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 ...

Here we're looking at why different boats might have the tiller arm at different angles. Also we're taking a look at the benefits of the newer 'Laguna' tiller ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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Here we're taking a look around Wildwind in Vassiliki, Greece. If you are thinking of coming out email - [email protected] to see if he can offer you a deal ...

Here we're taking a look at the jib system and spinnaker set up on our racing Tornado. There are many ways of doing it but this is what we have settled on - a ...

Here we're looking at: How to put your rudders down in a way that is good for the rudder system. When to service your rudders. How to thread the 6:1 downhaul ...

Episode 2 - the response to this new series has been amazing, I’ve received pictures and video of over 50 boats, I really wasn’t expecting such a great ...

About 10 knots of wind, 85kg of Joyrider onboard. Here I'm taking this 13 foot ripper for a spin around the bay. The Dragoon here uses a spinnaker with a bag ...

New feature! Send me pictures or a brief video of your boat and i'll feature it here for the world to see! [email protected] is where to send to. If ...