FINALLY! Someone explains the sails to a non-sailor! Very well done. More of this, please. :)

We really like the instructional videos. We (wife and I) will be taking our first ASA course this spring and moving into the more advance courses to follow. The white board and explanation of everything is very helpful to us. Our dream is to do exactly what you're doing. We love your videos and you both are the best!

Keep the whiteboard!!! It helps to visualize what you are talking about. Thanks for the info and great video as usual!

I thank you very much for taking time to sharing your adventures with theses videos. I found your channel because I was looking to purchase a boat for lake near me. I have never own a boat of any kind. My only boating adventure was on a friend’s 12 John boat as a child. I know nothing about boats but after some research I determine a catamaran was the type of boat that I felt the most comfortable with. So like many others I started checking information about catamarans on you tube and found your channel. Over the past weeks. I have watched almost all the videos you have posted. This video was really the only one that you took time and discussed in detail how you sail your boat. I thank you so much for trying to teach how to sail but the information was way above my head and completely confusing. I really hope you will keep teaching us out here how to sail but also remember there are people like me that find the information you take for granite as magic.

I like your reefing philosophy. As a pilot, I've always been conservative when it comes to safety judgments. It doesn't pay to play on the edge. (it's also not good for one's marriage) :)

Love, love loved the episode. Seeing that you sail to reference materials helped demystify how you know what to do and when. Of course you probably have it down to memory for your boat but I always wondered how beginning sailors safely got through the learning curve.

After years of watching sailing videos someone finally goes into the different sails and their uses. It only makes sense that this videos would come from you two! Thanks... Keep up the awesome videos!

I just learned something today about sailing. Thank you Ben & Ashley

YES Keep The Whiteboard!!! It Works!! Great Channel! Excellent Content!!! Thank You!!

I just wanted to add, whiteboards are the best. I would love a playlist for all the sailing lesson vids. Great stuff, thx!

Thanks for explaining how this works for us non sailors.

Loving the white board. Loving the videos we are watching them from the beginning. Hope your current tiny boat is treating you well. 😁🤙🏼⛵️

Excellent video and perfect explanation - As an old racer, the mindset has to change cruising and shorthand magnifies the need for safety first. Thanks for the quality video.

This is so dope! I've been virtually living my dream via your videos. Please keep the whiteboarding. Gotta LOVE that spinnaker!

really appreciate these videos lately. hope to get out to a sailing class one of these days

Definitely keep the whiteboard😍😍😍😍!!!...Now I understand why you explain things about sailing SO WELL and naturally...you are genuine, but also very humble...not like others that are more into showing off😒and a little too cheesy?🤣

WE LOVE the whiteboard sessions. You're great teachers. Also, Ashley...you MUST share where your suits are from! They're all super cute. And I could definitely use that suit that covers your shoulders! (You guys should totally get swimsuit & sunglasses sponsors if you haven't already.)

Ha, I was a sailing instructor's student for 9 years as a youth in a junior program for racing instruction. Funnest time in my life.

You have given a quick but effective lesson on the sails or choice thereof. Thumbs UP - Thanks - Whiteboard YES

Very informational and love the white board!!

Thanks for the little white board thing. I remember my optimist instructors as a kid right now. Very educational. Taking that big half orange thing out of the biggest Santa`s sock ever seemed dead easy and stuffing it back in too. At least the way you show it. Spinnakers can be treacherous like the hobbit`s trip to Mordor. ;-) We used to eat a lot of spinach like Popeye before flying the spinnaker.

Love the White Board! You guys hit it out of the Park - every video. Nice Sail! HAHA love the sail tie.

I m a Canadian that lives on the north shore of lake Erie and I am leaning to sail. I have been watching you from the beginning. Thank you so much for that video that was so well done. Cheers and keep the great videos coming.

I like the whiteboard. I’m a visual person and I admit I have two whiteboards in my office. They are always in frequent use!

Look like I will be watching this one a few times- until I am able to teach it. Makes a lot of sense! Thanks guys. Safe travels

Love the whiteboard!!! LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the spinnaker!!!!!!!!!

Simply the best ~!!!!!!!! Have wanted this chart for a long time and not just talk about it, you provide. Thank you. 😊👍👌🤘♥️⛵️🚣⚓️🍷✨

Excellent presentation in the sail assortment!

Fascinating for a guy who knows f - all about sailing (and people who know a bit no doubt) It's easy to see you were teachers, comprehensive education with whiteboards :)

That was a blast. Cheers for the info for non sailor. Really inspired to also do what you doing now. You guys are the best and conduct yourselves so well. Lots of blessings from inland South Africa.

As wanna be sailors we love your videos and are thirsty for informative videos like this one. Keep making em I say 👌👍💓😍🙏

very practical demonstration. I knew nothing about sailing but now I may buy a small boat to sail around the harbour for practice. The white board is very informative.

Fantastic session and so well explained with the white board. Thanks for sharing. You have the best quality video of all sailing channels.

Love the whiteboard - I need to see visually. Love the lessons.

I'm viewing all you r videos now. this was one of your wonderful because you got very good Insight. In how you feel while sailing. Digging their videos. Absolutely fantastic. You live the dream❤️

Really enjoy the white board sailing lessons. Keep up the journey!😀😀

Great vid...Great photography, Great aerial footage, great commentary...great, great ,great everything!!! Just another AMAZING video!!! This is why I watch your channel!!!!!!!!!!!!! PEACE OUT! Ü

One of your best and most informative videos, for that matter anybody's cruising videos.

Good job on explaining sails. More of this about sailing is excellent. 👍

Love the informative teaching. Great refresher course. Thanks so much for all your help.

Very informative. I've never sailed in a catamaran, so it's interesting to see some of the fundamental differences between that and a monohull. The explanation and demonstration were great, even if you were a novice. Happy sailing.

The white board is great!!!!! Don't stop using it. Thanks

We like the whiteboard, your teaching style and valuable info! John has his Canadian Yachting Association and Coastal Navigation Certifications. We live in Florida now and are taking a boating safety course from the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary. We plan to start with sailing the Caribbean. Lori and John

Hi Ben / Ashley, Thanks! Great with the whiteboard and the information for us 'nubes', keep it going please! Could you also recommend a case and mounting system for the iPads that you use for the nav station please?

Love the whiteboard. I watch for the fun and adventure, but I don't know jack about sailing, So the whiteboard certainly helps understand what your talking about.

You know I agree keep the white board. I really took your point if you think it do it. That really is a very safe way to protect your sails to safety of the Cat. I think that was your best one. Well up to the point when you started wrapping your head with the sail TIE!!! Cut him off Ashley!!!! Lmao

Nice . Didn’t know you were instructors. I stopped the video and went and got a bench and now I’m just one of the kids. Thanks and keep it up , which of course can be taken many ways

Beautiful spinnaker - looks like my countryman Thor Heyerdahl's modern "KON-TIKI". Have fun you two....

Very informative, thanks for taking the time in putting that presentation together 👍

White board rocks. Thanks for sharing.

As we are getting ready fly to France for the delivery of our catamaran this summer, this is really useful, thank you.

Love the "how to" videos. Especially the ones on fishing. You two really know your stuff!

I have never liked screwing around with a spinnaker. A main a Genoa and a JIB are all I need.

The time to reef is the first time you think about it. You can get hurt shortening sails when it gets rough.

Nothing like showing off your new toys, love y'all.

Really enjoy these episodes!

I like these sailing ed videos. Good stuff!

Great video! You guys are so awesome. Please keep the whiteboard, it really helps me understand what you're saying... You two are simply the best on KZfaq in my onion... Thank you!

How does this channel not have more subs?! Seriously amazing content each and everytime. You two are awesome.

Ashley your are awesome , I like the white board stuff and Susan has learned a lot from you. That is what she is telling me. Ben you are OK too.

Love the whiteboard and instructional vids.

I love the fact that Ben's pointer is a beer bottle!!!! Love it!

Ben and Ashley, I checked your location. You are near Boracay island. OMG never miss to see it. A popular tourist area. I was born in Iloilo, now residing in Toronto, Ontario. I never see the island myself. Lol...Pls check it out. Cheers!!!

Keep the whiteboard coming!!

Outstanding! Yes, keep the white board, for us visuals it works wonders. Great info, insight and presentation...

This was great. I especially like the rule, "when we talk or think about reefing, we reef." More sailing lessons with the whiteboard, please. You might make a cardboard silhouette of your boat so you can slap a new one up there quickly. (I'm a professor, so pedagogic tools are always on my mind.)

I love my asymmetrical for downwinding on my cat. It’s easy to fly single handed. A lesson from sailing Impi was to add a Tylaska shackle to the tack and in a second you can dump all the power out of the sail and pull down the sock. Keep the white board it’s great 😃

Big thumbs up and five stars ! Thank you.

Awesome guys...you are so full of energy. Thanks for the lesson👍👍

love the whiteboard - but only if it is topic critical adding value

Another great video. Thanks for sharing some of the decision making process.

Definitely a yes on the white board. Ever been under bare poles? Got any video of that?

Awesome video!!! Keep the whiteboard. I love your videos. What's the difference & benefits between asymmetric and symmetric Spins.

I like your way you "teach" us :)

hi I live Bremerton Washington and have lot's of different places and conditions to sail in. I just want to say thank you for this video on the different sails and how they are used . spin, zero ,main /gen I have just bought a 40" island pack and it needs some work and new sails now I know what I want and how to use. it has been a while for me sailing so as soon as I am ready I will become a world citizen, so sails are something I want but not all the sails so thank you for explaining the use of the spin and zero .

Simply love it. If ever you are heading for Mauritius. ..please please let me know. I live there..

Brilliant - love the whiteboard - Now & Then :-)

love you guys... i've been a sailing instructor for 14 years ;-) I live by the whiteboard ..

What a great episode, very informative. Huge fan from Brisbane Australia. Sail within your limits. Stay safe!

Love all the content even the white board lol

You are very good instructors 👏

Great advice and good seamanship that most sailors live by..........if you're thinking or talking about powering down/changing sails, reefing DO IT!

White Board Genius!

Great video! Love the new spinnaker!

my fav sailing crew on the you tube yeww

You guys are awsome! Hope to meet you out there some day! The white board is a keeper :P Cheers

nice job on the sail inventory and of course the 101 on how to use them , luv the White board, sometimes it’s good just seeing how the boat functions and the systems you use . Luv your work great vid 🙏😎

definitely keep the whiteboard. love it, thanks

Excellent as usual guys. I like the whiteboard too. Thanks and best from grey and windy HKG

Damn Spinnaker looks fantastic cool

Lovin the white board - - - - & I'm stealing the "start with something".

Great vid, once again. Helpful given all the sail plan choices available. Cant recall if you carry a pole at all for poling out the CZ or Genoa. Also, thoughts on A sails and storm jibs? Seems like your combo is ideal and easiest for trades. Lastly, is your CZ furler a torsion cable system which needs to be cranked very tight?

Yes, whiteboard. Nice tech video as always. Thanks.

Fantastic episode guys. I'll be using this for crew training...

loving your vids, best on the tube

This is a ton of information thank you so much for posting. I can’t wait to buy a catamaran go out with you. Next time your in the Gulf of Mexico come to mobile AL love to go sailing with you

Dope hat Ashely!! Big love to you guys from the Kootenays.

Ok. That was fun to watch. Thanks

Excellent episode.

Great explanation and entertaining 😄 Best advice in your video: If you just think you should reef, then reef! Good one.