That was very clear and useful. Really important to pilot by the lights and not the chart plotter. I came into Padstow over Doom Bar for the first time a few years ago at 03:00. Pitch black. One of the channel boys had been moved a bit (to cater for the shifting sands on the bar presumably) and the (up to date) chart plotter would have sent me out of the channel. Possibly not by much - but I'd rather trust the local knowledge and buoyage. And it wasn't scary at all - until I took a walk the next day and had a look at the bar at low tide...
I had my boat based there for about a year. And my first entry to Padstow, I'd never been there before and was on my own! Thankfully good weather, and no wind. But nearly low tide! And yes, I completely agree, I was petrified of the reputation of the Doom Bar, but in reality, that was a piece of cake, and the scary bit was navigating the narrow channel! Ultimately it bit me, and whilst navigating my way to Wadebridge to dry dock over Covid, months later, damage to an outdrive leg cost me, with a lot of damage!
Thank you for this video,so interesting plain speaking, excellent straight forward instruction,no froth and vidio was about the job in hand and not someone playing to the camara.very refreshing.thanks again
I learned Nav as a teen sailing the Caribbean, hardly any lights anywhere. If a green marker looked red, it just meant it had gone rusty. Real seat of the pants stuff. I used to help Don Street update his charts and cruising guides for the Leeward and Windward Isles.
@@bigglyguy8429 Back in the 80's we passed through the Torres Straits at night. Some of the lights worked, some didn't. We also did the Malacca Straits too, did armed Pirate Watch Fore and Aft at night as well.
Brilliant stuff John. Absolutely love your videos. Such a measured and calm approach. We've all observed the dockside approaches with the screaming, shouting and chaotic passage making of those that fail to plan (plan to fail) or those that haven't quite built their experiences to match their ability! Confidence bourne out of planning planning planning, knowing your limits, building experience, and knowing every day is a school day! And always having a plan B! Having not completed much in the way of nasty weather evening dusk passage planning your video's give me confidence to plan some evening excursions for next year. As a winter get-together passage planning exercise, there's an idea for boat clubs to get together a couple of evenings a month to passage plan ports in their region, day and night versions which could then be made available to everyone?? May give others the confidence for extending their horizons? Always better together, and a tipple 'n tale or two to boot! Great videos John. Thank you.👍👍
Heck I know captains that do that all the time in there home ports Geez they way some of them drive can scare the hell outta a person... But 20 or 30 years of doing the same thing makes it easy.... But this was a great confidence builder for those little ports I would love to go see and now I am not to nervous to do it in the dusk.. BRILLIANT!
just like flying Rnav strobe is am radio morse.... even if you are not a flier or boater it is good to understand this stuff ... if you were to need a to navigate from a crash or forced downing it might mean the difference in living and dying!! he does such a splendid job of execution and explaining the topics.....
I’d admire what your doing but not being a boater myself as much as I would like to be. I think this bit to much to take in or maybe its because I don’t understand it all. But really enjoyable watching you. Thanks
Just wondering about magnetic variation. When flying we have to factor variation in our navigation, is it still a factor when navigating boats? Great video John.
Variation is constantly changing and depends on your position on earth. In 2019 Variation at Greenwich was 0 degrees but it changes with time. Always apply Variation from True North to Compass Courses and more importantly also apply Deviation which depends on the boat and its heading. Compasses on the same boat can have different a Deviation for the same heading. It's true that you can't steer a course to an exact degree on most small boat magnetic compasses but a combination of Variation and Devotion can make over 5 degrees difference so it's as well to check especially if relying on a magnetic compass in reduced visibility. Modern Flux Gate Compasses can be automatically adjusted for Deviation and if they're linked to a GPS will automatically apply Variation so can be relied on to give a True reading.
wondered if you have corrected your compass and produced a correction card. Or is the compass close enough that you are able to use magnetic bearings from the chart. Good video!
Great idea and useful, except that the videographer keeps focussing and showing John! For gawds sake, when you are trying to show something happening that is important and ISN’T the face of the presenter, please don’t focus on the person but instead focus on the thing (like the lights from a distance away) and let the presenter overdub. It was incredibly annoying and useless to have John talking about what he’s seeing, how interesting it was - and the videographer slavishly shoots John! So great idea, but please change the videography.
I enjoy your vids and learn a lot -- but when you say "you can see" well we cannot in the first 5 mins. Your cameraman was pointed on you for the majority of the time. At 6 mins in I finally saw the sector lights you were speaking about and after that the vid and your commentary lined up far better. * mins and onwards again we saw you not what you were speaking about.
Very interesting but t’would be much better to see more of what you’re talking about and less if you. We can still hear you so no need to keep cutting away. I barely saw your pilot plan long enough because the camera kept cutting back to you for much longer Han it was on the plan. Same goes for lights etc. A clear view without worrying about keeping you in the frame would be better. Thanks though.
Only criticism it would of been very informative if the camera was focused on what you were looking I at from your point of view instead of focussing on yourself the majority of the time , good video otherwise
Its good practice to learn how to navigate properly. Your phone may lose battery or signal etc. You should know what the signal lamps mean and how to use them. Ive never used tech when navigating but im old fashioned and learnt in the 90’s.
That’s the question we need to address for the new millennials coming into the sport. If I teach sub 25 years old and talk about passage planning, exactly as Jon puts over so very well, they look at me and go “pen and paper....?” So what’s the answer? Well in 2019 the group that I powerboat with lost two expensive iPhones whilst at sea. I prefer paper as I choose not to lose a phone. The phone is great as a backup, but primary and easily accessible means paperwork. Also when it gets blown out of your hand you’re not focusing on the loss of a £1,000 phone... As for map apps, most have an annual fee and at £34.99 Navionics has proved a godsend for me in both private and professional boating. As ever other apps are available. Last bit in support of Jon’s excellent piece. It’s more about head out of the window rather than head into the plotter. Oh yes, and some RYA approved training won’t go amiss 👍🏻👍🏻
On entering Dartmouth the 6 knot speed limit starts at Castle Ledge Buoy, the green starboard hadn't mark you passed when saying that you hadn't entered the speed limit area. Check your chart, check the pilotage directions and check the harbour handbook. In the area inshore of Castle Ledge Buoy you frequently encounter children in canoes and on paddle boards. There are also crab pot markers which at the speed you were doing doesn't give you enough time to react so you'll end up with a rope round your prop or a fisherman with lost gear. This video is very irresponsible and entering any harbour in reduced visibility at the speed you were doing is almost criminal. This video should be deleted as it sets an appalling example to all recreational boaters.
@@JMc.D The worrying thing is that this instructor is highly praised by his students, but he's wrong. He hasn't checked the speed limit for Dartmouth or he would've known that the speed limit starts much further out so he's not even obeying his own lesson of looking up information you need to know before entering a harbour. He's also got a few other things wrong too.
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I've been boating for 50 years and I still learnt loads from this video, completely brilliant !
I love this man for his knowledge, accuracy and his marvelous English!
Amazing...that was fascinating...I like the attitude that the plotter is a safety net and marine skills are to the fore...
Absolutely Brilliant video from Hampshire UK 🇬🇧 👏
That was very clear and useful. Really important to pilot by the lights and not the chart plotter. I came into Padstow over Doom Bar for the first time a few years ago at 03:00. Pitch black. One of the channel boys had been moved a bit (to cater for the shifting sands on the bar presumably) and the (up to date) chart plotter would have sent me out of the channel. Possibly not by much - but I'd rather trust the local knowledge and buoyage.
And it wasn't scary at all - until I took a walk the next day and had a look at the bar at low tide...
I had my boat based there for about a year. And my first entry to Padstow, I'd never been there before and was on my own! Thankfully good weather, and no wind. But nearly low tide!
And yes, I completely agree, I was petrified of the reputation of the Doom Bar, but in reality, that was a piece of cake, and the scary bit was navigating the narrow channel! Ultimately it bit me, and whilst navigating my way to Wadebridge to dry dock over Covid, months later, damage to an outdrive leg cost me, with a lot of damage!
Yet another informative and engaging video from Jon Mendez. Thanks again Jon!
Thank you for this video,so interesting plain speaking, excellent straight forward instruction,no froth and vidio was about the job in hand and not someone playing to the camara.very refreshing.thanks again
Superb training, I have been nervous about night pilotage and this helps enormously. Thank you.
great pilotage video. thanks Jon, these are superb for us novices !
Excellent explanation. Was studying pilotage and passage planning today and found this a great help. Thank you.
Thank you for the coming into harbour lesson.
Absolutely brilliant video! Very helpful, brought me straight back to my RYA course! Many thanks.
Great lesson. Thanks for posting this.
That was excellent John, really informative and well explained. Thank you 😁
Absolutely superb how to vid 👍, John explains the information so well, thanks for going to the effort ❤️🇬🇧👍😁
Hi Jon. That was a fantastic lesson, perfect for night navigation using a passage plan. Many thanks 😊
i love the beginning of these vids. it needs its own 3 minute clip. great info though,
Excellent vid! Currently studying for rya day skipper theory this clarifies everything for me. Many thanks
Thank you for sharing your experience and knowledge. Truly appreciated.
I learned Nav as a teen sailing the Caribbean, hardly any lights anywhere. If a green marker looked red, it just meant it had gone rusty. Real seat of the pants stuff. I used to help Don Street update his charts and cruising guides for the Leeward and Windward Isles.
Similar here in Borneo. I'm watching these vids to learn stuff, but got to say, there ain't no sectored lights around here lol.
@@bigglyguy8429 Back in the 80's we passed through the Torres Straits at night. Some of the lights worked, some didn't. We also did the Malacca Straits too, did armed Pirate Watch Fore and Aft at night as well.
That is miserable weather in Most of the world, but for UK...that is a nice day.
Always learning. Thanks for this!
Just love it!
Brilliant stuff Jon...I really enjoy your instructional videos. Wish they came out a bit more frequently.
Brilliant stuff John.
Absolutely love your videos. Such a measured and calm approach.
We've all observed the dockside approaches with the screaming, shouting and chaotic passage making of those that fail to plan (plan to fail) or those that haven't quite built their experiences to match their ability!
Confidence bourne out of planning planning planning, knowing your limits, building experience, and knowing every day is a school day! And always having a plan B!
Having not completed much in the way of nasty weather evening dusk passage planning your video's give me confidence to plan some evening excursions for next year.
As a winter get-together passage planning exercise, there's an idea for boat clubs to get together a couple of evenings a month to passage plan ports in their region, day and night versions which could then be made available to everyone?? May give others the confidence for extending their horizons?
Always better together, and a tipple 'n tale or two to boot!
Great videos John. Thank you.👍👍
Brilliant information as always. Best on youtube
Heck I know captains that do that all the time in there home ports Geez they way some of them drive can scare the hell outta a person... But 20 or 30 years of doing the same thing makes it easy.... But this was a great confidence builder for those little ports I would love to go see and now I am not to nervous to do it in the dusk.. BRILLIANT!
Very good video, it would be an idea if the camera was facing forward so we could see what you see thank you
I'm not a boater, but have now learnt how to navigate a boat into Dartmouth Harbour.
Such clear and interesting lessons. Really enjoy the videos well done all involved.
Thank you John! Excellent educational how to video as always!
Love your videos. Always loved the idea of a boat, never had a chance to own one. Videos are brilliant!
just like flying Rnav strobe is am radio morse....
even if you are not a flier or boater it is good to understand this stuff ... if you were to need a to navigate from a crash or forced downing it might mean the difference in living and dying!! he does such a splendid job of execution and explaining the topics.....
Good education. Thank you.
Great video and information
I’d admire what your doing but not being a boater myself as much as I would like to be.
I think this bit to much to take in or maybe its because I don’t understand it all.
But really enjoyable watching you.
Thanks
Thank you.
Always great information Jon. Thanks.
great video
Excellent video
Excellent video and many thanks
Not dissimilar to VORs and PAPIs when flying
Very informative videos
Simply excellent
Superb! Thank you!
Just wondering about magnetic variation. When flying we have to factor variation in our navigation, is it still a factor when navigating boats? Great video John.
Not in southern England. And the detail of his compass card would more than loose what there is.
Variation is constantly changing and depends on your position on earth. In 2019 Variation at Greenwich was 0 degrees but it changes with time. Always apply Variation from True North to Compass Courses and more importantly also apply Deviation which depends on the boat and its heading. Compasses on the same boat can have different a Deviation for the same heading. It's true that you can't steer a course to an exact degree on most small boat magnetic compasses but a combination of Variation and Devotion can make over 5 degrees difference so it's as well to check especially if relying on a magnetic compass in reduced visibility. Modern Flux Gate Compasses can be automatically adjusted for Deviation and if they're linked to a GPS will automatically apply Variation so can be relied on to give a True reading.
wondered if you have corrected your compass and produced a correction card. Or is the compass close enough that you are able to use magnetic bearings from the chart. Good video!
I thought i was daft being the only one that prefers being out at night to day 🤣 everyone else thinks i'm nuts at the marina.
To be fair, you are nuts, but then all of us boaters are a bit nuts.
@@borysnijinski331 fair point :)
They think well😂
It’s fun to navigate at night 😊
Do you use a special handheld compass?!
Lekker man lekker
What I don't understand is how is this guy not in Guy Richie movies?
Don’t think a sectored light is pilotage. Last time I went into Dartmouth I was running head marks and stern marks on the castles.
Great idea and useful, except that the videographer keeps focussing and showing John! For gawds sake, when you are trying to show something happening that is important and ISN’T the face of the presenter, please don’t focus on the person but instead focus on the thing (like the lights from a distance away) and let the presenter overdub. It was incredibly annoying and useless to have John talking about what he’s seeing, how interesting it was - and the videographer slavishly shoots John! So great idea, but please change the videography.
I enjoy your vids and learn a lot -- but when you say "you can see" well we cannot in the first 5 mins. Your cameraman was pointed on you for the majority of the time. At 6 mins in I finally saw the sector lights you were speaking about and after that the vid and your commentary lined up far better. * mins and onwards again we saw you not what you were speaking about.
sounds like alot of messing about just to sail into a harbour? surely water deep enough that far out?
Very interesting but t’would be much better to see more of what you’re talking about and less if you. We can still hear you so no need to keep cutting away. I barely saw your pilot plan long enough because the camera kept cutting back to you for much longer
Han it was on the plan. Same goes for lights etc. A clear view without worrying about keeping you in the frame would be better.
Thanks though.
Only criticism it would of been very informative if the camera was focused on what you were looking I at from your point of view instead of focussing on yourself the majority of the time , good video otherwise
Pilotage? what?
why not use any smartphone + maps/navi app? Paper+log+compass is not safe
Its good practice to learn how to navigate properly. Your phone may lose battery or signal etc. You should know what the signal lamps mean and how to use them. Ive never used tech when navigating but im old fashioned and learnt in the 90’s.
Which apps do you recommend? Are there any without an subscription fee? I‘d like to buy a map once and own it, and not be forced to pay regularly
@@bigdundee12345 lamps is useless without proper navigation charts and pilotbook.
That’s the question we need to address for the new millennials coming into the sport.
If I teach sub 25 years old and talk about passage planning, exactly as Jon puts over so very well, they look at me and go “pen and paper....?” So what’s the answer? Well in 2019 the group that I powerboat with lost two expensive iPhones whilst at sea. I prefer paper as I choose not to lose a phone. The phone is great as a backup, but primary and easily accessible means paperwork. Also when it gets blown out of your hand you’re not focusing on the loss of a £1,000 phone...
As for map apps, most have an annual fee and at £34.99 Navionics has proved a godsend for me in both private and professional boating. As ever other apps are available.
Last bit in support of Jon’s excellent piece. It’s more about head out of the window rather than head into the plotter. Oh yes, and some RYA approved training won’t go amiss 👍🏻👍🏻
If your smartphone dies then so do you... possibly getting others harmed along the way.
On entering Dartmouth the 6 knot speed limit starts at Castle Ledge Buoy, the green starboard hadn't mark you passed when saying that you hadn't entered the speed limit area. Check your chart, check the pilotage directions and check the harbour handbook. In the area inshore of Castle Ledge Buoy you frequently encounter children in canoes and on paddle boards. There are also crab pot markers which at the speed you were doing doesn't give you enough time to react so you'll end up with a rope round your prop or a fisherman with lost gear. This video is very irresponsible and entering any harbour in reduced visibility at the speed you were doing is almost criminal. This video should be deleted as it sets an appalling example to all recreational boaters.
Ha ha good lord you need to relax.
@@JMc.D The worrying thing is that this instructor is highly praised by his students, but he's wrong. He hasn't checked the speed limit for Dartmouth or he would've known that the speed limit starts much further out so he's not even obeying his own lesson of looking up information you need to know before entering a harbour. He's also got a few other things wrong too.