Safety first! 🤣

vang is too loose, having to use so much rudder to compensate is slow

Too many sheets! 😂❤

Wow! 13kt? you're 3 or 4 kt from the world record... how much wind?

No storm boards hatch wide open....

What do you call a kite?

Very reactive driving - gotta be on that bear away immediately

that is a rude awakening! thanks for sharing

I turned my phone 90 degrees at first thinking you couldn’t actually be in the position you actually were. You looked calm and focused.

Wow. Scary. And very cool!

The unspoken elephant in the room is its going to be fragile and often broken

That's a broach, with asymmetrical spinnaker, that's anticlimactic. Looks like a blooper we use to fly with the spinnaker. I've had to stand on the side of the Santana 30 cockpit seats. with the spreader in the water before she rounded up.

Great video, Thank you so much for taking the time to make this!

Play Mainsheet and Vang

Cape 31?

you can see how much weather helm is on the rudder right before the broach - you were spot on, little quicker in easing the main would have helped. trying to head down with the main sheeted in just stalls the rudder quicker.

Really enjoyed the video, impressive 1st time helming and great idea to have some fun rotating jobs ,thank you. Tips learned the hard way. Always a faster boat if can anticipate rather than react. Most time of first 2mins 11 seconds concentration is directly ahead on the sails by both helm and crew e.g. (time stamp 25,34,secs 1:11,1:57,1:59,2:01,2:06 by crew , 28secs 1:11 and 1:14 by helm all for brief times approx 1 sec each glance each. Would suggest split the jobs , with crew concentrate on the kite and downwind sector ,helm up wind and downwind. As much time helm looking to windward as ahead. Helm calling in the gusts to crew , crew calling pressure on the spinnaker e.g. crew: "good pressure" helms soaks that i.e steers more downwind. Apparent wind increase not enough for monohull to harden up as in cat sailing in my opinion (sailed racing cats with asymmetrics as well as dingies ( both asymmetric and non)) unless you want to get into a gust earlier and stepping stone the gusts (as well as sufing the waves) downwind, would advise soak the pressure when you have it and stay in the windy bits for as long as you can , when you can. If 5 person boat don't think you have as much leverage to keep the boat flat either so that would dictate bear away. Impressive 1st time helm. As much as possible steer with the sails, any time helm wants to bear away ,ease main 1st rather than just tiller, playing the main all time time as you adjust tiller. If 5 man boat am guessing you usually have a main trimmer ..(see time stamp 1:09 ,hard tiller pull no main sheet adjustment) Any time tiller off centre, means increased drag, means slower boat means harder hit with a gust. Crew and helm weight together as much leverage , both hiking out or far away from centre line as much as possible , can also use this leverage to help bear the boat away. As gust hits, being called in by helm "gust in 5 , 4 3 ,2 ,1 ", ease main, fine trim with rudder, bear away and if boats continues to heel to leeward , ease kicker, then main then last resort, spinnaker. Crew is anticipating gust with the call out and ready to ease spi if necessary. Practice broach drill on a quiet day , going thru what jobs to be done (and who by) first and then practice, working up to windier weather. When the boat was broached need to completely dump kicker and allow boat to get flat and to reduced the main catching the wind as much as possible. @3:28 can see the main luff is still filling and kicker is still acting on the boom pinning the boat over and helping to heel the boat to leeward so no/little rudder control then. Hope this helps and thanks again for the footage and learned lots :)

Have you tried something similar in a boat with a wheel, attaching the lines to the lower half to keep the directions of pull in the same direction? Tillers are often nicer for racing, but the boat has what it has.

I sail on the Farr x2 here in New Zealand. We just had B.P. down here to join us on board for Sail Week. Great boat, has some different characteristics to many others with the hull shape. But very fast when the groove is found. We matched much longer boats and we are still learning the boat. How have you found yours since you got it? I believe we have some different cut sails to you.

Thanks. Informative.

Broching twice every time you have a chance to sail would get expensive fast.😉⛵⚓

Did you consider driving it more aggressively up and down ... so you speed up and reduce Apparent Wind?

I’m new to sailing and I’m trying to learn as much things as possible but I hope when this ever happens to me on mine I bought a 22 foot hunter 85 but I hope I can recover that quickly or else my wife will never get back in the boat again so I’m trying to learn as much as possible before I take her out in it

how does a 27 feet sailboat move at 16 knots speed while hull speed is around 5-6 knots ?

how does a 27 feet sailboat move at 16 knots speed while hull speed is around 5-6 knots ?

Great video and excellent commentary, some straightforward but very good advice here.

When you reach 12 kts and hyperdrive kicks in 😅

@2:11 it looks like he lost rudder authority. Note the arm pop. Wild watching this video. Really enjoyed the commentary.

It would seem that the main reason for this broach was the helmsman coming un stuck. Man down, boat over. The tiller extension seems incredibly long. If it needs to be this long for upwind sailing then consider a telescopic one (see Ronstan catalogue) and shorten for down wind sailing. I sailed a 26 foot sports boat for many years and always pushed the limits. Main sheet right out, boom vang right off, mainsail flapping like a flag, keep the boat under the kite and steer for your life, come up in the lulls and keep speed on and bear away in the gusts and get the boat back under the kite. Keep practising. 🐟 😁

Its quite easy. Just give the Kite-Halyard 3m down and the boat will start do go downwind again. Its much faster i think.

Hello - did you get your X2 ?!

Your technique is fine, but racing to Hawaii twice, Newport-Cabo and Newport-Ensenada a dozen times, there is a simpler recovery when short handed. We developed it because the driver would sometimes be on watch alone. As the boat rounds up, blow the vang, then the kite sheet, and finally the mainsheet. During all of this, bring the rudder all the way up and pin the tiller with your foot. This acts as a brake to slow the boat until you can slowly drive back down and get going again.

Do you think the speed/weight ratio hold up with only two onboard? I am concerned with the lighter boat with the full sail area it will be hard to keep the X2 flat going up wind. The 2 rudders help and ability to pump ballast up onto windward.

Awesome job on the analysis. You actually sold me the boat based on the comparison I've made

How many degrees of heel will a broch typically occur? We are VERY novice sailors with a Kittiwake 23. My wife gets nervous anything over 15°.

So, did your Farr X2 come in?

Is there a way to deploy the camera aft? I think its valuable to a viewer to see whats ahead. Low obviously demonstrates the speed, but that can also be done with an overlay in post. I've always wanted a slight fish eye off the rear, to one side slightly, at about boom height.

I gotta get my hands on your spreadsheet. Would love to add to it because I'm too dumb to start the work.

Mate if I was in the market for a boat like that after watching this comparison it would be a case of "take my money" I'm amazed Farr haven't reached out and offered you a job selling their boats

Outstanding analysis. Are your spreadsheets available for review? Brad Alberts San Diego

That boom seems so low, is there no way to move it up so you dont get booted in the head if there's a sudden change of wind?

I use surgical tubing and a line from either the main sheet or the jib sheet ( long keel heavy steel cruiser ). The idea of using surgical on the upwind side and bungy on the downwind? So obvious = add this my "Why didn’t I think of that file". Much appreciated

Very interesting. Would you be willing to share the spreadsheet?

So, to get out of a bad broach, do you turn leeward or windward? Pardon me such elementary question, just trying to teach myself.

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use the jib to help get the bow under the boat!

You guys were booking! 🙆

Watching from Antrim Boat Club, Northern Ireland, few J80s and a Bull 7000 sailing here. Would probably take a lottery win to justify transporting an Antrim to Antrim!!!

i've an impule 21. that center console is very similar to it. awesome vid

Release the boom, turn down wind.👍