Happily Sailing into Failure
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- Опубликовано: 17 авг 2023
- Success comes from happily sailing into failure.
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Hey Doug, thanks for using paper boat cutout and clothespin sails to
illustrate the movement of the boat . You should patent that technique
and call it " DGI " ( Doug Generated Imagery ) .
So simple that even a landlubber like me could understand it.
DGI should work on a 55' cutter catch if you don't wrap the jib around the stay-sail. If you do the maneuver slowly, it can be done single handed. What do you think Captain?
A catamaran can heel……. Once, lol
She's tough to keep in the groove because the sails are flat (not broadseamed). So the leading edge of the sails have no round and are more sensitive to the angle of attack.
Any change in wind angle and the flow detaches and the boat stalls. The hull being low lift and high drag adds to the challenge to keep her moving. She's also tender, which further adds to it.
So, sail trim and steering require more concentration to keep her in the groove.
But she does have a reletively long waterline so in the right conditions- might sail at a decent enough pace
Hey Doug, you may want to consider a simple checklist for "pre-sailing" to save your refrigerator and contents.
Reminds me. I bought a boat and on the top or last hatch board was a check list before leaving. Me I don't need this rip ! Next time I leave the boat Ship Ship ! My keys are locked in the boat. From then on it has been combination locks. Another time the thru hull didn't get close and back flowed out the toilet lucky I was back the next day! Maybe that list wasn't a bad idea. ? 😢
Mistakes make for good habits.
I've mentioned this before but I was a submarine sailor and prior to getting underway we had to rig for sea which ment tying things down. locking lockers picking up tools and such. One of the first things we did after our first dive was perform a maneuver called 'Angles and Dangles' 30° down angle then 30° up angle. sometimes we would put on a flank bell and give her a hard right rudder then a hard rudder. If it was not rigged for sea we fund out about it fast.
We did this so that there was no accidental dropping of a wrench on the deck that would make a sound in the water that would give our position away. Which could be disasterous in time of war or other times and places.
You will get your routine down in time. Right now you are just learning how to sail and be nautical. Later on you will learn how to sail. Keep up the outstanding work shipmate.
"Wisdom of the elder is just memories of the mistakes."
This gives a person some idea of the power involved.
Respect that power and all is good.
When we come back from a sail with nothing broken we happy and surprised. If we break something , we learn something
Hi Doug. Suggestion: The traditional first step before gybing a gaff or Marconi rig is to center your sails. That means sheeting all sails hard amidships prior to the gybe. That reduces stress on the rig when you come about and the sails shift over on the opposite tack. After that of course you ease sheets to trim for the new heading. Live and learn amigo!
2 thoughts…
1) Any sailor who isn’t at least a little bit nervous every time he jibes is either inexperienced or out of his mind.
2) You’ll never find the weak part of your design if you don’t push it to failure. And if you don’t have failures, you’ll never have a reason to improve.
Any failure that doesn’t hurt anybody is just an expensive opportunity for improvement.
Gee Doug, sorry to see a few repairs comming up, but love the way you come to grips.
Glad I only have an easy to use head sail on my old girl. Much easier.
Have spent the last two weeks replacing damper/drive plates on my motors.
Love your work Dude.
Any sailor that is afraid of a jibe doesn't bring their sheets in before the sail comes across.
I always loved the moment when i shut my diesel off and then you felt the wind in the sails!
That's what sailing is about. Always on the edge of success and failure.
Can't stop smiling watching Doug learning how to sail her in real wind after all these years. A truly magnificent moment. I could not get enough of the water sliding by so beautifully.
Ttrue understanding and experitse can only be acquired the hard way: through failure.. You gotta have the courage and wisdom to embrace this and Doug certainly does.
Thank you so much.
Watching this from the ER after using the wrong tool for the right job. Just need a couple of stitches like your sail 😂
Been there . I noticed Doug has a new black finger nail for every episode 😂
What a great video. Thanks for taking us along for the ride!
Doug, your having too much FUN. Love this channel.👍👍👍👍👍
Good job! You built it. You sailed it hard. You broke it. Good shakedown all around, time to fix it and try again. Congratulations on doing it the right way.
Trimming lines suggestion. Rather than trying to pull the sail up by pulling down on the halyard, you can put much more pressure on the line by pulling "out" from the mast first, then you can hold what you got as the winch is trimmed in. Like pulling back on a bow.
Old sailing term for that technique is "griping", very effective.
I'm looking at the splintered wood, as a woodworker. You had the forces running along the annual lines of the woods, which is probably the reason it cracked like it did. If you try to make that part from wood in the future, try drilling your holes 90° to the grain, so you go across the annual grain lines, it may be stronger for you that way.
OO is hard but it splits easily. But it bonds well with epoxy. If you wrap the block in uni or bi axel glass and coat the ends it might work. Since epoxy hates UV then paint will be needed. All this from experience. Plastic would be easier and quicker.
More learning and a lot of sailing⛵️ !! Sekeer moves amazing in the wind! There most be lots of force on the sails to move at 5+kn Thanks for sharing
To tack in lower winds a slight counter steer is helpful before tacking to build more boat speed and heel momentarily that added momentum helps get through the wind
Nobody hurt, we learned a lot.
Plus you get to refine your set-up.
Thanks for letting us watch along
This is exactly where you should break things. Familiar waters, relatively calm weather, working engine. Check "boom preventer" or "preventer rope" and think about that, great for long distance where accidental jibes will happen.
Man, I love you. Your approach to dealing with anything is just phenomenal. And yes, you're right, the airplane is fantastic technology, but getting somewhere with something you created by yourself can't be compared to anything else. And it doesn't matter if you get there slow or fast. The important thing is that you got there. And you keep going. You and your beauty are definitely one of the strongest on RUclips.
'Wow! That wasn't supposed to happen'!' Best teacher ever.
Have a good weekend folks!
You will never build anything great without a couple failures along the way. I'm glad everyone's been supportive
You say "Get out there and fail at something..." It took me 3 marriages and 2 engagements to finally get it right. I do have issues I have to deal with when I wake up in the middle of the night remembering something one of da wives did but I have zero regrets because this fourth marriage is what the first should have been: absolutely perfect for 13 years now.
Seeker is one unique ship, testing to see what the dimensions of the performance envelope are is great. You will know her limits.
Right on. That's the idea.
Failure is key to ultimate success. Good on you for showing us your journey. Thanks Doug.
Brilliant video with super lessons! Motivational to the extreme..
Super training aids and thorough debrief-thanks!
your not learning anything unless you have failures, your out there giving it a go. Well done mate.
It’s a learning process that you can fix and move on.
In your videos you show us all your mistakes. It gives us a true understanding of how you are as a person kind and considerate and a joy to watch
Cheers Doug
What you do here is great, because not only you learn yourself, you share the mistake with everyone, so we all can learn. Failure videos are always the most interesting since this is where you learn the most.
Love to see a fail get shared
Everytime I watch "Kong vs Godzilla", the scene where Godzilla is coming out of the water when he gets to Hong kong, there's a Chinese junk sail boat he comes out from under an evertime I think "that looks like SEEEKER"!!
lots to learn ya, and Doug your attitude is above anyone i have ever met, you inspire me
Success!!! Found ways to make her better without any blood shed. Perfect.
Doug, I couldn't have said it any better about considering failures as lessons and learn from them.
A lot of learning in this one :) I started learning to sail 60 yrs ago and still am.
Only comment I could make is don't get fixated on the instruments and data too much you learn the boat through your senses I started sailing my own boat as a 10yr old in the Hauraki gulf New Zealand where I learnt to feel the heel the weight on the sheet in my hand and the tiller in the other hand consequence of getting it wrong was a very cold water dunking :) its like riding a bike eventually you become part of the machine and your brain without telling you why just eases a sheet or sends the boat upwind a few degrees then back again. Same with the tacking. I remember on style of dinghy racing calls for a Capsize on one leg of the race eventually in these really unstable boats you have to fight your subconscious to allow the capsize.
Thanks for the diagrams. Helped explain what was going on a lot.
maybe a lock grip for the fridge like on the old GE fridges from the 50's so it is always locked (when closed)
Love it. A blatant proud display of failure! Keep up the good work, keeping it "real" man!
Close quarters sailing with such a big and new ship... They didnt hit anything!!! Thats awesome!!
Next time maybe go ahead and take that drawer out prior to sailing... Lol!!
Love you, Doug, keep the good spirit up.
I think Learning to sail "Seeker" is my favorite content.
Wow there sure is alot to learn about sailing! Great information!
There is no doubt in my mind that you will repair the boat better than it was and then become a proficient sailor in a modest period of time. You know how to learn from your mistakes which is more important than anything you do in life. 👍👍 💪
Great to see the learning process to sail a wild boat like this!
failure is worst thing you can call a learning curve, never know until you try, and if you fail try again hence, learning curve. love this channel along with other steel boat channels.
So happy he got his boat sailing
Not a failure, a learning moment
I watch a lot of channels, all interesting. Cars, boats, airplanes. This is the one that inspires me.
I used to watch 7-8 years ago holy crap. I just recently remembered this channel and I wondered if you had finished it and it’s nice to see it on the water!! I’ll definitely be catching up!
It's all good you got this
Is there a plan to launch the ROV and start getting some info on what lies beneath?
Also, got a good heater situation figured out for winter yet?
And what happens in a hurricane type situation?
I've been so excited about this project over the years and have learned a good deal along the way! This is truly a feat that not many people can comprehend without watching the journey from flat steel to all the welding and wrenching and and and ... it's a great story. This is America, thank you for sharing Doug.
Keep breaking it, that's how you make it great. Also gives you the confidence in how it will break in bad weather and when. Gotta pass your limits to know them
BIGGER MAGNETS ON THE REFRIGERATOR DRAWER !!!!!
All in all... Great inspirational channel!
Glad you think so!
You'll get it I have no doubt all that stuff going on plus camera work
Nice to see things go wrong without the drama, big arrows pointing to the "disaster"... very refreshing. I had a furling line go on me few weeks ago... put another line on and kept going.
Good work Captain!
I'm glad you made the comment about learning from your failures. Right now I should be catching up to Einstein if that's the case... :)
I actually chuckled a little as you watched disaster in slo-mo because I could 100% identify with the sound in your voice of already planning the fix.
That looked like fun
Just love this channel. I've been here since the start of your project. Keep up the work and fun 👍uk subscription follower 👍
The dutch word for that is 'stormrondje'. ('rond' is the counterpart of 'round' and the suffix -je is diminutive.) A similar construction in english would be something like 'stormturn', or 'stormloop'. In dutch is a bit of a hilarious word, with the exaggeration of 'storm' and the diminutive 'rondje'. It puts a smile on your face.
Nice work Doug. You've learnt a lesson you'll never forget. It's easy as a sailor to sit here and type a paragraph about what you should or shouldn't have done but in truth, the only way I have learnt is from making the exact same mistakes. Keep on keeping it real. Fair winds from a 10+ year youtube bilge rat from Australia.
Great video--I continue to appreciate your honesty about the ups and downs of progress. I'm sure you've thought of making the new blocks of glue up maybe three layers of wood, grain 90 degrees offset, to deal with the stresses both directions. Love seeing Seeker moving so well under sail.
I think the "chicken gibe" is the same as what the square rigged ships called wearing ship. It was much less shockload on the rig which prevented damage. Good seamanship!
You are true Sir.🤔😉😊😊
i love the attatude even with the sail dammage!
Building your own things they will almost always break at the weakest point, next time they will be stronger.
Damn it’s hard to get up when something like your sails you’ve put so much time in effort into and arguably what makes the junk a junk fail so catastrophically.
Love seeing your perseverance Doug.
Inspiring.
love this channel for the journey of failure and success. OR to put it another way, accumulating knowledge and skills through doing shit that you didn't know how to do before. so to speak..
Interesting. Note that its better to douse the mizzen going dead-downwind.
It will blank the forward sail. And helming is worse (especially in any seaway)
Love it keep it up as always 💘
Hell yeah you were really sailing there So cool all your work paying off . I reckon it feels great. Sow her up and get back at it.
Just part of the learning curve.
I'd say any progress using wind power is progress - and free! So you're saving money on the fuel and with those turns, having a fun time while traveling.
I like the way you showed us what had happened with this paper sheet and the clothes pins.
I thought a chicken gybe was when you sheeted to the center and turned slowly, so I'm learning new things after many decades of sailing. Thanks!
I think you did rather well I'm a full-time inventor and failure is my middle name until I actually get it right and it makes it worthwhile then. There's a joy in failure it's what makes success so sweet. Ever forward.
Crazy how I pull up your new video sailing into failure as I have today
Some people may not get that its about the journey not the destination. And its a wonderful journey isn’t it. Cant wait to see you on the open seas!
Part of creation is trial and error and fun makeing it better
Always great to follow your channel. Not convinced about your crews expertise in a lagoon let alone an ocean. Hope you can work it out.
You always have a great attitude and a great video. If this sailing thing doesn't work out, you'd be a great motivational speaker!
I appreciate that!
Whoa..! Hairy situation..! Another "fail up"..!! 'Twas a good day,.. and made some work for tomorrow. 😊🤙🏄☘
Aloha ia 'oukou!
The man that never failed never built anything. Sail Safe mate. Ant & Cid
I've failed for 3 years in my garden but each time my garden has gotten a little better. I'm learning all the things you should never do really well. Hahaha.
tkzz for sharing,.,..peace
An old sage once said "I can't weld bamboo". I'm definitely gonna start using that😂. Better to learn this now instead of when you wont be able to stabilize.
We love bob 😂 amazing book
You and your friends built a vessel that is undoubtedly the largest sailing vessel on this platform. You gave yourself an implausible goal and you succeeded to prove your doubters wrong CONGRATULATIONS
I would put a lot of tape on those hose clamps to make them unable to cut stuff, but this technique is likely fine to use
I also do a chicken jibe even when racing in very heavy wind but that is over 30-kts. With your dual sheeting system. I would trim the sheets on both port and starboard to center the sail amidship then jibe. that way the battens are all held in place and only the cloth moves. Once the sail inverts, you ease out the sheets to the proper trim for your point of sail.
It's all a learning experience and you're always trying to figure it out. Now you know what not to do when it comes to that situation.
Hi Doug, One thing I have learned about sailing, is simplicity is a blessing. When bad stuff happens it is always good to be able to get the sails down quick. Sometimes it is a storm and sometimes it just a mistake by one of the crew. My boat was a 55 foot Bruce Robert Ketch. She weighted allot and she could take your arm off if you miss handled the 1/2 sheets. I am not against the Junk Rig, I just think there are are simpler rigs which are just as easy to operate as the Junk Rig. I have had experience with both Gaff Rigged Boats and Sloop Rigged Boats. I single handed my Roberts Ketch which weighed 25 Ton. It is not a failure to decide to reconfigure to a new rig. Once again simplicity is my concern. It seems to me there are way to many lines on the rig to get tangled, fail, get caught on something or just take someone's arm off. The loads on your rig are large. Just saying.
Doug can you see in the water from your port holes below deck when it's healed over? Love your boat and your philosophy.
No, not until we are in bigger swells.
that was going pretty well for a while there