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Especially Enterprises - ok over the sides, but over the back is like squirming over a knife edge. We love her though, and a nice swim in March/April is always such a pleasure 🤣

I crewed in a Enterprize in the mid 70's, fond memories. Check out loose Sailing club , some spectacular capsizes in tricky sea conditions.

@@alanlake5220 Looe? Yeah, they are barking mad, but must be a great club!

@@grandsirecaters82 Yes looe, respect for sailing in blustery contitions & heavy seas.

I'm better now, but still have the occasional unplanned swim.

@@grandsirecaters82 it’s all part of the learning curve. I’m sure I’ll be having many more myself!

Hi Peter, we have a lot of nice folk on Ullswater. It happened in an area called bomb alley. Ullswater is renowned for it 'swirlies' - worst in westerlies - due to the multiple valleys up to high hills that can cause dramatic changes in direction and speed. On this occasion the crew was on the ball and did her best, but the helm wasn't quick enough to grab the opposite gunwhale

Hi, it taught me quite a lot. Including doing levels 1 & 2 RYA! I'd only been out a few times when I gave birth to that video. We still capsize occasionally though, but that's part of the fun. Have you sailed on Ullswater? If so you'll know how unpredictable the wind is!

@@grandsirecaters82 ah explains a lot yeh you've probably improved a million times since the video then. A capsize here and there is inevitable of course. Never on ullswater but plenty of other lakes and some sea sailing too though its been a few years since I've sailed a boat now.

@@bobbyrayofthefamilysmith24 you should try Ullswater some time, a beautiful place to sail, ok in northerlies or southerlies, but any other direction and the "swirlies" take over. There's one area known universally as "bomb alley" 😂

I don’t think he luffed much due to lack of tiller extension and toe strap use. Every time he leaned he bears away. When the puff came he was off the wind too much couldn’t luff or dump power and immediately had too much power which became a broach. More control of main sheet required, and attention to centreboard position. It was up for a long time on some close hauled stuff.

Once the boom end is in the water then it is all too late in a fresh breeze, can't spill the sail and it stays full of air, and the rudder is half out of the water so no steering authority. The recovery can be sped up however by releasing the sheet and scrambling over the windward side straight onto the centreboard to get the boat up pronto and step back into the boat as it comes back up and on some dinghies being quick about it you may get away with the boat not heeling much past 45-50 degrees. Before that situation develops it is about learning to anticipate: Watch the water for characteristic rippling of an approaching gust, if one hits or there is a sudden veer, then both let off the sheet (but keep control of it) AND steer more downwind to square up the wind more behind the boat instead of it coming from abeam and then think about getting the weight out. Doing both these things changes the angle of the wind to the boat, by bringing the wind more behind you instead of from the side and this will absolutely stop you broaching in nearly every situation. You react the opposite way when the wind suddenly dies or backs around behind you and the boat tips the other way to windward, steer up and sheet on. When reaching like this, think of just steering the boat underneath the top of the mast to keep it balanced and level.......many beginners react the wrong way and try to use their weight first as a natural reaction and find out they don't have enough weight/righting moment to fix the situation, or try to steer up into the breeze because that's what they were taught/experienced to correct a heeling boat when sailing to windward to luff the sails. You can further enhance stability on some dinghies when reaching or running square by lifting the centreboard up a little bit, but perhaps no more than halfway and is a little bit of experimentation. If the board is all the way down this can increase the amount of heel on a reach because the wind is trying to push the top of the boat over and the board is trying to keep the bottom of the boat from moving sideways causing more heeling moment to develop from wind gusts, so bringing the board part way up will allow the boat to slip a little more sideways when heeling, but bring the centreboard up too much and you will start to lose stability again from losing the ability of the centreboard the dampen the rocking movement of the boat (and in this video @Grandsire Caters doesn't have any centreboard down at all at the start of the video which almost leads to his first capsize because that is too much reduction in stability by removing all the dampening the centreboard provides to counteract rocking motions). Further, as commented elsewhere, learning to sail with the tiller extension allows you to more easily move your weight around to balance it all out but learning which way to steer in gusts and mainsheet control is perhaps the more vital thing to learn first.

Hi Kent, Ullswater has quite a few Bermuda triangles, in fact it's one great big one. Must be all those hills and valleys. Takes a while to figure out where the worst ones are. And they are different every day. 😂👍

Yes I have improved, could not have become worse! Last capsize Easter 2020 in very different conditions.

Thank you, but sadly not as athletic as sometimes required - especially in westerlies (or even worse easterlies), when all those side valleys and mountains cause the most amazing vortices (the "Swilrlies"). Our maxim is the same - but not always achieved!

Ha Ha, no I am sure it won't be the last! But none in 2017.... watch this space....

Love your videos, i am just learning to sail, lot to learn.

You won't learn much from me ha ha :-)

What i have seen you are great, i am learning all the time watching your videos thanks you for that. love the music.

I do now! 2017 season, no capsizes. Or maybe I didn't try hard enough to go in!

It's an Enterprise - well known to be slippery, especially in the hands of an imbecile ha ha! If you see a blue sail, keep clear!

One of the most unstable and tippy sailing dinghies available, with quite a powerful rig and a large volume to bail,out if you capsize.

@@wightwalker2453 ...and there lies the fun

@@grandsirecaters82 not a boat for sea solo cruising?

@@jakedonnely4094 er....NO! 🤣🤣🤣

That would be the school of hard knocks then? Otherwise known as capsize city!😄😄 I fly paragliders but my son (sails a N12, even more of a handful) persuaded me that sailing is a good complementary sport - he's right and me and my partner LOVE it especially in such a fantastic place as Ullswater. Breaking news - we haven't been in the drink once this year......yet, oops I shouldn't have said that.😈 Look up looe sailing club, if you want to see lunatics sailing Ents in ridiculous conditions!

Hi Stu, I don't think I'd ever sell my Ent, though I suppose in the end I might just get too old and doddery to stay upright for more than 50% of the time!