Where to buy your rope - UK / Europe - https://www.sailingchandlery.com I’d suggest with the mainsheet rope it’s worth ordering a sample in 8 and 10mm to ...
Coming in to a crowded or small beach can be quite a tricky and difficult procedure. Here we'll look at how to approach the beach and moorings at Wildwind, ...
In this episode we're visiting Austria for a dynamic rescue, the US for some good capsizes, Spain for some good times and Canada for some great colours. If ...
Here we're having a look at: Jib tack position Jib Clew (sheets) position Bridle wire wind indicators F18 downhaul block tidy Tiger Mainsail hoist Thanks ...
Wind strength here around 25 knots. Sailing the boat backwards can be very useful. If it’s windy you can just put the boat head to wind and then use the ...
Here's the juice - 2 bows down! pitchpole (third-person singular simple present pitchpoles, present participle pitchpoling, simple past and past participle ...
Send any pictures or video to [email protected] In this episode we’re looking at quite a few boats in the US - this is because most of the boats being ...
25 knots of wind, Hobie 16, 85 kg of Joyrider - let's see how this goes. Big pitchpole, double hull down the mine shaft aftion mid way through follwed by a ...
Too low and your capsize tally will increase, too high and you'll end up with massive forearms. Getting your mainsheet cleating angle right makes a big ...
The mainsail area of a Hobie 16 is just under 14m2, unfortunately I couldn’t find any information regarding the reefed sail area. My best guess is that it is ...
Here we're taking a look at the trapeze system. And other aspects of your cat sailing. Ways to support the channel - https://www.patreon.com/joseph_bennett ...
Check out Will's Joyrider TV tribute from Hawaii - https://youtu.be/i4asE2_O42E Please send any photos or video to [email protected] Include a small ...
HOBIE CAT SAILING IN VASSILIKI BAY, GREECE. THE HOBIE 16 IS STILL THE BEST RIDE! This time we had chase cam from a powerboat, super smooth with a gimbal. ...
The mast is back up with some new beefy rigging. Time to test the Hobie 14 Evo in more wind. Around 25 to 30 knots. Small chop. 30 degrees, good times. Ways ...
Here, we're testing four different GPS' to see what differences they come up with on a typical Vassiliki speed run. Results: GoPro Hero 7 - inbuilt GPS - ...
Before we can look at the gybe we have to look at the correct downwind sailing angles, before we can look at that we need to understand how apparent wind ...
Jib furling in a strong wind can end up being quite flappy and untidy. Here we look at how we can roll the jib nicely. Jib battens getting caught on the mast ...
Here we are for some more, Frank's 20 Miracle videos: www.youtube.com/watch?v=M23H4pDM5d0& https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uATpztHtpqA ...
Here we are taking our newly rebuilt Hobie 14 for a shake down sail in the famous Vassiliki cross shore wind. Testing the new OS3 Evo mainsail which was ...
Here's a short clip from testing the Hobie 14 with the OS3 Evo mainsail. After around 20 minutes of great sailing the forestay snapped resulting in the ...
A follow up to the Catamaran Tacking video, the Hobie 14 is notoriously difficult to tack and even more difficult to get going once stalled. Here we are ...
Here's a look at the mainsheet arrangements of all of the Tornado catamarans at the 2019 Europeans at Rimini, Italy. If you like this sort of thing, you'll ...
Here we are once again - Showing us your cats! I’ll be featuring different boats every Sunday 1730 Greek time so keep an eye out, it might be your boat coming ...
Here we go over the technique for improving tacking on any type of catamaran. It's all about the mainsheet! You don't need to go into the tack with speed as ...