ASA 103 & 104 Part 2 - Overview, books & tests. Learning to Sail

[@ericwgage]

Pretty cool to see you guys in the waters in my backyard and the waters I know. I'm a motorboater but greatly considering of going to a sailboat in my near future!

[@svturtlestampede6428]

Your videos are so helpful. My wife and I are planning to become catamaran live aboard types in about a year when I retire. I have watched a plethora of sailing videos in the past year and learned quite a lot. While I would say that some of the others are more entertaining, yours are so educational and seriously helpful. Please continue what you are doing. While I have given a thumbs up to countless videos, this is the first time I have added a comment. That should be some kind of compliment in and of itself. I really do appreciate your documenting your way through this process and have learned much that will help us already. Please continue the adventure. Thanks again. Turtle stampede

[@jandradventures]

Hi! Very cool. thanks for the support and encouragement. We really do appreciate the comments and the likes. I really makes the videos much more engaging for us too. :) Good luck our your own journey to buy a cat and live the dream. It's all very exciting.

[@hansschweikert9153]

Thank you so much for posting this video. I'm heading in that direction after several years with my Catalina 22. Nice to hear first hand about the challenges. The only constructive criticism I would offer is that although you have a nice kitchen, it makes for very echo-y sound recording that detracts from an otherwise well done piece. Again, thank you for posting this.

[@suburbandiyguy661]

3:27 If you can get close enough to the surface of the water, slap the surface with the palm of your hand 2 or 3 times and sometimes they'll respond back to you by slapping their tails on the surface. Pretty cool.

[@thomashay8807]

Nice video. Wife and I will be taking 101 and 103 this weekend. Your videos were great starts.

[@jandradventures]

Hi Thomas. Thanks for the complement. 101 & 103 are a blast. It's a lot to learn but worth it. Just curious where about are you taking the courses?

[@thomashay8807]

Lake Barkley in Kentucky, Green Turtle Bay Marina www.greenturtlebay.com/ Making plans for possibly doing 104, 105, 106 class with Smartersail in St. Pete, FL www.smartersail.com/ASA/ in the spring.

[@jandradventures]

Very nice. Sounds exciting. Good luck with everything. I'm thinking about taking 105 and maybe 106 too sometime. If I do I'll be sure to make a video.

[@waltobringer2928]

Thanks yet again!

[@davidh7268]

Awesome series of videos, well done! I am taking 101 - 106 with 10 days live aboard on an Island Packet 32...math is not my thing but hopefully studying before I go will give me a leg up.

[@jwulf2002]

Great vid. Great explanation of the courses and material. I plan to take the ASA courses soon, so this was very helpful!

[@jeffaknox]

About to take the 103 and 104. Very helpful.

[@Mikinct]

Great videos, thanks How or when does one learn to not just how to sail but how to replace a torn sail or how to untangle rigging lines or replace a broken rope line that potentially may snap while at sea etc. More about “rigging 101” per say

[@joshuaash2494]

Great video thanks for the info!

[@jandradventures]

Here's the second half of or Asa 103/104 sailing school down in Kemah Tx!

[@thomasthanos9947]

What was the cost of the 103 and 104 courses? I will take those courses next year in Florida. I actually took sailing in college in Biscayne Bay, Miami a long time ago. The class was whole semester of sailing. Thomas

[@StrangeDays25]

Thank you for your videos. I am in the process of obtaining a boat to sail around the world as well. Been sailing once.

[@jandradventures]

Well good luck! ASA courses are a bit expensive but they're definitely designed to teach you what you need to know.

[@firdausinc]

Thanks for the video. Very informative...

[@WersDaMan]

Should'a had some fishing tackle on board, that time sitting you could'a been fishin!!

[@bwhiteboomer1]

Hey Ryan and Jessica, It's been a couple of year since you took the courses but I wonder if either of you wished or could see an advantage into taking them separately? My wife and I are looking into ASA and I have more sailing experience than she has and we have been advised to take different courses. Thoughts?

[@daThird313]

So in the future, if you guys get a big boa for sailing around the world are you going to have to leave your dog with your parents? Also, will you have some sort of gymbal satellite based internet on the boat if you plan on working while sailing, or do you plan on working only once you port?

[@jandradventures]

The dog will come with us where she can. Many places in the Caribbean allow dogs. Also Europe & the UK allow dogs if you do the proper paperwork. NZ and AU require long quarantine periods, so yeah, she'll have to stay on the farm in NC for any travel in the Pacific that isn't the US. For work stuff, we're going to stay near land as much as possible. Which is actually pretty common. Sailboats don't really hang out in the middle of the ocean. 95% of the time you're anchored, moored, or docked or only a few miles out. In those cases we should have wifi from marinas, or be able to use cellular hotspots. For actual passage making (aka crossing oceans) yeah, I'll have satellite internet. The hardware isn't cheap. And the data plan price is crazy. And the data speed is atrocious. But technically it works and would allow me to work during the 3-4 weeks it takes to cross an ocean. Which in reality only happens once or twice a year.

[@SailingPauHana]

Did you both pass the tests for all of the courses?

[@sachamo100]

What type of boat are you sailing?

[@brettlons4707]

I'll go ahead and show my ignorance of sailing ( soon to be corrected ), When you are underway under sail are you too busy to be able to troll a couple of lines off the back of the boat?

[@jandradventures]

Nah, people do it all the time. Not in sailing school. But in real life yeah.

[@ffpm2]

How were you able to get your 104? my ASA instructor told me I needed 80 hours before I go for my 104. But I also did the 101/103 together.

[@jandradventures]

+Brian Diederich our instructor mentioned something about experience as well. I think it's more of a nice to have rather than a hard requirement. Their reasoning is that 104 isn't about sailing per say, but rather more about cruising boat systems and navigation. So in order for the class to be affective they want you to be able to sail without too much hand holding. We had maybe 20 hours of experience before doing the 103/104 combo course and we were fine.

[@JoeVSvolcano]

Lol, @11:05, more than enough room meaning some one was sleeping on the couch/bed :-).

[@cj18333]

Poor Juan.

[@65LB]

Not singing, they are laughing their A$$ off at the becalmed sailors.