Sailing my Skiff on Storm Eunice remnants, 30Kts Gusts!!
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- Опубликовано: 13 сен 2024
- Patreon: / membershipgreat fun in 30 kts gusts! Not the best conditions as it was really gusty but I decided to go in anyway. Set two reefs on the sail, flattened it and fitted my new tiller/extension too.
Managed to get a few good gusts on a broad reach and my GIS was flying!!
Clocked a new personal best (recorded) of over 16kts in at least 3 occasions!
What an awesome day!
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It really seams to handle like a laser 👍
Hi,
My GIS is much heavier than most, about twice the weight. It takes a bit longer to start planning than a Laser and is also a bit slower to tack. But is really fast still! 😁
That was awesome! Thanks for taking us with you. 16 knots- unbelievable!!
Thanks for watching! 😉
It's funny for me how my portuguese heritage shows up. I love portuguese culture, and Lisbon is by far my favorite city . You look exactly like my older brother. Best videos ever.
Thanks! 😁
I really do love to see your boat on the water.
I loved your video. what a racer! So much fun. 😄👍
Glad you enjoyed it!
Nimble little skiff, sailing on the edge in spots there had me worried things might get a bit wetter than expected!!!
The watertight side benches are life savers!
Now that was some crazy sailing! As always, impressed with your seamanship and the seaworthiness of Forager! Well done!
Glad you enjoyed it Dennis!
The side benches have proven critical to keep me out of the drink! 😅
@@TheBoatRambler , I noticed that! Your gunwale were awash several times, but you didn’t capsize! Very impressive!
Sweet!!!
This certainly proves that a lug can be a performance sail. I have three--two are homemade, one bought for the GIS (which I have not built). I think they are fantastic sails.
Yes they are good performers and they are extremely versatile. 😉
Super video, great sailing, but REALLY HARD WORK
Thank you!
It was only an hour long session...my abs couldn't take much more! 😅
Again and again. This is great sailing. Congratulations!
Thanks again! 😁
Awesome footage, thanks for sharing the experience!
Glad you enjoyed it! 😉
That is fantastic footage! Thank you for sharing this experience
Glad you enjoyed it Chris!
Wow! I thought you were going swimming when you took all that water over the rail. Great video!!
Most of the water went along the seat and out of the boat again! 😁
Did you modify your seats so that water could come aboard Ike that and then drain out the back?
Wow man you got that thing in some real wind, cool! Say, I just got a little 8 foot dory that looks kind of similar, and have been watching vids. I have all the parts I think, but all the hardware is in a bag. The parts that seem that they need to be screwed onto boat, for little pulleys, etc. There are two long thin metal cables/wires with wooden mast, and I can't tell in your vids if you have those holding your mast up. I like the vid where you rigged up sail , and said, hey it worked last summer, so if it works.....lol. I am trying to decide to sell the boat as is with bag of parts, or try and install it all and set it all up in my backyard, and then maybe go sailing. thanks
The GIS mast doesn't have any shrouds/cables/wires holding the mast as it is strong enough for the sail it carries. That's why I can get to the club and be on the water in 5 minutes! 😉
Great video! Loved the Opties in the background...
Thanks!
the kids stood in more sheltered waters. By the time I left the water the wind had died down just a notch and then they went all out! 😁
Nice one mate, you did well to keep her upright. 👍
Thanks.
Good thing I did because I only had neoprene salopettes not a full suit and the water was really cold!! 😁
wow ,amazing little boat you built ,loved the speed it can do with such small sail area you handle it like a pro
Glad you enjoyed it 😉
What a lovely boat and some great sailing👍🏻
Thanks! 😉
I really enjoyed your trip! Top sailing skills and fantastic conditions! Love it! ⛵👌
Thank you very much Captain!
Wow, that was awesome!!
How did you get the shot in front of the bow? Drone?
Thanks so much!
have a look here...all my secrets revealed! 😁
ruclips.net/video/69wcWKoj_M4/видео.html
Good fun!
It was!
Truly exhilarating sailing. What fun.
Thank you for watching! 😁
Very cool indeed.
Thank you!
Fantastic action. Thanks for sharing
Thanks for watching 😉
One of the interesting devices I've seen on this larger monohull was it was outfitted with two tanks, one each, port and starboard, with pumps that would move the water from one side to the other to balance the boat instead of crew running from one side to the other and hanging off the sides.
What a beautiful boat, I love the black hull. And there's something about gaff sails that I absolutely love, I'll take a gaff rig over a Bermuda rig any day of the week.
Hi Alex!
This kind of sail is a balanced Lug sail, the yard prolongs past the mast a bit. The yard on a gaff rig has a fork at the end and stops at the mast.
@@TheBoatRambler Ahh, thanks so much! I'm new to sailing as I did a week on a ketch for the first time a few months ago and absolutely loved it, I'm now in that phase of spending my free time googling everything sailing related. Thanks for the info, one new subscriber!
Welcome to the best community in the world! Sailing can change your life! 😉
...and thanks for the sub!
Great video looked like great fun.
Thanks Jennifer, It sure was!😁
Absolutely fantastic!
Thanks a bunch Robert! 😉
Thanks!
Fun. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it!
You must be so proud to know what you built is so strong and fast teo your boat is so cool can you please tell the opti sailors they are so brave groom Gene in Tasmania
Thanks Gene!
The GIS is a great design, and all the merit goes to Michael Storer!
I'll let our young sailors know they are world famous now! 😁
Cheers.
Amazing!!!
Thanks!!
What fun! I used to sail the 30' Shields keeled boat and a Nacra 5.8 catamaran out of Newport Beach and Long Beach. In Socal we get the Santa Ana Winds from the desert that can blow 40+ knots, I think the record might have been into the 70 knot range, we lost a lot of trees during that blow. Long Beach, ala Hurricane Alley, was a good place to go sailing on the edge. I was lucky in that the first two times I sailed a boat in very high winds it was with one of the sailing instructors from the Orange Coast Sailing Center (I don't know what the new name is) and was taught how to sail in those condition during two big blows so when it happened with my Nacra 5.8 I didn't mess up and the boat end up on it's side in the water, although that did happen the first time I took the boat our solo.
I have to try a fast cat someday! they look like so much fun!! 😁
Great video footage, and you handled the boat well. I like the snippets where the camera on the boom end goes underwater! Are the cameras 'Go pros'? A venturi bailer would be worthwhile in those conditions. I'd have liked to see you challenge one of the Lasers...
Thanks Andy!
I have only raced a lasers 4.7 so far and as expected with such small sail it was no match for the GIS.
Also sailed side by side (for a few seconds) with a Dingue 14 which uses the same sail plan as the Laser 6.3, the GIS is way faster too.
I did race against a Vaurien and a Topper 14 if you want to see that > ruclips.net/video/noavtE9Fk8Q/видео.html
I want to sail one of these GIS with balanced lug before I die. Looks like a BLAST!
It sure is David! 😁
Whooooooo Hoooooo! LOL
ist das nicht ein berauschendes gefühl ? aber so segeln muss man können
Nice ride patron :)
Thanks Boss! 😎
Time to strap a float to the end of the boom and make like a catamaran...
😁
Also, great video. Thank you! It really shows the capability of the GIS. Curious what effect a 3rd reef would have had.
The third reef is way too much imho, unless there's a Gale and one wants to run to shore.
Thats a crazy lot of wind... 16kn is a awful speed and no capsize!
ZERO accidental capsizes so far... 🤞 😅
Years ago I built a 14’ little sloop. It started to rot from poor choices of plywood. Watching your video has put the bug to build another one. This boat flies apparently…..or the recording makes it seem that way. Is it the flat bottom that makes it so fast?
The GIS is a really fast boat. It has a planning hull and I have reached 16kts with two reefs on! 😁
I would say speeds between 8 and 10 kts are eaaaasily achievable.
LOL SHOWOFF!!! LOL
😁😁
That's not sailing, that's flying really low. Where did you hide the jet engine. 😁
I don't know where it is!! Maybe Michael Storer made it part of the design and never told anyone!! 😁
@@TheBoatRambler he must have haha 🤣
Hello, ... it seems like you should use Elvstrom Lenzer on your skiff, do you know these parts ?
Just google, please ...
Btw., nice videos, well filmed, very nice stories ...
Hi Paul!
Thanks for the tip and for your support! 😉
Have you considered modifying your hiking straps so they can be raised up? This would let you get your weight further out of the boat and creating a stronger righting moment. Also, During gusts you seem to be pulling on the tiller, which means bearing off, which effectively increases power at points where it looks like you should be shedding power (i.e. the leeward gunnel is in the water). Even on a reach, given any specific trim of the mainsail, heading up will tend to shed power. Plus, if you're beating, heading up during gusts will accelerate your progress towards the mark.
Hi Tristan,
There is only so long I can stay hiking too far off the gunwalles so I chose to keep the straps low to give me a comfortable siting/hiking position.
I pull on the tiller when heeling to keep the boat on the same heading other wise it will point to wind and the boat will stall. To prevent capsize I release the sheet instead. The same reason why I don't head up during gusts, the sail will luff, the foils will lose efficiency or completely stall and then I'm going nowhere and have to wait for the boat to "fall into position" again before I can get power on the sail and control it. Heading up on gusts on small skiffs doesn't pay in the long run.
This article can explain it a lot better than I can.
www.storerboatplans.com/sailing-lessons-free/new-upwind-sailing-methods-more-performance-less-effort/
@@TheBoatRambler fair points. Thanks for linking storer's article, he referred to this idea in a talk on the DCA channel but now I have a better idea of what he's on about. There is a limit, however, of easing the mainsheet in gusts, which is the boom hitting the water. In our club we do ease on gusts, I just sometimes pinch on gusts to de-power if I don't have the energy to hike. Out mantra is on upwind, our boom should never be outside the boat - it has to be in tight so it can be eased and stay within the boat (also you just won't be able to point as high with the boom out).
My main thought is it just looks uncomfortable to sail with so much heel. Personally my arms get tired from fighting weather helm so I do what I can to avoid it.
Great video and very inspiring! It appeared you were using three cameras. What kind of cameras are you using and what kind of camera mounts & extensions? The bow camera gives a great view, I'm wondering how long that extension is? Also curious about your phone mount. I keep my phone in a dry bag but like your mount as it makes it much easier to read. Thanks again!
Thanks Steve!
you can see all the details about my cameras and mounts here: ruclips.net/video/69wcWKoj_M4/видео.html
The phone mount was something I bodged up...needs some work! 😅
Is the goat island skiff one of those boats that you need to always hang off the side to keep it strait?
Hi,
No it is not.
The GIS has a very big sail, similar to racing dinghies, which makes it extremely fast. But it has a lug sail with reefs, and if you want a more relaxed sail just set as many reefs as necessary for you to be sat inside the boat. It will still be a fast boat.
@@TheBoatRambler wonderful, thanks for the info. I love the look of this boat and am really enjoying your content.
HiTeo, good footage! Was this the closest you’ve come to a capsize in your GIS? Would you have done anything differently in that moment?
Hi Paul!
Yes this was indeed the closest that I came to ACCINDENTALY capsize my GIS! although as you can see not even 30kts gusts managed to get me in the drink! Love my side benches!!! 😁
Hi, this is Thomaz from Brazil. "The video Rambler" are among my prefered youtube channels, congratulations! What app do you use in your cellphone at the boat for marking speed and course? Is your cellphone splashproof or really waterproof?
Thanks for your support Thomaz!
I use the "Boat Speedo" app. it's a cyan logo with a stickman and a gage...it's also free😉
eheheheh Fixolas eheheheh
Aposto que um Hitia 14 até espumava!! 😉
@@TheBoatRambler
ainda tinha que fazer outro mastro... e não me apetece nada eheheheh
Great video! Thought you lost it there! Boom in the water! Solid water over the rail! Nice recovery. Fun. Can I ask why you sit so far forward? Or, if you must sit forward, have you thought of a push-pull type tiller arrangement? Just asking. Beautiful boat!
Hi John,
I sit forward to keep the bow in the water and reduce the impact on the bottom of the skiff. when on a beam or broad reach I can sit further aft but not too much is needed to be honest.
The reason I increased the tiller was to improve leverage and control in strong wind, but I think I cut the extension a bit too much! 😅
Cheers
Teo
Are you familiar with the Norwegian tiller? If not you might look it up. An image search on Google will explain itself. It might prove a solution for your long tiller issue.
Thanks John, I will have a look! 👍
@@TheBoatRambler At the risk of sounding like a know-it-all couch sailor, the old 'sharpies' of New England sailed 'on their bottoms' as was said. They were very narrow for their length, hard chine, flat-bottom, shallow-draft working boats. Their bow was purposely held out of the water. In any kind of breeze, heeling over, the hard chine acted as the breakwater. In short, as long as the stern of your craft isn't dragging, you could probably let the bow do whatever it wanted! It is your boat. You have the feel for her. I'm just talking out loud here! Cheers!
Thanks for your advice.
the amount of heeling does influence greatly the GIS behavior as it does the speed one can achieve. if under planning speed heeling will reduce wet surface and make the boat sail faster. over planning speed keeping the boat as leveled as possible has advantages.
It all depends on speed and wind direction ofc. And also I'm only a beginner when it comes to the GIS... it's only my third season sailing one! And experimentation is always the order of the day for me ! 😁
Wow! 16 kts! Screaming! How much if that, if any, was current?
Hi Sean, there's little if any curreent there. The main canal is close to the other side and I was sailing 30 minutes each side of high tide anyway.
Do you speak Portuguese? Are you from Brasil or Portugal?
Hi Peter, I'm a Portuguese in Portugal. 😉
@@TheBoatRambler Eu falo POrtuguese mais eu vivo nas Filipinas. Minha mae eras de Brasil.
almost too much to keep the beam out of the water while breaking hull speed ......this video has me looking up the cost of a Tiwal 3R, with spring coming...
Edit: arrrrgh.....i can't afford it......i would have to save quite awhile just for a Tiwal 2, ( which would be ok for me, being i would have no water front fees, and could pack it there and back )
maybe a used sailboard ?
If you want to go fast and make it cheap ...have you looked at the OZ Goose by Michael Storer? I've been tempted to build one for years!
@@TheBoatRambler i live way up on a ridge, and the water is off in the distance....my motorcycle is now my only reliable vehicle, i have to pull down my truck engine this year.
i am a serious craftsman, and honed my skills beyond that apprenticing at Free Spirit Spheres....i am ship wright grade...i am sure the oz goose performs incredibly well for the simple design....but i could tackle anything .....i was just thinking Tiwal because i would have to figure out a way to carry it on my motorcycle, as things are now.
@@TheBoatRambler i think if i owned ocean front property, i would already have built something by now....and good enough to think about selling my property and going for a circumnavigation.....but i don't own ocean front property....so my yacht is just taking shape in my CAD Workstation.
@@TheBoatRambler if i was going to build a skiff, i would build something like yours, honestly.....except i would go for the rotating spar rig on bowsprit blocks....and it would be an airfoil spar, laminated, draw knifed, and sanded, with a beautiful full bearing hub.....i could handle it solo with a custom wind vane...i would invent something that would work.
@@TheBoatRambler i actually started looking at used sailboards, and bookmarked one on e-bay...but i couldn't bring my self to place bid....i have no idea how i would carry that on my motorcycle, for one...and the other thing is that sailboarding is more physically demanding, and will wear you out quicker...
Como entrar em contato com você?
Hi Dmitry.
you can contact me at thevideorambler@gmail.com
The side seats look like they may have prevented the boat from shipping more water. Hard to tell. Does your boat have a bailing mechanism?
In the slow motion I noticed that not only the seats prevented the boat from flooding but it is visible how most of the water travels along them and then exits the boat again! I'm pretty sure that without them I would have a boat half full of water. 😅
No capsizes? There's a whole video of you doing nothing but! Or did you mean accidental capsizes? 16Knts is quite some speed for a boat of that size isn't it? Also well done for staying the right way up.
Hi Ben!
yes I meant accidental capsizes, never happened ...yet! 😅
@@TheBoatRambler We've jinxed it now. 😉👍🤞
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Too much canvas!
Hi Dominic,
The third reef on my sail is waaay too deep and I wouldn't set this unless I was caught by this weather away from my destination. Here I was trying to have as much fun as possible so as long as I could stay afloat during the stronger gusts... the rest of the time would be awesome! I would never have reached 16Kts speed with a third reef on! 😁