5:10 The 'gunter rig' yacht is the pilot cutter Jolie Brise, 111 years old and winner of *three* Fastnet Races back in the 1920s. More recently, she has won seven Tall Ships Races, includiing two Trans-Atlantics.
Just watched this twice, once for me and again with my wife. Great footage and wonderful commentary. Well done to all participants…hardy sailors for sure!
Around the Isle of Wight in a Topper? That was adventurous. I used to rent those out along with windsurfers at Anaehoomalu Bay on the Big Island of Hawaii! Aloha and thanks for the video.
9:22 Scarybird i was on it! Winch guy had cramp in his leg and trying to winch in lol. We saw a boat with a broken mast also nearby. Past needles 6m waves and then past south of the island we managed 15.7kn surfing off the waves
I took part in the 90s on a boat (provisionally) called Spirit of Diana. Had to start the engine as cut close to a cliff and the wind which had been offshore was effected by the cliff and blew us too close to the rocks. Anyway I’m only a dinghy sailor but I really had an awesome day. It was a corporate thing I’m embarrassed to say (why!?) but an amazing experience. Great work with the video 👍
I skippered “Slartibartfast”, a Bavaria, in 2005 for the owner (Jackie Clarke - a fine skipper herself), and it was the most demanding race I’ve ever sailed in - and the weather was pretty good ! There were boats coming from all directions at the start line, we were nearly hit by an American skipper when he was tacking out to sea from the Needles (he came and apologised when we returned to port - fortunately, none of my crew decked him m- though it was a close run thing…) . We came 180th in our class - I’ve never done it since, but I wouldn’t have missed it for the world !
The ones on storm main/jib are smiling now, but wait until someone has to go forward to swap the sails later in the race. I wouldn’t be the one to volunteer.
M3 thinky that the bigger boats that were running home had already been out in the rougher rough and turned back because of it ! Some of course would be on breakages, but it's always a sight to see big boats turn back and smaller yachts soldiering on... Everybody has the same merit. Unless I have to face a storm which my boat is capable of, I prefer to turn back and live another day and save the rigging too. Lived through enough storms not to want to have to do it unless necessary anymore.
I did it once in a force 7 and it was hard enough but this looks ridiculous, good on everyone who even started the race, brave soles. Lovely commentary.
Looks less than F7 here so must have been a wild race you had. Once got caught out in 40kts and was too much for a lightweight lightwind yacht. (a bit like the one at 4:51) Pretty hairy spinnaker ride on the plane ! You can really see the difference in speed of the more modern boxy designs vs the older boats. Not so graceful but fast. Good footage.
Great commentary mate! As a yacht sailor and dinghy racer you reported very well. The failed tacks were probably due to letting the jib go a fraction too soon. Well done 👏
The sea conditions got appreciably worse in short order and the yachts doing the best all had 3 slabs in and the smallest headsail they had. However, it was going to get considerably worse once they rounded the Needles. Might be a good idea for an early lunch back at Cowes.
Not a greatly experienced sailor myself. I am surprised that the boat at 7:19 didn't hold the jib sheet to windward to pull her around. I used to sail in a very unhandy boat where the only way to get her around was to do that but not in those conditions.
The big cat at 00:14 appears to be Lord Laidlow’s new Gunboat 80 Highland Fling. She’s an absolute weapon by all accounts; all the crew wear helmets like on an AC boat!
Not much fun by the looks of it. That said, I reckon the local chandlers and the local sail loft will be looking forward to seeing a few sales in the coming weeks.
Was pretty hardcore! Sunsail 41, Marlow Ropes, GBR4111X. Third in class in 07:54. Three crew members threw up for an hour! The swells were enormous 4m! Pleased we made it without any incidents to be honest! Joint decision to crack on with it, but having a great skipper and first mate made it an easy one. Could have done with packing more kit!!! :)
07:00 Should have backed the jib. Just left it sheeted on the wrong side as he tacked to help her round. Obviously I'm saying this from the comfort of my arm chair! Its a different story when you're out there haha.
I think their key error was to try to tack with the jib not sheeted in. It was loose-sheeted and flogging long before the tack had begun. It seems to me that backing the jib in marginal conditions relies on that headsail being sheeted hard, so that the moment the boat is head to wind, it has laminar flow on the old leeward surface. I furthermore feel that two other aspects of not having the headsail drawing conspired to sabotage the attempt: the drag of it flogging meant their speed close- hauled was less that it would have been with the sail furled, let alone set ... and then, once they tried to tack, that same drag was in the worst possible location and direction to prevent the bows coming promptly into the wind before what little speed they had begun with was spent.
Since writing this I spotted a comment from someone on board; it seems the reason the sail was not sheeted before the tack is that the starboard sheet had snapped. Makes sense, and shows the dangers of pontificating from afar - I withdraw and apologise!
Love to see the CO's et al punching thru...Anyway u gotta be brave, bear off a bit then back her round, tht big one got dangerously close, and those rocks there are horrendous.
Don't suppose anyone cared to play cat and mouse with the Varvassi this year. Done the RTI so many times, once in 6½ hours on a Corel 45. I'm getting a bit too old for weather like this, to be honest. That TP52 at the start of the film was cracking on! I've just looked, it's "Notorious", and finished in 04:21:20, a full 40 minutes ahead of its nearest monohull competitor. An astonishing result.
Yeah as long as they do the job they volunteered for, not a taxi service for illegal immigrants. Also get rid of their Chief Executive’s £150,000 salary. All paid for by public donations, disgusting!
My thoughts exactly! You can’t point up with a rolled genoa, even a luff padded one is a dodgy solution in such conditions, let alone racing. To say nothing of the damage such pressure does to these touring sails.
On the whole they are clearly all good sailors, even to be out in this, let alone racing - They are great seamen and clearly a testament to English history and tradition.
Where I grew up in the deep south, a rig was not considered fully reefed until the sail numbers were down to the boom! Many offshore sailing boats in the windier parts of NZ used to have four reefs ...
We got about an hour in halfway between Cowes and Yarmouth in a Super Seal 26 when the skipper suggested going back to Cowes for a pint - rest of the crew all agreed in about a second.
…note she has not lost much speed, in fact maybe better. But has grained hugely in safety. Many racers carry too much sail, especially up wind, so they have it for the downwind leg. I have watched them from above, the Forth Bridge, when they semi broach over, they lose a lot of distance downwind
Have done the RTI a number of times, including one time in near calm when most boats failed to get around in time. I remember a huge rafts of boats at Bembridge with no one going anywhere, often a fenders distance apart and some crews pointlessly shouting “Starboard!” as no one could do anything
As for Antipodean sailing conditions, right on the money! I helped build a boat whose first sail involved racing in conditions 10 knots juicier than anything clocked on this race, and no damage on board (admittedly we were almost alongside another vessel when it spontaneously dismasted, which seemed to us a bit of a drastic alternative to taking in a fourth reef)
We entered but decided not to race in the end but we still had to get back to Keyhaven so we motored following the fleet. Saw loads going back past us, a lost liferaft being recovered, lots of VHF traffic! Here's a taste of what we had: ruclips.net/video/CQXo7DqbJgQ/видео.html
I've sailed in many a Hurricane and Typhoon this is nothing to a old salt like me I've spliced the main brace in all the Oceans and Seas of the world yo ho ho
Fancy employing a commentator who doesn’t know what he’s talking about. Kudos to those who took part, finish or not. I did 13 R.T.I races but never in these conditions. The race organisers did well to cancel the smaller classes.
5:10 The 'gunter rig' yacht is the pilot cutter Jolie Brise, 111 years old and winner of *three* Fastnet Races back in the 1920s. More recently, she has won seven Tall Ships Races, includiing two Trans-Atlantics.
Gaff rig surely?
@@timrains5011 I know. I'm just using his own words (hence the quotes), so that he knows to which boat I'm referring.
Okay Dominic granted - I can't resist imparting my knowledge, welcome or not. It's one of my many faults.@@dominicbuckley8309
Would be wonderful to see Tally Ho (winner of the 3rd Fastnet) alongside Jolie Brise if she ever comes back home now she's rebuilt.
And a local at my boatyard. Wonderful ship
Fantastic footage… No nonsense enjoyable commentary…
Love your work
Thanks
… It’s some time since I’ve wished a video was ten times longer
I was sailing on the boat with the not very marvellous tack, our lines snapped at this point. It was wild.
The boats, the weather, the setting, the commentary... LOVE IT!
Got to love the English "Summer".
.. yeh .. sitting here in so california .. wondering about the courage of these sail teams ! .. ay, ay, ay !
@@oldcat3439 You are a jackass.
Looks like our Australian winter 😳🥶
Just watched this twice, once for me and again with my wife. Great footage and wonderful commentary. Well done to all participants…hardy sailors for sure!
Greetings from Hearst Castle, California
Around the Isle of Wight in a Topper? That was adventurous. I used to rent those out along with windsurfers at Anaehoomalu Bay on the Big Island of Hawaii! Aloha and thanks for the video.
9:22 Scarybird i was on it! Winch guy had cramp in his leg and trying to winch in lol. We saw a boat with a broken mast also nearby. Past needles 6m waves and then past south of the island we managed 15.7kn surfing off the waves
What an amazing film, thank you so much for sharing, and extremely well done to all the brave souls who took part in the race. You are AWESOME 🤩
Great footage. We were one of many that retired at Yarmouth and turned back home to Hamble!
You obviously know what you are talking about in a calm way. I admire these real sailors. Grts from Flanders. 😊
"That's some serious reefing, that'd be me..." LOL🤣
I really enjoyed this. Great pics. Thanks.
Fantastic video and commentary very brave sailors well done to all x
0:43 TP52. I worked on that sail. Great to see it in action!
Thanks for the upload!
When my ruffian 23 gows up its wants to be a TP 52
Well done Sam and Ben knowing you got around safely has made it a perfect father day and well done to everyone else who took part
good video with sensible commentary, most enjoyable.
Thanks great footage and commentary
We passed you at 3 minutes
Managed to finish the race but it was worse at time round the other side
Lovely video and a commentary, great, really enjoyed it.
Thank you. Great video. I hope everyone got back to port safely.
I took part in the 90s on a boat (provisionally) called Spirit of Diana. Had to start the engine as cut close to a cliff and the wind which had been offshore was effected by the cliff and blew us too close to the rocks. Anyway I’m only a dinghy sailor but I really had an awesome day. It was a corporate thing I’m embarrassed to say (why!?) but an amazing experience. Great work with the video 👍
Great footage!
I skippered “Slartibartfast”, a Bavaria, in 2005 for the owner (Jackie Clarke - a fine skipper herself), and it was the most demanding race I’ve ever sailed in - and the weather was pretty good ! There were boats coming from all directions at the start line, we were nearly hit by an American skipper when he was tacking out to sea from the Needles (he came and apologised when we returned to port - fortunately, none of my crew decked him m- though it was a close run thing…) . We came 180th in our class - I’ve never done it since, but I wouldn’t have missed it for the world !
nice insight - thank you,, testing conditions, crazy to see some wih full sail and some on storm sails
The ones on storm main/jib are smiling now, but wait until someone has to go forward to swap the sails later in the race. I wouldn’t be the one to volunteer.
Thank you for sharing
Thank you for this coverage.
Great video
Excellent. Thank you.
M3 thinky that the bigger boats that were running home had already been out in the rougher rough and turned back because of it ! Some of course would be on breakages, but it's always a sight to see big boats turn back and smaller yachts soldiering on... Everybody has the same merit.
Unless I have to face a storm which my boat is capable of, I prefer to turn back and live another day and save the rigging too. Lived through enough storms not to want to have to do it unless necessary anymore.
Thanks for the video, nice youtube recommendation
I did it once in a force 7 and it was hard enough but this looks ridiculous, good on everyone who even started the race, brave soles. Lovely commentary.
Looks less than F7 here so must have been a wild race you had.
Once got caught out in 40kts and was too much for a lightweight lightwind yacht. (a bit like the one at 4:51) Pretty hairy spinnaker ride on the plane !
You can really see the difference in speed of the more modern boxy designs vs the older boats. Not so graceful but fast.
Good footage.
Thx. Great footage!
Great video thanks - very challenging conditions. Well done everyone who completed the race or turned around to get back safely 🙂
10:25 - that’s us. :) we finished the race, despite loosing about 1 hour to hesitation (turning around and then coming back).
Great commentary mate! As a yacht sailor and dinghy racer you reported very well. The failed tacks were probably due to letting the jib go a fraction too soon. Well done 👏
Great video 👍
I was on challenger 3 - tall ships sailing trust - it was a crazy ride! But a lot of fun. (We had a storm stay sail up as well as two other sails).
The sea conditions got appreciably worse in short order and the yachts doing the best all had 3 slabs in and the smallest headsail they had. However, it was going to get considerably worse once they rounded the Needles. Might be a good idea for an early lunch back at Cowes.
Flapping sails, Sailmakers Joy
How refreshing to hear a commentator who doesn't sound like they've been doing cocaine, a la SailGP.
😂
Commentator invoking the spirit of Jack Hargreaves OBE.
Lovely little video. 👍
Not a greatly experienced sailor myself. I am surprised that the boat at 7:19 didn't hold the jib sheet to windward to pull her around. I used to sail in a very unhandy boat where the only way to get her around was to do that but not in those conditions.
Hi , a nice video , rather to chopey for my liking , yes been out there and turned for home in the passed . 🤔👍
The big cat at 00:14 appears to be Lord Laidlow’s new Gunboat 80 Highland Fling. She’s an absolute weapon by all accounts; all the crew wear helmets like on an AC boat!
Not much fun by the looks of it. That said, I reckon the local chandlers and the local sail loft will be looking forward to seeing a few sales in the coming weeks.
Not fun, but not boring either!
small point perhaps it's not a 'safety boat'- it is an RNLI inshore lifeboat
Was pretty hardcore! Sunsail 41, Marlow Ropes, GBR4111X. Third in class in 07:54. Three crew members threw up for an hour! The swells were enormous 4m! Pleased we made it without any incidents to be honest! Joint decision to crack on with it, but having a great skipper and first mate made it an easy one. Could have done with packing more kit!!! :)
The Contessas are loving it!
They long lot more comfortable , but who knows. Contessa 26 has won a few times
Yep the Folk Boat hull shape cannot be beat.
Was in IRC class for this race. We got cancelled. Still sailed in the solent, broke the jib, 35kts gusts, and 1m waves
That first boat was Notorious. Absolute weapon of a boat 🤩
That’s Peyron’s ORMA 60… wild to see it running👍
Amazing and fun.
07:00 Should have backed the jib. Just left it sheeted on the wrong side as he tacked to help her round.
Obviously I'm saying this from the comfort of my arm chair! Its a different story when you're out there haha.
That's right .. I always hold the jib back for a snappy tack .. but, who knows ? .. prob not a safe course of action in such winds .. oc
I think their key error was to try to tack with the jib not sheeted in. It was loose-sheeted and flogging long before the tack had begun. It seems to me that backing the jib in marginal conditions relies on that headsail being sheeted hard, so that the moment the boat is head to wind, it has laminar flow on the old leeward surface.
I furthermore feel that two other aspects of not having the headsail drawing conspired to sabotage the attempt: the drag of it flogging meant their speed close- hauled was less that it would have been with the sail furled, let alone set ...
and then, once they tried to tack, that same drag was in the worst possible location and direction to prevent the bows coming promptly into the wind before what little speed they had begun with was spent.
Since writing this I spotted a comment from someone on board; it seems the reason the sail was not sheeted before the tack is that the starboard sheet had snapped. Makes sense, and shows the dangers of pontificating from afar - I withdraw and apologise!
Love to see the CO's et al punching thru...Anyway u gotta be brave, bear off a bit then back her round, tht big one got dangerously close, and those rocks there are horrendous.
Don't suppose anyone cared to play cat and mouse with the Varvassi this year. Done the RTI so many times, once in 6½ hours on a Corel 45. I'm getting a bit too old for weather like this, to be honest. That TP52 at the start of the film was cracking on! I've just looked, it's "Notorious", and finished in 04:21:20, a full 40 minutes ahead of its nearest monohull competitor. An astonishing result.
May God bless the good folks of the RNLI.
Yeah as long as they do the job they volunteered for, not a taxi service for illegal immigrants. Also get rid of their Chief Executive’s £150,000 salary. All paid for by public donations, disgusting!
1000 boats??!!!
I was not aware the Round the Island race was so massive.
Quite a feat to organize…
Many of the boats appeared to have too much sail, no wonder some were having trouble.
8:10 Was us! Finished in 8:24, 2nd in Class and it was choppy round the back to say the least!
First yacht in your footage is a TP52, 'Notorious ' owned by Peter Morton from Cowes
The needles lighthouse is a mark of the course so no boats should be going between the chalk stacks.
And this is all at least partly in the shelter of the Solent!
No stills of SailFish GBR9911Y?
It’s amazing that many will try to race with roll-in sails, and don’t even have the cheapest solution of luff padding on their genoa.
My thoughts exactly! You can’t point up with a rolled genoa, even a luff padded one is a dodgy solution in such conditions, let alone racing.
To say nothing of the damage such pressure does to these touring sails.
On the whole they are clearly all good sailors, even to be out in this, let alone racing - They are great seamen and clearly a testament to English history and tradition.
Guess the windsurfers have already finished.
Make and model of yacht at 4.36 please. Swan or Grand Solei?
"Some kind of gunter rig". I think you'll find it's a gaff rig.
Everybody fully reefed, very exciting conditions. Brisk!
Where I grew up in the deep south, a rig was not considered fully reefed until the sail numbers were down to the boom!
Many offshore sailing boats in the windier parts of NZ used to have four reefs ...
We got about an hour in halfway between Cowes and Yarmouth in a Super Seal 26 when the skipper suggested going back to Cowes for a pint - rest of the crew all agreed in about a second.
Boat with two orange sails.
The mainsail has been replaced by a trysail
…note she has not lost much speed, in fact maybe better. But has grained hugely in safety.
Many racers carry too much sail, especially up wind, so they have it for the downwind leg. I have watched them from above, the Forth Bridge, when they semi broach over, they lose a lot of distance downwind
That was some planning
Have done the RTI a number of times, including one time in near calm when most boats failed to get around in time. I remember a huge rafts of boats at Bembridge with no one going anywhere, often a fenders distance apart and some crews pointlessly shouting “Starboard!” as no one could do anything
What has happened to the British? To an antipodean it looks like fine sailing weather.
Oestrogen in the tap water!
@@dancarter482 thank heavens for a (relatively) sane suggestion... At least, compared to, say, 5G, EU infiltrators, or C19 vaxjabs...
As for Antipodean sailing conditions, right on the money! I helped build a boat whose first sail involved racing in conditions 10 knots juicier than anything clocked on this race, and no damage on board (admittedly we were almost alongside another vessel when it spontaneously dismasted, which seemed to us a bit of a drastic alternative to taking in a fourth reef)
Wouldn't want to have done it in a topper today 😂
Wonder what they gonna face at Shetland?
The wrath of Poseidon for being called _Neptune_ ~ perhaps!
They weren't going to Shetland, just around the Isle of Wight.
Great day for windsurfing.
The guy that took a few attempts to go about should have held the gib on the original tack to force the nose around before releasing to the new tack.
The red hull catamaran is Highland Fling and they won the race
Where's the "Carnage"?
1:47 - Gunboat.
Same weather as ladt year!!
i think what you call a gunter maybe jolie brise, gaff cutter
We entered but decided not to race in the end but we still had to get back to Keyhaven so we motored following the fleet. Saw loads going back past us, a lost liferaft being recovered, lots of VHF traffic! Here's a taste of what we had: ruclips.net/video/CQXo7DqbJgQ/видео.html
Less sail more speed. Didn't look like many big boy's attended 😕
Ah the good old English summer
I've sailed in many a Hurricane and Typhoon this is nothing to a old salt like me I've spliced the main brace in all the Oceans and Seas of the world yo ho ho
no one cares
shame on the clipper boat for bailing diindt see any failures.. lots of pople who could lrean less sail more speed in those conditions
you lost me when you said winds at 40 mph,, thats water please use the correct measuring system matrix
You are a pedantic snob. Grow up.
@@greenstripeypaint ok mr non sailor
@@USA4thewin incorrect.
@@greenstripeypaint just use knots for wind speed next time and all will be forgiven
looks shitty out there! things break in this kind of weather
We are not having a very good summer for sailing. Far too much of the blowey stuff for my comfort.
Fancy employing a commentator who doesn’t know what he’s talking about. Kudos to those who took part, finish or not. I did 13 R.T.I races but never in these conditions. The race organisers did well to cancel the smaller classes.
???
It's an inshore lifeboat not a safety boat.
Doubling up as a safety boat on this day, nit picker. Lifeboats are called after the event,
@@fenrichlee2867 You spout shite.
Real yachties live to sail majority of yachtsman are there for the image
You could try to sound a bit more enthusiastic, you make it sound as boring as it looks!!🥱🥱🥱🥱🥱🥱🥱