Come sail with me right now...
Oh no! Half the video is upside down...sorry! On Aug 5, 2016 5:03 PM, "Jazzy" <jazzydaze@gmail.com> wrote:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/1wpyek0n3xc0fdp/20160805_154301.mp4?dl=0
On 8/5/2016 9:00 PM, Jazzy wrote: Hi Jazz, There is an old sailor's saying, "Go with the flow". You have just learned the futility of doing 4.5 knots through the water against a 4.2 knot current. You aren't covering much ground until the tide turns; then you do 4.2 + 4.5 knots = s 8.7 knots over ground; ... and over ground is all that really counts. On your next trip around the island, see if you can put the tidal flow to work for you, going, and returning. Thanks for your submarine view of sailing. It was sailing from a different and novel perspective. Ciao, Connie
Oh no! Half the video is upside down...sorry! On Aug 5, 2016 5:03 PM, "Jazzy" <jazzydaze@gmail.com> wrote:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/1wpyek0n3xc0fdp/20160805_154301.mp4?dl=0
You da MAN, Jazzy. Great sounds, like the Super Tramp music and I especially liked the second half when you were filming your sail off Perth, Australia.đ Who did your splendid dodger work?? More fair winds, Tom B On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 7:03 PM, Jazzy <jazzydaze@gmail.com> wrote:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/1wpyek0n3xc0fdp/20160805_154301.mp4?dl=0
Hahah, a good first attempt! I'll try another video later. The dodger was discussed somewhere in here before. I can't remember the details of the company and I'm flying around today. I can fill you in later if you don't find it. It's really great, except no boom vang with it up. At first it felt like a view blocker, but not now. I had no options on what time I left, somethings took longer than I planned on earlier in the day! Also, on a side note.. I turned the corner and was trucking along on a beam reach with a pile of wind when it picked up momentarily even more! Upwind went the bow, full tiller..nothing..upwind it continues,.. Dive for the mainsheet across the cockpit fearing for capsize..release some main...ahhhhh! Was a funny moment for the fly on the wall. And a hoot! Jazz On Aug 6, 2016 10:45 AM, "Thomas Buzzi" <thomaspbuzzi@gmail.com> wrote:
You da MAN, Jazzy. Great sounds, like the Super Tramp music and I especially liked the second half when you were filming your sail off Perth, Australia.đ Who did your splendid dodger work??
More fair winds, Tom B
On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 7:03 PM, Jazzy <jazzydaze@gmail.com> wrote:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/1wpyek0n3xc0fdp/20160805_154301.mp4?dl=0
Famous last words, "Don't cleat the main sheet!"đ On Sat, Aug 6, 2016 at 1:04 PM, Jazzy <jazzydaze@gmail.com> wrote:
Hahah, a good first attempt! I'll try another video later. The dodger was discussed somewhere in here before. I can't remember the details of the company and I'm flying around today. I can fill you in later if you don't find it. It's really great, except no boom vang with it up. At first it felt like a view blocker, but not now.
I had no options on what time I left, somethings took longer than I planned on earlier in the day!
Also, on a side note.. I turned the corner and was trucking along on a beam reach with a pile of wind when it picked up momentarily even more! Upwind went the bow, full tiller..nothing..upwind it continues,.. Dive for the mainsheet across the cockpit fearing for capsize..release some main...ahhhhh! Was a funny moment for the fly on the wall. And a hoot!
Jazz On Aug 6, 2016 10:45 AM, "Thomas Buzzi" <thomaspbuzzi@gmail.com> wrote:
You da MAN, Jazzy. Great sounds, like the Super Tramp music and I especially liked the second half when you were filming your sail off Perth, Australia.đ Who did your splendid dodger work??
More fair winds, Tom B
On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 7:03 PM, Jazzy <jazzydaze@gmail.com> wrote:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/1wpyek0n3xc0fdp/20160805_154301.mp4?dl=0
On Aug 6, 2016, at 11:04 AM, Jazzy <jazzydaze@gmail.com> wrote:
Also, on a side note.. I turned the corner and was trucking along on a beam reach with a pile of wind when it picked up momentarily even more! Upwind went the bow, full tiller..nothing..upwind it continues,.. Dive for the mainsheet across the cockpit fearing for capsize..release some main...ahhhhh! Was a funny moment for the fly on the wall. And a hoot!
I've been taking some advice from Andrew Evans's book on single-handed sailing, even to the extent of rigging my cockpit so the jibsheets can be cleated on the windward side (though due to southern AZ weather I haven't been able to try that yet). One thing I've adopted from him is to sit on the weather side with the mainsheet draped over my leg. Weather here sucks. I haven't been out since my marvelous/disastrous (about 50/50) San Diego trip.
A friend with more sailing experience that went out with me recently mentioned the jib sheet on windward side... Having sailed mostly dinghys, still getting used to a displacement keelboat as "normal," I almost always have the main in hand (or likewise, over my leg) when I'm at the helm, it's just a habit because on dinghies there's no timne to scramble for the sheet, if you can't sheet out immediately you're probably already capsized. cheers, John S. David Rifkind wrote:
On Aug 6, 2016, at 11:04 AM, Jazzy <jazzydaze@gmail.com> wrote:
Also, on a side note.. I turned the corner and was trucking along on a beam reach with a pile of wind when it picked up momentarily even more! Upwind went the bow, full tiller..nothing..upwind it continues,.. Dive for the mainsheet across the cockpit fearing for capsize..release some main...ahhhhh! Was a funny moment for the fly on the wall. And a hoot!
I've been taking some advice from Andrew Evans's book on single-handed sailing, even to the extent of rigging my cockpit so the jibsheets can be cleated on the windward side (though due to southern AZ weather I haven't been able to try that yet). One thing I've adopted from him is to sit on the weather side with the mainsheet draped over my leg.
Weather here sucks. I haven't been out since my marvelous/disastrous (about 50/50) San Diego trip.
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