One advantage you forgot to mention is that everyone aboard a sailboat gets to do something. Steering, sail trimming, keeping a lookout, or just moving around as human ballast. Sailing is a good sport for older persons because they get to participate even if it is just in a small way. So many powerboat videos show the Captain having fun steering and the passengers about as active as so many sacks of potatoes.

I only had to stop and watch three cat videos while watching this.

why does your background have the same color as jeffrey epstein island's temple

WHERE is this guy? This is *great* material! I just discovered it.

I thought I was coming up with new designs... Turns out to be a canting keel 😑 and a bildge keel 😑... Thx for the terminology... Peace and Health

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Great video. I have a 26' British Westerly Centaur bilge keel. It doesn't get any better. 3' draft and I can glide up to a sand bar and park.

The bilge keel image shows the boat has two rudders. Does a bilge keel vessel have to have two rudders?

Sailboats are the absolute best to have on the ocean or on a lake!!!❤❤

When people say “modified full keels are faster than full keels” do they mean they accelerate faster?

3 minutes my ass

how does it compare to the junk rig?

Thank you

Way to much talking not enough info bro. Nice Beard

I have a swing keel, this was helpful. Thanks

why show your ugly mug thru the entirety of the video when there are such beautiful pictures of sailing ships???

Great review of sails. Except one error at 7:28 minutes: The dinghies are sailing with SYMMETRICAL SPINNAKERS and spinnaker poles (not GENNAKERS)! You can see the spinnaker pole attached to the tack, in the boat furthest to the left of the photo, and the symmetrical shape of the sails. With gennakers the tack is usually attached to the bowspit or a retractable bowspit, not a moveable spinnaker pole, with two sheets attached to the clew. The shape of the gennaker is closer to the shape of a genoa, than a downwind spinnaker. Symmetrical spinnakers are also seen in Cadet, 420, 470 dinghies, and Dragons.

great content, lower the back ground music!

In your face presentations are uncomfortable for viewers. I'm gone.

Cat videos, production values skyrockets!!!🤣🤣🤣 needed a good laugh! Awesome video, second time watching your video.

What do you mean when talking about stability, is it directional stability or upright stability? To me it seems directional, which of course is important, but isn't upright stability more (most) important🤔

That was a good video. I used some parts of it for my English classes :)

Extremely well explained, thanks for these great video series!

This video was 11 mins too long

Great job! Just bought a Catalina 250 and needed help with understanding sails…

Years ago I swore I'd never do another burpee.

Im considering a lifting keel revolution 22 afep marine.

"Catamaran: Most people know this sailboat because of the popular..." I feel like I'm the only person that shouted "Waterworld!!!" 😂 Turns out its actually a Trimaran. See I learned something already!

Parole, please not.

new sailing rig on my channel ....ROTATING SPAR SKIFF ( a new kind of sailing rig )

License is bullshit. EDUCATION is excellent! There is no replacement for experience. ;-)

My boat is very unusual and not mentioned here, it's got two bilge keels with no weight, but a central lifting keel made of solid steel. It looks like a triple bilge keel with the lifting keel up.

Can you do a review at the end of each video to help remember it with out having to scan each video

Stupid annoying music for no reason... Why destroy your work, learn not to put music over your voice, fucking dumbest move ever.

So simple and I am new I really like the logical breakdown great video

I love gaff rig, but on long down wind passages, its a nightmare of chafe with the belly of the sail against the shrouds. That is when cross cut sails fail at every seam. If that wasn't bad enough, the gaff goes so far forward of abeam, that it sets up a lever using the shrouds as a fulcrum. The entire length of the gaff wrenches the jaws or saddle agains the mast, often resulting in a broken gaff. No, a vang does not improve the situation. Every time the ship rolls to windward, the slack drops loop around random objects and then tries to garot them on the next roll.

Thank you, very well made. 🖖

What I see is the rigging slipped out of the hands of the sailors when the standing rigging went from rope to steel. No longer could the mast be fastened with local goods and time honored techniques, the ships rigging had to be purchased. Also I see the amount of sail being lowered and spread fore and aft. This lowered the center of effort which can limit the amount of heel for more comfortable experience. Perhaps it time for a Frankenstein rig where let the technologies and techniques blend to the advantage of the crew and ship owner. Modern composite hulls with gaff rigs with the mechanical advantages and so on. Those extremely heavy wooded mast could be replaced with modern materials which certainly limit the weight aloft which is a serious design concern. Only the Dutch have ventured to sea with Leeboards. A bilge ballasted beach-able boat could be the ultimate shoal draft adventure machine. A maximum width trailer able boat with Leeboards could be your ticket to sail all if your country's lakes and canals. So a mix of old and new is maybe what we need. Pay the fare with sweat equity in the garages of the creative. Who knows what will be next?

I have never actually sailed a gaff, but I have a lot of experience with a bermudian, which I am tired of. the bermudian is good to windward, that's it's one trick. but it's tiresome downwind. firstly it has a big jib, but that is now shadowed by the main, so people end up sailing with the main dropped, slowly! I prefer to pole out the jib but that requires some mild gymnastics on the foredeck. Of course the pole is a hazard if the wind picks up. To sail fast downwind with a bermudian you need a spinnaker, which is just a whole lot of trouble. If it's going just right they are great, but they flog really badly, or worse twist around the forestay, when they fill they snap a huge strain on to the boat. Some people have them in a sock which is meant to make it simpler to get down but it also adds another two lines to the mast head that can get tangled so it's only simpler if you do everything right. Instead, on a gaff rig you just have a really big main sail, and optional top sail. (top sail is probably tricky I don't know, probably not as bad as a spinnaker) I read in an old sailing book that gaff is recommended for beginner sailors because you can rapidly reduce sail while going down wind by "scandalizing the main". Say you are sailing downwind and a squall hits, on a bermudian you'd have to turn up and reef, but on a gaff you can just release the peak halyard, so the gaff drops, which folds away the top corner of the sail, reducing sail area to maybe a half? (less on your modern type) after the squall you just raise the peak again.

There are both benefits and liabilities with "movable" keels. For me, I will nearly always prefer a fixed keel because a moving part + below the waterline = bad mojo. However, they can let you sail into more shallow waters.

you never sailed a ketch how could you make this video or how they are

I have a swing keel on a Coronado 25. You hit the nail on the head. Only draw back I have found is lying at anchor with the keel down to limit roll when trying to sleep. I have a loose hinge knock with the keel down Keel up excessive rolling, Keel down excessive noise. Take your choice.

Excelente tu video, muchas gracias Voy a acondicionar un Lightning quiero suprimir la orza abatible por una longitudinal más corta , que me sugieres?

You need boating knowledge sunk in your brain. The licence is a bit of plastic to carry in your pocket .

hold on you can get a license online without any physical lessons and exams? how someone can operate a boat , how to dock and all that if there is no practical exam and lessons?

Can a sloop be square rigged?

Very good videos. Hugs from Spanish skipper

Thanks for the information so I have to look for comfort and a full keel 😎

Pilot cutters were the racing yachts of the day if you look at S/Y Elley Grey she has wooden booms but Alloy Gaffs and the top sail is roller furling from the Gaff both head sails are electric easy to handle rig also the standing rigging is Galvernised wire .

Thank you very much for this video, I'm just getting back into sailing after a 40 year break, and I find you very informative.