Reefing sails YouTube Videos
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How to Reef Sails Single-Handed | Sailing Tranquilo Around the World
In our latest How To sailing video, El looks at how to reef sails single-handed, a useful skill when you're alone on night watch. One key element of reefing is: as soon as we think we should reef-in, we do. As soon as we think it's time to reef-out, we ma...
Atlantic Crossing Prep: Mainsail, Headsail, Reefs – Ep 83
The first 1,000 people to use the link or my sailingjibsea will get a 1 month free trial of Skillshare: https://skl.sh/sailingjibsea05221 We are preparing for our transatlantic crossing in our monohull sailboat. One of our boat projects is to take our he...![346 Nm Non-stop SAIL | NO engine into Florida [Ep 136]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi_webp/zvB0VXnVrgE/maxresdefault.webp)
346 Nm Non-stop SAIL | NO engine into Florida [Ep 136]
What a crazy journey this 346Nm non-stop sail without engine was. The most stressful part being entering the Ponce inlet at night in big swell without an engine. We really wanted to make it as far North as possible up the Florida coast to fix our Yanmar en...![12 Knots on a Hunter 33 across the GULF STREAM [Ep 135]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi_webp/rlIjwTMpHb0/maxresdefault.webp)
12 Knots on a Hunter 33 across the GULF STREAM [Ep 135]
Time to leave the Bahamas for an intense 3 days sail without engine up the Gulf Stream back to the US. Trying to time a weather window was a challenge in itself but eventually one, although not the best, presented itself. Hurricane season was approaching a...
Our boat toilet broke! And this is what happened next
Stuck in Newlyn Harbour doing boat repairs in preparation for our passage around Lands End. The head is broken and the main sail reefing lines aren't working right. At least it's beautiful here! We are Andy, Melissa and Jack, a sailing family based in N...
Heavy Weather Sailing – High Wind Sailing Techniques
Heavy Weather Sailing. You can’t avoid heavy weather - squalls and even storms pop up unexpectedly. We once had a Tropical Storm pop up and we had absolutely no warning. So…if you’re going to become a Bluewater cruiser it’s important to know what o...
50′ Xquisite X5 Catamaran. (4K) Guided tour of all features while sailing across the Atlantic.
Ep193. In this episode of Cruising Off Duty, we break away from the story of our South Atlantic Sailing Voyage and do a dedicated episode where we have the owner of Xquiste Yachts, Tamas Hamor, take on a top to bottom guided tour of every component and fea...
Transatlantic Sailing on a 50′ Catamaran. Day 4-5. Cold Wind, Waves and Fog on way to Namibia
Ep192. In this episode of Cruising Off Duty, we continue our Transatlantic sailing voyage on the 50' (Xquisite X5) Catamaran. We are on Day 4-5 of the voyage. The weather has gone from calm and sunny to windy, cold and foggy. We have to reef our sails f...
Singlehanding Sea of Cortez – Wandersailing 24
After cancelling the South-Pacific crossing, I decided to sail North before the hurricane season. I really enjoyed singlehanding the Sea of Cortez way more than I was expecting. On this episode, you'll get to see what sailing Mexico is all about and get to...
#90: Cuba Voyage II: Heavy Heeling
Get ready for it to blow! These weren't super heavy winds but they were on the nose and had Plaintiff's Rest really heeled over during the second night and day of our voyage to Cuba. Our Niagara 35 proved she was up for the task though, practically saili...