Cardinals & Danger Marks (and Indian River, Dominica) - Ep. 28

[@SCBiscuit13]

That's a great way of memorising the cardinals. This helps a lot. In Europe, we have a way of differencing between East and West cardinals by the saying. "Fat Russian girl" for East and "Slim French girl" for West due to the triangle shapes :)

[@SailingVirgins]

Hahaha we love that. But dammit we also love slim Russian girls, so our memory could fail us at the critical time.

[@evanbetter]

‚towards the black‘ do you know how gorgeous this is? you make learning this stuff a breeze - eventually! thank you so much for sharing!

[@SailingVirgins]

evanbetter thanks!!

[@roxytq2836]

Nice! Just a suggestion for remembering where the black and yellow is > it is like to old fashioned pencil (yellow colored pencil with a black point). And for the # of flashes > the numbers on the clock (+1 for 6). Hope this helps some of you that have the same bad memory as I have.

[@BevBrown4]

Finally understand isolated and cardinals, thank you. For West 'point to Vest' will work for me

[@SailingVirgins]

Glad it helped!

[@davidcoulling9521]

Wonderful explanation of marks:-) brilliant and many thanks for such great and inspiring videos

[@exploringlandandsea4811]

I love the way you explained the markers James. You made the markers very easy to understand and remember as well. As former military, great use of the whiteboard as well. I am a visual learner and you make it so easy to understand. I love your videos and how much I learn from you guys. As always, I am looking forward to the next lesson (video). Teamjuliedan

[@reechard54]

Liked the point to black mnemonic-thanks James.

[@jedap7026]

West: It's like a Wine cup / East: It's like the up&down buttons on the Elevator

[@gertsy2000]

Yep. I got taught that one too.

[@gertsy2000]

Great Video. Thank you. Another one I was taught is that West looks like a wine glass (Sort of) W for Wine.

[@JB-qo6no]

Great explanation. Wish I had you guys when I did my course!

[@thewedword]

James great lesson, excellent vid on the island, music was tight! "Point to black"...✌

[@jtreath]

East is opposing triangles... imagine opening your curtains in the morning as the sun comes up.. in the east.. letting the sun come in between 2 dark curtains. West has two triangles pointing towards each other.. like closing your curtains at night.. as the sun sets in the west.. make it dark again in the middle. So.. east and west are based on opening and closing curtains.. simple. Love the videos guys.. I have learned a ton watching you as a newbie.

[@ItsRainingTacosProductions]

Very much enjoy your educational videos! You guys always do something that others don't cover.

[@SailingVirgins]

Thanks!

[@davidharker4145]

Great teaching James! Hope you are doing well.

[@SailingVirgins]

Thanks David!

[@goodq]

Seriously can’t wait. Just came here to check I missed an episode! Love this content

[@darrenparsons8131]

Great lesson James. Hope to get back one day and test my knowledge.

[@SailingVirgins]

For sure Darren! Hope all is well with you.

[@DavidSmith-ff2jz]

Thanks for the nice clear explanation. If it helps, another way to remember East and West is if you trace your finger around the day shape (starting middle left) it makes a little 'e', just like tracing the other one makes a 'w'.

[@nickeverett8608]

Point to black, great way to remember, thank you!

[@cooperbjt]

Great vid - Dominica looks niiice. Keep cranking them out lads. Any chance you could do a vid on trimming sails? Probably not the most exciting topic but I've always been a bit confused by how you can tell what's wrong by how the sails flap, as well some of the more technical aspects like the positioning of the cars, when to tighten the vang etc.

[@SailingVirgins]

Will do! We will be cranking out videos over the next couple of months Ben. If you are interested in being a Patron (starting at $3 per episode) we would be eternally grateful: www.patreon.com/sailingvirgins

[@russelnuzum6036]

Great explanation well done

[@al1rednam]

For those who are not content with the "Easter Egg" analogy: let me teach you one small bit of German. The German word for "East" is "Ost" which makes the eastern cardinal easy to remember. PS: yeah, I know, I´m quite late to the show

[@jancienski2089]

Was taught that north looks like a Christmas tree, south is like a palm tree, east (where Russia is) is like a tubby babushka, west (where California is) looks like a beach girl.

[@ljdasilva3139]

The north and south cardinals are easy to remember, I was taught that the way to remember the west cardinal mark is through the ditty 'wasp waist west' because the two cones form a 'waist' - then anything else is an east cardinal mark - it's a cruel world.

[@BikeCamperJBelo]

👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@hoofixrman]

Great vid!

[@patricknagel9065]

Awesome!

[@Nixontheman]

Good Tube

[@alanchester9227]

hi guys. Enjoy the instructional tubes. do you sell a dvd of the collection of you episodes, as i think it would make a useful gift to new sailors.

[@SailingVirgins]

We haven’t thought about it. Are DVDs still a thing? Serious question. If they are, sure we’ll look at it.

[@gulistanoguzalp8237]

Hello james great video again👍🏻 Aiso ı would ilke to add something aswell ,it's very helpful tip,the Numbers'a of the flashing of an cardinal shows us point of cloc'k Numbers.like east 3/south6/west9 . Fair winds⛵️

[@paulfinnigan3562]

But remember that south is 6 + 1

[@SailingVirgins]

Thanks Gülistan, yes we covered that here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gnyXfXqqbLGZqsU - note that North is Quick or V Quick flashing and South is 6 + 1 longer flash. Cheers

[@Frustino]

Always told easterly cardinal was a lower case 'e' same as the 'w' idea.

[@dwayne6402]

hey i'm a young 59. Do you guys teach younger 59 folk to sail.

[@jeanmarcfranchi2086]

Could you please give the email of your guide to explore Dominica ?

[@SailingVirgins]

Dominica is wonderful. When you go to Rosseau you can look tie up to a ball for a reasonable nightly fee (around US$25-30), and they can look after your water etc. If you're fit, I suggest you do the Boiling Lake walk. I recommend you take a guide as a) it is quite difficult to navigate the first time you do it and b) provides employment to the locals. Having said that, you might need to gently haggle if the price is too high. Boiling Lake is around 6 hours from Rosseau and return including time to drive up to the start. At Portsmouth, to the north of the island, you can anchor; it has the Indian River which is well worth doing. We love Dominica. Hope that helps!

[@paulfinnigan3562]

Afraid have to correct you. North cardinal is always quick flashing (QFl) or very quick flashing (VQFl), never just flashing (FL).

[@seeuathebeach]

Afraid have to correct you. ALL CARDINAL MARK MUST BE either QFl or VQFl. Yet the point is that you forgot a must preface before correcting: that these guys ALWAYS make possibly the best sailing tutorial videos on the planet.

[@paulfinnigan3562]

@@seeuathebeach didn't watch the whole video, therefore didn't see that they made the mistake with the other buoys too. Have watched a couple of their other videos and would say they're better than a lot of other crap I've seen!

[@SailingVirgins]

Thanks Kevin and Paul! Yes, noted. We will put it in the notes below the video.

[@alanchester9227]

hmm. i guess you have a point. LOL

[@dwayne6402]

I thought I heard somebody fart at 6:25