I welded 3 stainless anchor shackles together and made my own version of the Wichard for $15. It works like a champ!

Best video I've found on the topic! Great job with the perfect amount of narration!

These methods look very handy to an old guy like me. The young deck apes can scramble around setting up preventers from the bow and moving them back and forth and such, and I've done that. But having something that is setup and waiting to help me out is like having a young crew member aboard. A luxury that I cannot count on. Ever notice how a lot of older sailors switch to trawlers at some point because they think it's easier? But there's another set of sailors who quietly go about growing old on their boats, finding ways to overcome those limitations that accumulate with age. This seems like one of those ways.

Thanks for the effort. Looking forward though to see your next comparative storm sails test done in the same flat calm seas.

from me well done. Do not know why people would no find this informative and well done.. good job. and to all who want to see it rigged during big winds.. really.. camera in hand , wife forward with whatever gizmo.. sure great idea... much safer to show it in light air.. best g

Great demonstration! Thanks for also showing the good old low-tech rope solution... Using two ropes - one on each side - and you are good to go.

You are an angel... This was the most valuable video what I've ever seen. Thank you.

Thanks for the video. Personally I prefer the old style with the line to the bow and back to the cockpit method. Crossing Atlantic and Pacific I felt much saver. Go ahead Yachting World.

Thank you Pip!

Thanks for the clear explanation.

Hi, I take my preventer right to the front of the boat to a block, outside of the shrouds but inside the Genoa sheet, the long rope and angle will allow the boom to rise if it touches the water at speed. If you take it through the cleat midships as some do and you gybe then you can rip out the stanchions from the deck. I then take mine back to the Genoa winch that is not in use at the time, then I can get to it quickly and ease it slowly whilst letting the mainsheet take over the load, there will be a lot of weight on it if you gybe and the boat will be out of control, you need to get to it in a hurry. Attach to the boom with a large bowline or a short strop so that you can reach to connect or disconnect it with the boom fully out whilst you are standing on deck.

The Gybe Easy looks to be ‘aft’ of the vang vis-a-vis forward of the vang.

What do you mean by "test"?? Where is wind?? I think this might work, BUT it cost $400!! Check Climb Figure 8 Descender Rigging Plate - $30 same physics.

Know the Walder boom brake and I'm pretty happy with it.

dodgy gybe: Was sailing a modified 49er with 470 sails, 1 trapeze and no wings. We went for a gybe with the kite up and this is in 17 knots of breeze. We broach and m crew has to climb on the centre board but we didn't capsize and I was trying to bear off and hike but the tiller extension had a sort of sleeve extension to make it longer so that just got ripped off and left us amazed we survived that experience

Great video thanks for the info.

The first one seemed the most practical; the last one seems like something that's worthwhile having rigged all the time.

Very helpful video. Had a couple questions about the old fashioned bowline on the boom approach. First, what is preventing the bowline from sliding forward on the boom? Is it grabbing a cleat , line, chock? Second, when you run the line forward , what are you passing the line around or through to hold it in place before running it aft ? Thanks

thx for the tests,...

if you run the line around the mast, through a fastener at the cockpit and than latch it on again at the leech (big loop etc.) you can just hold your sail in place until you decide to gybe. but without the discomfort (and safety-hazard) of having to set it all up again after every maneuver.

I did my day skipper with Clive on that boat.

I suppose having the mainsheet very loose during the gybe was for the purposes of demonstration. But I would always want to control the boom by sheeting in nice and tight. Bill Dixon.

Interesting, thanks.

A gybe wit Pip without preventer: any day! :-)

I have always trimmed in the main sheet to centre the boom before gybing and never had any trouble. I would use a preventer if sailing dead down wind

I like the gybe easy. I think I'll try a figure 8 attached to the boom via a carabiner next time I'm running.

0:45] Gybe Easy? that thing could *kill* somebody - it better work perfectly. I get it, I used to be a rock climber, one look I can understand how it is supposed to work just looking at it, but it is also, what? a three pound hunk of forged metal swinging around a foot *below* the level of the boom. Absolutely bonkers. That is right where everybody's' skulls are.

What no wind, lets do the Boom Brake test.

Nice.

Are those sail fuses reusable, or do you need to replace them every time one deploys?

yes!

Placing any boom brake halfway along just means you'll end up with a bent boom,seen it happen,I'll stick with the old way

The boat is a Hanse, 50-something feet.

A simple preventer line rigged to the end of the boom is simple and effective to prevent accidental gybe.

Sailfuse?? Thank you. Never heard of that before.

Only problem is the systems require a winch being free in the cockpit , when using a Genoa the cockpit winches become a premium and gibing and easing the Genoa and main not only require dedicated crew they also need cockpit winches to be in use

What do you loop your line around foreward on the boat? A cleat? Windlass? Just looking for safe options/ideas. Thanks.

Well, personally, I prefer the simple combination of a long line, reliable knots, and good seamanship. Less equipment means less potential of damage and problems. You'll have to move a bit more around your boat, but that's the way it is for a sailor.

You must have waited a long time to find a day with zero wind to explain a boom preventer designed for heavy weather jibing. I'm sure all the Volvo boats can't wait to install a jibe easy from Wishard. I prefer a simple line attached more midships for jibing & more forward when running long distance. I'm sure the viewers would appreciate what is your prefered system?

But which one is best value for money?

I really hope the re-do this segment, with wind and the equipment installed correctly. I'm genuinely interested in the results, not these opinions.

I absolutely do not like preventive setups with the "vang" eye on the boom as an attachment point. If the end of the boom touches the water, under a strong inclination of the boat, the risk of a broken boom is emminent. Using (and demonstrating this explicitly) these preventers to actually perform a mainsail gybe is not at all a good practice! The mainsail sheet should always take the main load of the gybe, even when preventers are in place.

GybEasy is shown hung AFT of the vang, I think she just misspoke - perhaps because she was facing aft.

This seems more like an unboxing than an actual test. Nice to see the possible solutions, but I wouldn't call this an actual "test".

Question (from a relative novice); I can understand the benefits of this for accidental gybes, but if you're planning a controlled gybe, why would you not sheet the main in before going through the gybe and then letting it out again after? (just going based on what you covered in your demonstration)

Is the American term "Vang" commonly used in the UK now?

just use the traveler properly, even solo this isn't a tall order...i dunno...

No way, No flying metal for me

Oops...looks like others already caught that.

Why would you be willing to permanently remove your vang

Sailfuse no longer seems to exist... :-(

Are you serious? Testing boom brakes in no wind? Is this a joke?

You mean “aft of the vang”.

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As a noob to sailing I consider this a pretty awful design flaw. That yachts, which are hardly cheap, are not fitted with some device to prevent damage or injury - as standard - seems lame?

2:00] Now the Walder. First remove you boom bang. Second install a tripping hazard at mid deck from to rail to rail. That does not seem like a very good idea.

If the device is designed to be forward of the vang, then why the hell not install it there or else not bother to shoot this peice. Same with the wind.

Firstly describe why people have accidental gybes....sea conditions, poor helming, major wind shifts close to shore etc.. Secondly describe how to perform a controlled gybe.

Why does yachting world always show you stuff in flat clam water , last month you did a man over board drill with no waves it was a joke.

Or, every single sailor can do what they always did. Pay attention to the sails. Not run the boat on autopilot all the time. Actually sail. Never seen the reason for a jib preventer. /Joel

thanks for the effort, but you really wasted your time attempting this video without any wind to show how they work

Good demo, but it's surprising to hear an apparently experienced sailor referring to 'rope'. That's landlubbers' language. It's 'line' isn't it?

How great. Testing out boom brakes in flat calm. Almost as intelligent as Brexit.

We just yell Jibe ho. I look for ward when ever i head to the ocean to being in the one place the damn govt. isnt trying to "keep me safe" thank you I'm all set .

Some awful tools & techniques here. Most kiwi sailors wouldn’t entertain this stuff but sail the boat right in the first place. Even your rope only technique would load up the other shroud laterally - instead go down to deck at the shrouds not around them to the bow.

Too strong an accent to understand.