Cheater Trick for Downwind Sailing | Sailing Wisdom [S5 Ep45]

[@emilybh6255]

Giving anything context makes it easier to learn. When you learn that way you own the knowledge as opposed to memorization of theories and facts and rules which are easy to forget. Anyone who has taken a language in school and been taught the traditional way by memorizing vocabulary and learning grammar as opposed to learning the way a baby learns its native language, by listening to the target language being spoken in a way they can understand, knows how easy it is to forget what you learned in school.

[@RiggingDoctor]

Couldn’t agree more!

[@goneswimming5636]

I just laugh out loud when your furbabies start squabbling! Fantastic video - I especially loved the music and the night scenery. Love from B-more!!

[@MM_in_Havasu]

Always a relaxing pleasure watching your sailing videos! Thanks for this one today, safe travels, fair winds, and following seas!⚓⛵

[@stephenbuckle6180]

Always another nice track to listen to, albeit in the MOR genre, luvvit🙃... And the education.

[@sunlovesailing]

Love that stretch of the ICW. Great night shots, Wisdom has such beautiful lines.

[@RiggingDoctor]

Thank you very much! We loved it too. The nature, the narrow waterway where you feel like you are slipping through the land, and then the peace and tranquility of an inland waterway 😎

[@melinda5777]

Learning something new is my kind of video, thanks y'all!! Really enjoyed the song you found for this video. Actually the the Irish/Scottish sound at the beginning was great too!! Going back to Ireland again this year to see the other half of the Emerald Isle! 🔥❤️🇺🇸🎵🎶⛵️👣👍😊

[@braithmiller]

Putting a twist in the main, is this a vernacular some use regarding this in the East? Though I use the method. Pretty sure some types would complain about it. Frequently I feel a gaff or square rig would work better in the harbor.

[@PyeGuySailing]

Definitely going to try that trick this summer! I'll have to do it with my main and mizzen sails because my main is tiny 😁

[@RiggingDoctor]

Let us know how it works for you!

[@PyeGuySailing]

@@RiggingDoctor will do😁

[@ToddWardRocks]

Oriental has such amazing sunsets, that’s for sure. It is a special place.

[@RiggingDoctor]

It was such a great stop

[@danielsimpson4747]

What a nice video, thank you...

[@BitcoinNewsTodayLive]

Best mainsail tip everrrrr!

[@RiggingDoctor]

Glad you liked it!

[@anthonyrstrawbridge]

The seven of you become increasingly interesting and somewhat familiar. I boarded a few years back mid course but now seek to explore deeper back to the beginnings somewhat binging for the initial makeup, the what is it to do here aboard sailing wisdom.

[@RiggingDoctor]

Hope you like what you find! It’s been quite the ride

[@anthonyrstrawbridge]

@@RiggingDoctor ✌️♥️Bilge Cheese. My gosh the bird was tiny ity bity. I'm onto inland trout streams for this spring. Flaming gorge green river floating

[@drchill8837]

Hey - I been over that bridge more than twice. You guys are close to my home. Cute trick on the dead downwind main, thanks. Charlie is a spoiled bird.

[@bigcmoore]

Living the dream!

[@RiggingDoctor]

It’s a nice life 😎

[@Lannie1948]

Another great video! Learn so much from you guys. 😊

[@RiggingDoctor]

So glad!

[@markmahan6768]

Loved it, as always! 😎👍❤

[@sailingmoonshadow3169]

Hey guys, nice downwind trick. I might give that a try sometime. Still in Cape Verde, hoping to cross mid Feb 🤞

[@RiggingDoctor]

You will have great winds at that time! Hope the ribs are feeling better soon :)

[@kellyyelvingtonluter831]

The Big Rock Marlin Tourney is a massive event, busy time on the SOBX.

[@RiggingDoctor]

It was really cool to see!

[@genenelson3633]

I grew up a stone's throw from Beaufort. Still a beautiful area.

[@RiggingDoctor]

What a great place to grow up!

[@acampbell198]

Great video. Always learn a lot when we watch. You mentioned studying for your licenses and I was hoping you could provide more info on that... are you getting a six pack or masters? Are you studying independently or did you go w/ a prep course? If you are doing it independently can you share your sources and study plan? If prep course, who with and do you like it? Guess the real proof is in taking the test and passing. Thank you for the videos, we look forward to them!

[@DowneastThunderCreations]

👍👍👍

[@genglandoh]

great cheater trick I will give it a try.

[@RiggingDoctor]

👍

[@MrFastFarmer]

I need a bird like Charlie. Starts squawking every time the wife starts talking…

[@RiggingDoctor]

😂

[@RiggingDoctor]

Oh dear…

[@MrFastFarmer]

@@RiggingDoctor 🤪🤣it’s true

[@rhcppunk]

Nice video thanks 🙏🏼 and beautiful music. I would like to see you take on your dodger, it looks kind of sad now :) maybe a hard dodger next time ?

[@RiggingDoctor]

Plans for a hard dodger exist!

[@squarerigapprentice]

Are you guys using Dyneema soft hanks on your staysail? How often have you had to replace them due to chafe? I'm going to be building a synthetic standing rig for my roughwater 33 and I'm weighing options for headsail attachment to a dyneema forestay. Really I'm trying to decide whether to keep a stainless forestay and keep our roller furler for the headsail. I'd really rather avoid any stainless if I can, and I don't have an issue using hanks. We will be cutter rigged offshore with a working jib and staysail.

[@RiggingDoctor]

Your situation sounds great for a setup like ours! They are indeed dyneema soft hanks and, though it’s our most frequently used sail, we’ve never had to replace them.

[@squarerigapprentice]

@@RiggingDoctor thanks for thé reply. I saw your recent video on making up the soft hanks with dog bones, I really like those. Used a lot of similar gear, toggles and eyes with hemp and manilla aboard the sailing ships I’ve worked in. It’s great to see how new fiber tech is making it possible to use more and more traditional seamanship aboard high tension modern rigs. Strops with toggles and rope stropped blocks were an everyday job for an 18th century mariner.

[@redwood1957]

Nice trick. Could you share how you are preparing for your license? Is it the 6 pack? Thank you

[@RiggingDoctor]

The first one we are doing is the 6 pack, then the masters. We are doing them with Mariners Learning Service.

[@susanl435]

Did you check to see if one of the free docks was available?

[@RiggingDoctor]

In oriental? We don’t fit far enough in to get to them

[@susanl435]

@@RiggingDoctor You mean that your draft is too great?

[@RiggingDoctor]

Correct

[@rm-61366]

Where are you taking your captain's courses?

[@RiggingDoctor]

Online with the Mariners Learning System

[@svStargate]

does a twist works with a full batten main?

[@RiggingDoctor]

It does! The battens will help hold the sail out with the twist.

[@TheBobwei]

how do you tack with the yankee sail

[@RiggingDoctor]

You keep the staysail sheeted so that it guides and funnels the Yankee through the slot. The bigger the slot, the easier it is. Once the Yankee is through, you simply switch the sheets for the staysail. Sometimes it gets stuck along the way and you have to go forward to pass the sail through the slot.

[@TheBobwei]

@RiggingDoctor I have a cutter sailboat but someone stole the staysail boom I'm wondering if I put a roller fuller on the babysray if I can use it without a boom

[@hurtback3467]

Why do you have the wood lashed to the railing?

[@RiggingDoctor]

That’s a sculling oar that we carry as a spare rudder which we can hook up to the windvane in the case of an emergency where we loose our ability to steer.

[@jonathanwetherell3609]

I'm assuming that the twist will not work with a fully battened Main?

[@RiggingDoctor]

It does work :)

[@jonathanwetherell3609]

@@RiggingDoctor Ta.

[@markthomasson5077]

Not sure your battens would be all that happy.

[@thomasthornton5737]

😄👍👍👍❤

[@charlespayne1061]

Hard to remember got to many qualifications but are you two trying for a six pack? I looked at the test a bit ago

[@RiggingDoctor]

6 pack first, then the others to follow

[@tim_bbq1008]

I suspect most people see you walking the parrots because you want to draw attention to yourselves. True or not, people will think that...

[@edfrhes]

Who cares what other people think. It's their pet. Attention is overrated in everyday life.

[@RiggingDoctor]

We definitely don’t bring them places for attention. We bring them for 2 reasons: 1) we can’t leave them on the boat or we’ll come back to a pile of floating splinters, and 2) it’s good for them to get out as much as possible.

[@jerrymiller276]

@@RiggingDoctor Yeah! Living wood chippers.

[@thecaptaincrayfish3873]

I quite agree! That is very obvious!

[@nooneanybodyknows7912]

Not all tricks are pretty.🤦‍♂️

[@RiggingDoctor]

Amen haha

[@curtisvillamizar6751]

I cringed a little to see your not very pretty but effective downwind trick. I've been criticized for not sheeting in tighter to windward. Sure enough we gained a degree or two at the expense of having to constantly wath the telltales and carefully hand steer. That is the down side of having crew aboard that race. Different perspective. That sort of crew would want a symetric spinnaker up and jibe the pole on a big wind shift. I don't even own a symetric spinnaker. I'm not so fussy but even for me your trick was a little too not pretty. Maybe I'll try it or sone variation but only if no one is looking.

[@RiggingDoctor]

I know what you mean. We try to only do it in stretches of the ICW where no one will see us. It looks like the sail doesn’t fit the boat and we don’t know what we are doing! 🤡

[@denyswoodroffe490]

Very poor team work, to much noise. Watch team N.Z, you will see how it is done. Kiwi

[@RiggingDoctor]

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