Rigging for beginners # 1. Sailboat rigging explained from standing rigging to running rigging. 

Water noise is little distracting.

The best 3 videos on youtube that explain modern rigging.

After three years of sailing classes, and sailing, this is by far the simplest and best explanation of rigging I've ever seen. Looking forward to exploring your other presentations. Thanks!

This is by far the best tutorial on sailboat rigging I have seen. Simple, yet masterful. Very well done! You’ve done a great service to the sailing community.

I worked in 3D Animation for several years. The amount of work involved in even such basic animation is quite intensive. Combined with a well scripted instruction these videos are invaluable to sailors and want-to-be sailors. THANK YOU for providing this. It would take years, BUT, have you thought of creating an interactive instructional game where student/players would create their boats, rig them, outfit them with various technology, (also register them in a tax free haven 😜),then be able to sail them globally in every weather condition imaginable? If this already exists, please someone tell me.

Instead of reading book pages and pages of books, wach this interactive guide. It explains all fundamentals in short and understandble way. Thank you.

Absolutely the best 3 rigging tutorials for a beginner. So clear and concise! Thank you so much!

Never sailed on a yacht and I get seasick in light conditions. But since the Corona lockdowns started I do nothing but look at yachting channels on RU-vid and dream about single handling the Atlantic. Starting to learn how my imaginary boat works thank to this channel.

I can't even begin to explain how perfect this was for me a complete beginner. Thank you so much for making this!

You should redo this video. Good info but very difficult to understand due to poor sound.

This is brilliant! Very helpful to understand all these parts and great resource to learn sailing terms for especially those who speak English as a second language. Thank you!

This is by far ... the BEST intro to sailing that we've found. Thank you. We plan on looking at a Hunter 50 CC soon, for cruising and live aboard. and this production and narratuion is IT ! We've watched your instruction videos over and oave. they're good... VERY good.

Wow. This is the clearest and easiest to understand explanation of rigging i have ever seen. Thanks!

Thank you for the time spent on your videos. As a guy just starting out your videos are perfect. The animations make it very easy to understand. Great job.

I am an avid viewer of sailing videos. Never sailed, myself, but it certainly looks exciting from my chair in front of my computer screen. This video is so educational and informative. Now I have a better understanding of what the crew must do for just a simple sail. thanks for explaining this to us.

Very well done. It's been a few years since I had a sailboat, and now that I'm crewing on another boat, this is helping me 'get back up to speed'.

Thanks for the great introduction, not only the terminology (which is quite handy for someone who only knows the terms in his native languge) but also the valuable details!

Excellent. You're an outstanding instructor. No rambling, no irritating music, no ego...just exceptionally clear and concise visuals and explanations. I've subscribed and look forward to more of your videos. (I also found your website very interesting and informative.)

Wow. As an entry-level sailor, I really appreciate both the great technology and detailed explanation. I can't wait to find more videos from you guys!

Excellent ! I took ASA 101-103 lessons and then watched these videos. Really Helpful to tie it all together. Appreciate the videos!

I could never quite understand the use of the topping lift and the vang. However, your visual presentation really cleared that up. Thank You!

Just returned from my first sailing trip in the Ionian sea. We had an experienced skipper but a clueless crew! I spent all week pulling ropes with only the vaguest idea what they all did, I wish I'd seen this before I went. This is a brilliant, clear and concise explanation. Thank you!

Perfect explanation... makes it simple to understand for anyone...

I hardly ever subscribe to channels, and even less frequently comment, however, this video and associated information is fantastic, so I'm doing both!. I've been sailing as crew for years and am refreshing ahead of doing my day skipper. These videos take the various processes from being brain intensive to intuitive due to the good tempo, clear animations and repetition (eg in reefing vid). Thank you for putting in the effort to create this awesome resource...

Your animation is outstandingly instructional. I should think this qualify a gold standard for any sailing schools for online teaching. Thank you so much.

Wow what an amazing video! Most informative sailing video on RU-vid

Love listening to a South African teaching me about sailing...

Hmm..I really like the ocean sound effect. Super helpful video. Thank you!

This video is so amazing. I don't know anything about sailboats and I am able to follow along and learn. So cool, great work!

Best presentation I've ever heard on the matter. I'm really glad I found you.

Best instructional video I have ever seen. Keeps you interested, easy to follow and so well laid out...great job and thank you.

For someone who knows absolutely nothing about sailing it looks confusing due to so many lines everywhere: channels like this are great. Cheers.

Thank you for your excellent video and instruction. Clear and at a easy speed to grasp everything you are explaining.. Can’t wait for more and really appreciate the work you have put in for the benefit of others. Well done.

Exactly what I've been looking for; easy explanation very easy to follow with this animated video. Thank you.

That was probably the best explanation I have ever heard. Thank you so much.

this is a GREAT video-- it is hard to find an easy-to-understand breakdown of rigging like this. Thank you!

Oh my god. I think this has to be the most educational and relaxing way to learn sailing!

Excellent video with superb explanations and visuals.Thank you for taking the time and trouble to produce.Never too old to learn.Rick/Seattle

You made everything look so simple! Excellent work

LOVE your animated instruction - ❤ I had a mental block on learning to sale. I just couldn't stand all the freaking stupid names because I couldn't process everything because I'm always looking for some intuitive reason why something is name something. Your animation is utterly fantastic! Greatly appreciate your labors on our behalf. What a wonderful channel. Thank you so much again 🙏

A damn good video. Ok ocean noise was a tad annyoing, but that was so simply and beautifully explained, that I just learned more in 12 minutes than I have from a dozen sailing trips with friends.

I have yet to see a simpler explanation with detailed visual depictions. All basic sailing courses should show this video. A real contribution to the sport. Well done!

This is probably the best instructional video I've ever seen in my life. Well done 🎉 There's so much talent in the making of this! Concise is the word.

Best graphics on this subject I have ever seen.Good work.

Never even been on a sail boat but i had watched a few RU-vid videos and wanted to know what was going on. I understood everything in this video, it all makes perfect sense! Thank you for explaining it slowly and with the animation! Awesome

This video is so good!!! I've never seen such a clear explanation. Thank you.

Very useful. Thanks for posting. Keep these tutorials for beginners coming please.

Best I've seen to date. Excellent use of graphics so thanks so much.

The videos on your channel are superb. Coming from motorboat experience, I am just getting into sailing and have been self-studying the basics; supplementing textbooks and simulators (eSail & Sailaway) with youtube videos to wrap my head around all the new nomenclature and procedures before committing to the effort and expense of taking proper lessons. I love the detail in these animations and the emphasis on clear pedagogy. Especially how close up views of the complete rigging paths (including routing, blocks, jammers, etc) of a prototypical bermudan sloop are added to a bare and de-cluttered vessel in a methodical and systematic order. And that the order components are introduced builds out from the fundamental purpose for each component, its rigging, and interaction with previously introduced rigging. The way your videos show each component individually highlighted with its nomenclature (including some synonyms) both spoken and displayed in text along with consistent color-coding and pacing is immensely clearer pedagogy than I've seen in virtually any of the books or videos I've looked at to date. And I love how when a new line or sheet is introduced, the basic procedures and safety considerations for hauling and easing it are described along with the constraining relations it has to other rigging. For example, this video's explanation of what the boom vang/kicker does and how it works in conjunction with the topping lift and mainsheet is perhaps the first time I've felt like I really understand it: why it's needed over just the weight of the boom and mainsheet when sailing downwind to keep tension on the leach and prevent the boom from lifting (thereby changing the sail curvature and spilling the wind near the head). And also how it - when otherwise not noticeably impacting performance - affects other mainsail operations. Notably when, why, and in what order it needs to be eased or tensioned when hauling the main or setting reefs. These videos are wonderful. Thank you!

really good explanations and animations. The best I have seen.

POV: you're marooned on an island, taking shelter in a cave while this guy tries to teach you how to sail back to civilization

This video is absolutely amazing. I couldn’t understand many things about rigging before and now is all cristal clear . Thank you so much 🙏🏻 This means the world for beginner sailors like me. Can’t wait to keep discovering more of your videos .

I'm a beginner but this vid was great. Really demystified the "rigging". Clear and precise. Fab!!

Very interesting video. I look forward to seeing the rest of them.

Brilliant explanation. The clearest yet. Thanks

I am just learning about my 25' cutter rig, full keel and this is a HUGE help. She lost her mast in a hurricane, so I will be doing all new rigging on a new mast. Great 3D animation! Thank you SO much. Fair Winds 😊⛵️

Excellent graphics to explain. Much appreciated

excellent video. thank you very much. I am a newbie and restoring a Santana 21, built by WD Schock in 1972. This video will help so much. Look forward to seeing the rest.

I am committed to watch all of your videos and looking for more. Excellent tutorial.

Excellent video! Very well done. Looking forward to catching the rest of the series.

Great Video, can't wait to see more of this same quality!

Great videos! As a new sailor this is a great reference. Animations are very well done and the presentation is awesome. Thanks publishing these videos.

Amazing video and very very useful information. Awesome explanation 👏🏾👍🏽

This is great. Very easy to understand and follow along. Thanks for the help!

Very helpful thank you! I had my first sailboat out on Lake Superior yesterday for it's maiden voyage. I am hooked!

Thanks for the way you are teaching; I have been looking for info to learn how to sail and it is perfect for me.

great explanation. best video Ive seen explaining things.

Superb visualisation and explanations.

This is great - thanks for putting this together

Thank you for making it much easier to understand.

Legendary presentation. Thank you so much.

What a great video! Thank you for taking the time to put this content together!

Fantastic! Well done and beautifully presented. Thank you

This is fantastic material

This tutorial video gives me an easy understanding. I love it!!

This is exceptional. Thank you.

This was a godsend, unbelievable!

Top shelf info! Thanks very much 🤗

Thanks for this basic understanding, very well done!

Great, great, and once again great! Thank you, this is very well done and has all the info I was looking for.

Excellent video, very well explained. Many thanks.

Great explanation. Enjoying all your videos

Excellent! Many thanks for this great intro, much appreciated my broer 👍🏻😁💥🇿🇦

Thank you for this excellent work

Very good job. Your animation is excellent and easily understood.

This is a great instructional video.

Fantastic video, thanks for sharing.

As an aspiring sailor, I'd like to say thank you for taking time to create very clear illustrations of the basics. I've sailed Sunfish on lakes, and I hope to get my hands on a good used trailer-sailer that I can take to vacations on the waters around the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico. Happy New Year from west Georgia, and I hope you find your coconuts!

What a great video, thank you for sharing your knowledge!

Lovely lovely graphics thanks

Excellent. beautifully illustrated. Keep going waiting for more videos.

As an absolute newbie this is great. Thank you

Ok best videos hands down, im a beginner and this is what i wanted to know from the get go but its often overlooked in other videos! Thank you ^^

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Great information and well presented. Thanks from France👍

Great stuff, glad I found your channel. You could make the wave action sound a little softer. The graphics are great, rotations could be slower which will make it smoother allowing the viewers brain to concentrate more on the material being taught. One of the best tutorial channels I have found thus far in my short time sailing and I have shared this as part of my own online Sailing Africa diary.

Very useful video. Thanks.

Wonderful. Thank you for your amazing video.

Great video. Really liked the echo on the vocal, a bit like Superman's father delivering posthumous instructions to his son.

Trank you so mich for this incredibly well done educational peace of work!!!!