Sailing Lessons: The basics (part 1)

i didnt notice the cough until i read the comments. thanks guys.

sailing in Kansas?

coughing guy probably masturbated before coming to class. That is why he is sick :) haha Don;t jack off before sailing; you need the energy.

stop coughing you piece of shit.

I'm gonna punch coughing guy in face!!!

Probably a very good video, but you need to put the coughing guy away from the microphone, His coughing and pencil tapping are really distracting and interupts the audio, which is just as important as the video

Great video! The "33 sailing tips & tricks" book brought me here :)

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Nice info, I sail a lot. I race optis and its really quite fun. Thumbs up

Anyone recommend a book title that covers the basics as this video does?

that guy who keeps coughing needs to get out.

Jewface?

One small error: When Matt defines Freeboard, he refers correctly to the Waterline. But when he gets to Waterline LENGTH (LWL), he misdefines it as freeboard (distance from deck to water). Half of these terms are more interesting to a sailing geek like me than a first-day student, IMO.

Sailing a 420 with a THC sail? okay!

Great job Mr. Cross. The only thing you did not do is throw the sick guy out of your class. I hate him

Excellent reminder of what its all about.Thank You. It wasn't the cough that was a problem it was how close he was to the microphone. Those were loud dynamics.

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John T  

What you have is the back in the boat in your control. Push the tiller away the back of the boat goes with it. Maybe that's a personal point but I found it worked to the point that it became so engrained in my consciousness that when I moved to wheeled keel boats I spent much of the having to battle my instinct to steer the back of the boat with the wheel. Worked really well on dinghys and small keelboats tho. :-) I had a lot of fun in i420s over the years. Great boats.

Good lecture. A few points. You should tell them why waterline length is such a big deal in a dinghy. Some early mention of the three modes of dinghy sailing would be useful even just as a reference. Telling them hull waterline length is important without talking about displacement mode top speeds is not crystallising the lesson imho. About the tiller acting in the opposite way to the wheel of a car. I came to think about the tiller as steering the back of the boat.