Thank you so much for sharing this, it’s very useful. My Friend Silvija who circumnavigate the world two times, was telling me all about that, you are talking about.
I've said this before and I'll say it again: the fastest twenty-five minutes I've ever seen on the Internet. As I tend to worry about things (lateness etc.) I've also learned to never do things on a deadline thus eliminating worry. Great talk guys. All best wishes.
Never a dull moment. Not much of a sea story but I was crewing on a Loch Long class boat in Clyde week. Heading down a Sea loch we had the wind astern. The skipper did not realise that the winds at the junction of the three lochs were unpredictable. It wasn't so much of a unexpected gybe as chaos. Sails going one way, crew all ways and boom doing its own way. We got back control and carried out a man overboard drill to pick up the one man who had ended up in the sea. It was the skipper. Our race was over but we had a few beers to recover afterwards.
I learned decades ago to plan your work and work your plan. A saying, I'm sure, that's older than me. Do everything you possible can in advance to mitigate not being prepared. I thoroughly enjoy your stories, advice, what to do, and what not to do, mistakes, and lessons learned. Thank you for sharing this extremely important information.
Indeed. Mitigate potential surprises by being prepared and considering all eventualities. When you go to sea prepared, it makes you more confident in your own abilities. Anything beyond that, beyond what you could have prepared for, is in the hands of the gods!
I just love this video as it states the reality of sailing and being on the ocean and the importance of having a boat that can get you through anything INCLUDING a your own mistakes. We all make mistakes or mor accurately miscalculations. We all get complacent at times get tired on long passages that lead to mistakes. Everyone can sit and talk about what we should have done after the fact and most of us would have probably made the correct action had we been 100 percent. Things rarely happen when your rested on the first day of your passage it happens when your sleep deprived and being forgetful you make misjudgments or you think. Oh I can handle it I have been through worse BUT you forget you were sailing on a day sail 100 percent with crew NOT alone on watch in the dark and unable to see what’s coming. If experienced seaman never made mistakes there would never be ship wreaks. If a boat could really out run bad weather (as many light displacement fin keel performance boat owners are famous for claiming) then ships who travel MUCH faster then even the fastest sailing vessels would never be wrecked at sea. And history shows that is not the case. And many many of the men on those ships had far more seamanship experience than most pleasure boat sailors. So this video is proof establishing safe habits at sea is essential as you will operate on habitat when your tired if you say no I don’t need to be tethered it’s not big seas I will use it when I need to. Well if clipping in is not a habit when the weather is good and your rested then will you really clip in when your tired not thinking as quickly as you would when rested when that squeal hits you unexpectedly? No your apt to be caught off guard. If doing the safe thing is habit to do no matter what you will do it without thinking. Another thing is no one sets out for a pleasure sail when the bad weather is already out there you sit in and Wait BUT…. Everything requires practice and only practice in real conditions will be relevant preparation. So you need to go out whe it’s blowing 20Kn and gusting into the 40s if your going to know if your capable of reefing your sails and handling your sail plan in high winds. You can practice on nice sunny days with middle league breeze and flat seas all you want but only sailing in heavy weather will prepare you for sailing in heavy weather. Wouldn’t you feel more comfortable knowing how your wind vane handles heavy weather because you actually did a shake down sail when the swell was up and winds were strong before you were two days from shore and alone and a long way from help. Or can I reef my main without having to turn head to the wind at 20knots? Or will the pressure on the sail put too much friction on the reefing lines and sail tracks to allow reefing underway? People go out and practice reefing and it’s easy when it’s light wind pleasure sailing but that’s not reality of a long passage and you need to reduce sail when the wind is already strong. Even if you put a reef in before you went down for your rest and left your partner alone on deck it does not mean a second reef won’t be necessary because the wind not only picked up but it substantially picked up. Can your partner reef the sail alone without having to head up into the wind this is not too hard if you were on a beam reach but what if your sailing downwind with the Genoa poled out and the boom preventer holding the boom out could your ether of you reduce sail quickly is your rig setup as well as you thought? Unless you actually have sailed in 20-30 knots when you chose to you might find your not truly prepared when you have to.
Haha! Anyone who's a sailor will have experienced some of these... When I look back, it's hard to believe what we've been through and dealt with. 🤯 Liz
Instead of pulling in 70 m of anchor chain, drop it into the water, maybe with a fender attached to it, and come back the next day to retrieve it. In times of GPS this is not as difficult as it used to be.
Sounds easy on paper, but... firstly our chain is 110m. Secondly it's tied at the end in the anchor well, so not only would you have to cut the line once you'd got to the end of the chain, but you'd have had to have tied a fender before doing so... all the while the boat is bouncing up and down. I'm not sure how practical this is in these conditions.
@@followtheboat I have to admit, that I used this method only for the stern anchor, when I could not retrieve it while also anchored on the bow. Plenty of time to attach a fender in this case. However, I usually use an anchor buoy for the main anchor and made sure, the painter of the main anchor is long enough to be cut on deck.
We would love to hear your stories. Tell us about one frightening moment you've had at sea and what you learned from it...
Thank you so much for sharing this, it’s very useful. My Friend Silvija who circumnavigate the world two times, was telling me all about that, you are talking about.
Thanks guys
Nice episode! I'd say for 20 years of sailing you guys have done a spectacular job of being safe and prepared to react when chaos strikes.
Thank you, Sir. Appreciate the feedback 🙏
I've said this before and I'll say it again: the fastest twenty-five minutes I've ever seen on the Internet. As I tend to worry about things (lateness etc.) I've also learned to never do things on a deadline thus eliminating worry. Great talk guys. All best wishes.
Cheers, Daniel. Yes, we avoid deadlines as much as possible, and not just with the boat either. Deadlines generally are a drag!
Never a dull moment. Not much of a sea story but I was crewing on a Loch Long class boat in Clyde week. Heading down a Sea loch we had the wind astern. The skipper did not realise that the winds at the junction of the three lochs were unpredictable. It wasn't so much of a unexpected gybe as chaos. Sails going one way, crew all ways and boom doing its own way. We got back control and carried out a man overboard drill to pick up the one man who had ended up in the sea. It was the skipper. Our race was over but we had a few beers to recover afterwards.
I learned decades ago to plan your work and work your plan. A saying, I'm sure, that's older than me. Do everything you possible can in advance to mitigate not being prepared.
I thoroughly enjoy your stories, advice, what to do, and what not to do, mistakes, and lessons learned.
Thank you for sharing this extremely important information.
Indeed. Mitigate potential surprises by being prepared and considering all eventualities. When you go to sea prepared, it makes you more confident in your own abilities. Anything beyond that, beyond what you could have prepared for, is in the hands of the gods!
I just love this video as it states the reality of sailing and being on the ocean and the importance of having a boat that can get you through anything INCLUDING a your own mistakes. We all make mistakes or mor accurately miscalculations. We all get complacent at times get tired on long passages that lead to mistakes. Everyone can sit and talk about what we should have done after the fact and most of us would have probably made the correct action had we been 100 percent. Things rarely happen when your rested on the first day of your passage it happens when your sleep deprived and being forgetful you make misjudgments or you think. Oh I can handle it I have been through worse BUT you forget you were sailing on a day sail 100 percent with crew NOT alone on watch in the dark and unable to see what’s coming. If experienced seaman never made mistakes there would never be ship wreaks. If a boat could really out run bad weather (as many light displacement fin keel performance boat owners are famous for claiming) then ships who travel MUCH faster then even the fastest sailing vessels would never be wrecked at sea. And history shows that is not the case. And many many of the men on those ships had far more seamanship experience than most pleasure boat sailors. So this video is proof establishing safe habits at sea is essential as you will operate on habitat when your tired if you say no I don’t need to be tethered it’s not big seas I will use it when I need to. Well if clipping in is not a habit when the weather is good and your rested then will you really clip in when your tired not thinking as quickly as you would when rested when that squeal hits you unexpectedly? No your apt to be caught off guard. If doing the safe thing is habit to do no matter what you will do it without thinking. Another thing is no one sets out for a pleasure sail when the bad weather is already out there you sit in and Wait BUT…. Everything requires practice and only practice in real conditions will be relevant preparation. So you need to go out whe it’s blowing 20Kn and gusting into the 40s if your going to know if your capable of reefing your sails and handling your sail plan in high winds. You can practice on nice sunny days with middle league breeze and flat seas all you want but only sailing in heavy weather will prepare you for sailing in heavy weather. Wouldn’t you feel more comfortable knowing how your wind vane handles heavy weather because you actually did a shake down sail when the swell was up and winds were strong before you were two days from shore and alone and a long way from help. Or can I reef my main without having to turn head to the wind at 20knots? Or will the pressure on the sail put too much friction on the reefing lines and sail tracks to allow reefing underway? People go out and practice reefing and it’s easy when it’s light wind pleasure sailing but that’s not reality of a long passage and you need to reduce sail when the wind is already strong. Even if you put a reef in before you went down for your rest and left your partner alone on deck it does not mean a second reef won’t be necessary because the wind not only picked up but it substantially picked up. Can your partner reef the sail alone without having to head up into the wind this is not too hard if you were on a beam reach but what if your sailing downwind with the Genoa poled out and the boom preventer holding the boom out could your ether of you reduce sail quickly is your rig setup as well as you thought? Unless you actually have sailed in 20-30 knots when you chose to you might find your not truly prepared when you have to.
Thank you, some valid considerations there. And there's a lot to be said for sleep deprivation, especially on that first night.
Thanks for sharing and that you continue with your podcasts. Cheers.
Cheers. We will continue with the podcasts!
THANK YOU! You two do it correctly.
Thank you so much...these stories will definitely help me be safer.❤
I hope so. They each brought it all flooding back in the telling! Cheers. Liz 🙏
Thank you!
Pleasure!
after 20 years I think you two could write a book on sailing ie the pros and cons along with lessons learned.
Fantastic, thanks for sharing.
Our pleasure, thanks for letting us know! Liz 🙏
Great vid and advise as usual 👍
Glad you enjoyed it, thanks for commenting! 🙏 Liz
Holy f....😂😂 yep, had a few of those moments.
Haha! Anyone who's a sailor will have experienced some of these... When I look back, it's hard to believe what we've been through and dealt with. 🤯 Liz
I really like you two!!!
You need to be prepared to drop your anchor quickly in an emergency. Attach a fender/s and collect it once things calm down.
Instead of pulling in 70 m of anchor chain, drop it into the water, maybe with a fender attached to it, and come back the next day to retrieve it. In times of GPS this is not as difficult as it used to be.
Great way to lose your anchor, chain, and fender. 🤦♂️
Sounds easy on paper, but... firstly our chain is 110m. Secondly it's tied at the end in the anchor well, so not only would you have to cut the line once you'd got to the end of the chain, but you'd have had to have tied a fender before doing so... all the while the boat is bouncing up and down. I'm not sure how practical this is in these conditions.
@@followtheboat I have to admit, that I used this method only for the stern anchor, when I could not retrieve it while also anchored on the bow. Plenty of time to attach a fender in this case.
However, I usually use an anchor buoy for the main anchor and made sure, the painter of the main anchor is long enough to be cut on deck.
296th looky-loo view gonna have to happen later, y'all... or, rather it's a y'ketch y'later.
Thank you for calling in, Peter 😃👍
Look on the positive side, these frighteners are a great cure for constipation. Fair winds.
Did it take 7 years to learn to be safe when sailing?