Ep 12: Sailboat Winch Handling 

I'm learning to sail,and honestly these are the best videos I've seen on RU-vid...most sailing videos I see are just glamorous couples in exotic places and no information...thank you so much.

This video on "safe winch handling" is forwarded to all the new sailors in advance of their coming on board Very positive feedback on this video

Mind blown. Really like the real time view at the end

Another guy learning to sail here! Appreciate your time and effort to make these

Thank you, very useful. I've just bought my first boat and trying to learn as much as possible while I'm fixing her up.

Hi Marco, excellent instructional videos. I recently got my ASA101 certification, however no so much information was provided on winch handling and techniques. I appreciate your dedication to provide these videos to new sailors like me. I’ve seen your single handing videos hopefully you can make more of those dedicated to solo sailing. As you said in one of them many times I want to go sailing but I can’t find friends or crew to go with. So I want to do what you did, go out by myself and put in practice my knowledge and learn from mistakes and experience, of course following safety procedures first. Thanks again. Keep those videos coming. Carlos

Agree with all the other comments - these videos are excellent. Thank you for designing, presenting and posting them.

Well done, I will forward all your videos to all my newcomers. André in Sydney

I fell backwards onto a winch handle once. Talk about painfull. My winch handle is now always stored in a pocket, not in the winch.

I'm just so grateful because these are just the best videos there are. I use this exact technique on my Erickson 30 plus and I learned from you. Thank you

Seriously good stuff on this channel. Thank you.

Excellent video, thanks again!

Thanks for this! I almost got my hand caught in a line during a tack in about 25+ knots of wind one day and didn't wanna make that mistake again.

Well done, thanks.

great camera work!

Learned so much from it. Thank you. Even the sailing instructors need to learn from this series how to teach students.

Great video, thank you

Very instructive video. Thank you

Great video and the your lessons to consider. Learning a lot from your channel 👍

Great stuff! I knew most of this from training way back, it's good to see why I do it how I do it =D

I crewed for a tyrant skipper once. His rule about expensive winch handles was: "If I hear a winch handle go overboard, I want to hear TWO splashes." 😆

very informative, thank you

Single hand my 322 most of the time! Comforting to see I've learned to use the same techniques I see you using Marco!

Great video and channel! Hopefully will help for my Day Skipper course

Thanks for putting these videos together. I will use this to share proper winch handling procedure with my guests. I also need some help with what to do with extra lengths of lines on the cockpit floor. It drives some of my OCD guests crazy to see lines on the floor, but that's the only way I know how to keep my active lines.

Excellent ❤️

Thanks for the refresher. Been sailing on smaller boats where I usually dont need a winch or use the handle so my technique has gotten sloppy.

Thank you!

Thank you for the video, very clear explanation, most helpful. I am always nervous easing a line on a large winch and want to learn how to do it safely.

Great videos and very clear instruction. Just a little surprised you don't emphasize to keep thumbs pointed towards you away from the winch - some of the pictures they seem rather scarily close

THANK u ❤️❤️❤️

one other safety reason for racers to leave the handles in, is that they sometimes get into close quarters with each other at speed, esp. rounding bouys and racing marks, so need to tack quickly at a moments notice, and to do this the handles need to be left in 'operating' position.

Hi, you mention that using a single wrap is preferred when tailing a line or else you can have an override. What is meant by an override? Thanks!

I wish I could take lessons with you but I'm in the US.

According to my right jaw, rules 1,2 and 3 of safe winch handling are: never move a handle by handling the handle…

How many winch handles does a typical boat have?

8:34... Whole maneuver...

0:45] I really like this video, it is very informative, but this little bit makes me smile. I believe in a "supportive learning environment" too - except at the hand grenade range. Ever actually been to the hand grenade range? At the hand grenade range, everything gets really real, you do precisely, and *only,* what your instructor tells you to do, or you, he, or the two of you together might die because of *your stupid mistake* - you are the only one with the live grenade in your hand. More hand grenade instructors die than students. Why? the instructors are trained to save their students from their mistakes. Do you mean the instructor's mistakes or the student's mistake? Yes! Super harsh for the wife. Which wife?

It looks like sailboat is a lot of work, I'll just wait and save up some more money and buy the Silent 60 instead ,It's a electric Catamaran, Comes with Solar panels instead of sails, The sun can takes you where the sails can, I wonder if I could start a Go-fund-me for $4 mils to buy one?