Top Tips - Mainsail and Rig Trim
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- Опубликовано: 11 сен 2024
- Top tips on sailing well with an in-mast furling mainsail and how to tune your rig for best performance. Sail trim expert and prize-winning racing sailor, Karl-Otto Book of Elvstrǿm Sails, joins us aboard our new Southerly 480 for a test sail in the Strait of Gibraltar at the entrance to the Mediterranean Sea to demonstrate how to best use our new Epex sails and in-mast furling mainsail. This is the first in an on-going series of videos about trimming your sails for cruising.
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Thank you for watching!
Sheryl and Paul
Excellent explanation and graphics. First time I have actually understood what happens when the bend of the mast is adjusted.
Thanks so much for saying that💕👍 those graphics took a long time to do 😅 glad they were able to help you
Another special video. I so like how you both combine information on where you are, with how to correctly adjust yours sails. Thank you again for sharing.
Thanks for your kind words and glad you liked our video :-)
How I know Paul and Sheryl are brilliant? I've sailed only once, then forgot about it for ten years, then stumbled upon Distant Shores video on RUclips. After a week of watching your videos for fun, I've already considered buying my first Elan 11m, but then remembered I aught to know how to sail. And when I was trying to find, I've stumbled again on your videos where you teach exactly what I wanted to know.
Simply brilliant!
Wow, he certainly knew what he was talking about, brilliantly informative. Thank you for very interesting film .
Thanks for your kind words, Duncan. Yes, it was a great opportunity to sail with Karl-Otto and get all this excellent advice. Glad you enjoyed the video.
Good to see her with a decent heal and some nice fast sailing, using that twin rudder system well - as intended.
Yes, with the twin rudders you always have a rudder dug in well even if there is a lot of heel. It makes the boat feel very safe.
As usual very thorough explanation on adjusting the mainsail. Never understood why one would wanna bend the mast to adjust the sail. Thanks for sharing.
Glad we could help Bill :-)
Great show! Always interested in expert technical advice and nothing is more important than proper sail trim. Beautiful lines on your new boat, she looks fast and most importantly comfortable.
Never get tired watching your productions. Thanks guys, look forward to see ya hang out with brits
Our “new” boat has a Selden in-mast furler and we’ve only sailed her a few times as we’re a little intimidated by it. This video will be a huge help. Thank you.
That was excellent. Sailing and the equipment have certainly come a long way.
Wish I was there.
Awesome video! Thanks for the excellent visualizations about rig and sail trim.
Nice video, thanks for sharing. We have the same issue with getting up to the leech tensioner, tied an extension onto it so we don’t have to stand on the cockpit table to set it. Happy and safe journey on your upcoming crossing.
First class film and very well explained on the mast bending👍⛵️ Boat looks fab.
You guys offer the best seamanship commentary of all the sailing channels. Love it! Enjoy your new boat and keep up the good work!
Thanks, Mike. Your comments mean a lot to us. Glad you are finding the videos informative.
Great to have the sail maker on board. I hope he got rid of that ugly hook on the mainsail leach at 2:00. Have fun with Ruby Rose! Cheers Warren
Great explanation!!! We are just finishing our first season in the Med. Still getting to know our best set up for sails and rigging. So this info is really helpful. Hope to see you out on the waters soon.
So very beautiful and informative :-) All in one great video. Thanks again! We also went for the comfort sail and was never in a hurry. Afterfall, it's sailing not jet racing and we always got enough rough sailing when bad weather hit.
Thanks, Captain Mark. We thought about going with in-mast furling a lot before making the decision and have no regrets. The Elvstrom sails hold their shape well and the Selden Mast system has a good test record. We're still new to it but love it. We're sailing more since it's so easy to reef and unreef by one person on watch.
I agree with you 110% especially at my age now. What is great is one person can easily handle it so if a husband falls overboard then the wife can easily take is all sail, turn the engine on and have total control over the boat and situation in the most rapid manner possible. Great safety feature for sure!
so I was sailing with my buddy doing a video and he started climbing around the rigging showing how he was going to make things better but he slipped and fell off the boat and we never seen him again. Now I got a nice boat! :-)
Great stuff to know, thanks so much,. The boat looks so slick it makes you smile just watching the video. x
Very good video.
Just a few things.
Check the tension of the luffextrusion inside the mast. Read the manual for advice. They often tend to be a bit slack.
Also take notice of the capshrouds when thightening the backstay. When the top of the mast is bent backwards the distance of the two fixingpoints for the capshrouds are shorter so the capshrouds on a swept spreader rig will perhaps be a bit too slack. Keep an eye on the lee cap so it is not too loose.
Put markers on the backstay for max pull on the tensioner.
If the mainsail has problems to unfurl, aftleach nearly jams. Try to adjust the stopper for the outhaulslider a bit forward to create more pull on the aftleach.
Safe sailing!
I ran the rock in 1981 when I was a 16 year old deck boy on the RFA Resource, what you'll do for a day off!! I feel your pain,lol.
This was excellent, thank you. Love these instructional videos. Peace & fair winds
Thanks very much Kia - glad you are enjoying them!
Very nice. The more wind you have the more everything is moving aft (mast top by tensioning the backstay and the genoa lead). At least this is how I remember it every time 😉
BTW: very good graphics that makes it so clear what happens! Still images are never so explanatory.
Great video Guys....See you in a couple weeks
Nice video and graphics👍 I was hoping you would of zoomed into the leach line the sailmaker was talking about. Curious minds
Great video and very informative.
Very Kool...have seen many folks sailing with the in mast reefing system. But never any explanation of how to use, trim & adjust everything.⛵️
That may be that a lot of 'sailers' haven't taken the time to learn. 😂
Wow, he certainly knew what he was talking about, thank you for interesting informative film
Excellent information.
Great video. Thanks. I learnt so much while getting a great closeup of your new cockpit arch which I’m quite excited about and it helps me determine how to build that feature into our S135. A question for your Elvstrom expert, I have seen in a video on a HR 54 vertical expanded pockets in the leading edge of the jib. Why are they there and what do they do? Have you used your swing keel much yet?
Great video. Beautiful location.
thankyou - a very informative video
are you able to discuss pros and cons of inmast vs inboom furling and why you went with the former
such a beautiful ship.
Wow I have never heard of someone adjusting the backstay rigging on the fly. I thought it was just something you do when you install and do maintenance. But I mostly sail small boats > 20 feet
Good vid. THANKS accentuate the + eliminate the - .
7:20 Wow, I did NOT se a safety line *shock* Be safe, and after you get to shore, pls give more info regarding the sails;)
I noticed both you and SV Delos avoided going into the Eastern Mediterranean and Greek Isles. Is there a reason for this? I would think the islands would make for some amazing cruising.
Hi Paul! Absolutely great video!!! Thanks for this. But I didn’t catch the idea of “slack shrouds”. Which of them are allowed to be slack? As I understood it is OK when leeward shrouds are slack? Am i correct?
Tnx for a super video. There is a con against vertical battens , claiming furling problems. What is your experience?
The idea of vertical battens on an in-mast furling mainsail is to prevent creases from forming in the sail when furling it in which could cause a jam, so vertical battens are there to help prevent furling problems, Yair, they're not really to help the performance of the sail, as we understand it.
Gibraltar is indeed a special place. I was surprised to see that the road was crossing the runway just as it did back in the eighties.
Did they change the stamp in the passport? B4 it was a funny/not a very diplomatic stamp "Welcome to GIB" at the size of half the side on the passport. And the immigration officer asked us if we knew what GIB stod for. Well, Gibraltar? He said -No, God In Bed.
Really like the look of the composite sails upwind. Were you guys a little uncomfortable at 20 degrees? it certainly looked fast :)
Just to make you feel better, they had snow in Calgary.
Not our usual heeling angle for comfortable cruising 😊and it made filming rather exciting! This was a complicated shoot since we wanted good wind for sailing but that means dealing with wind noise in audio and it makes it risky for the camera operator. We were using 5 microphones and 3 cameras for this video which also made editing complex. Fun!
Distant Shores TV that’s why you guys are the pros 👍🇨🇦⚓️⛵️
Very interesting video.
Do you think it is allowed to manipulate quite often the aft rig to bend aft the mast since I didn’t touch on my boat (I thought it is a rigger specialist work)
I have a furling main sail on my Bavaria 46 do you think it is possible to install a furling one with batten?
Thanks Antoine! Yes I think it’s designed to adjust bend but not too much with a furling mast. And yes i think the vertical batten mains are designed to fit the Selden mast on your Bavaria
Many years of hard knocks condensed to 12 minutes.
Wow - push button sailing !
dont u miss the performance of a none in-mast main with continuous slats, have understood that you are cruisers and not looking for speed and performance in a sailboat
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