Still Waters
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ต.ค. 2024
- We spent an amazing 3 weeks with our Wayfarer on the West Coast of Scotland in June 2018. High pressure dominated in the last few days, making for the most beautiful still days. This is the last film in the Hebrides 2018 playlist.
Magnificent - Thanks for sharing.
WOW ! What a magnificent area to sail. This place is like living in a dream. It looks a lot like parts of Tasmania I have sailed, but you'd be hard-pressed to get such an extended period of beautiful, calm weather. Inspiring channel. Thanks for sharing these brilliant dinghies and adventures.
Just gorgeous! Need to go back there soon.
A serious question and a local anecdote. I sail a lugsail dinghy with an unstayed mast and I fly a small flag on a line between the peak and the clew, so it is just aft of the leach, as you do. I notice you fly yours low down near the wider part of the sail. Is this simply because it's easier for you to see when judging the wind direction, or is it because it gives a more accurate indication near to the wider part of the sail? Thanks. Anecdote about Arinagour - Gallic name "Àirigh nan Gobhar". I was on a dive charter boat, the MV Harry Slater in that area when I heard the following radio exchange: "Oban Coastguard (x3) this is yacht Fair Lass of Àirigh nan Gobhar (x 3)." "This is Oban Coastguard. Sorry, can you spell that for me?" Yacht skiper labours his way from "Foxtrot Alpha India... all the way to Hotel Alpha Romeo." Oban Coastguard replies, "Yes, that's what I thought, over." :D
Fabulous story! I do love the way that after having laboured through the phonetic rules of gaelic spellings one arrives more or less where one started, but with a better accent!.
Re: the ensign. We fly the flag because a boat with flags is a cheery thing. It is rigged to our topping lift, which we fitted because we found it helps massively when stowing the sail at sea and reefing afloat. It is lowdown because we can reach it there to knot it away when we're not sailing. So it is there "by accident". We use burgee, along with genoa tell-tales and the leech tell-tales on the main to judge the set of the rig and wind direction and honestly I've never really noted what the flag adds, or does not add to that info!. all very best, 'bigbad'.
Thanks. On a balanced lug with an unstayed mast, my options for a flag are more limited. I fly my red ensign mainly because it is a cheery thing, as you say, but also because when the sail is set right on a beam reach or beat, it flies in line with the sail. My boat and my level of skill are not technical enough for more than that. No topping lift on my boat: when I lower the yard solo on a blustery day, there's spars and sail everywhere and very often the ensign gets rinsed.
@@mikefule330 Should you see a Submarine with an ensign, it's worth dipping your ensign for the fuss created! (Basically an officer swears quietly and a sailor has to walk a long way)