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December 18, 2024
Sailing Tips – Page 2
Race to Alaska (R2AK) 2022 – Strategic Choices, Boat Crushing Logs, and Another Capsize
Boats in the 2022 Race to Alaska (R2AK) have to make a strategic choice on which direction to sail around Vancouver Island. The inside route is shorter, but is infested with floating logs, current gates, and nasty standing waves. The Race to Alaska is a ...
Race to Alaska (R2AK) Singlehanded – Team Pestou’s Story!!!
Team Pestou singlehandedly helmed his F-24 MKII Trimaran to second place in the first 40NM stage of the 2022 Race to Alaska (R2AK) in conditions that left several other boats capsized or disabled and in need of rescue. He began the second 650NM stage str...
That’s Some Fancy Boat Trailer Backing – You Can Too!!!
Keeping a boat on a trailer at home has many benefits, including lower costs, and easy access for DIY maintenance tasks. But lots of people are nervous about backing boat trailers, and for good reason, but with some practice and a few helpful hints everybo...
Essential Tips For Surviving in a Life Raft!!!
In this video we demonstrate how to launch, right, and board a life raft, describe what it’s like inside, plus a number of other useful hinds and tips. This particular raft is a Viking RescYou 6 person, which is a popular sailing life raft, but much of ...
SAVE YOURSELF – Boarding A Life Raft!!!
In this video we demonstrate how to board a life raft. This particular raft is a Viking RescYou 6 person, which is a popular sailing life raft, but much of this content applies to any life raft Disclaimer: - This content is offered solely for your educat...
Need To Make Minor Sail Repairs On The Water?!?!?
Your sailmaker is the best person repair your sails, but sometimes you’re in the middle of the ocean, or your sailmaker is in the middle of the ocean and you just can’t get to them. The good news is that with some sail repair tape, a sewing awl, and s...
Tying a Bowline Behind Your Back!!!
In this short video we explain how to tie a bowline when you can’t see your hands. The bowline is one of the most commonly used knots in sailing or on sailboats. Many of us have learned the rabbit-hole-tree method, but I find that difficult to use when ...
Sail Trim Explained in 40 Seconds!!!
In this short video we explain how to trim sails in 40 seconds. Key trim indicators are the masthead windex and jib/genoa telltales. Disclaimer: - This content is offered solely for your education and entertainment. - There are no warranties, expressed...
How to Climb a Mast Solo Using Only Scraps Of Line!!!
Have you ever had to climb a mast to retrieve a halyard or something, but didn't have any climbing gear on board? I climbed this 60'/18M mast using only scraps of line and I'm going to show you how I did it. First I explain the normal technique, using a ...
Racing Versus Cruising Sailors
Cruising sailors tend to prefer things like swimming from their boat; Racing sailors prefer the water on top of their boat instead; They will spend as much money on sails as their boat is worth; They will sail so close together you could jump to the next b...
Double-Handing a Trimaran at the Cow Bay Regatta – Cockpit View!!!
Join us aboard the Farrier F-82R trimaran Unleaded in the Cow Bay Regatta. You get a cockpit view of how we sail this boat double-handed, mistakes included!!! Video Chapters: 0:00 Start 0:40 First Upwind Leg 1:16 Windward Mark Rounding and Spinnaker Hois...
Why Does Alex Thomson’s Hugo Boss Have Those Strange Outriggers?!?!?
Have you ever wondered why IMOCA 60s like Hugo Boss have those strange looking outriggers? Well those outriggers are one of the reasons that Alex Thomson was able to establish a new 24 hour record for a 60 foot sailboat of 540NM at an average speed of 22....
The SECRET to Sailing Performance!!!
Here at SailingTips we know sailing performance is important to you, but there’s a performance-robbing culprit hiding in your sail bag! We can help. You can send us your overweight, podium-robbing toothbrush and we’ll take care of it. We’ll start by...
Five Reasons to Fly a Spinnaker and Jib Together
Have you ever wondered why a sailboat sometimes flies a spinnaker without a jib, and sometimes with a jib? Today we’re going to explain five reasons why a sailboat might fly a spinnaker and jib at the same time. Video Chapters: 0:00 Intro 0:11 #5 Mark R...
Why is Alex Thomson’s Hugo Boss Often Under Water?!?!?
Have you every wondered why Alex Thomson's Hugo Boss is often under water, or why he has that upside-down bow, or whether he'd be faster with a traditional bow and less water on deck? In today’s video we are going to answer all of these questions. You...
How Fast Can a Foiling Sailboat Actually Go?!?!?
Despite several years of foiling behind us now, most of the world’s sailing records are still held by non-foiling boats. But if foiling boats are so much faster, how come they haven’t broken more records? In this video we are going to explore why. Fo...
How Did Vestas Sailrocket 2 Smash the Sailing Speed Record?!?!
In this video we talk about how Sailrocket 2 works, including how it smashed through the 50 knot foil cavitation barrier to break the sailing speed record at 65.45 knots (121.2 km/h) over 500m. This video includes content for educational purposes under fa...
The Amazing Lightweight Rope That Can Lift A Car!!!
It used to be that the gold standard for strength and low stretch in sailing was this, stainless steel. Now it’s this, a synthetic fibre called Dyneema, which is not only stronger than steel, but soft, and much nicer to cuddle with. Dyneema is also mu...
How Did Oracle Team USA’s AC72 Capsize In The “Death Zone”?!?!?
When the AC72s of the 34th America’s Cup first lifted off on their foils they attained great speeds of more than 50 miles per hour, or close to three times faster than the wind, which few of us could ever have imagined. In fast these boats turned out to ...
How To Survive The “Death Zone”!!!
In a recent video we talked about the AC72s of the 34th America’s Cup, and how Oracle Team USA capsized their AC72 during a practice session in San Francisco Bay after passing through the so-called “death zone”. Today we are going to explain more a...
How Do The Monsters Of The Route Du Rhum Fly Above The Water?!?!?
The Route du Rhum is a single-handed transatlantic sailing race which takes place every four years from St. Malo France to Guadalupe, and covers a distance of just over 3,500 nautical miles, or 6,500 kilometers. The current record is 7 days, 14 hours, 22...
How Did The Sailing Yacht Gitana Fly Across The Ocean?!?!?
The Route du Rhum is a single-handed transatlantic sailing race which takes place every four years from St. Malo France to Guadalupe, and covers a distance of just over 3,500 nautical miles, or 6,500 kilometers. This year’s event attracted a record flee...
FIRE IN THE HOLE – Flare Shootout!!!
Marine flare shootout including smoke flares, hand flares, and aerial flares, including Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) and pleasure/recreation (USGC/CCG) grade. Disclaimer: - This content is offered solely for your education and entertainment. - There ar...
Why Do Sailors Use Knots And Nautical Miles Instead of Kilometers?!?!?
In this video we describe why sailors use knots and nautical miles to navigate instead of kilometers. Locations on the earth's surface are typically marked using degrees of latitude and longitude. Degrees are further broken down into minutes, and one naut...
Why Doesn’t the Sydney Hobart Race Allow Multihulls?!?!?
The Sydney Hobart is one of the pre-eminent mixed-fleet yacht races in the world. The race takes place every year starting on December, 26, Boxing Day, and this year more than 100 yachts ranging from 34-100 feet embarked on the challenging 628 nautical mil...
Lead Acid vs. Lithium vs. Bluetti EB3A for a Small Sailboat
In this video I describe my journey from lead acid, to lithium, to a Bluetti EB3A for powering my instruments and devices on my small sailboat. Link to review/purchase a Bluetti EB3A and support my channel: http://bit.ly/3HDOJBC My F-82R trimaran came w...
How Does a Boat Sail Faster Than The Wind?!?!?
How is it even possible for a boat to sail faster than the wind, let alone 2-3 times faster, like this AC72s of the 34th America’s Cup? That’s exactly what we’re going to find out in this video. Early sailing ships looked like this, and pretty muc...
Sport Boat, Overnight Race, Freezing Conditions – What Could Go Wrong?!?!?
When you start your day scraping windows, and your plan is to do a 125km overnight race in a planing sport boat, you know there is going to be a story to tell and lessons to learn. In this video we sail a Cheetah 30 sport boat, designed by Bob Amos and bu...
LOST KEEL!!! How Did They Sail Home?!?!?
Unfortunately many catastrophic keel failures on monohull sailing yachts end in tragedy, like the Beneteau 40.7 Cheeki Rafiki, which lost her keel in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, which led to all four sailors on board tragically losing their lives. B...
A Small Trimaran in Sporty Conditions
Farrier F-82R trimaran Unleaded in Swiftsure 2023 just before we broke our rudder... Disclaimer: - This content is offered solely for your education and entertainment. - There are no warranties, expressed or implicit, about any content or its fitness for...
BROKEN RUDDER: How Do We Get Home?!?!?
This video follows the Farrier-designed F-82R trimaran Unleaded through Swiftsure 2023 when we lost our rudder and sailed 30 miles to safety with an improvised emergency rudder before a gale arrived. Disclaimer: - This content is offered solely for your ...
How Did Guyot Crash Into 11th Hour Racing in The Hague?!?!?
When Guyot Environment crashed into 11th Hour Racing near The Hague in the final leg of The Ocean Race 2023, many people were left wondering – how can two IMOCA sailboats crewed by some of the best sailors in the world possibly collide in moderate condit...
Racing and Cruising the Same Boat?!?!? The Bluetti AC60 and B80 Make it Easy!!!
In this video we explain how the Bluetti AC60 portable power station and B80 expansion battery makes it possible to race and cruise our Farrier designed F-82R trimaran. BLUETTI AC60 and B80 link: https://bit.ly/3DquEfj , Enjoy the super early bird price ...
How Do You Fly a Spinnaker DOUBLE HANDED?!?!?
In this video we demonstrate how to set, gybe, and douse an asymmetric spinnaker on our Farrier-designed F-82R trimaran Unleaded while sailing double-handed in the 2023 Cow Bay Regatta / Northwest Multihull Championships. Disclaimer: - This content is off...
Foiling vs. Non-foiling Trimarans
In this video we show you how the non-foiling Farrier F-82R trimaran Unleaded is much wetter than the foiling Custom Cochrane 10m Dragon in rough conditions in Swiftsure 2023. Disclaimer: - This content is offered solely for your education and entertainm...