dead sea trout. What an episode that would be!
James you’re a great teacher. Excellent video 👍👍
EXCELLENT TECHNIQUE/ADVISE/ SEAMANSHIP JAMES! 💯 THIS IS WHAT I WATCH ALL THESE CHANNELS FOR!!!!! I can use this on my powerboat lines! Amazing!
Glad you dig the content, Dewayne.
James, you are taking it to another level with these instructional videos. Really nice 👍 Thank you.
Great tips. Thanks. All webbing tie downs have to be twisted. Then they won't buzz, slap, wear out, carve holes. Webbing can be incredibly useful and strong. Flat might look nice but it buzzes. A twisted jackline on the deck is also a lot easier to clip on to.
What I learned about knots. You have to practice them in isolation; same with cleat hitches, rolling hitches, flaking lines. Just working with them doesn't seem to do it. You have to just decide, I'm going to tie this knot over and over, then tie it with your eyes closed. Then when I think I've got it, comeback the next day and do it some more. Then a few days later. I find I just tidying up the boat after a sail is good time to practice flaking lines quickly, efficiently, perfectly. And do it over if it's not effortless. This pays dividends later when you need it most.
I always bring some rope. It always gets used for something. And during watches you can practice.
Good instruction James. Direct, easy to follow. I've seen videos where they spend half the video showing you what not to do. We learn what we see and do most. How's that going to work? Or their hand is blocking the key step. Flaking a line? Almost every video I found when I was a noob was junk. Some even showed doing it wrong. A lot of don't do it like this. Let me show you again how not to do it. Instead do it this way. Wait! what just happened?
And I've been on boats with experienced sailors that had more hockles than anything else.
Thats why us semi drivers with flatbed trailers twist our straps. Sometimes they wont buzz or make any noises but its a good idea to twist the straps like you said.
Best to the point advice I have seen on sail channels!
Well played sir. Very informative. Just bought two sunfish, and gonna learn with the kids... tiny boats but the principles apply. Dreaming of deep blue from the mountains of Tennessee.
Thanks heaps young fella....am a total novice, yet I was so able to understand your rope work.. Am an aged bloke, a wanna be sailor( another dream which is some family heritage) but am now kicking myself for not beginning years earlier. But, thanks for your inspiration..Cheers, and fair winds..👍
I love this channel. So much info and entertainment involving sailing.
Just signed up. I don't have a boat but love sailing and I really admire your rope work and line management, so lots for me to learn.
Best regards.
That was Real Cool. Thanks. Explaining the Logic of the Layout was Great.
Nice video! Instead of a pin to secure the anchor I use a line with a trucker’s hitch and a slip knot like you did with the dinghy. I’ve found this to be nice and secure with the benefit that you can quickly untie it or even cut it if required for release.
Top-notch advice! Thank you Captain :)
Nice demonstration, good explaining on lines and storage.
Fender storage on most boats appears to be an ongoing issue.
We found the Solomon for minimum crew sailing.
On one boat we store them on the walkway as where they are.
Yes they take a dip so now and then but moments later they get onboard again.
At the other boat we keep them on the rail to but they have a bottom clip so they hang horizontally under the wire.
Sailing single handed or it’s no choice to walk around with fenders. Obviously they have to get in place before you enter the harbour similar action is needed to ready the anchor winch.
Inflatable fenders , I love to hear about those as being tested during time. Obviously not usable for the minimum crew of older people.
Great stuff. I'm a newbie and these instructions are GOLD. Thanks for sharing👍
Very important to show whay some things should be done in certain ways. Really cool knots!
New subscriber to your channel and found your rescue video amazing! Your follow up with the Rigging suggestions were great and informative. Will continue to follow your channel and follow you and your family on their excursions. Cheers!
James - love your work. I like tucking the fenders over into the cockpit as well. Another great reason for doing this is for man over board. You can then easily throw them off the back with anything else that floats. Ideally you don’t slip on the solar panels to require this 😂
Once again OG James keepin us all on point!
Thanks James..good advice..lessons learned!!
Lots of good advice, for the anchor I usually wrap my snubber around the Sampson posts so it's just long enough to clip onto the anchor so it can't accidentally deploy, also we have a isolation switch on the anchor winch so it can't accidentally be bumped
I love your attention to detail!
I like to use rolling hitches when I'm tying down gear. I got used to doing that knot when I was aboard TeVega. That was a very common knot that they used for securing their halyards under load and it was a tremendous amount of load. Shocking that the gear was able to handle all that force.
Great video and I learn so much from your videos. One correction: I believe the railing along the stern is called the pushpit. The pulpit is at the bow. Let me know if I'm wrong.
Correct. Should be noted though that saying “bow pulpit” is redundant and unnecessary but you hear it all the time. So referring to the pushpit as the “stern pulpit” likely confuses nobody even though it is no longer redundant but just incorrect. 😂
Brilllllliant - James' Alpine is the only knot I can remember in a pinch.
Another excellent video that I really enjoyed keeping my dream alive Thank You!!
Thank you for a very informative and practical video.
Great tips man! Much appreciated.
Very good video. Super useful. I would add that however you stow the lines, the crew should be shown how to disassemble them. If they don't know what to do, bad things can happen
Awesome video man🎉 I got a video suggested for you go through the CZcamsrs that are doing dangerous things on their sailboats and promoting it😮 great example of these guys that are buying these 18 to 24 ft vessels and crossing the Atlantic with no eperb life raft. Personally I think nobody should cross the Atlantic or the Pacific unless they got at least a 30 ft vessel.
That Alaskan Hitch paid for the price of admission. I've used hitches that are similar for years, we call it the truckers Hitch but that one was really nice and I like the way it came loose ! And cool to hear your baby in the background. Captain Ron "If it happens it happens out there should be If It Happens it Happens OUT THERE AT NIGHT !
Great content, good instruction, thanks
Bloody good video, I love your videos that teach. 'Top stuff" James to quote one of my countrymen. Merry Christmas or happy holidays what ever you like.
Hey and same for all the viewers, I pray you all have a good festive season and God bless all your loved ones. Matt from Plucky land...
Great video Mario.❤😊🎉the best teacher...
Enjoyed there’s tutorial sessions. More please!
This is some great information! Thanks!
Great video James been practising that alpine hitch, always used a truckers version this is way neater, thanks.
Truckers hitch is still easier to untie
Hello James, regarding the webbing vibrating and driving you crazy, a common solution to that (triied and true for transport of windsurfing gear on 70 mph car top) is to twist the straps three or four times. Totally emulates vibration and preserves your sanity. Totally agree on cheap metal for rusting....
Excellent information James.
One of the best videos I have seen on sailing.
Such good advice James.
Great info James Thanks !! :))
Thank you, James. You're as cool as Plukky. 😊
Love it thanks for sharing 👍🏻
That Alaskan Alpine Hitch....I learned it in the Army as a single butterfly, and a varient with 4 turns around the hand called a double butterfly. We used the for building rope bridges. Later I used it for things like this.
This is pure gold 👍😀
Hello from Melbourne Australia 🦘🐍. I enjoy your shows.😁
"Alaskan" Alpine Butterfly ......never heard the Alaskan part before. It looks and ties like an Alpine Butterfly, an excellent knot that is tied in the (single) bight.
Invaluable practicle lesson to share with a beginning crew. Then the boat owner can also learn this at the same time 😮
I’m a power. Later so I can only comment on 1-3.
1) you’re there to help/teach/captain you should have had the solar panels removed before going underway.
2) loose the plastic fender whip crap. Use a clove hitch or modified clove hitch.
3) 100% agree!
Nice job. 😊
Great video James. I worked on drilling rigs for many decades as a young buck and one of the critical pieces was learning how to tie proper knots for the years I was a derrickman. Your knowlede of knots is terrific. The knot used to make a purchase wrapping around 3 times and then pulling the middle one and go through the centre was brilliant. How would I find out about coming on a cruise with you? I want to learn more.
Cool info James I'm in Puerto Vallarta heading south in a couple weeks to Panama. Still wondering if I should run my storm sails through Tehuantepec but I'm gonna hug the coast. I had my anchor let loose at night in about 400 feet at 9 kts. Spun the boat 180 pretty quick!
good Video!! have crossed the gulf of twanapec(sp?) ... The wind comes from caribean side(thru a notch i mountains, which acts like a Veturi accelerating wind speed & force[you can 1 mile off beach and get slammed, no real lee protection of the hills there) My crew called the winds/gusts:"twana-peckers";>) we had three reefs in main & fore & small staysail up.[ 90 foot marconi rigged S&S schooner]........ It was beautiful,: sun out , large seastate, nothing broke, "bone in her teeeth" !!!!!
For fenders just get Fendertex, love mine, they stow tiny.
Also the aft railing is called a pushpit not a pullpit
Great video.
Thanks, James!
Great video! Thanks
My dad was always maniacal about keeping the decks clear of anything that could interfere with footing. Fenders went into lockers, hank-on sails went into hammock bags in place or into lockers.
Thanks for the hot tips.
Thanks for the lessons! I am going to try one of your overhand/underhand coil techniques on a 25 foot 16 gauge extension cord to just see how it works. If ok, I'll attach a hook to an exposed vertical 2'x4' in my garage. Best, :¬) Webhead USA
That tie-down rope trick is called a Truckers' Hitch. The first knot used to make the loop looks like some bastardization of an Alpine Butterfly Loop (maybe it *is* one?). When using throw-away cordage you can get away with a simple slip-loop, and a slip half-hitch for the securing bit, and it's a one-pull release. ;-)
Thanx a bunch!!!!
James thanks great info, the bold guy was a bit jealous about your skills..
Great non nonsense information.
Thanks, lots of good info here ⚜️❇️
On sailing UMA there is this guy who makes foldable solarpanels.
these are awesome, probably a good alternative.
Any flat strap will buzz in the wind. A simple solution is to put a two or three twists in it. When we would airlift heavy vehicles or artillery pieces we would always put three twists for every 15 - 20 feet and that would keep the vibration next to nil which every helicopter pilot would love.
You teach well! 👍
Great video, James! Your instructional videos are always on point and easy to understand. I really appreciate the gentle reminders. It would be awesome if you could make a separate playlist for these instructional videos for easy access. Keep up the great work, you're such a patient and knowledgeable sailor. Many thanks for sharing your wisdom with us! 👍🌊
Hey there James, Mario and Bill, Anna and all. We’re watching you guys, looks like you made it to Chiapas. We’re excited to see more videos of your epic Journeys. We will be in Chiapas if the gods permit, by the 28th or so. I’m guessing you’ll be long away by then, best of luck aka fair winds and following seas and easy transit. Brian and Katia out 😎
Sorry we're already back to the boat in Panama. You missed us by a couple weeks. Hope to see you in the future though!
Well said captain
Bravo
The rear pulpit is also reffered to as a pushpit.
Agreed.Pulpit is where you would pull the boat from. The pushpit is where you would push the boat ie the stern!
@@changingclips Yeah I like it when stuff makes.
Ohhh bomb. Thought you were taking us out sailing a Gail. Next Time 🤙
Good stuff James
much appreciated. 👏
I noticed that most people who learned to sail later in life and on a big cruising boat, without doing much racing or without having spent a childhood in dinghies that they do not loosen up the sails enough. To them, if the sail is not flopping then it must be good when in reality the sails must be loosened as much as possible to the point where they just start flopping at the head. Surely they must wonder why the main sheet is so long, cluttering up the cockpit, when they hardly ever use half of it. I've seen boats going downwind with the main sheeted in as if reaching. Not only does the boat go much slower but it puts pressure on the wrong spots, the sheet, the sail and especially the rudder as it is always trying to compensate for weather helm. It's good sailing skills that keep you out of trouble in bad weather.
Looking good James.
I can definitely see how a really long pin like the one we saw you set could bend. Maybe a shorter one in a different spot?
Merry Christmas 🎄🎁
Nice video.
Very funny to hear the crew ripping on each other
very educating
Practical. Nice
I want to see Anna & Luna!!
And good instruction vids also!
Right on with the rachetting tie-downs rusting and needing to be cut off, this rookie made that mistake. An alternative to lines over the dinghy on the foredeck that I use is two lines from the inside frame of the dinghy tied to the handrails at the front of the boat. Out of the way, cannot trip on them, and very secure (and of course one at the bow to the base of the staysail). But all halyards and reefing lines on my boat are led back to the cockpit with no simple place to hang them all. You would not like my approach, but I just leave them in little piles under the dodger on the first-in-last-out principle and it works well.
I stow everything like fenders, sails and spares, tools in the v birth which i don't use. Have a solar generator on board and hardly use the batteries of the boat.
Liked the vid a lot.
When we as people are feeling insecure we tend to "control" the things we can control. At 19:12 the guy is so nervous he feels the need to straiten the seat cushions... YA THATS GUNNA HELP.
I enjoyed it most for the reactions you provoked in all the "RICH ALPHA MALES " that are 15 years older than you but clearly have more money than brains or experience.
Men like these hire a manager to run their company and then fire him even though the company is doing better. They are so intimidated by someone that knows more about their world than they do.
This was the first vid of yours I have watched... going to the channel now... wonder what I will find.?
Great points. I'll add that the bow roller pin will help keep the rode in the roller and contribute some transverse strength. You don't want the rode jumping out. Right, Scott?
The pin goes through the anchor, but can act as a keeper if you're leaving the boat for awhile. I saw a nice boat wrecked because of just that.
Hey James, very new sailor here... (besides my years in the USN....lmao) How you tied off the staysail sheets/clew lines on the winch, why not do the same for the Jib & Staysail halyards forward and hang them on the mast cleats?
Hey brother. They would just fall apart if I hung them that way. The way I hang the sheets isn't secure enough for the halyards. As the halyards are non-working lines (they are not required to be manipulated daily), and the hang on the mast, they need to be tied up a little more securely, but not so much as to render them impossible to let go in an emergency. Hope that makes sense. Thank you for your service, shipmate!
@@thelastpirate Much appreciated !
James, Soft shackle vs pin on anchor?
what is that pin called?
In the event of a knockdown those lines will go flying. better hang the coil with an anchor bend on the standing part of the line, It won't be going anywhere and easy to get to, after being knocked down a number of times We learn the hard way
great music.
James. U🎉❤r the great teacher
The ‘hoover’ that you are showing everybody is called the pushpit. Mistake number 1, know all the parts of a vessel.
My dingy is strung down with bale string i get from my farmer friend. Balestring is useful on boats too😂😂😂
Excellent advice James!!! That boat is going to be ship shape and ready to cross oceans in no time!