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Thanks - very useful video. I have a 25 footer with no lazy jacks and this is exactly what I do apart from I have the topping lift to led to the cockpit so I can raise the boom from there. The main halyard is at the mast. My sail is new so quite stiff and the slugs have yet to wear in despite lube. So, I need to pull the main down, flaking the luff as I go allowing the leach to take care of itself. A downhaul is not necessary as it's another line and hauling that while flaking would require a bit of a juggle. In a blow, I simply get the main down and get a sail tie on soonest about mid way along the boom. I can tidy up at my leisure and more safely at anchor or on my mooring. Lazy jacks are an unnecessary complication in my experience on my length of vessel and only add great convenience when the main drops easily under it's own weight. As for those who are commenting around safety, traffic checks, jackstays etc. at what point must those people accept that a person in charge of a sailboat, especially the solo sailor must at some point engage brain and apply some common sense around their risk assessment? In my humble view, and as reflected through the ages, first and foremost, a sailor is responsible for their vessel and own safety, and a skipper for the safety of the crew. You don't get that from a dumbed down video but from experience.

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Could you not tie it to the boom, but leave the foot loose - tie it around itself? That's what I was taught.

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Protractor, rule, pencil….. people still actually do this with all the gps and satellite tech? Wow reminds me of flying in the Vor and loran days which nobody does now.

Cool trick I picked up somewhere along the way: You can tie the sheet bend with the same two finger method used for the bowline since the sheet bend is essentially the exact same knot configuration as the bowline. In fact, if you were to tie a standard bowline knot and then cut the loop, you’ll be left with a perfect single sheet bend. Pretty cool

Thank you sir

Every time i have a rope and chain. I have some idiot in a powerboat cut or damage the rope. I now tie the spare anchor as weight to lower the rope

Great video. Thank you!

Marco. I really appreciate your instructive videos. Thank you

Let's do it without engine and autopilot 😂

In a previous video, you mentioned a con of the rolling sail system was that they had creases? Now you mention that they are "crease free"? Unless I'm misunderstanding something? Thanks in advance!

Beaucoup de municipalité et organisme devrait regardé cette vidéo j'en vois dès fois que les drapeaux ne sont pas sûr les bon mâts

Good for folks who have to turn a map to their orientation. Confusing for everyone else who is used to seeing the wind stay still and the boat move (and I assume they are also the people who can keep north at the top of a map)

You are a legend mate !

What type of buoy/beacon would show this FI (4) 15s 28m 12m ?

Thanks so much heave been great resources all of your videos

Question: what changes when you are using a stack pack/lazy jack bag?

Right got it... drop the mainsail.... and sail on the jib... lol

New here it’s good to see this kind of video it helps a lot

So clear and easy to understand

I'm nearly 63 haven't sailed since I was a kid just brought a Roberts 33 thank you you can never know enough, I will be sailing single-handed

Brilliant just brought my Robert's 33

Is lead block the same thing as car position?

Is when to readjust the Vang and Cunningham in a later video?

Curious; I do roofs. We use rope grabs. Rock climbers do too. Basically they grab the lifeline so you don't fall more than the length of your tether which is clipped to the grab rather than the line itself. You could even do a prusik knot, clip in and slide it along your lifeline. With two, you can even climb and self-recover.. a video on using two prusik knots to ascend a rope. Not sure what wet conditions do though for the bite. ruclips.net/video/bscpdQ6fcPQ/видео.html

I wonder if tether with a loop or two either knotted into the lines or sewn in as a feature to make climbing easier would be a good idea. I could never, probably even on the dock, pull myself up with only a thin line to grab onto.

Wonderfully paced ....thankyou for your time and effort in making these videos.

He should create an instructional video on creating perfect instructional videos….really very well down

Actually most people EXCEPT North Americans and maybe Canadians would recognise the Alpha flag as the diver down flag. The red and diagonal white stripe dive flag is an American invention originally used mainly for inland use because lake boaters rarely used signalling flags. Originally the design existed of two horisontal red stripes with a white strip between them. Discovering that they had redesigned the Austrian flag they changed it to its current design. It is not used a lot outside the US and Canada.

Great primer!

Very clear instructions. No waffle! Thank you.

Such a good tutorial. The music is truly terrible though. The quality of the vocals is heavily distorded as well because the mic is setup all wrong. Probably the most used piece of 'music' in the history of RUclips. All these cheap Chinese tech advertisers have beaten this specific one to death. I may have heard it a million times by now (yeah I know...) Come on man ;;) You can easily fix the clipping vocals in post as well. Remember, the RUclips algorithm is keen on audio quality so it is pretty important not to have a bad mix or something that sounds like one of the millions of Dropshipping product ads in the first few seconds)., I'm sorry my music producer's mind had to chime in... rock on!

Great stuff thank you!

thanks mate cheers!

The actual US ensign is the regular stars and stripes flag, not the one with the anchor encircled by stars. If you go in internaitonal or foreign waters with the latter you could get in trouble (waters!).

Wonderfully explained and demonstrated. The animation was very clear! The gold standard of instruction, nothing is as good as this video!

Great video. I especially liked the wet pussy sound in your intro

Absolutely amazing! Thank you

Most traditionally the national flag was flown from that gaff of a sailing vessel. These days very few sailing vessels have gaffs. TM retired but still interested in flags

Awesome video, thank you! It would be great, if you could get into the controversies and details about heaving to in heavy weather in another video. Thanks!

Dude, you left out two steps. One, how did you get the wind to stop while lowering the mainsail, and Two, how does the sail cover fit with the halyard solidly pulled aft away from the mast? Neat result though.

This guy is one of the most competent teachers online, excellent, best in class tutorials. please run for US presidency, please, no really … please.

Another excellent video marco, thank you

Thank you, very understandable 😊

These are great, thank you so much for the invaluable free info! However, I always have to check my audio for these videos, it only seems to play out of the left speaker :D

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Thank you for this. Just a couple of questions: If your mast has more than one set of spreaders, which should be used? I am in Canada on Lake Ontario, and I have heard that if your boat is not registered you are not permitted to fly the national flag. Is this so? Even if you're visiting a US port?

It's called a controlled Gybe...& should be done every time you Gybe the sails. Additionally it takes the strees & strain out of the sails & the boom specifically the goose neck.

Thank you for sharing your knowledge and experience