Sailing Northern Ireland - Engine failure - Options - Practice, practice, practice - Ep. 340 

Well ladies, if anyone had any lingering doubts as to whether you are both bonkers, you have dispelled them! Great fun and, on a serious note, good practice for manouvreing under sail. All the best. James

Well you certainly are genius sailors . CGI marina was brilliant. It’s tough enough for IRL sailing. You look like a great day out having fun.

Salty Lass looking great out there 🙂

Beverley, "hard over to port". Gaynor, "what's port?". 🤣

never laughed so much , whatever you two had in your tea

My first real sail boat, 62 years ago, had no motor. No wind, I was parked. Lot of wind, hitting my mooring bouy, that went quite well, after some try and error. Once, on a hot summer day, with a lot of spectators, we entered the local ferry pier. Sailed up parallell to the pier, backed the fore sail. Sailed siedways 10 metres and tied up. Bought some ice cream. Sailed off. Looking like 'men of the world', not a smile, not looking left or right to the people crowding up. 14 years old we were. Today I could not do such exercises with 17 tons sv Hulda. Not even with a lot of 'shit talk', marked me that swearing word :-) I need more practice. Now my wife and I is out sailing. 4 deaf ears, trying to communicate. People are looking, not the same way as when I was 14. Now it is more like "is he going to kill that poor lady?" We are good friends, hearing aids are comming in the fall.

We’ve had foresail jammed coming into pontoon once guy across from us thought it was intentional 😂 & congratulated us

Great suggestion and demo with lots of chuckles. Well done. 🇨🇦

Great stuff and not a single black eye.. Reg☺

That was fun I enjoyed that.

Well, we recently experienced a genuine engine failure courtesy of the head gasket. We managed to sail most of the way back to our home mooring and all was fine until the wind disappeared and the river current carried us to the rocks. With no steerage we were a bit stuffed. The coastguard put out a call for assistance and a tow was arranged and all ended well..apart from the head gasket. Fun to see you practice, perhaps this would be a good application for VR glasses to overlay a virtual marina 🤣

Can you imagine what you looked like to the uninformed observer:) I've not seen anyone sail into the marina but at least a couple of times I saw my neighbour sail out!

That was fun to watch.

Very interesting test you did. In my opinion you did miss a very important part in your test. The wind out at sea is undisturbed. Near land at the real marina the wind is disturbed by buildings, trees etc...and it might be very unpredictable. That means that the wind might change its direction and strength in the real marina wich you didn't have in your imaginary marina. I live in Sweden and sail mostly inshore I have learned how unpredictable the wind is when it sweeps around the islands. The test you did was very entertaining and it surely helped you to manouver Salty Lass. Beverly, have you done anything with your hair? It looked more colourful in this video.