You don't have a vang, do you?

We use the same but connected close to the kicker ( vang) then take the ends through blocks on the mast base. When the boom comes back it will be lifted by the sail and brake will be under more tension .

If I don’t see it it didn’t happen. You couldn’t do one F’ing gybe to demonstrate it? 🤦‍♂️

What a rough crossing! Rueben and Sky done well for such a long passage.

Also, sounds like you had a very eventful day sailing to Chichester! Glad all ended well :)

Hi Adrian, Sibongile looks great! :D you are doing an amazing job! 👍

Its all good brother. You are doing it and sharing it. 🙏🏻

If not use a boom break myself. Too many disadvantages as compared to advantages. I hope you never break your boom using it.

As a climer and sailor I have seen many broken carabiners! The way the carabiner is attached to the boom end is very likly to break the carabiner under havy load, as it is bent over a ridgde with a very strong lever to its disadvantage! Carabinerts are only strong in the direction they are meant to. Please use a softshackel instead. Fair winds, Christoph

I have a strong doubt about this device. Ordinary preventer is usually set tight against the main sheet, while this system is loose and allows the first momentum of the boom movement at jibe free, so the boom gets some energy. But the main point: the preventers are set outside the life lines. So, I suspect, the life lines might be under heavy stress at every gibe with this system, when the end of the boom passes over the lifeline in direction to the center, unless something else is designed to save the lifelines . Thank you .

'He's a frick load bigger than me' 😂 that is all that was needed lol

To make the cockpit flat you will also need to retain the current access to be back of the engine but I am sure you have already thought about that.

You would think common sense would prevail

Very interesting episode, really enjoyed it. Love your plans for Sibongile. Try Greg at Marine and Plant Engineering, Broadhempstone in Devon for a replacement engine. They supplied ours, very experienced and helpful chaps

Water shedding! My idea is to start by altering the cockpit floor, rebuild the floor so that it has a shallow angle from horizontal, maybe 1 or 2 degrees, you'd need to figure out which direction the slope lays, perhaps fore and aft, with multiple drain holes on the lower end draining through the transom and fitted with one way valves to stop heavy seas pumping water in. The floor angle is irrelevant at sea, but in harbour will be of benefit for the occasional downpour. Making the whole cockpit floor one big hatch would definitely improve access below when necessary. 👍

Jabulani

Lesser of two arsehole 😂😂😂😂😂

Use soft shackle as wear from stainless fitting will quickly wear through aluminum!

Southampton, ENGLAND, UK

Real food for thought! Yes our gut can try to shroud us in cotton wool. But intuition is also an important tool. It can be easy to conflate the two perhaps? Sometimes there is an innate sense of knowing…other times it is our subconscious keeping us in it’s comfort zone… Saw you on Bumble, came to see what you’re about, nice human!

I wish people would stop using the term “Right of Way”.. it’s Stand on Vessel or Give Way Vessel.. after all, everyone has a duty to prevent a collision at sea.

What you want is a staysail ketch. Its a better arrangement.

Reasons for an "Uncontrolled " Gybe. 1. As your're making way down wind in heavy conditionds (high winds & waves) the stern can be lifted by a large wave & change the attitude of the wind towards the sail...especially when sailing wing on wing. 2. An inexperienede helmsperson who looses touch with the wind / sail conditions. 3. A major wind shift (which can be predictable in fluky air). I don't sail wing on wing in rolling sea conditions / winds greater than 8 knots. Higher winds for me means sailing broard reach up to 18 knots. Winds higher than 18 knots my boat can reach maximum hull speed with the head sail only. Sailing down wind (winds abaft the beam) takes more focus on the attitude of the vessel. Lastly making a Gybe maneuver requires centering the boom (hardening up the main sheet) before Gybing.

Great episode, can't wait to watch the transformation of Sibongile.

The term "Right of way" is not written into Colregs or Rule of the Road. You are either The Give Way vessel or The Stand On vessel, but all vessels must avoid a collision by any means. Right of Way may be written into local Harbour Bylaws which you must obey.

Hi, novice sailor here. Would you typically use the figure of eight with a traveler? I assume this boat has no traveler because of the asymmetrical hatch way? Thanks in advance.

can you talk more clearly !

The most expensive stretch of water in the world I believe

No one has 'right of way'. One boat 'stands on', the other makes a clear change of course, however both are obliged to avoid a collision.

My boat broken down in a simular situation right next to a huge P&O in the solent.

The colregs are very specific but I was still I was shocked to see a very container ship move for our boat although I was about to tack to make an avoiding manoeuvre - we were under sail and our minimum separation was just less than five miles. Respect to the Captain... should have hailed him on channel 13 to say so.

Might has right.

We would love to come down and help but setting sail ourselves very soon. But will support in any other way we can.

Just about every matlow going “stokes bay”

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This is a brand new commodore islanders in condor ferries

Lots of people in the graveyard thinking they had right of way.

I learned to sail in the Solent...and these days it's just common sense in regards to right of way...big boy ain't stopping!

Nimble gives way to steadfast. is the rule. Not power give way to sail.

No one has right of way. It's stand on or give way. Also, it looks like you're in the Precautionary Area in the Solent, which means that you're technically in the wrong already by being 1000m in front and 100m to either side of the vessel (assuming it's over 150m in length). Maybe you're just to the west of it .. and she looks like turning to port as well. Love the 'lesser of the two arseholes' comment, brilliant.

The next Donald crowhurst

There used to be a saying - and I'm from Portsmouth - 'sail gives way to steam'. For steam read whatever ships use these days.

You’re in a narrow channel. He has right of way

I'm told that the Chinese have used Tung nut oil on their wooden sailing boats as a protective coating, records go back many millennia, apparently pure Tung nut oil is the best, the drawback being it takes 4 to 6 weeks to oxidise (cure) properly.

Might is right!

Size has right of way, maybe not legally but don't push your luck!

Guy. So who has right of way Other guy. I like my boat boat shaped, so he has right of way

Who has right of way? Easy, f*ck about and find out.

Makes me laugh hearing about the "right of way" on our huge ocean. Imagine fish having the same issues.

Hello from Southampton