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Try a topsail halyard bend . It may get you even closer to the masthead.

Hey mate. Love your videos! Just a note on how you've attached the halyard to the yard: make sure you don't pull her too high and tight: the yard needs to swivel on port tack around to starboard freely, otherwise you'll get sail twist and an obvious creese from throat to clew. Trial and error will result in the closest spot. Also, a 'halyard hitch' is a good knot to try here. Great stuff...STAY SALTY!

Hi, my name is Greg. My daughter, Erin, and I just built a small sailing skiff. Today, I stumbled across your TH-cam channel because I recognized your boat from a picture I had seen a few years ago. She and I patterned our paint, sail, and brightwork scheme after yours. It was the best looking we had seen. Naturally, ours isn’t a knock-off, but you did provide the inspiration! Be encouraged!

Hi please can you advise where you got the main sheet jammer from. Beautiful boat, just like my Paul Gartside Gaff Yawl.

By Dinghy Cruising, you make a lot of friends.

Your boat is lovely. Do you get to sail it often?

Lovely boat. A few suggestions which you can ignore (I'm just a guy sounding off on social media!) 1. Add some brass half round sections to the top of the coaming to take the chafe of halyard & downhaul, otherwise your varnish is toast; or install feed-through fairleads through the coaming. 2. Ditch that huge snap-shackle on the halyard. You (probably) want the yard to snug up tight to the mast. Tie a tight overhand stopper in the end; then tie an overhand through the yard becket. The first will jam the second. It will undo just fine 3. For the downhaul, 2:1 is the minimum. if your sailing involves a lot of windward work you'll probably need to double that. 4. Not sure about that mainsheet block with jammer sitting up on a rope traveller. On any dinghy an instant release of the sheet is an absolute priority and the more racy the boat the more important it becomes! The problem with that kind of jammer block is that the jammer release angle is always on the move, so un-jamming is unreliable. Using jammers at all is a modern innovation so if you want to go trad, hold the sheet in your hand. If you want a reliable jammer use one fixed to the boat?

Nice tip thanks!

Nice. My supposedly elegant solution would be to find a straight spring pin so that it could be permanently attached to the rowlock with a lanyard. The straigtht pin can then go through the deck hole when fitting or removing so you can't drop and lose the pin.

I have used bits of string tied to the end and somewhere down the hole. But in truth I haven’t had a lot of problems with oarlocks( yes I’m from New York) falling out ,especially ones that had long shanks.

Hi, nice boat. I’m in the early stages of rebuilding a very old sharpie ketch and doing research. What seam compound have you used and with what have you coated those stunning decks ? My boat is a bit bigger . The decks will be walked on regularly so I am looking for something to protect the wood and provide reasonable traction.

I've never seen that style of split ring before - so much easier to deal with. I can see a use for all sorts of applications - thanks for the lead!

Beautiful presentation (clear, concise, informative) of your sensible improvements to the rigging. Thank you for the ideas which I can use for my Penobscot 14.

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R or P clips are better, tie them on with some small stuff, a sharp tug and they are off, when you need to stow them. That said ,I don't use crutches ,but coastal gig rowing gates

looks very good. Nice little boat you have there.

There are few things more lovely than a smart wooden boat!

Thanks again! I hope to see your videos on this in the future. I need to refinish my flooring too. I think my boat had "boat goo" used on it before- (pine tar, lineseed oil and turpintine mix, I think) used on it before, so I will be stripping the flooring and using the D1 since it appears to work well for you. I appreciate you sharing the info! Cheers!

Thanks for posting this! I am a new wooden boat owner (an Iain Oughtred 11 ft. Acorn Dinghy set up for sailing and rowing witth daggerboard) and my oars need a good refinishing for this season. Your video is an excellent tutorial and now I feel confident enough to give it a go. Thanks for a great quality video. You earned a new sub! Fair winds mate!

I've got my copy - it's awesome and a great reference. Highly recommended!

It looks very much to me that those chunks out of the blade were caused not by "knocks" but the effect of too much flex on the wonky cross grain in those spots. I'm all for varnishing the oars though, but I leave my handles bare wood. Oil is better than varnish there, though.

My wife constantly asks me how many times am I going to read that book. You're right; it's never on the shelf. In addition to being a wonderful guide, Roger shares past adventures so descriptively that I find myself afloat even whilst anchored in an armchair in the dead of winter. Beach Camping and Coastal Camping by Ida Little and Michael Walsh is another great book; however, it is a bit dated (30+ years) but worth getting. I only have Roger Barnes's first edition, but you have persuaded me to now get the 2nd as well.

I love watching Rogers videos.

Good review, good book, I need one 🇦🇺👍🤠

An excellent book and always close at hand.

Great book!!

Quite disappointing that you mention Roger Barns as being the president of the "English" Dinghy Cruising Association. I was always led to believe that the DCA was a British cruising association, which invited people from all over the world to join.

Great review! I've wondered about what is different in this 2nd edition from the 1st edition, which I have.

Beautiful boat.

If it didn’t love my goat island skiff so much would definitely covet that gartside design

Great boat great work