Excellent work Coye. Keep at it. You are doing well.

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جميل جدا ايها الرايس 👍🥰👍🥰👍🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰👍👍👍

Put a figure of 8 knot in the end of your running lines, halyards included. Try checking how tight the cams are on that main cleat and if there is adjustment.

My advice with the mainsheet sticking some if you find it isn't a permanent tackle issue, is to try to trim first (so pull in hard) and then see if it releases while you are trimming and yanking it out of the cleating.

Very cool!

Would be nice to see Bob in another video.

Baggy main sail just like mine. It's old and needs replaced I will get that done soon as the old one just tears apart

Glad you are enjoying what you want to do. Sailing! Better yet, you are doing it with your dad! Keep posting videos! Subscribed!

Sailing with Dad, kinda hard to beat that. My 1st Sailboat was a Hobie Cat 18 after which I graduated to an 76 Irwin 37 CC. Hey, you can always throw a yak on top and bring your self bow for exploring marsh islands ⛵️🏹🐗

Excited to watch the journey! I'm looking to buy a boat by next year to live on so i'll be taking notes lol

Love it! Keep up the good work🙌

A proper little yacht! I think, your boat is in a much better shape than the one, that took Sam Holms transpacific. Congratulations. That's a boat that can and will teach you a lot and can get you to distant shores. Says an old man to you, who is currently on his way from Germany via southern England to the Azores in a boat of just over 26'

Congratulations young man, be safe and explore.

Lovely sailboat - hope you have lots of nice adventures in her! ~~~_/) ~~~~

Good on ya Coye , if you get a chance google " Searching For Coconuts " they have really good plain and easy to follow instructional vids and diagrams for just about everything you will want or need to know about sailing. Once ya get a grip on the basics it's just like most things and with enough practice it will become second nature.

nice. awesome first sail

Good job

Ahm a few observations from what I can see. The foot on your main is way too slack, which means you need to tighten up the outhaul. Also given the level of wrinkles it would mean either that perhaps it wasn’t totally hauled up (hence the luff is slack) or alternatively you need to check the leach and in that respect check the back stay. Also looking at how your boom is set up, and when you go about, but even more so when you jibe it’s set too low on the mast. Your main sheet arrangement in going past the tiller onto the stern is also a part of this problem. So you might want to relocate the traveller off the stern plus have the mail sheet forward of the tiller. All of which would make tacking both easier and safer. The other thing you really should have is a vang as this allows for vertical adjustment of the boom and is extremely important tool to shape the main for speed/efficiency of the main. As far as your headsail is concerned using a No.2, is probably the most useful sail for cruising, as it’s generally suitable for both light to moderately heavy conditions. The headsail is your main power sail.

Well done mate on getting your first boat, I am sure you will have many adventures on it. I too bought my first boat about a year ago, a 1974 Swanson 30. My boat had a lot of money spent on it replacing all sorts of gear (new engine, folding prop, new furler, primary winches, sails, B&G wind instrument etc etc). The boat has a huge racing (Sydney to Hobarts etc) and cruising history (inc. going from Tassie to NZ and return etc) and while there is still work to be done on it, I am very happy with it. So all the best with your boat, fair winds 😁👍

Outstanding! I’m looking forward to following your adventures. You’re about to become an outboard mechanic, electrician, plumber, fiberglass man, an all around craftsman, and, of course, a sailor. There’s a lifetime of learning ahead of you, so feel free to reach out for help when you get stumped.

FYI - Research (or advertise) if any local sail boat owners require deckhands, especially for club races. Their friends usually also have boats in the same race, so need to get help from elsewhere. Possibly teach you more than any paid course will.

Until the contract signing, I thought the new owner must have been holding the camera. So young. Tidy cabin, nice lounge/mattress covers, makes the area look larger. Don't know if needed or what's best value your area, but if ever considering a tender, check out inflatable 'catamarans', floor has same concept as paddle board, nice and lite, easy to solo handle, front makes it easy to get in from swim. Should fit upside down in front of the mast when under sail. Utilise the outboard. I got a Bris 11ft for ~$800au on special.

Congratulations.. I wish you the best an fair winds

nice setup. Your going to want to get the outside woodwork varnished asap. This will keep it protected and looks amazing.

"Don't Know What I'm Doing!" ... but you are actually doing it👍👍.. as opposed to moi, who is watching on YT

Need to hoist the sail so that all the wrinkles come out of the luff. You have some really nice teak handrails and teak coamings--watch a video on proper varnish to protect them from damage. The previous owner really took exceptional care of this boat. You have what may be the finest example of a fine Gary Mull design. congratulations.

I owned a Ranger 23 for 14 years and it was the best sailing boat I have owned (I have owned 5). Yours is probably the nicest I have ever seen and the previous owner obviously added a lot of things that were not standard on the original Ranger 23s--teak toe rails, opening ports, etc. You are a very very fortunate young lad. Had I owned that boat I would have wanted it to go to someone like you. Good sailing.

Awesome! Congratulations!

Please wear something other than crocs!

Well done kid…..everybody has I start somewhere….enjoy it…you have a lifetime of sailing ahead of you….

Great first sail! Things to consider: wrinkles in a sail either point to something over tensioned, or perpendicular to something under tensioned. You needed more halyard tension. Your outhaul also looked completely slack. The black line on your boom is an ideal of how far back it could possibly go. You should start with moderate tension and increase it as the wind increases. This will pull the max draft of the lower 1/3 of the main forward and help to depower the main. To pull the rest of the sails draft forward and depower as the wind increases, apply Cunningham. This acts as extra halyard tension because it assumes the sail can’t be raised any higher. Lastly would be back stay tension. The easiest way to describe this is starting with the idea that flat sails draw less power from the wind than deep curvy sails. So if you lay a sail flat on the grass you’ll see the luff is curved. When you raise a sail on a strait mast, that’s the curvature you force into the sail. By tensioning the back stay you’ll make the sail look more like the flat one laying on the ground. And it also tensions the forestay, taking some curvature out of the headsail. And now you know your OBC’s!!! Outhaul Backstay Cunningham as the wind increases! If it’s not enough, REEF! The same principals apply!!! Get that halyard super tight on your reefed main! Your reef line becomes your outhaul, so SUPER TIGHT on that and a sail tie through the new clue incase the reef line slips! (Cunningham replaced by super tight halyard) There is a certain famous KZbin single handed sailor that has made it half way round the world without understanding these concepts. You can do it without figuring this out, but you’ll be constantly struggling to balance your boat, and be unnecessarily uncomfortable. Headsails are the same principals the placemat of the turning block controls the balance of foot to leach tension. Just like the outhaul for the mainsail. A tight foot lets all the wind fall out of the top with a loose leach (fairleads aft), taught leach traps the wind and puts curvature into the headsail curvy = power.. fairleads forward. Think about the fairleads at throttles on a powerboat. Throttle forward gives power, aft depowers. To start with, the line from the fairleads following the taught sheet should cut the luff of the sail in half this puts equal tension on the foot and the leach and you can power up or depower from there. If your boat has a boom vang or boom kicker (same thing depending on where you live) this controls the tension of the leach of the main. Taught leach means power, slack leach = depower. To start with the top batten shold be brought parallel to the boom. (Full power) and slacked off from there. If you tighten your outhaul backstay and Cunningham, and move your headsail leads aft, you should maintain drive in the lower portions of your sail plan while spilling wind out of the top. You may even find the tops luffing a bit, but this should equal 80% of the first reef, so if you think the wind is picking up for a short period or just need to get back in, you may delay reefing… just don’t get caught when you should have reefed!!! lol, and that’s the trick!!! Good luck and have fun figuring all this stuff out, it will be a little different on your next boat, but the more you sail the more similar they will all seem. Have fun and I’ll be along to see all of the lessons you going to have to go through! It makes it all new again for me! Thank you!

So lucky you found his boat , it was loved, he will miss it and hopes that you will do her proud.

Congratulations 👍👍

Great first sail! Things to consider: wrinkles in a sail either point to something over tensioned, or perpendicular to something under tensioned. You needed more halyard tension. Your outhaul also looked completely slack. The black line on your boom is an ideal of how far back it could possibly go. You should start with moderate tension and increase it as the wind increases. This will pull the max draft of the lower 1/3 of the main forward and help to depower the main. To pull the rest of the sails draft forward and depower as the wind increases, apply Cunningham. This acts as extra halyard tension because it assumes the sail can’t be raised any higher. Lastly would be back stay tension. The easiest way to describe this is starting with the idea that flat sails draw less power from the wind than deep curvy sails. So if you lay a sail flat on the grass you’ll see the luff is curved. When you raise a sail on a strait mast, that’s the curvature you force into the sail. By tensioning the back stay you’ll make the sail look more like the flat one laying on the ground. And it also tensions the forestay, taking some curvature out of the headsail. And now you know your OBC’s!!! Outhaul Backstay Cunningham as the wind increases! If it’s not enough, REEF! The same principals apply!!! Get that halyard super tight on your reefed main! Your reef line becomes your outhaul, so SUPER TIGHT on that and a sail tie through the new clue incase the reef line slips! (Cunningham replaced by super tight halyard) There is a certain famous KZbin single handed sailor that has made it half way round the world without understanding these concepts. You can do it without figuring this out, but you’ll be constantly struggling to balance your boat, and be unnecessarily uncomfortable. Headsails are the same principals the placemat of the turning block controls the balance of foot to leach tension. Just like the outhaul for the mainsail. A tight foot lets all the wind fall out of the top with a loose leach (fairleads aft), taught leach traps the wind and puts curvature into the headsail curvy = power.. fairleads forward. Think about the fairleads at throttles on a powerboat. Throttle forward gives power, aft depowers. To start with, the line from the fairleads following the taught sheet should cut the luff of the sail in half this puts equal tension on the foot and the leach and you can power up or depower from there. If your boat has a boom vang or boom kicker (same thing depending on where you live) this controls the tension of the leach of the main. Taught leach means power, slack leach = depower. To start with the top batten shold be brought parallel to the boom. (Full power) and slacked off from there. If you tighten your outhaul backstay and Cunningham, and move your headsail leads aft, you should maintain drive in the lower portions of your sail plan while spilling wind out of the top. You may even find the tops luffing a bit, but this should equal 80% of the first reef, so if you think the wind is picking up for a short period or just need to get back in, you may delay reefing… just don’t get caught when you should have reefed!!! lol, and that’s the trick!!! Good luck and have fun figuring all this stuff out, it will be a little different on your next boat, but the more you sail the more similar they will all seem. Have fun and I’ll be along to see all of the lessons you going to have to go through! It makes it all new again for me! Thank you!

Congrats! Randomly stumbled upon your other video, and checked this one out. And I'm in a simillar spot, got little to no clue what i'm doing but today I just took my boat out for her first sail under my ownership. Soon maybe a first attempt at solosailing...

Nice to see a young man follow his dream, As an old sailor it warms my heart, But i have to point a finger at you young man, Either wear prober footwear or be bare footed, crocs are banned 😉🤣

Excited for you and to follow you along in this journey!

Ahoi, nice first cruise. Next lesson: sail trimming ;-) Is there a rail in the boom for the foot? Try it! Wondering you have no boom vang.... I'm looking forward to further adventures, keep it up! 💪

Its pretty cool seeing the ever so mysterious Coye getting personal on camera! Keep doing what you love bud, it goes by faster than you realize

Looks like you know what you are doing to me(but what do I know?). Practice makes perfect. As someone else said, You do make great videos. Keep them coming.

I remeber yall talking about a sailboat years ago when I took a bow class. Glad to see him making it come true!

Take a few lessons or take someone out that knows how to sail will save a lot of frustration.

Looks like you know what you're doing to me, just maybe not super efficient yet. You're definitely really good at making videos

The previous owner was happy he was selling it to you, but he was not happy about selling it...he loves that boat. You will too, fair winds skipper!

Congraduation. That is not a pocket Cruiser, that is a full size small cruiser.

Beautiful! Congrats, Coye

Looks like you're going to have a great summer! Make sure to make a few more videos so your fans can keep up to date :)

☘Good Luck!☘ and I have to admit I am a little jealous. 😀

This is so cool, I'm excited for you. Hope you have great experiences with it. Please put out lots of videos