Any skipper can do a mistake! How you deal with it defines you as a skipper - SwT 49

Any skipper can do a mistake!
It’s how you deal with it that defines you as a skipper. I have seen a lot being here and it’s not like I try to make fun of someone else mistake. It’s meant as something to think about especially when arriving at a busy harbor, bay, or anchorage.

Things are not always as it appears and classic mistakes in eyeball navigation piloting are easily done. It has been a lot of catamarans hitting the reefs here. Why it appears like only catamarans hitting the reefs here might have an explanation but a wild guess is the most popular rental.
Sometimes it has been so predictable like I was just expecting it to happen and took my phone up to film it as an example. I would never dare to talk about this topic myself if it was not for the fact I have done lots of mistakes and hopefully learned from them myself. I have also been on the other side and assisted a three-digit number of boats taking in water after groundings and accidents. So would say I have some experience in what should be done and not. Just pretending nothing happened is not a good strategy or decision. This action and examples were too precise and good not to be shared even risking being mistaken for making fun of others. I’m a sailor and making fun of other sailors is bad karma. Using it as an example to learn from it is in my opinion different.

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I’m trying to sail solo around the world in my Bavaria 55 Cruiser, making videos whenever I have time for it. Most of the time I sail singlehanded but occasionally I do have sailing friends onboard. Still in the Caribbean due to Covid and was supposed to be in Asia by now.

Even though this is season 3 on youtube I have already sailed 4 seasons full time but did not make that many videos in the beginning. Before full-time sailing, I have sailed several seasons in the Med prior to this, and obviously also in Scandinavia. I have been traveling the world before and also been an active regatta sailor. I had my first sailboat at age 7 and been sailing ever since.

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