Bruce you show the majesty of the Oday Daysailer! Your video's could bring her back into production?! I always liked many aspects of the Oday's and you are reminding me why they were so popular in the 70's 80's. Thanks for your time "producing" - R
This is an absolutely wonderful video job. You show lots of sailing. You can see the set of the sail, the position of the rudder, the motion of the boat. Great job.
Great video.. it seems like your have a fun group to sail and camp with. I would like to see more about how you set up your boat for camping. I have the same boat.
Hi Andrew,There is some footage of my camping setup in some of the other videos.Being built here my boat has a large sleeping platform in the bow which I don’t know if you can do with the US Daysailers unless you pull out the forward bulkhead.
We owned a Oday Mariner from 1968 to 2006. We sailed to Nantucket Mass from Cape Cod at least once a Summer. We sailed around Cape Cod and north to Portsmouth New Hampshire. This model was not self bailing. Which gave it really deep seats in the cockpit. Very comfortable. At that time, when the conditions piped up, that low freeboad and not self bailing was a risk. Never had a problem. Now, many years later, I have a better appreciation of the risk. I also sailed the Day Sailer. They love downwind. You were smoking. They can be a little tender beating into plus wind. In races they do capsize. In fact when they train Day Sailer racers, they train them to flip them back up. With those relatively flat conditions you were sailing in they were perfect for the day sailer down wind. I thought she might be a handful beating back to the anchorage under full sail. It seems the wind died down a little bit.
Thanks for the info,it sounds like you did some great cruising with the Mariner. I was looking for a Mariner when I came across the Daysailer.There are hardly any in Aus so was lucky to find my boat. I have practiced a capsize to check I can self save and was surprised how doable it was.There was a lot of bailing afterwards though.Having the mast sealed is a great help to stop from turtling.So far I haven’t come close to a real capsize but if it happens I hopefully will be able to get going again.
To the people from foreign countries watching, this is mid winter Australia, sunny T shirt weather and lovely sailing conditions. How good is it here eh fellas, I can't wait to get my little trailer sailer sorted and get out on some adventures
I love your channel !!! Just bought a Sonata 6 and now wish I'd bought an Oday :) Maybe I can have two boats...and a Drascombe lugger and and and and...
Very nice video Bruce. You're sailing the DS really well and showing it's capabilities - fast, quite stable, able to be easily single handed and can carry a load of camping gear. They are great boats. I've owned two of them since 1994 - a '69 and an '86. Looks like you have new Rollie Tasker sails? I shared your two open water videos with the other Day Sailer owners in our sailing club in LaCrosse, Wisconsin and they got lots of views. Thanks for the excellent DS videos, they should inspire lots of sailors to get out and enjoy the wind. I'd also like to let others know that they are still in production at Cape Cod Shipbuilding.
Thanks for the feedback Lee. I am glad you think I am sailing the DS well as there are hardly any of them here in Aus to get a gauge on.My sails are old but hardly used Neil Pryde. I bought the boat from the original owner who hardly ever used it in the last few years. I did notice new boats are being built but got no reply to the enquiry I sent to the builder.Do you happen to know the price of a new boat? I am happy with my own boat but know of some other people who may be interested in a new one. Regards Bruce
Awesome video Sir I came across your channel after watching Sailing Kate Louise I am subscribing and looking forward to watching more of your videos I'm in the process of buying y Canadian built Vandestadt and Mcgruer Siren 17 daysailer.
@@brucedyson-smith459 Thanks for the answer! I want to build a boat for hiking with my son. I am currently looking at various projects. Can you give advice on choosing a model for construction?
Thanks! My boat is an Oday Daysailer which is an Uffa Fox design from 1957 I think.She is around 260kg and is production fibreglass with no added ballast.Swing centreboard and built in 1975.They were very popular in the US with over 10000 built.Mine was built in Aus and seem to be fairly rare these days.
You really had her moving very well. It is a bit intimidating for novices like me to see that. I am an aspiring raider, but it may be decades before I have the level of seamanship required to mix it with the big boys in conditions like that!
@@brucedyson-smith459 hi Bruce, I gathered that from the heading but I wanted to know length, keel type, draft presumably if lifting keel, any ballast water or otherwise. Really enjoy your videos and sailing Kate Louise. A great bunch of friends enjoying a fun hobby. Thks
Hi sorry just saw your reply.My boat is 16’9 long 6’3beam.swing centreboard unballasted.Draft is 3’6 board down 10inches board up.No water ballast,weight is around 280kg. Cheers Bruce
@@brucedyson-smith459 hi Bruce sounds overall great size and weight ratio for towing and no need for ballast simplifies everything. That’s well up my street for a trailer sailer. Thks
