THE BEST DESCRIPTION I HAVE EVER SEEN OF HOW A CUNNINGHAM WORKS AND SHOULD BE SET UP. THANK YOU ! An ace example of some very clear communication using video.

I am a beginner and you are now my 'GO TO' for clear, concise, uncomplicated explanation and demonstration for sail settings. Your style and delivery is 'pitch perfect' and a godsend to sailors like me. Thank you so much 😊

I am just learning to sail and I find your explanations very easy to understand. Reading about it and looking at pictures is no substitute for the real thing. Thank you for producing and posting the videos. You are the best that I've found at explaining even the simple procedures to a budding sailor. I am 56, you can teach an old dog new tricks! Don.

This is a fantastic video on explaining the purpose of the cunningham and draft. You cant find a better explanation anywhere else.

You are awesome. I have been sailing for years and have never quite understood all that. 7.5 min worth of information for the rest of my sailing life's use. Thank you!

Excellent explanation on how to use the Cunningham, thank you.

s/v Unbridled Coming back to sailing as I retire, I am grateful for your comprehensive instructional videos. Thank you.

These videos are brilliant. I've been sailing all my life, on larger yachts for the last 4 years, but with these videos, I'm learning the science and techniques for the first time.

Thank you!! 🎉just started sailing, wasn’t sure what to do with this line.

Guys. Many thanks a lovely clear and well thought out tutorial. The simplicity of language and clarity that conditions are dynamic make this a must view.

So informative - the Cunningham makes such a difference. This is on my 'must-have' list for my next yacht 👍🙏

I appreciate the quality of your content and how well the topic is explained. Each video is the same (actually better) as a chapter in learn to sail book. Thank you.

Hi there, I really like the way you put all the examples and explain everything. Thanks for being so kind in sharing your knowledge and experience with us. great !!!

you're a great teacher, and you sound like a lovely patient man. Thanks for making your excellent videos.

Thank you for this detailed and educational video.

You do a great job of getting the information across in very usable terms. Thank you!

Great video! You cleared the mystery around the cunningham for me.

Excellent video! Very well done and explained. Thank you.

Hi, I'm one of the sailors you mention that has been sailing (big cuizing yachts) for many years and rarely used a cunningham. I've just set up an older Etchell for a bit of fun sailing on weekends. Your video was very helpful and very well explained, thanks for sharing.

I don’t know the first thing about sailing, but that was interesting! Thanks!

Thank you! Very well described, easy to understand and practical.

Great video. Thanks for posting.

Fascinating Video, thanks for posting.

Hello Thanks for these videos. Your instructions are clear and easy to understand. A+

Still one of the best tutors on the web. Where are you now, why did you stop posting?

Excellent explanation. Tks

Thank You ! lovely video with not only great content, but excellent timing and thoughtful/clear graphics. a wonderful explanation. if i had a boat, i would go directly out there and install a cunningham .. perhaps .. two ! PDZ is correct about angles of attack vs incidence. Thank You again for your sound advice.

Great how you compared it to the halyard, I'm always curious why we use some methods of tensioning, trimming, etc as opposed to others that appear to do a similar thing. Very helpful!

Thanks for the quick reply. I very much enjoy your postings - extremely helpful!

I need a Cunningham. I need a boat first, but after I get one: Bam! Cunningham!

Very clear and useful to many. However I don't think some of this applies to fractional rigs and masts that bend, the dynamics are very different and depending on boat the mast bend and leech may be affected significantly by luff tension. Consider a windsurfer but take it back a notch, sail boards are all about cranking the luff to bend the mast and loosen the leech (let it flow out baby), fractional rigged boats are somewhere in between in my humble view. But this would be useful for yachts and trailables with fully supported/stiff masts.

thanks, learning everday

you the best. simple about hard

Thank you.

Hm, as a non sailor but a pilot, my only quibble is "Angle of incidence". It really ought to be called Angel of attack (alpha) - incidence would be the geometric angle to the boat, not the apparent wind. But like I said - I know very little about sailing, but these videos are very useful.

Great explanation- but what does Roach mean?? Do you mean Leech - the aft side of the sail???

thanks alot!

good video!, i'll look the rest..

Thanks. Good info there for this novice.

Thanks a lot for all your instructional videos. Saying hello from s. Korea! If the angle of incidence gets larger (by moving the draft forward), the apparent wind may start to hit the back of the luff. Does that make it difficult to point?

Very useful videos thank you. One quick question as a dinghy sailor have been generally advised to pull on the Cunningham when beating (in stronger winds) but your instructions seem to indicate that this actually makes it harder to point to the wind. Perhaps the advice I have previously seen is simply because it reduces the power and hence less likely to have to ease the main to depower... but do you have any thoughts on this? Thanks

Hi, thank you for this its a great video. if your Cunningham is not holding any tension then would your draft be at 60% or 50% if 50 then how do you get the draft to 60 on most boats? great video thank you

very good video. Maybe you can improve showing more clarly were the mast is in the picurs of the % where you have to adjust the sail. Still, one of the best videos I found. Thank you very much!. I'm hoping to see how to trim the genoa soon..

Thanks for this. But what if the main has been reefed? Would you reroute the Cunningham.?

Great video, wich model are those pulleys to direct the halyards aft? Thank You.

Some of your diagrams are back-to- front eg. 1:57 vs 2:15. Boat pointing left/ boat pointing right ?

Thanks! Now I know what those things are heheheh. I one the guys that have it and does not (DID NOT) even know what they are.

U have a tunning guide for 420 sail boats?

How does this play out when reefing?

I plan to install a Cunningham on my boat over the winter. I got some good information about the set of fiddle blocks I should use, but the line that runs through the cringle and is secured on the coach roof seems like it would require a lot more strength than the tiny pad eye shown in the video. Any thoughts on how to determine what level of force would be needed for a heavy 35' cruiser (Niagara 35)?

Showing us that Cunningham tension is moving a draft forward, you present the opposite picture of the draft!

How would you install a Cunningham on a inmast furler?

PLEASE COMMENT ON ADJUSTING SIDE STAY TENSION; TIGHTER FOR WINDIER LESS TIGHT FOR LIGHTER WINDS THUS ALLOWING THE MAST TO BEND. GARY

Yes, video was first rate.

*weary sigh, so, lets look at the Cunningham...

Harken Carbo fiddles

No volumn... can't hear anything... Fair Winds...