Excellent !

This was excellent to watch. The different angles and probably the best capsize drill I have seen.

Good for you Josh, well done. Reassuring how hard the navigator is to capsize, great the mast float works so well, and great you can get her back up and you back in. And even better that you actually got out and did it. Bravo.

excellent - much respect. Looking forward to the deep water repeat

Thanks for doing this. the tail in the centerboard is a great idea which I will be adding to my Navigator.

Well done Josh, nothing like a drill to test the theories. People will always say 'yeah but it was calm', in a real knock down your practice will help and so will adrenalin!

Good job! It can be a lot of work,, whew. I fell over when my hiking strap broke. At that point, I realized my boat was hard to get back in if I was in the water. My co-worker was no help, his comment was "Time to hit the gym and the pool." This winters plan. I need to do the capsize drill too, sigh.

Hi Josh, great video. I remember going out on my. Mirror thingy when I was say 16 on a very calm day fully clothed and thinking nothing is going to happen. And it did. I had no Choice but to go in the water to tune the yacht back up. This things I did as a kid.

Good to see another dinghy without transom flaps or self-bailers. I capsized in heavy weather last year and had to bail using, like you, a collapsable bucket but for the last dregs of water I have a bilge pump that is clipped onto the side of the centreboard casing. I think yours is a bit lower than the GP14 so maybe you would have to just stow one elsewhere but it does make light work of the last bits of water. Good video and it really shows how stable that Navigator is! :)

Great video! Thanks for doing this!

great video ,practice is essential and when the real thing happens its, easy to know the drill without panic, although i would never solo sail in any condition without hook in points on the boat never know when a freak gust hits you ,also put all your gear under gunnels netted in or tied in dry bags you wont loose or destroy equipment ,sailing at sea all about being prepared ,built in redundancy ,plan A plan B and Plan C

First off, You haven't added sunnies straps yet!! Bad boy! Lot of effort in making this Vid, Josh. Thanks for taking the time . gary

Great Josh. I hope I never have to experience this as I don't have a centre board, cheers Paul

Really great resource for Nav owners you have made there, well done; must really boost your confidence in the boat. Now we just need somebody to do one for the Pathfinder.. maybe it will end up being me.

Definitely too cold for capsize practice here still!

I think you could find that if you fell out in real conditions and with the masthead float and the boat floating so high, it would drift downwind faster than you could swim in a buoyancy aid and waves. It has happened to me. Sometimes it is better for the dinghy to invert and stay put.

Perhaps a Venturi self bailer?

The blocks aren't big enough. The mainsheet on the keel housing blocked itself unnoticed when heaved to ...

Great video. Loads of real world tips. It was very interesting to see Trim up close and letting her settle etc. I was amazed at how stable she was when boarding from the side. Even on my Lugger I really need to board from the back or she rolls a little too much to board from the side. Where did you get the Mast float from, what size was it and do you have a link to it at all?

I am impressed how well the mast float worked. When I capsized 'Bootstrap', a gaff rigged Navigator with wooden spars, she turned turtle within a few seconds..... Is the mast float inflatable? Can you please send a link?

Looks like half the dinghy sailors I see around wouldn’t have the physicality to reboard their vessel in the event of a capsize. Especially in proper conditions which are the ones most likely to capsize you in the first place. Also, need to be dressed for immersion, or cold water shock could pop your heart. It would be a pretty good fright in a seaway seeing your boat on its side

Very different situation with strong wind and in deep water...exercise and losing weight helpss a lot, at 65 is no so easy to right any dinghy unless you have experience how to do it jumping into without ladder, just your arms. My Humble Advice, be alert all the time over 10 knots about your boat behaviour and avoid capsize at any means.-

Thanks for doing that!! I need to look at adding that line on the keel. I keep saying...."This summer I'm going to do a capsize test again!" I've only done this once...10 years back...need to do it again. Did you try sailing it before bailing?? It sails surprisingly well (and stable) when filled with water which can be helpful if you have a safe harbor nearby.

Really interesting video Josh. Thanks for posting really appreciate that. Some quick thoughts. .....I have knotted righting lines and boarding loops shamelessly stolen ideas from Joel Bergen and Howard rice. Haven't tested in capsize but boarding loops work well when I've been off boat swimming 😆. I have a downhaul on my centreboard which I can lock in place in the centreboard cap instead of the little line you have on bottom of CB. However yours would be safer should the boat invert. The mast float is an interesting idea. I'm trying to work out how that would look with the standing lug variation rig and spirit boom configuration. I have installed a tiny electric bilge pump on arwen powered by a tiny 12 v battery....videos of it in my channel and blog. In tandem with a frightened man and a bucket it shifts water rapidly 😆. Easy to make. Can't work out whether trim has cockpit bulkhead hatches under side and front thwarts or not. If so, did they hold our water? Brilliant video. Thanks buddy 👍👋

Can you hire a smaller dinghy to sail on narrabeen lagoon?

Josh, when you get home and hose out the boat, how do you drain it? With the Argie 15, I could never hose out the inside because there was no drain bung. Luna has a self draining cockpit which is super easy to hose out and the scuppers drain it.