How to set up for downwind sailing without a spinnaker | Yachting World 

so. You're one of these guys who already knows everything about sailing? congratulations, thats a very small group. in fact You're the only one. MORON.

Admiral Genius No, he (and I) don't know everything, which is why we're here, and wasted 5 minutes of our day (which you might gather I don't much appreciate), AND we didn't learn anything (nothing to do with the presenter being a woman, and rather has to do with a lazy video). It's a video trolling for clicks: good title, but nothing presented you wouldn't learn on your first day out. I've already watched much better today and I'll find better yet I suspect before today is over. You want to call him on his sexism fine, but don't call him a moron for saying he didn't learn anything from a poorly made video.

Admiral Genius And to further clarify, if this was "Jim Bob's sailing blog" I wouldn't care (I wouldn't be here bordering on being an ass), in fact if Jim Bob had said I don't bother flying a spinnaker and instead here's what I do…fine, maybe even a thumbs up. But SHE does fly a spinnaker, and she's just instructed us to do 95% of the setup for flying a spinnaker, and called it "hassle free": it's disingenuous. When I come to Yachting World to see a video they have from a professional sailor, there are certain expectations, and this feels more like false pretext.

Attach a small cleat, ring, or handle? Hope this helps 😆

I don't understand this question.

@@neleabels Do you really think he understands his own question🙄

Mauser M03 Blog RU-vid rates videos by seconds watched (or rather seconds watched adds points to the algorithm) so the more extra seconds you watch, the higher their video rates…and both you and I and everyone else watched an extra 15 seconds…that's why.

Thanks for this explanation Wilfred. Much appreciated. :-)

In light wind ? Just fly your jib wing on wing. Takes attention so a bit tiring if passage is long - but is it long ?

That's why she is a racer and not an instructor 😁

@@seeuathebeach and anyone who has raced just a few racers understands her.

If thinking about downwind sailing look also at this: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7xGaCczvKHA.html

Who wants to buy a square? Duh!

Not every boat has a spinnaker & sails can tear.

Spinnaker tears, your boat doesn’t have one, also it can be fun to try different methods of doing the same thing. Admittedly this is terrible for a race setup, but for yachting it’s fun to just play around with your boat, and see what you can do. Not to mention the spinnaker is a very fiddly sail, quite annoying for long-haul downwind sailing.

@@stoutyyyy agreed. We keep ours below deck. This probably benefits a shorthanded sailor the most. Keeps you on deck, and doesn't require you to haul up a large spinnaker.