Especially thank you for a safety turn tip

you guys are an awesome team. keep up and thanks for all the tips!

Raised sails a gazillion times, but always good to reinforce your habits. Liked how you figure-eight the lazy sheets when not used, and the "safety wrap" on the active jib sheet winch. And of course "No Flappy Jibs" allowed!

great video! I charter once a year, so it is always nice to see your videos and keep learning. I always find a new tip which will help me in my next trip. Thanks for this!!!!

Great video and channel. Quick to the point and not over explaining

Awesome. Thanks a lot!

I like your focus on safety! Thanks!

Excellent video guys! My wife and I are sailing virgins so this really helps. A tutorial on how to take the sails down would be helpful as well.

Great video thank you

Love the videos guys, keep em coming!

Love the content.

Thank you so much. Your instruction is super clear. Moreover, the breaking up the subject into distinct segments makes for an easy progressive understanding of the whole process.

Found your channel and think its great to share with newbies looking to join afloat - it covers the basics and gives a sense of 'this is what to expect' ..... and why !

A masterclass , thank you guys!!!

Well presented guys. Thorough and understandable. However, "friction, friction, friction" is a nice reminder that high-quality, low friction cars; proper sheaves (even at 1:1); halyard exiting the mast at a point higher than a tall person can reach (great ergonomically for pulling the halyards), plenty of winches at the mast, and proper granny bars allow one (average) person to raise the main (even on a 56') 2/3 of the way up before needing a winch. My high school English teacher said irony was the difference between appearance and reality. It appears, and it's often hyped, that lines led aft improve safety. Here comes the irony. In addition to increasing spaghetti in the cockpit (safe?), the likelihood of breakdowns needing immediate attention increases with rough, dangerous conditions, necessitating an ironic climb out of the spaghetti cockpit to the heaving forelock. If one wants to function effectively on deck in poor conditions, one needs to achieve familiarity in good conditions. Please understand this rant is directed at certain schools of thought in sailboat and rigging design, not toward you sailing virgins. Even just your philosophies in flaking lines are indicative of good seamanship. I have much to learn yet from your channel. Keep it coming.

Pinkies are cheaper than thumbs! Yes they are!

You guys have a great channel!! Finally a channel that doesn't only explains everything but also shows it (and in very high quality + great editing)! Keep up the good work!!

Ahhh the Pitons 😍 my painting of them looks great but not quite the real deal! Loved the start of the video with some island footage!

Thanks guys for putting the videos together. Just found you yesterday and like what you do.

Great work

great video very helpfull

Great videos, many thanks have learnt a lot. Might you do one on single line reefing please? How to avoid loops etc?!

Great channel! A lot of information at once. Clear as mud. If you have a rigid boom vang, why do you need a topping lift?

Solar powered mayne!

A little explanation on the topping lift and the vang would have helped. Love these videos though.

Great video guy's. Clasic how too. We have a Farr designed rig with a 105% jib and High aspect ratio. We find from our racing days that the Jib needs to be set first then the main pulled in to form the slot for acceleration over the main. The mains still the power house but the jib sets the cut and shape for the all important slot. Any thoughts? Ant & Cid xx SV Impavidus.

A flappy sail is an unhappy sail :)

@3:14 Not to be nit-picky, but isn't it better to bring in the dinghy by wrapping the line around the cleat, instead of putting tension on the stanchion?

Hi guys, My boat has line rollers with track sliders down the decks for adjusting the head sail. Sorry I do not have the proper name. I understand how they will adjust the sail (and not have a flappy top) but do I have to fuel it up every time I need to slide the roller forward or backward or is there a trick to adjust it while the sail is out? I guess a quick tack and back would do the trick to take off the tension but what a pain to tweak it. Any advice?

Could you explain what you’re looking for when the main is raised appropriately? Sounds like some wrinkles, but hard to tell in the video. Thanks!

keep sailing, never start singing - tx :)

Love your vids. This one, however, would have benefitted with showing how to stop sailing and lowering the sails. Nose to wind? Close hauled? Something else?

Thanks guys this info is most welcome,i have just come from a motor boat to a sailing boat and of yet not had the chance to take it out,the boat is a sun oddesey 32 ft and i`m a total beginner but have been out on a friends boat abt 6 times,is their any advise you or anyone can give to a single handed sailing from England.

Hello, I notice a rigid boom Vang on the boom. Why would you need a topping lift as well? Or is it not the type that supports the boom?

What about the clew on the main. How is that secured for the first reef on your boat?

Hi ! super interesting thank you. what boat are you on in this video ?

You guys do okay and that, but that boom is swinging to and fro as you raise sail its like there's no preventer tackle. Isn't that gybe supposed to be risky with a hand on the deck? Another thing, ya figure 8 your free lines and just toss 'em on the cockpit floor, if a house cat got loose on deck that could all go south. Wouldn't a belaying pin or cleat to hang 'em up be neater and all? Thanks for the instructive upload.

You forgot to pull in the reffing line

How does a single handed sailor raise the mainsail? Seems like it's a two man job?

Never heard of it being called a piano

Call me old fashioned, but those figure of eight lines hurt my soul...

Hi i dont no how to sail

No reason the main halyard should be that difficult. You have issues.