UK sailing its a bit choppy sailing to Yarmouth!

[@juliannorton262]

Super video, great to see the theory and planning aspects being put in to practise. Look forward to the next!

[@CactusSailing]

Thanks!

[@paulaldershot7991]

Hi, should you pass another boat/ ship port to port, ?

[@tomcouzens6374]

Where did you purchase your book from please to show wind direction

[@stevenlarcombe1884]

Great vid chaps. Considering how much sailing you all do, surprised to see most of the family suffering from sea sickness. Hope you all had a slap up dinner to make up for it

[@CactusSailing]

The wrong swell or chop can do it for anyone I think, but yeah we’re normally all fine

[@jergut007]

Hey guys! Awesome video thank youu! I’ve just done two weeks of sailing (1st to 15th of August) with my family. We are french and left from Granville, crossed the channel to Yarmouth, went west to Salcombe and then crossed again to Paimpol! Maybe our paths crossed :)) We got lucky with the quarantine situation. The south coast was so beautiful! We took the needles passage as well! We did some fishing between Pool and Weymouth and caught a Bar (don’t know the English name) and four mackerels! It’s true that ports were very busy but we managed to stay in all the ones we wanted (although some places were a bit tight :)) You definitely need to come to Brittany! Go to Ploumana’ch and Brehat if you have the chance! Fair winds can’t wait for the next episodes :))

[@CactusSailing]

bguth05 probably did cross paths at some point :) we will definitely be sailing to France at some point 🇫🇷 !

[@alickmcwhirter5045]

Great stuff!

[@sailingaphrodite4189]

I always use UTC onboard no faffing about with adding hours. Just remember to make sure you don't forget to adjust your watch when you step ashore or you might miss the pub. That preventer looks attached to the center cleat, you might want to look at that. I always understood that was a no, no as the forces on an accidental gybe might rip the cleat out of the deck due to the angle, always lead your preventer to the bow cleats.

[@CactusSailing]

Don’t want to miss the pub! And yes on the preventer - good spot!, i realised my error when I did it but Sod’s law I didn’t film it once I changed it :) Also what I learnt from this trip was to pre rig both preventers to make life easier when you do want to gybe.

[@sailingaphrodite4189]

@@CactusSailing I'm looking forward to the pubs being open again! If your plans are to get back down to the West Country next summer make sure you wave. I'm in Plymouth.

[@CactusSailing]

@@sailingaphrodite4189 still got my sights set on northern France and the Channel Islands, but failing that and if lockdowns continues we will head to the Isles of Scilly I think so more than likely will stop off in Plymouth!

[@sailingaphrodite4189]

@@CactusSailing I love Alderney and Sark, but understand that currently the Coast Guard radio you as you approach their three mile limit and ask your intentions. Gunboats may arrive if you get any closer! If the UK/FR quarantine regulations still exist, I suspect they will, then that will stop all sailing trips to France to collect our duty free goods.

[@yachtsupdoc480]

Looks great there. Weather and air quality spot on. Often out here (Thailand) it's too hot in light winds.

[@CactusSailing]

Hopefully one day we will manage to sail to Thailand... thats the plan anyway!

[@yachtsupdoc480]

@@CactusSailing wow you'll love it. My son races at Royal Varuna where we are members. Bigger boats we sail from Ocean Marina. Please look us up well gladly show you around. I've hundreds of photos on Facebook. This yachts up doc website and media is a kids project for him to learn. You'll love it here!

[@PUDDS05]

Great video ,did I see you guys in Haslar about a week ago ?

[@CactusSailing]

Yes we did pass through Haslar :)

[@ryansearle5302]

What was the tide diagram book you were using please.

[@CactusSailing]

It’s the “tidal atlas for the English Channel”, it’s published by admiralty and has the reference np250, you can find them on Amazon or eBay :)

[@andypidsley2688]

Thanks for a nice video. Do you think you were too far out around St Albans head and in the overfalls rather than avoiding them?

[@CactusSailing]

I think we were too close to st Albans ledge, it’s not as bad further off shore, although this was close to slack water so should have been fine!

[@bittybottybutty9661]

Enjoyed video, but think you should consider a better mike.

[@Kenoconcha]

Hello.... very interest your aproach to the next sailing journey.... Where do you obtain the boook with the tides in graphic form? From Chile and with the intention of sailing in England and Scotland if Covid and Talibans alllow it

[@CactusSailing]

It’s the admiralty tidal atlas for the English Channel, you can find it on Amazon for international shipping :)

[@argonthesad]

Is there an app for that?

[@CactusSailing]

yes, "imray tides" its only about £9.99 a year for the whole of the UK and i use it quite a lot, i do like paper back ups to keep the knowledge fresh though

[@oomwat6101]

Why are you so afraid of dropping the hook? Is that an equipment thing, or something else?

[@CactusSailing]

i wouldnt say afraid, im more cautious on the hook for sure, but with only small batteries onboard and little solar panels or wind gen, life with two kids on board is easier plugged in with somewhere they can go off the boat. on that occasion it was also my lack of provisioning and needing to be near a shop to restock, and our little dinghy isnt quite up to the return journey across Poole harbour

[@Christian_L.]

The first video I had to see in 0.75 speed

[@simplysailing5321]

Great video. Want to see you guys staying safe, especially as you have kids on board. Just an observation. Good to see that you had a ‘preventer’ on during your downwind sail, however for a preventer to really work it has to be as close to perpendicular to the boom as possible otherwise it has a high likelihood of failure and boom strike or standing rigging failure and de-masting. The closest you can get to perpendicular is from the end of the boom,(which have done,)but to the furthest point forward of the boat not midships. This was enforced within the professional arena after several fatalities due to preventer failure in New Zealand and around the world. Subsequent marine investigations employing scientific testing and the application of physics highlighted the dangerous pitfalls of taking a preventer to the midships cleat. Might be something to consider in the future. Stay safe.

[@CactusSailing]

Simply Sailing yeah your correct should be to the forward cleat, we only moved it to mess with the spinnaker (and failed to get it flying as we were not quite on a run) but should have put it back in any case. Later on I was wing on wing sailing with the preventor correctly rigged but typically I didn’t film that bit ;)

[@barrym3651]

Music ruined what started like good video

[@itsjustplainsailing5189]

Sorry , watched for the first time because it came up as one of them because you liked, wow seconds into it...subscribe, patreon..merch.etc. Nope sorry. Am sure your a great sailor but no.

[@CactusSailing]

Hi, thanks for your comment. Watching it back again ourselves, we do agree that the it’s quite heavy during the intro and can only say that, it is not reflective of the majority of our vids. We had recently discovered patron and were maybe slightly too excited about the idea. We do need subscribers to be able keep producing so please bare with us and watch some of our later stuff, as there’s 50 odd other videos where we don’t mention it.

[@itsjustplainsailing5189]

@@CactusSailing I appreciate your reply and I’ll give your vids another go at a later date, just seems like everybody is trying to kofi,patreon, and nowadays membership etc blah blah it at the minute. I’m a sailor,have my own channel and despite supporting many channels I still try to support my own efforts pass or fail 😭: look at my videos on my channel, there not pimped for the camera in fact I’ll be honest there shit in terms of cinematic value but it just is what it is, for me that’s what I want to see" Hopefully I’ll see that in your other videos, thanks for the response, I appreciate you taking the time. For now, I’m back to watching jaws on netflx!,,,ps if yo attempt to watch please at least subscribe I’m trying my hardest !, lol

[@daldiaz6347]

I'm gay

[@slavek033]

Good for you mate.