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Not sure I agree, if someone's broken a rule they're still liable for the aftermath. People get prosecuted for it, upto and including manslaughter. Maybe it's different in the US, that's how it works in the UK at least

@@philswatersports I'm not sure about the UK myself. Here in the US they had to actually put into law to enforce what use to be common courtesy. Thing's like being responsible for your wake, not operating at speed close to anchored vessels and fishing vessels, keeping at least a boats length apart if possible when overtaking. Those sorts of things. Florida itself has just put into law on its waterways a mandatory 50' rule, basically pleasure vessels must stay at least 50' apart when operating on the waters if the situation allows, then they must slow and operate with caution. If they keep enforcing that rule it will be nice for when your running in the channel and hopefully the larger pleasure boats will stop passing at full wake speed. In close course racing though boats can still run board and board passing the Grey Pupon mustard, if you haven't seen it before it's a old commercial.

Yeah that all makes sense. In the UK there might be local byelaws with rules that are specific to certain areas. And speed limits etc in harbours and rivers

Good way to remember! Have you heard, 'there's no red port left in the bottle'? It doesn't help for the green and starboard though 😂

Thanks for your feedback! 🙂 Yes, colreg 18 describes the responsibilities between vessels.... As you describe, a sailing vessel underway shall keep out of the way of a vessel engaged in fishing. Although I wonder how many people display the cones or correct lights?

Lol! I've seen many skippers flapping their arms around for no obvious reasons 😂😂

Rule 18 describes the pecking order. The rules here are only for *sail* meets sail. Obviously the other rules apply in addition. Doesn't matter how big you are, a vessel not under command isn't going to move 🤣

🤣🤣 You'd think but it really seems to go that way sometimes for some people 😂

Glad you enjoyed it! You might like my other videos about sailing skills on this playlist: th-cam.com/play/PL2VtZj-uQwyjfdNsbYbWWjKeJjnYGiUEW.html

Hope it helped! 👍

@@philswatersports I have been following you for a few days. Your video content quality is very good. But I noticed that, due to video optimization problems, the videos are not getting more views and subscribers. You need to fix it. Best wishes

Thank you, glad you liked them 👍

@@philswatersports "You're welcome! They were fantastic. Looking forward to more collaborations."

Thanks. I used to sail around there too, yes it can get really busy! I think sometimes people push the boundaries of the rules because they're trying to get a good time in. Also, people racing with each other will give each other a lot less room than 2 people sailing leisurely, for example, so leisure sailors might find racing boats getting uncomfortably close. It doesn't change what the rules are though!

Hope it helped! There are lots of other similar videos on my channel to help with sailing skills, have you watched those too?

Glad it helped!

Great! Yes, green is for starboard and red for port. Navigation lights are situated accordingly, split into 3 segments, so you can see which way a boat is going. From the front you'll see red and green, from the side you see one colour so you know which side you're looking at, and from behind it should be a white light. Well, more or less anyway, the segments should be 120 degrees each around the boat. Think of a mercedes badge in terms of the 3 segments 👍

Great, I'm so glad you found them helpful! Thanks 👍

Hi, yes, this is explained at 3:18 We need to be aware of both rule sets incase one of the boats is not racing

Yep that's an easy way to remember it 🙂

🤣 let us know when you're arguing that in court so we can all watch

Big plastic boat crashes into a little tugboat, your the loser

That is something people say when they are not smart enough to learn a half dozen rules.

Yep, worrying that these people are on the water and have no idea what they're doing

@@philswatersports, some of the worst, I have come to learn, are pontoon boats or "party barges," as they are often called. As the moniker indicates, there are often not one or two drunk people but an entire boat of drunks. The captains of these boats also often imbibe. Then, the kids often take out daddy's boat or it is lent to a friend or family member. Then there are boat rental companies that will rent these pontoon boats to people with little to no experience. Finally, they are equipping these boats with ever larger, more powerful outboards because people want to pull an innertube or waterskiers. . . . Long story, short: pontoon boats are usually moving hazards on the water, and they are usually captained by fools with the same attitude as our friend. Everyone I teach to sail, I advise them to stay away from these boats.

The 'starboard' side is derived from old longboats that had a steering oar or steering board on the right hand side of the boat, or the 'stoerbord' in old English. Because this was mounted on the starboard side, they would put the other side of the boat against the port, hence the 'port side'. In terms of why the rules give the starboard tack boat the right of way over port tack, I don't know why it's that way round to be honest. Maybe there's a reason or maybe it was just 50:50. Or maybe, if the steering board was on the starboard side, and two boats are sailing upwind, the the helm of the port tack boat would be on the starboard side and have a better view of the starboard tack boat - the other helm would have their view more obscured by the sails. Dunno tbh! Any thoughts from anyone who knows would be great!

@@philswatersports TY for answering! Actually, it was a retorical question that you are partly correct on. One thing that needs to be added is that the "stoerbord" would have been located on the right side of the vessel because most people are right handed. My opinion on the starboard tack right-of way rule is that, on starboard tack the vessel is healed to port, that that causes the stoerboard on the right side to be raised which makes for less effective steering. On port tack, the steorboard would become deeper in the water and would be more effective. Since right-of-way rules have generally been based on relative manouverability, I think that this idea makes sense. Capt. (ret.) Jeff

Yes, good thinking. I was thinking about manoeuvrability and I guess I didn't really think about the board being raised and lowered. You're probably right 👍

I don't see why not, I've used it on ropes with maybe 40-50mm diameter. It's the stiffness of the rope that could be an issue - if it's too stiff, the bight won't pull out of the knot to release it if it's been pulled tight (the bight being the loop)

A burgee is a great idea, as they show the apparent wind direction. They can be a good starting point for the general sail setting, but they won't show as much detail as the telltales do. By this, I mean that you can set the angle of the sail fairly well based on the burgee, but the telltales are more sensitive to react to the air flowing around the sail itself. A burgee is particularly useful in light winds when you might be struggling to work out where the wind is, or to get the airflow to attach to the sail. The Hawk MKII is a popular choice for un-stayed boats (Laser/ILCA, Topper etc), as it shows the wind approaching the sail: amzn.to/3J1dCa1 Or a masthead burgee is ideal for doublehanders: amzn.to/49cOfgc A mast head burgee will also find the wind a bit sooner in light winds, because it's probably a bit stronger a bit higher up; but bear in mind that any rocking of the boat will affect the burgee. Hope this helps!

Hi, yeah it's a Hartley 15, made by Hartley boats in Derby, UK. It's a general purpose style plastic dinghy

Thanks, yeah they can be useful to help people who are first learning, one less thing to think about when you're still trying to control the boat. And also they can be useful if you suddenly have a mental block in a busy situation!

Hi, Yes I've put a few ideas on my website, hope it helps: www.philswatersports.com/filming

Glad it helped! You might like my other videos about sailing skills too, on this playlist th-cam.com/play/PL2VtZj-uQwyjfdNsbYbWWjKeJjnYGiUEW.html

Yes that's right - if the sail is square to the wind, you'd have the turbulent flow. This force would be pushing the boat sideways more than necessary, and have less forwards power, meaning the boat is trying harder to capsize and going slower. Letting the sail out to establish the laminar airflow will reduce the heel and increase the speed - more efficient, and therefore easier to sail. In practice, the sail is at the optimum when you pull it in just enough for it to stop flapping. The front edges of the sails will be the last part to stop flapping. This is true for all points of sail except the run, which is where you'd have the turbulent flow if you're sailing straight downwind. It's usually quicker in dinghies to sail 2 very broad reaches downwind, so you never have the turbulent airflow, even with boats like a laser, and especially with boats with a spinnaker where the speed difference is greater. Hope this helps! Happy sailing ⛵

Yes you can do, I've used it before to tie powerboats and dinghies to a pontoon/jetty, for example, to release it quickly and leave. If you make the tail really long, you can release the knot from inside the boat, and then pull the rest of the line in. I wouldn't use it for anything where there's a high load though, like it there's a strong current or wind running, or if you're being towed, or it can get a bit too tight to release easily

@@philswatersports genius thanks!

No worries, hope it helps!

No worries, glad you found it helpful 🙂

Wow, that'll add some extra excitement!!

Yes it's worrying isn't it, especially when a lot of charter companies now require 2 Day Skipper or equivalent as a minimum. I've also had Day Skippers come on my dinghy sailing courses to improve their sailing skills, and the gaps in knowledge are astounding. At least they were the ones making the effort though!

Yes we'd really hope anyone navigating at sea would actually take some form of skippers course to learn everything properly! It amazes me how many don't understand these basics

Yes, if you're on opposite tacks, as long as you still realise you might be give way boat from the windward/leeward boat rule :)

@@philswatersports yes right, sorry, in was seeing it from a windsurfers perspective hahaha

Thank you so much! Glad you've found it helpful. There are more videos on my channel to support your sailing skills 🙂

Hi, yes I'm going to do all the club boats 👍🙂

Yes, great thinking! That is often the case in my house 🤣

Haha thanks. I’ll be using that one

It’s actually there is no Red Port Left… Or another way to remember it is Right + Starboard + green are over 5 letters and over. Left, Port, red are under 4 letters and under. All these sayings give the side of the boat, and colour of the nav lights.

Yes It's handy to get the colours in there too... And with red for port tack and green for starboard it also helps a bit like traffic lights with the rights of way for the port/starboard tack rule 👍⛵

​@@zooknutfun fact: normally hot and cold taps, are laid out similarly.. Hot, left, red, port. Cold, right, green starboard.

Ah, the 'old rules' 🤣 At least they don't change too much each time

No worries, hope it helped! There are more videos about sailing skills on my channel, you can see a playlist of them here :) th-cam.com/play/PL2VtZj-uQwyjfdNsbYbWWjKeJjnYGiUEW.html

Thanks! I believe that when the laser was first being designed to be a mass-market boat, one of the considerations was that it should be easily transportable, so the deck is pretty flat to be able to sit upside down on a roof rack. I'm not entirely sure whether that's 100% true though. I guess it was helpful in this example where one boat can slide over the other, but it doesn't always happen like that!

@@philswatersports I have an original Laser brochure. Has smiling people sailing off the beach. I should dig it up. Basically Bruce Kirby took his latest international 14 hull shape and scaled it a bit and gave it a raked bow (because the vertical stem on 14 is just a rule induced attempt at maximum waterline length).

Ah, yes, and there were such a range of colours when they first came out too!

No worries, glad you've found it useful!

Great! We tend not to think about slowing down very often, glad it was helpful!

Thanks, glad you've found them useful! Enjoy your racing 😃⛵

Hi, many thanks for your comment! Glad you found it helpful, hope it helps with your sailing. I've got lots of other similar videos about sailing skills if you haven't seen them already. Happy sailing!

@@philswatersports I, recently, was graduated to “skipper” (last September) in my sailing community, HRCS (Hudson River Community Sailing,) as such I’m responsible to give back to the club by teaching to the “green horn fresh sailors” what I’ve learned. There is plenty of material on TH-cam to recommend to these excited new sailors, but this your video is way above the others I’ve found there.

Congratulations! Sounds like a great achievement, well done. It also sounds like a really good club, in the sense that it brings everyone together to share skills with each other. Best of luck with it all. Many thanks for your lovely feedback too. You might like to share this playlist with the 'green horn fresh sailors' which covers a lot of fundamental sailing skills. Not all of them are suitable for keelboat sailing but there's a lot of useful stuff. Good luck!! th-cam.com/play/PL2VtZj-uQwyjfdNsbYbWWjKeJjnYGiUEW.html

Wow!!! Fantastic. Thank you very much for making my life much easier. This will certainly do.

No worries, hope it all helps! Happy sailing 🙂⛵

Thanks! 👍 Yes there was plenty of water 😂

Thanks! If you liked this one, you might find my other videos helpful, I've made a playlist to help people with their sailing skills: th-cam.com/play/PL2VtZj-uQwyjfdNsbYbWWjKeJjnYGiUEW.html Happy sailing!

That's true! Pull the board up briefly if you think you've got weed or rope round it and then check the rudder. Or stop head to wind and drift backwards off it, especially if you have a fixed keel that you can't lift up

Thanks, glad you found it helpful 🙂

Glad you found it useful!

Glad it was helpful! It's not very obvious how to do it either, good to hear you found it useful 🙂

Yes it is. Turn into the wind and push out the boom and the boat will go backwards. It's a bit easier said than done though, it takes practice. Some boats will turn when you push the boom out, so it can take a while to find how it works best for your boat. Once the boat is going backwards, the foils start working, so you can steer and have more control. I'm intending on doing a video about anchoring soon, where you need to sail backwards before deploying the anchor.... Look out for that in due course

@@philswatersports definatly will ... I just got a 18 foot drop keel to learn on so ive been watching a ton of videos. But im still taking lessons at the club come spring better safe then sorry

Yes, it's a great idea to have lessons to start with, the instructor might make decisions for you to make things easier. Things like deciding when to go out or not comes with experience You might find some of my other videos useful on my sailing skills playlist below. Hope you enjoy it all!

Sailing Skills Videos: th-cam.com/play/PL2VtZj-uQwyjfdNsbYbWWjKeJjnYGiUEW.html

Thanks! Have a look at the rest of my sailing skills playlist if you liked this one Happy sailing

Yes, good point, pulling the board up makes the boat more forgiving. In survival conditions I pull my laser daggerboard up maybe 4 inches even when sailing upwind to help de-power the boat and make it more manageable. Doesn't work the same with with a centreboard though, if you pull it up too much the lateral resistance moves backwards and the boat will just bear away and try to sail off. Similarly, trying to sail with a centreboard pulled up too much will create a lot of lee helm. (I cover this in my 'board' video.) Thanks for your comment, you might like some of the other videos on my channel in the 'sailing skills' playlist