Sailing Lessons: The basics (part 1)

Matt Cross, a University of Kansas student and member of the sailing club, gives a 101 talk on sailing.

[@johnlampard7567]

You have a gift for teaching. That was excellent!

[@normfaber114]

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.

[@ChocolateAndCheese1]

Thank you for this good sir. I'm going to work on a sailboat for the first time this summer, and I want to study up before the season begins. Taking notes while watching this! Just like a real course. Cheers!

[@barbthenurse4032]

You are an excellent speaker and teacher. Thank you for posting these videos. It helped me a lot!

[@ReynevanNarrentum]

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

[@Dorkus89Malorkus]

Sweet man. I was just out sailing a 48ft boat yesterday and I loved it. Going out next Sunday again so I'm trying to learn the lingo a little bit.

[@Kimdino1]

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.

[@roxivoxy]

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

[@kjaitken8932]

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

[@corywithout]

Your videos are exactly what I was looking for! Thanks for uploading them, I'm pretty sure they're the most thorough sailing basics videos on youtube (or darn close to it.) And from KU nonetheless! Looks like my Kansas State friends were wrong about ya'll ;)

[@TomTomLo1]

Sailing a 420 with a THC sail? okay!

[@albornodesigns]

Thats so cool!

[@davidwright3019]

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

[@normofthenorth]

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.

[@peterkorhonen9136]

Very nice lesson

[@ackboy6]

wow i had my first lesson on a beach 5 feet from the ocean and 10 mins after starting i was on my boat!

[@ianedmonds9191]

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.

[@bamaH12]

No, it is a Butterfly. The logo is similar, but the sailplan different

[@greggchristensen8524]

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.

[@greggchristensen8524]

Gregg Christensen should be as you look forward not at it.

[@draculatod3559]

His explanation was a little confusing port is the left side of the vessel facing forward and right side is starboard I think he was just trying to get across the fact that it's not relative to your body it's relative to the ship

[@ianedmonds9191]

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.

[@ceaser21i]

There are several lakes in missouri and kansas.

[@MichalBoguslawski]

good explanation thanx

[@ftdoga]

Very good. would be better to make available in English subtitles.

[@CaptainJohnmaddux]

Question Does Ku Sailing have a facebook page or a twitter? & is the club still going? John T

[@keebordcowboy]

amazing.. very well done, dud. :)

[@pakde8002]

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

[@CuntyMcShitterman]

he says its a butterfly but that is distinctly a moth logo.

[@brads8323]

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

[@nateburd]

brad s www.amazon.com/Basic-Keelboat-U-S-Sailing-Certification/dp/1882502213 There may be a newer edition.

[@Rainaman-]

yeah.

[@saabna1]

That guy coughing is driving me nuts

[@TrevorTownsendOfficial]

Make him the bowman, where everyone else on the boat can hurl abuse at him.

[@KarlKarsnark]

sailing in Kansas?

[@Lehmann108]

Hell, I sailed in Iowa!

[@kenlondon9874]

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

[@dkgonzal]

that guy who keeps coughing needs to get out.

[@cajunmane82]

Can a brother get some fuckin' claritin up in here? K&P

[@clogronio]

awesome ... just wish the kid in class with the lovely cough didn't come to class sick!

[@gf4ce]

Cant watch anymore, thanks lunger

[@nadmenny]

THC, lol

[@AsTheWheelsTurn]

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.

[@deibiddi]

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[@Nic7320]

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.

[@dochawk08]

Wow, I hope the popped collar does not mean this guy is not a good teacher.

[@soundpromaster]

The guy with the cough should have shut up

[@bob-qz9ey]

instructs as though talkin' to slow learners.

[@wadepatton2433]

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

[@Jack-rg6xf]

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