Ep 27 - First Solo Sail!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 ต.ค. 2024
- Well this is it, I cast off solo for the first time! Given how much we struggle with rigging and basic sailing maneuvers when we're racing, how will I cope on my own? This outing is an essential test of whether I can get by with the absolute basics on my own before I hopefully set off on a much larger solo cruise in the next few weeks!
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Thanks for this video. I just retired from the army infantry two weeks ago and have saved money for 17 years to sail after I’m done. The time is now I bought an alberg 30 and am going to spend a couple years refitting and doing day sails to gain experience. My hope is to cross oceans one day. I love watching videos like this and seeing others learn and share the experience
Thanks for the comment. Congrats on completing your service! Dude you're going to love it. It's an incredible feeling. Hit me up if you have any questions!
Great video! I've been sailing alone on my Ecume de Mer since the beginning (video on my channel), sometimes it's a challenge! You're lucky, the propeller pitch is in the right direction to get out, and you have room to turn, for me it's the opposite! 😂
Amazing, I'll have to check out your channel! Hah perhaps I explained it poorly, my prop takes me down the fairway stern first 🤦 if the wind is coming from the south it makes it very hard for me to get out. What year is your ecume?
@@thesailingdonkey Ok it's me who misunderstood!
My Ecume is from 1975, long roof. I worked on it a little over a year to do everything that was necessary for safety: Sleeping rigging (mast cables), hull fittings etc.... not sure if the translation is good!
Ah man, that sounds like the dream, I'd love the long roof. It's amazing how many differences there are between the various Ecumes. I think from 75 onwards was the "new" model. Does yours have aluminium toe rails or teak? Your comment is fully readable mate, normally "sleeping rigging" would be "standing rigging" but otherwise fine :)
Looking good, excited about the bigger trips!
Can't wait!
Enjoyed that, thanks.
Thanks for that 👍 I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Brilliant video. Good to see you back👍🏻⛵
Cheers mate, I promise not to make it so long this time! 😂
Love it, great to see you back
Hey, thanks!
I'd be putting a preventer on that boom when goose winging. Saves a lot of banging about and a possible gybe. Great video.👍
Yeah absolutely mate. I almost mentioned that in the vid. If I'd been doing any more than a short return sail I'd defo have done that. 👍
And thanks 🙂
Goodamn man, goddamn,long time no see
Yeah sorry man, change of job, lot of works at home, but the boat stuff has been bubbling along, I just need to catch up with vids and get everyone up to date
@@thesailingdonkey good man
Missed you and our multi-annual trips to Guernsey 😳
Hopefully back more frequently now!
Solo is great. I miss my 23 feet yacht. But my budget said no, and believe me, you don't want a plywood yacht that is leaking at the keel. That boat needed like restoration, would love to do it, but WHERE?! That was bye bye. Maybe I should save money and buy small French yacht. The French have some 20 feet-ish yachts that can handle pretty rough water. Bretagne, Normandie, there are spots where the tide is 30 feet difference, and you got currents accordingly. Well small yachts are unsinkable in France. Foam built in, not just air pockets. I like that. If an orca breaks your rudder, then at least your boat keeps at the surface. But okay, never seen a Dutch orca. Thanks for the video.
And, ehm, tacking solo can get a pain in the A, you got to be fast on the winches, and if there's no autopilot you got to tie the tiller, but right after the tack that is always slightly off, and when the shallows are waiting for the next tack, I always wondered why I refused to start that stupid engine. I want no engine. But yeah, locks, bridges, canals.
And such small yachts often steer pretty good by just shifting your weight. Sit port or starboard, and you'll see it changing direction. With the tiller tied to the middle, having a bit of play, to help your weight steering.
Oil on the waves is in some old books on sailing and extremely bad weather. In the old days, ships took a can of oil with them, it had some small holes in it, for slowly releasing the oil, attached to a long line. The idea was calming the huge waves, and get less breakers. It was said to have some effect. But on a yacht you definitely do not want a metal can thrown into your cockpit, that is the risk you get for free. L
Isn't that green water coming from a river? Sweet water and salt water does not mix on cue.
Thanks for the comment mate. That's interesting about the weight transfer, I'll have to try that!
Ah that's a shame about your yacht, what model was it? Yeah we get 10m springs here so definitely got to pick your moments!
Hopefully the orcas don't make it up this far!
@@thesailingdonkey Whoops, those naughty Gibraltar ones better stay there!
Yeah absolutely, I've got no plans on cruising down there!
That's in Guernsey, yes?
Yes, in the QE2 marina
St. Peter Port, for clarity
@@thesailingdonkey Very nice.
Nice video! Why is the boom so long? Looks like the sail is reefed😅.
Haha thanks man. Dude it's got a tiny mainsail. There's literally like an extra foot between the main sail clew and end of boom!
@thesailingdonkey haha but is it original? Or can you get a bigger one? Or maby it will be over canvased?
Well it's a replacement to the one that came on the boat when I bought it. When I specced this one up, North Sails basically said they'd stick with this size so it didn't affect my race handicap, and as my headsail is so large, I figured that was a good idea. But I'm curious now as to how big the original sail was. I know the original boat had an option of a 165% headsail!
@@thesailingdonkey ok I see, well that's interesting 👍
@14.30 I would not trust the backstay compression lock system you have fitted. I had one on the forstay and it pulled out causing my mast to fall backwards. I'm not sure why they are used.
Hi Joe, Oh heck, that is worrying. Spoiler alert but I'm about to replace my forestay and was planning on replacing with swageless, I was assured they were as safe as swaging when done properly? Did you have failure of the wire (corrosion etc?) or did it literally just pull out of the fitting? Also did you boat have lowers? I'm wondering if my forward lowers would stop complete failure in the event of my forestay terminals failing.
@@thesailingdonkey It literally pulled out. My boat is a Leisure 17SL trailer sailer. I use an 'A' frame to raise and lower the mast. I checked the fitting was tight, before sailing on a lake. I fear on the sea would be worse, due to more forces involved. The previous owner used the fitting on a furler forstay. Maybe the force for the fitting was over the recommended tension allowed, I'm not sure. I wouldn't use them on rigging. You can buy the 19 strand cable and make your own eye as I did. The tools & cable are quite cheap. Less fiddling than trying to get a brass wedge on a centre strand and clamping the outer strands.
So I did previously use sta-lok swageless on my cap shroud and they've so far been ok and I've cranked them up to 25% breaking load before and they've held. Is it possibly a brand quality issue? Do you have a link to the swaging tools you bought?