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great video. Thanks for showing the real heel on your passage

I'd like to know where she landed.

Nice boat! But I'll stick with my PY23. She takes me everywhere.

man, I totally would have bought one of your kits if you were still selling them.

nauticalsailor.com is a dead link as far as I can tell

Simple system, fair winds mate

What I do not fully understand: what will be the effect if the windspeed changes?

Who uses "Facebook" anymore? Not sure what facebook marketplace is but there is zero chance I would go to it. I think my parents have an account but no one I know has one.

Nice! -- QUESTION -- What is the make and model of your sewing machine (you never said or showed the front so I can't tell what it was)?

Genius video. Really simplifies the entire exercise. Might I suggest a new video using a similar, simplified approach on the topic of what makes women tick. Thanks in advance.

For the self steering you can skip to 3:50

Your video is about as informative as a blank sheet of paper & if your going to talk on your vids talk in to the mic, half of what you are saying can't be heard.

I sailed my Pearson Triton from American Samoa to Hawaii with only sheet to tiller steering due to my windvane being broken. It only worked when the wind was forward of the beam, but that didn't matter because it was a beat to windward the whole way!

I think this boat just sold.

Omg someone please buy this boat for me! I’m the most deserving gal ever

I learned it from Slocum....and I was doing this 35 years ago...some things don't change...

Awesome dude. Thanks

Awesome. Cool bird!!

Soothing

I used a sheet to tiller system for a 5000 mile voyage around the South Western Pacific nearly 50 years ago. Works better with a longish keel. If you use a storm jib as your steering sail then when the weather gets bad you already have your storm jib up and it still works to steer you. System doesn’t work downwind and certainly not under power. The little yellow bird was fantastic.

do you use that on overnight passages?

Do recall the name of this boat?

It DO go down! 😂

Content de voir Eloi et PETIT CHANTIER .Exellent systeme de tendeur ....et a moindre couts .

Fantastic video! I just received your book from Amazon. I'm anxious to apply your techniques on my Catalina 27.

Thank you for this video. I live on an Alberg 30 and have been using sheet-to-tiller self steering for several years. I sail single handed several times every week and still it took me many months and much trial and error practice to become proficient. This has become one of my most useful and rewarding seamanship skills. A shame is that a few hours of (unavailable) instruction could save months of trial and error learning. Sheet-to-tiller has also taught me to be a better sailor because now I am much more attentive to having a balanced helm and strive to use the rudder more as a trim tab than a barn door. BTW: speargun rubbers and wishbone inserts make excellent elastics.

Did you consider installing a composting toilet? If so, I'd like to know why you decided to go with the Jabsco vs composting. Thanks!

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Gotta love those Cape Dories. I have had three; a 10', 30' and for the past 18 years a 36'. Cheers.

Watching you with the bird made my day. Very cool.

So honest and raw, thanks for sharing your journey

You are a machine! Well fine! Great watch! Thanks for sharing.

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Hopefully here in the next couple months I will have my own boat. I really enjoy your content I hope you keep making more.

Dude you had like, a Disney level interaction with that bird you fed it water out of a shell that was so kind I loved watching that ❤

Thanks for this... going to buy your book. I too have a CD 28 and am hoping to avoid buying either a windvane or autopilot-- but I'm only coastal cruising around Salem Ma-- so less urgency on my end. I'll follow up with how it goes.

Great tutorial! I’m ordering your book and the gear to ween my Montgomery 17 off electric!

Hell yeah Damond!

Did you heave to to put the reef in or did i see it wrong?

Good job my friend. You were calm and collected. You took action to adapt and overcome. Your a true sailor

Very well done my friend!

Very well done. If that had been me the video would have been full of bleeps, bleeping out my expletives. Fortunately you will dry out pretty quickly..unlike the inside of that cockpit cushion 💧 💧 💧

Scary & Cool!

it takes a brave man to record everything in a situation like this , you can be there will be armchair sailors double guessing everything you do, but this is real sailing! Its obvious you have a good plan of what to do when the wind comes up.

Tying up the autopilot is not a good idea, if you need to regain manual helm quickly its go a tame time. Can you use a velcro strap for a quick release instead?

currently taking notes for when I set sail 😉

Holly chit man good on ya

Sorry but this doesn't appear to make any sense at all. By apparent wind are you referring to angle or speed? Why is the boom moving? If someone is doing that they can be steering. As apparent wind moves forward (luffing) that reduces not increases pressure on the sails. Max pressure on sails/sheets is perpendicular to the wind. I'm sure it works but I don't see that this explains how.

I have a Cape Dory 28 hull #343; it was great watching your passage in a boat that I know.

In the days before elastic (not that I remember) they could hang a heavy weight on a rope and block for provide moving tension. A 5kg water bottle could be interesting to try with :) I wonder if there are advantages of using mass rather than elastic. I hope to experiment!