Cant watch anymore, thanks lunger

2020 that guy coughing just gave everyone in the room Corona Virus. That's something you'll never hear again in a crowded room.

Sir I need one help.. Can you help me

Very nice lesson

You seem to have some of your terminology confused. Look up the meaning of terms before you publish them. Stays are only fore and aft. LWL = Load Waterline Length. There's a free sailing course at ASA. You should check it out here : asa.com/certifications/ Thanks for your effort.

instructs as though talkin' to slow learners.

You have a gift for teaching. That was excellent!

I'll find another video to watch that doesn't involve some dude coughing over and over again ,someone tapping on a desk and phasing in and out of volume,just super annoying, couldn't hang, get that audio worked out.

Excellent! Thank you. Great refresher course.

The worst yo yo audio. Liked the talk but can't stand the speaker leaning in/out of the microphone. Far worse than cougher, but then I bailed at 3:39...hack

good explanation thanx

super you help me thanks

Watched all four videos. I'm surprised I haven't come across another comment that mentions this, but this video (4) skips "Changing tack" straight to the "Commands". Otherwise, great job.

when in doubt let it out! That is a FART!

i didnt notice the cough until i read the comments. thanks guys.

sailing in Kansas?

Good videos, this guy is a great instructor.

Great lesson. Wish you could normalize the volume, it went from whispering to screaming most of the video.

yes, these are good lessons...another lesson folks is stress mrg. we can't get upset at everything... i didn't even notice the guy until i read some of your comments while watching...than it started bothering me a little :), but come on, we have to be big boys and girls :)...be good, Uncle Sam

THANK YOU FOR THIS!

stop coughing you piece of shit.

this video is cool, thanks !

Probably a very good video, but you need to put the coughing guy away from the microphone, His coughing and pencil tapping are really distracting and interupts the audio, which is just as important as the video

I enjoyed your video but was confused by your port and starboard explanation. I am in aviation and we use a lot of the same terms and so the way we explain port and starboard is in reference to the front on the ship as you look at it.

Great video! The "33 sailing tips & tricks" book brought me here :)

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ok professor, ready for the next lesson :) Great job, but really would love the next lesson. Sailing 201.

Nice info, I sail a lot. I race optis and its really quite fun. Thumbs up

First , i want to thank you for post a VERY GOOD beginners video and instructions. I for see a bright future for you...and now me !!! ( Thanks again !!! )

Anyone recommend a book title that covers the basics as this video does?

that guy who keeps coughing needs to get out.

One small error: When Matt defines Freeboard, he refers correctly to the Waterline. But when he gets to Waterline LENGTH (LWL), he misdefines it as freeboard (distance from deck to water). Half of these terms are more interesting to a sailing geek like me than a first-day student, IMO.

In case you guys didn't notice, this video was filmed in a tuberculosis clinic.

Excellent videos. Is half of part 3 missing? About to take a 17' boat out for the first time, and needed better explanation about the jibsail, as we've only sailed with a single sail before. Thanks.

the students pick it up quick. impressed. has inspired me to look for a course locally :)

Sailing a 420 with a THC sail? okay!

Great job Mr. Cross. The only thing you did not do is throw the sick guy out of your class. I hate him

Really good video and instructions..

Excellent reminder of what its all about.Thank You. It wasn't the cough that was a problem it was how close he was to the microphone. Those were loud dynamics.

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I watched all four videos and found them very helpful. The one problem I had was when the instructor asked a question and a student answered I couldn't hear what the answer was. It would be helpful if the instructor repeated the answer.

who here wants to learn how to sail and feels like he is speaking a different language?

I watched all 4 videos. after i just sailed a Hunter 30 two days ago. I wish i had watched these first. but i am very grateful to have seen them at least now. thank you for posting this series very helpful.

What you have is the back in the boat in your control. Push the tiller away the back of the boat goes with it. Maybe that's a personal point but I found it worked to the point that it became so engrained in my consciousness that when I moved to wheeled keel boats I spent much of the having to battle my instinct to steer the back of the boat with the wheel. Worked really well on dinghys and small keelboats tho. :-) I had a lot of fun in i420s over the years. Great boats.

Good lecture. A few points. You should tell them why waterline length is such a big deal in a dinghy. Some early mention of the three modes of dinghy sailing would be useful even just as a reference. Telling them hull waterline length is important without talking about displacement mode top speeds is not crystallising the lesson imho. About the tiller acting in the opposite way to the wheel of a car. I came to think about the tiller as steering the back of the boat.

Incidentally, a 4th meaning of 'tack' is the leading (windward) edge on a square sail. Seems irrelevant here, but if you watch the manoeuvring of a tall (i.e. square rigged) ship that 4th meaning covers covers the other three. The use of the word in modern sailing boats then makes much more sense.

Excellent set of talks for starting sailing. All necessary info with no extraneous crap. All applicable to cruising, racing or pottering about, Whether dinghy or megayacht. If this could be professionally filmed with the same guy presenting to the camera, instead of a noisy audience (& ideally translated to English) then I would want to give a copy of all the newbie sailors before they first get on a boat. All they will then need is practical experience. Thanks, mate.

When in doubt pull it out

Tried to watch your video but between the terrible sound and the guy coughing I had to quit.

Anytime you use an on-camera microphone, you have to have at least one smoker coughing up a lung in the audience. It's the law.