How to sail double handed: Expert sailor, Pip Hare's, guide to dropping an assymetric spinnaker 

You had plenty of time to practice the gybe videos then 🤣

Glad it helped!

You can. From the companionway, set the tack first, oversheet, and when hosting it : be sure to guide the sail away from the rig

I was thinking the same thing. I would also like to get into sailing one day but it would only be me, myself, and I. I've seen people singe hand sail but not sure how practical it would be. Especially when things get dicey. I know for one, having electric/hydraulic sail winchs are a must.

@@Recklessness97 yeah it seems like modern boats are all moving toward electric and hydraulic winches, and I think modern autopilots are really useful too. Maybe in 10 years when a lot of these newer boats are showing up in the used boat market I’ll be able to afford one.

Plenty of sailors use their spinnaker single handedly, and not only racers. Socks and furlers can help on big boats, allowing you to manage these sails when the wind blows.

I flew the 80m symmetric on my last 10m boat singlehanded. It came down when true wind reached 15knts. I now have a 100m asymmetric on a12m boat and it's more difficult, I'm getting a furler for it. I dropped the symmetric into the foredeck hatch. Halyard streams over the back of the boat with a turn on the winch to dampen drop speed and remove kinks. I drop halyard by ½ meter then put a slip knot in at mast foot turning block, leaving the jammer open .I can then sit on foredeck, pull the slip knot and stuff kite into hatch from one place. I don't have electric winches or furler and can't see how they would help during the drop.

Sadly we had to turn off comments from that video as there were a lot of homophobic comments posted which we won't tolerate.