How to sail a Full-Rigged-Ship - The Sørlandet Part 2

How to sail a traditionally rigged ship The Sørlandet is the oldet and most authentic kept full-rigged-ship in active service. She was built in Kristiansand, Norway in 1927. Every year hundreds of sail trainees come aboard to experience traditional sailing. No previous knowledge of sailing is needed, they all get instructed by the crew. Find out more on:
www.sorlandet.org

[@Sirchud68]

" I can harness the wind but I'm not its Goddamned creator" -Capt. Jack Aubrey HMS Suprise

[@slehar]

Terminology nitpick: "helm to starboard" is the same as "rudder to port". In the OLDEN olden days they used to give helm commands. "Helm's alee!" does not mean turn the bow to leeward, but the opposite, turn her head into the wind by pushing the helm (tiller) to leeward, which corresponds to turning the wheel - AND the rudder, to windward! The British navy switched from helm to rudder commands just before WW1 I believe.

[@ruirebelo1893]

Well said, Helm is the "leaver" and the Ruder the "surface".

[@BeKindToBirds]

Never knew this before, what an interesting tidbit! Has cleared up some confusion for me, thank you!

[@CatchThesePaws]

I’m gonna need you as a fact editor for my pirate story lmao, there’s so many terms and technicalities i could never get right lol

[@BeKindToBirds]

@@CatchThesePaws Man you know honestly I am absolutely positive there are thousands of things even a moderately experienced sailor would school me on. Sailing is a deep art and I may seem like a bigger fish but trust me I am a minnow here lol

[@FlyNAA]

I say let sleeping dogs lie, and stick with commands that match which way the nose goes, which matches which way the rudder goes :)

[@poly_hexamethyl]

0:14 Interesting that "close hauled" for one of these ships seems to be just a tiny bit closer than 90 degrees to the wind. Sailing upwind in one of these must be a terribly tedious process with lethargic progress! Sort of like on a sloop if the only sail you had is a spinnaker... :-)

[@kermitefrog64]

Thank you for sharing. There is much skill and the need to read the wind to get the most out of the force of the wind. I have always had an interest in sailing after being invited to go on a small sail boat when I lived in Renton Washington which is south of Seattle. Some incredible movies involving sailing is Master and Commander on the Far Side of the World and the Horatio Hornblower series of movies.

[@brushbros]

"Ease Out The Spanker" is the command I like least.

[@mightymouse5930]

Rick Bergles Least or most 😁

[@voornaam3191]

Boatswain! The Spanker Sheet is too kinky, Sir!

[@debbiramsey4603]

Thank you. I'd neen looking ship of the. Lines and battle drawings but this was what I'd like to show a relative.

[@andyhan5008]

Wow so freaking interesting. So fun to learn about lost knowledge

[@zdenekondrasek2022]

Perfect !!

[@NimrodScott]

“Wait!” shouted Hornblower. His mind was like a calculating machine, judging wind and sea, time and distance,” - Captain Horatio Hornblower (Hornblower Saga) by C. S. Forester

[@brandonedwards1181]

Truely great books

[@estel105]

These are fantastic, helpful videos. Do you have a transcript of the voiceover by any chance? That would go a long way. Thank you. Beautiful ship!

[@pinngg6907]

am i the only one imagining edward kenway shouting those lines?

[@rusty2246]

Yay, thanks!

[@mrkoerc]

How long would a real life tagging maneuver last on her, how many hands on deck are required? And: how close to the wind can she go?

[@gormauslander]

6:36 it was my understanding that a capstan has two layers of bar slots to seperate the drum for hoisting and the windlass driveshaft. Here, however, both are rotating. How is this not impeded by the windlass?

[@simohenrik1860]

Funny how they say forward without the "W"; forard!

[@mistag3860]

esp when everyone knows W is Forward.

[@sanankhan2960]

Engine is the best.

[@mugismtv]

Anyone know the song played throughout the video?

[@elliottsaul2787]

Have you found your answer yet? It sounds so funk! Awesome series of videos though!

[@mebeasensei]

Very interesting. I would also like to see how they managed the big windjammers with 9 people per watch and the donkey engines driving the Jervis brace winches with steel cables everywhere instead of ropes.

[@willburchfield]

.... what

[@jerkoj9259]

@@willburchfield He says he would like to see a video of how a windjammer was sailed. Windjammers were late 19th-early 20th century square rigged ships, which represented the pinnacle of sail technology. They had steel hulls and masts, which allowed them to be bigger and have greater sail areas than wooden ships ever could. The lines were made of steel cables instead of ropes. The yards were braced (turned to port or starboard) with the help of small petrol engines, called "donkey engines", which helped with all the heavy hauling that you see the crew doing in this video. "Jervis bracing" is the method with which the yards were connected by steel cables to those petrol-driven winches. All these technological advancements reduced the need for a large crew, so all the work you can see in this video could be done by less than a dozen sailors. They were used on certain routes where coal supply proved to be a major cost to steam ships, so modern sailing ships found their niche. Some sailed up until the Second World War.

[@willburchfield]

@@jerkoj9259 neat!

[@WojciechP915]

The last of those were multi mast schooners that were essentially self tacking, for the reason you alude to.

[@BeKindToBirds]

I've heard story that some of the biggest windjammer schooners couldn't tack at all

[@dingodog5677]

Thats a song about going about if you put it to music.

[@robertgreen6027]

I thought the spanker was called the mizen mainsail? Or just mizen.

[@klodlthebottle]

The spanker is the gaff rigged sail hanging from the mizzenmast, it’s kind of rectangular and the furthest aft sail It’s different from a mizzenmast mainsail because it is not a square sail

[@johnschofield2818]

Tak Sorlandet. But, in the tacking commentary, a vessel moves astern rather than abaft.

[@SableAradia1]

Aren't "astern" and "abaft" the same thing? Genuine question: I'm a writer teaching myself enough about sailing to make it *sound* like I know what I'm talking about.

[@irtnyc]

@@SableAradia1 Abaft can mean merely behind some specific thing on or part of the ship. Astern always means behind the entire ship itself. Abaft can also sometimes mean that, it depends to what you are referring and whether it's on the ship or not. The easy way to think about it, for me, is astern is "behind Us" and abaft is "behind That."

[@Eagle77XS]

I need a tall ship to practice saying these things.

[@jthepickle7]

I was hoping this was the last in the series. I'm cramming for Antarctica.

[@usig00]

2:10 Acid washed jeans and shoes without socks... Sexy!

[@L_Train]

That look used to be able to get you laid

[@usig00]

@@L_Train Yeah. Look what it got us twenty years later. The worst generation of self important idiots.

[@TheWetworm]

3:45 gay