I used to race Formula cars, now I race sailboats. Honestly, the boats are more thrilling. Hard to describe that feeling to non sailors! These boats look like a blast!

That is an insane amount of sail area! But they look absolutely beautiful!

Got to sail on one of these amazing boats when I was in college. I had done a bunch of small boat sailing at the Severn Sailing Association in Annapolis. Solings, International 14's etc. NOTHING is like horsing these beasts around a race course. They will capsize at the dock when the mast is in. Just getting the boat moving was like the Bolshoi Ballet. Truly a great experience.....

I wept with joy whan I saw this. Thanks.

Wow, these boats are spectacular!

I had such a wonderful season sailing on these "canoes" with Brad J and his crew. Crazy down river sprints and no prisoner starts. Brilliant!

Sailing is never booring, even in light winds. Interesting boats.

Amazing racing timing the counterbalance at the exact time when it’s needed!

Beautiful little boats

those boats look like a blast

Extraordinaire et pour tout dire magnifiques voiliers

And I thought those outisland Bahamians could max- out a waterline , just beautiful !

Capsizing one of these looks like a nightmare !

Been racing for over 50 years so I say this with all due reverence... You guys are nuckin' futs!

Interesting seeing the balanced jib setup. No winches needed, just a light touch on the sheet.

Used to race half deckers and sailing cruisers on Norfolk Broads, UK ; don’t get too excited as to what we call our lakes and rivers! I used to take Wooden Boat magazine and always wanted to build a Banagat Bay half decker that looked as if it would fit Norfolk conditions admirably. Nothing as extreme as this but good fun. This looks fantastic!

Wow, these are beautiful boats! Looks like loads of fun sailing these. I would have liked to see footage when they tag or jibe. Particularly, I would like to see how they change the sitting boards to the other side.

I had no idea these beautiful boats existed. Nice to see them well turned out and must have an all Dacron rule on the sails. It might get a bit spicy when rounding marks.

Hiking planks on big heavy boats like these is nuts and fabulous all at once!! And those rigs??? Thanks so much for posting this...

Magnificent yachts.. I would love to go sailing on one of them anytime... whoooo hoooo....

Fantastic Andy!

Thanks for this. As an SF Bay sailer including on Bird Boats (now racing more than 100 years), I've always been curious how the log canoes worked.

Looks like some serious fun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Great stuff. Good day out on the water. Especially, getting a group of people that size together and enjoying the fresh air with each other.

As a former Flying Cloud crew member, this video brings back many fond memories. Thank you!

Gorgeous. Never had the pleasure but back in the day I would have followed along on my lazer. Good job shooting.

Wow. I've been sailing my whole life, and I've never seen these. We don't have anything like them in the UK. Fantastic sailing.

I have seen photos of these both before but never video. This is wonderful. You have a new subscriber.

What a graceful design. Amazing!

I race keel boats. These canoes look beautiful but tricky!

Thanks for posting. I've never seen this class of boat before. They look like great fun to sail.

What beautiful boats! 2 and 3 masted Schooners? Bow sprits, stern sprits, counterbalance beams. (I don't know the terminology.) What a great day out for the crews! Most Excellent!

quite the unusual riggs!

Not seen these boats before, they're very beautiful.

I saw island bird and persistence in 2019 log canoe regatta at Cambridge Yacht Club!

not a life vest among them, brilliant

I love these old regional one-designs that one sometimes come across. These sailing canoes are very unusual and look like a lot of fun. I wonder if there are any boatbuilders in the Chesapeake area that still build them?

That was great! Thanks for sharing.

What extraordinary boats. Out of this world sail plans. Loved the video.

Nice to see new footage from onboard. Well done, keep shooting!

Nothing like pure Mother Nature and harnessing her power!

I've heard about these most of my life and have never seen or especially be on one! Love the tops'l logos! Gr8 videography Andy

Friends I introduce to sail either love it or hate it...

Great video. Proud to say I’ve had the honor of sailing with you. I was the “guest John” few weeks back!!

I had completely forgotten about the Chesapeake log canoes! As for exciting sailing: Sunfish race to provide the new kids’ their first race. I have 3 guys as crew, young brothers of my sailing friends, ages 8 to 10 (I was 17). A storm rolls in at the start. As the wind rises in gusts and bursts, we round the first mark in the lead by many boat lengths. The reaching mark requires a jibe, or a reverse tack loop. The wind now has to be over 30 knots. I jibe…stupidly. Boat turns turtle spilling all 4 of us into the water. No one is hurt. We right the Sunfish to find the top spar bent horizontal at the mast. Getting everyone aboard, we see the competition closing. Pulling in the sheet, we take off on a broad reach with the sail ballooning awkwardly. The boys shout over the wind dejected remarks as we steadily lose more of our lead. Yet we are screaming to the downwind mark as the race committee announces this is the sole lap due to the weather. Rounding the mark to tack to the finish finds the boat pointing about half as far upwind as an undamaged rig. The wind is even stronger as the rain begins, striking exposed skin like needles, into which we fly. As the competition closes to within a boat length, we cross the finish in first. The boys are ecstatic!

Wow amazing to see so many of them on the water together.

That's truly insane, I love it😊

Thanks for sharing - there are not many high quality log canoe race videos available!

Fantastic video that catches the feeling of racing tricky boats. What happened historically for some of the boats to have quite wide transoms? Canoe implies a canoe stern. I'm not asking to be annoying - just interested in what happened to the designs over time and why the variation appeared. Most obvious reason is more stability.

Wow! That looks like even more excitement than our FT 10m in 20 knts of wind.

What a strange rig. I wonder how you trim the top sail, looking as a windsurf rig, at the top of the main mast.

That is a huge crew...! Personally 49ers, Moths, are a bit more exciting. ;P

looks like fun racing, still able to tack somewhat quickly? i wonder what does it take to right them back up after a capsize?

This design looks to have been intended especially for light winds. Is that correct? No reef points, hardly any freeboard. (Very beautiful, tho').

Why didn’t the knocked down boat right itself? I was under the impression that monohulls right themselves basically immediately…

Moin, liebster André, Durch Zufall in dein Video gelangt. Da ich gleich los muß, schaue und höre ich es später. Ist sicher auch aufm PC? Bin im Vollstreß. Love Mehlerin ❤😊

The toughest job has the guy with the bucket..

I had a non sailing coworker comment the other day suggest that sailing may be boring because the lake is always the same. True... but the wind is always different. Thats what non sailors dont get. Its not about the lake. Its about the wind.

Nice seeing so many life jackets

On the Chesapeake, we always called the spinnaker a 'kite'. Perhaps that's the origin of the term

are those Oxen blocks on the jib sheets?

Pretty sure I would flip it the first time steering. Just put me in that lounge chair trimming the mizzen!

And I thought sailing a classic 12m is cool. This seems to be a step up on the ladder. Funny, that they use the same system like the Bahama sloops to get the weight outside.

nope never thought that only watching cus i wonder what the vid will show

No PFDs?

Tell us more. I've never seen boats of this kind before.

Yes. Next

Dudes.

Love the spill.Pushing a little to hard.

Boring! Anyone who has stood on the pointy end of a big yacht during a serious race start knows that it is one the noisiest, most hectic places in existence! Exhilarating.😁

So, the object is to have the most people sailing outside the boat?

Ingen har flytväst

The moment this becomes the norm of every day sailing, it is the day I stop sailing. Seriously, it is supposed to be fun, not a demolition derby.

They aren’t exactly log canoes. Barely canoes at all. Still, beautiful boats

No it’s not boring, but then it’s not really exciting either depends on the hull, these look like more fun than most.

OMFG. Talk about a missed opportunity. Anytime you have a vessel with this much canvas, self trimming ballast, slim long water lines and an enthusiastic class and you tell me its not boring..... BUT THEN you show a light wind day for the example of "not boring" (?) Damn go back and do it again when the conditions warrent a raised heart rate.

Not at all.

Another amazing KZfaq video ruined by annoying music.

That dramatic music is so annoying and unnecessary.

Very boring. Like watching paint dry.

Boooooring!