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It's all well-and-good, but there's no mention of when you're supposed to fire your cannons...

Couldn't hear a thing as speech was drowned by muzak & subs were turned off so no idea what was said!

These rules never come into play unless you are racing or in a crowded hatbor. Even then, if you meet a power boat you darn well better know the international rules. If you guess wrong you will be liable.

At 2:40 - It might be confusing to some: both boats on the same tack, the leeward (close hauled) boat is the "stand on" boat and the windward (reaching) boat must steer to avoid. The leeward boat can hail a warning of "CLOSE HAULED!" or "LEEWARD BOAT!" to confirm its intention to stand on. Great graphics, well done.

Nit-picking. A sailboat is on a starboard tack when its mainsail is on the port side of the boat, regardless of which direction the wind is coming over the boat. Conversely, a sailboat is on a port tack when its mainsail is no the starboard side of the boat. (That is the definition in the ColRegs. 99% + of the time, a boat on a starboard tack will have the wind coming over the starboard side of the boat but a boat can be on a starboard tack, running, with the wind coming over the port side.)

Very thanks.

Great info for all to know. Thank you

but starboard is on the right side and port is left, or does Tack mean from the other direction?

Sounds a very necessary book. Every yacht should have one and every member of the crew should read it.

Would be nice if there was a list of the books in the video versus pausing, writing down, playing, and repeat several times.

Just adding confusion to another, why making the port side in the right hand side?????? Who do you think is going to watch this video if it is not a Beginner who's already confused about such misleadings between port and strbrd? Do you think people who are familiar with sailing will watch you piece of crap? You wasted everyone's time DH

Thanks. Your video really helped me. 🙏

Congratulations! Will it be available on Kindle? I'm in South Africa so not practical to get the hard cover.

At 2:18 can the red boat avoid the green boat by changing course to the green boat's starboard side? At the beginning they both boats are sailing directly towards each other.

Really interesting introduction and now I must buy the book!

Sounds great! Nice video.

First?

0:35 1:00

Thanks

Op Sir.

Hello Thanks for the tips What brand Sextant do you have there

As an ex racer, I allways put an extera turn on the winchis and set a perventer to stop an acidental jibe out on the boom when running down wind. and i still do so on my owen boat. Gerard.

Great notepad for outdoor sports in the winter. I am a freelance sport photographer, and always use one for football soccer etc and it works well in the pouring rain to make notes, Highly recommend pad. I use ordinary HB pencils on this pad.

...and have a good sharp knife, gloves, and a pair of swimming goggles immediately at hand at all times.

Seems over complicated. Why not just say the boat on your port, (en route to a port collision) or on the non wind side, has the right of way?

On the West Coast of the US outside Los Angeles Harbor the creep of pots is on as well; couple of miles off Angels' Gate breakwall now and crowding right up to the big ship traffic lanes. Bright colors? Nah... blue or white and disappearing beneath the chop and the swell. Sailing engineless as I do with full keel/rudder certainly has it's challenges but does make for a less stressful sail where there are so many dang pots! Really enjoying your channel Cap! Thank you🤟🏻🤟🏻

Sucks to be colorblind and watching this video ;D

There is an interesting part in Sir Francis Chicester's book where he is approaching the Bass Straits somewhat unsure of his position as the silvering on the sextant mirror is beginning to peel off!

Or keep a laminated card near the helm for the first year of sailing..... With small drawings on it.

Could you please give me two Sun Shots from a stationary position? Time/Date UTC, and altitude corrected for upper or lower limb and refraction. I believe I came up with a super easy method to reduce I would like to try out.

Yes, that's all there is to it, apart from a few adjustments, of course! I bought Tom's book and it is excellent - a great introduction to "astro" or "celestial" whichever you prefer...

I finally found someone with the same first name as me.

I see!

And should you be travelling along the Atlantic coast of Portugal, you'll still find them 20 miles off the coast! Bloody nightmare, all of them.

Awesome

Yes indeedy great tip and if it's a fishing boat heading towards you, regardless if you're stand on, you'd better watch him like a hawk and take evasive action early, even if you do a 720. Found this out off Newhaven several weeks ago. They must have been having breakfast with the Labrador left alone in the wheelhouse....maybe be barked because one came up and gave us a friendly wave!

Thank you for sharing your knowledges with chinese subtitles.

The problem I have found is that if you pass it round the winch too often you can get a riding turn so you then cannot release it. I am doing something wrong but not sure what.

Just ordered it, can’t wait to start reading it. I wish I were that brave. Fair winds.

There you are then. Job done.

Great video, very well explained

At 1:50,wt if port boat is coming from starboad side,who is giveway and why

At 30 seconds in, that is me! How bizarre, never seen that before.

I've got the first edition (1997) and 21 years ago I used Gavin's spinnaker wrap tip. I can vouch for the fact that it works! Lots of good tips in his A-Z list of skills... from anchoring to whales and windage. There aren't many good books on multihull sailing by writers with such in-depth experience. It deserves a place on your bookshelf.

Simple and clear! Thnx!

Hi mr.cunliffe, I have a question. Where should the feeder arm be pointing correctly?

Tom, you never blinked once during that presentation... What's your secret?

the simple things are the best