You're a legend! Charter photos showed a normal sail, picked up the boat, in-mast furling, watched the video, no issues unfurling, reefing and furling it back in! Love your work, man!! 🙏 And nice to finally meet you in person! 😁

In no wind, no current you made contact with the boat on your starboard a couple of times.

I just found your channel today looking up how to do a mooring ball solo. I ran across a few other instructional vids of yours- you show the processes so well. The filming, drone angles, including the misses and how to remedy the problem makes it so much easier to relate to. You’re a great teacher. Thank you.

I watched this because the title said ‘singlehanded’. Apparently that means radioing for someone to help you! It’s a good idea, but hardly qualifies as singlehanded.

I like the depth map in the end 👍

It’s the captain not the boat!😂😂😂

Double hull mono hull… love it! lol!

Interesting boat but getting sea sicked just by looking at this video! This guys needs to take a class on video-taping!

First of all thank you for all great videos. Just back from a week in Croatia and we used them a lot. Your advice about just going around and film everything really made a difference. I spent 10 minutes when we got the boat and managed to film a hole in the dingy that I didn't see at that point but when going back on the video we could show that the damaged was there already when taking out the boat. Great advice!

Hey Nic, thanks again for this great video tutorial. So I understand: main sail full out, we can keep tension on the in mast furler without switching to ratched, once we have reefed the main sail, we need to switch to ratched an keep it - right? CAN we reef in the main sail in with ratched or do we need to open it again?

Why do all of the boats in this marina look alike from above? ...Anyway, thank you for the vid, very informative on a stressful topic.

Hi .I criticized your reviews sometimes but this time hat down. You did wonderful review . Bravo 👏 This was good and proper . Thank you. Credit where credit is due.

Great video! Is this a twin rudder or a single rudder boat?

Had a great night at ACI Vrboska. The black risotto was amazing. This is a fantastic place to stop over. Heading to Milna tonight. Should be a fabulous down wind sail. Happy.

With these marine engines for sailing boats generally it is just the same engine but with a turbocharger bolted onto the air intake. Usually the standard engine is naturally aspirated and the upgrade is the turbo that bumps the power by about 30hp. Mind you this is not always the case and sometimes the engines do need to be reworked to accommodate the forced air injection

Just drop one hull am sail the other one full speed!

Vertical video. 😞

That looks pretty rough, 30 - 35 kts and accompanying seas is not really fun. We will get this weather later on, hope by that time you are safe in Starigrad. Never knew a Catamaran could be so violent. It almost needs stabilizers 😀

I can’t watch…

Hi Nick, I've been learning a lot from your videos and just came back from a sailing week in Croatia. As crew, I was able to do everything well, thanks to your teaching, while some of my crewmates had trouble with tangled lines, etc.. Thanks from Switzerland (we have the biggest lake in Europe, and sailing is super here)!

Luckily we were at Tankerkomerc Marina at that time. It's the second time I've seen such weather in Croatia. The first time it was Bora in 2007. It caught us near Šibenik.

So what is the answer? 😮

Am glad we did not get any water spouts here in Murter, no place to hide. Nice from a distance, but let's keep it from a distance 😀 Still Bura here btw, continuous 20 - 30 kts of wind, but it is dry at the moment.

You were kind.😂

If we may ask...................where can we find this bay ? Looks great and we still have 1.5 months before we come out of the water.

The end is nigh!

Looks great soo excited, arrive Sibenik tomorrow and heading out to Kornati Sunday! Would love your take on next week's weather, looks like the NNE winds (bora?) fades Sat night Sunday day and then pretty stesdy NE or NW F3 and 4

I release the short end of the leash -> goes faster :-) and no twist

Yeah... currently on my way to Croatia 😅

Woooou 🫠🫠

nice video......I see some people cross their stern lines. Is there any advantage or disadvantage to doing this?

Mental!

You’ve been in Croatia for some years now, I assume. Have those stronger wind events occurred in the same frequency over the years? With the extreme events happening in Formentera, Sicily, Greece in just a few months I’m wondering.

I've been in a waterspout on a Beneteau clipper 423 in 2014. Had my father not been the absolute best captain I ever saw, I probably wouldn't have made it out alive to tell the tale had it not been for his skill and knowledge. People don't believe me when I tell them that the waterspout pushed us from the blue lagoon on Drvenik almost all the way out to Split in 15 minutes. He had a mistral NW wind and were sailing from Trogir to the blue lagoon on Drvenik. We aproached the bay and my aunt told my dad that all the toilets were overflowing. My dad went down to check and he soon realised that we were in some kind of an extreme low pressure system. As soon as he had that thought, it shook him to his bones and he bolted back on deck... and he had quite the sight to see. We were basically looking into the eye of the storm under full sail ☠️ it went from 15 knots to 50 in half a minute. My father immediately furled the genoa but the in-mast furling sail just couldn't furl under those forces. We were being dragged towards the center of the whorphole by our main sail. The mast and shrouds were shaking so insanely I can't even describe it with words. It literally sounded like the wind was screaming. I was 7 at the time and I was holding on to one of the backstays. While the mast was shaking that backstay hit me across the fingers to hard that I couldn't fold my fingers without pain for weeks after the incident. At that point Iskra (my sis) and I were sent below deck. One crew member was on the bow when the fiasco started, she was jumping through a hatch into the boat's galley. I don't know how but the wind apparently blew one of her shoes off, at least that's what I've been told later. Another crew member was vomiting at the time and was out of commission. At that point there were 4 knowledgeable people on deck left to wrestle with the main sail. We don't know how high the wind blew, we only know the final reading before the wind instruments were shaken to pieces. It was well into the 100 knots region ☠️☠️☠️ all of a sudden we hear a large cracking/explosion sound. I was below deck thinking the mast is coming down... it wasnt, the steel ring that holds the in-mast furling sail attached to the halyard had snapped. It's a steel ring about 2 inches in diameter, it looked like someone had cut it with an angle grinder. I still to this day don't understand why the only component that broke was the strongest one on the entire mechanism, but regardless, we now had a sail in the sea, trying to whap itself around our prop and an outhaul rope that the crew couldn't untalngle. I got shouted the words:" Lovro, we need a knife, NOW!!!" I handed them the knife and they managed to cut the outhaul in order to free the sail completely. They pulled it out of the sea and stored it in one of the boats bathrooms. We returned to Trogir and we had quite a sight to see. ACI marina Trogir has never looked more like a ship graveyard than on that particular day. Broken genoas, broken sails, biminis blown to pieces etc. Our charter manager was looking at us in disbelief when he saw that the main sail was missing. The main sail that we stored into the bathroom was still in tact. That was the 25th of august 2014. Just 3 weeks ago was the 10th anniversary of that storm and I gathered most of the crew from that fateful trip once again to kind of commemorate it and remember why we should fear even the most tame sea in the world. Some of the crew members that were with us that day have never again set foot on a boat again. Also a true testament to the build quality of Beneteau clipper series boats 👍 That mast was in 100 knots of wind and a full main sail unfurled and it didn't collapse

Next sharpen up Med mooring under sail... Bareboat assist is an amazing service! I highly recommend it!

We enjoyed Mila Felice for a week in Croatia.

Hello this is Klaus, I’m starting from Pula heading south on Sunday morning and keep checking the forecasts on all channels since a week. 😅 Thanks a lot for your work. I appriciate that a lot ✌🏻😃. Thank You very much!

Hello this is Klaus, I’m starting from Pula heading south on Sunday morning and keep checking the forecasts on all channels since a week. 😅 Thanks a lot for your work. I appriciate that a lot ✌🏻😃. Thank You very much!

Which weather model (GFS or ECMWF) typically is more accurate?

Hey Nick. Amy chance of a forecast for next week? Land on Sat and sail out of Sibenik north into Kornati 😊

really helpful overviews! hope there’ll be more this saturday when we sail off from Sukosan for a week :)

I sailed in Pula area all day in 10-12kts

I am just seeing this but this is the most detailed walk through i have so far, good job!

Never tie a fender on a stantion. Any stress will bend the Stanton.

Second day all summer without air conditioning! Bring the rain!

Tony UK

Hey, Nick - is there an update today, Monday 9.9?

Thanks Nick, I was considering a Thursday return as well. Glad to here you're looking at it.

Am seeing it a bit later, but we are now inside one of the submarine bunkers on Dugi Otok. 2 boats in front of us, just outside and we all are tied up well. Hope the storm is going to miss us. Not looking forward to having 50 kts inside this bunker, so hope the TS will pass by North of us.

Great information keep up with the weather update. Learning a lot of potential pitfalls. Nonic skipper