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Good use of whiteboard, on the water, and drone! But I disagree on leeward pickup (boat windward of MOB), especially on a larger sailboat. Mine is 21000lb. Running over the MOB can kill them and if it’s really windy a windward pickup has less risk. Plus the sails are not in the way. If calm seas with swim platform, transom is easier unless you have a LifeSling and can hoist them up with halyard. It’s really hard to keep sight of a head in sea water with 3-4 foot swells 10 boat lengths away not to mention all the stress in the moment. So the closer we stay to the MOB the better. A quicker option is to fall off to a broad reach instead of beam to stay closer to the MOB. Even quicker is to jibe instead of the tack + fall off. I call that a quick turn. With an engine, I’d do a quick stop (immediate heave-to) which keeps you very close and drifting closer but instead of the traditional beam reach, run, douse jib, gybe, retrieve MOB, after the heave-to I’d turn on engine and assess the situation briefly. If you are short handed or it’s really rough, I’d then lower mainsail (you’re already into the wind) then fall off under power, douse jib, and pickup MOB under engine power. I’ve practiced all these things but fortunately never had to do any of them! 🤞

Looks like the halyard needs to be tightened a bit, the synthetic line used for winches works. I just put a (5m2 ) sea sure jib furler on my Oday daysailer2 16.9’ and I attached a rope loop drum control line going to a block above the companionway so it can be locked down to prevent accidental deployment or use to sheet in the jib. It’s amazing what intercessory prayer can result in.

Around the mask not the tree

Love that boat. With very little efort it would make a heck of a tender or poor mans dream fishing rig. Kudos for sharing.

You are really good at your job!

On the bowline demonstration: in the real world, you are tying the bowline to something in front of you, beyond the hands, not between your body and your hands. I think it would be more valuable to demonstrate the knot with the bitter end leading away from you, toward the thing to be attached. The “rabbit hole” is formed with an overhand clockwise motion, the standing part over the left palm leading back toward you

Hey Dave....Wrap a piece of laid line around the cleat and just use a torquing motion. Leave your right wrist up (facing the sun) then just twist (flip it) towards the ground counterclockwise. You'll see the twist develop. Then all you have to do is learn how to do that while you 'toss' the line toward the cleat. You'll be doing it in no time! Reach out with any questions.....drew

I was just trying this today but I can't get the final flip. Awesome

Dude… where’s their life jacket!! Good demo … but pretty lame oversight in safety.

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I sail smaller 15' Albacore dinghies, and we pick up our POBs on the windward side of the boat. That avoids having them run over by the side-sliding boat, as well as the serious possibility of capsizing from one large sailor hauling a second large sailor out of the water to leeward. I hold the mainsheet in one hand while helping the POB into the boat with the other. But my main difference with your approach is the APPROACH. If you try to approach a POB on a close-hauled course, you have great "brakes" - you can slow and stop just fine - but you have inadequate "gas" if you are going too slow. MUCH better to approach on a close reach. You can still slow and stop - if necessary by pushing the boom out to leeward - AND you also have a powerful gas pedal, sheeting in the main. I don't want to be anywhere near "in irons" when I'm sailing, and especially when doing something as sensitive as picking up a POB. I admit that sailors on a keelboat can stay right-side up your way. But we all know that dinghy sailors who switch to keelboats go to the head of the class (or the fleet), while keelboat sailors who switch to dinghies swim a lot while they acquire the skills. So why not teach a system that works well universally? With your 7 boat-length distance, there's lots of opportunities to test the "gas" and "brakes" on the approach and tweak the approach if necessary.

Fantastic video series, thanks for putting these together. Now I know what they are talking about when I watch Sailing La Vagabond.

Excellent Instruction..

Thank you

Amazing! I am thinking about getting certified and this is going to be so helpful!

Brilliant little vid. Thanks for taking the time to do this.😊

Thank you!! I love it

Tie me a sheep shank …

Even more important than knot tying and marlinspike seamanship is proper sailing attire. Be sure to have a WHITE Capt’s hat, an ascot and brand new Sperry deck shoes

That’s not a cleat hitch.

thanks so much this is great!

Love these videos!

These are the best videos. Love Capt Dave!

We may laugh at the red bull approach, but we'll all remember all the terms and the lessons of this video lol

Awesome stuff must be that Captain David

Thanks for this!

Great explanation, thank you a lot!

I’ve rummaged through most of TH-cam videos but this guy is the best. Thank you for putting this together !

Excellent, clear instruction

Love the SF scenery

Very helpful, thank you!

I like the magic tricks at the end!

Thank you for this awesome educational video!

Thank you. Much appreciated.

I only have 10,250,800.00 IQD I’m not selling any of it. I can’t hold it all in one hand if it is out of the ziplock bag it is in.

Excellent

Why do all American instructional videos feel like they’re talking to a bunch of 5 year olds? 🤔

That's a tiny jib!

A note for any beginners watching this: the halyard in the cabin is pretty unusual. Usually it's at the bottom of the mast. Also a lof of simpler boats won't have a boom vang, cunningham, or traveller. Also, it's rather unusual to put the main up at the dock. He did this for the demo, but usually you motor out and raise it facing the wind.

Great explanations.

This is a great demo, but why aren't they wearing PFDs?

Love it!

Great job for very experienced and practiced sailors, but for most boats with one very experienced captain and usually one or a few other people with varying experience and less knowledge, paired with a little sea state, low visibility /night, white caps, this is a great way to loose someone at sea. Getting out of earshot, over 100 feet from someone, loosing sight, expecting to keep track of an imaginary disappearing line in waves, say goodbye to the person overboard. Heave to, stay close to the person, maybe you can stay close enough they can yell to you, swim to you, good chance the boat will drift down on the person. Sailing 7 boat lengths from somone who fell overboard aT night into cold water is a death sentence.

the only correct time to reef is when you first think about it. any later and its probably too late and will be dangerous to attempt.

docking is without a doubt the scariest part of boating... well, besides being caught out in a storm on the open ocean in a boat too small for it!

Thanks David,I'm new to sailing and have really enjoyed your clear and concise tuition.Can't wait to see what you have coming up next.

Wonder,clear instruction.Thanks!

Really wonderful tuition.Thank you!

Even before the 'rabbit' business, forming the loop for a bowling is critical. Beginners trying the knot after a brief recess from attempts will start doing it the opposite way and creating a failed attempt at a proper bowling. I like to teach it with two important tips added: 1. Teach the proper 1/4 turn twist of the rope that (even blindfolded) will result in the proper loop configuration 2. I use the apology of a highway on ramp. "You are on a county road and want to get on the interstate. So you get on the ramp which takes you from a surface road to an elevated interstate. You have to use the ramp (create the loop) that takes you UP ONTO the highway ! Keeping this saying in mind reminds the beginner that the loop must lay over, not under the line when forming the loop. ;)

On the bowling or sheet bend, I find that teaching these knots, where confusion (and subsequent frustration) comes in, is that it is rarely if ever stated "the rabbit comes out of the whole... and goes DOWN around the tree !" 20 minutes after initial introduction to tying the knot and the student is saying 'the rabbit comes out of the hole and around the tree...." FULL STOP ! This is where the beginner can go arey. They (the beginners that tie an improper bowling/ sheet bend) go around the tree the wrong way. They instead of going DOWN around the tree, instead go UP OVER and around the tree. My teaching experience is that term term / use of rabbit metaphor must be emphasized " the rabbit comes out of the hole and goes DOWN around the tree !" ;)