THE BEST DESCRIPTION I HAVE EVER SEEN OF HOW A CUNNINGHAM WORKS AND SHOULD BE SET UP. THANK YOU ! An ace example of some very clear communication using video.
You are awesome. I have been sailing for years and have never quite understood all that. 7.5 min worth of information for the rest of my sailing life's use. Thank you!
I am a beginner and you are now my 'GO TO' for clear, concise, uncomplicated explanation and demonstration for sail settings. Your style and delivery is 'pitch perfect' and a godsend to sailors like me. Thank you so much 😊
I am just learning to sail and I find your explanations very easy to understand. Reading about it and looking at pictures is no substitute for the real thing. Thank you for producing and posting the videos. You are the best that I've found at explaining even the simple procedures to a budding sailor. I am 56, you can teach an old dog new tricks! Don.
These videos are brilliant. I've been sailing all my life, on larger yachts for the last 4 years, but with these videos, I'm learning the science and techniques for the first time.
Hi there, I really like the way you put all the examples and explain everything. Thanks for being so kind in sharing your knowledge and experience with us. great !!!
I appreciate the quality of your content and how well the topic is explained. Each video is the same (actually better) as a chapter in learn to sail book. Thank you.
Guys. Many thanks a lovely clear and well thought out tutorial. The simplicity of language and clarity that conditions are dynamic make this a must view.
Hi, I'm one of the sailors you mention that has been sailing (big cuizing yachts) for many years and rarely used a cunningham. I've just set up an older Etchell for a bit of fun sailing on weekends. Your video was very helpful and very well explained, thanks for sharing.
Sure, no problem...most times I don't even see what people post here...on some posts I receive an email, like on this one here..but the other ones I don't..so sometimes I do not reply as much as I should. Anyway..these videos were posted here so I could linke them to my sailing forum anything-sailing.com....I just used youtube to be able to embed them there. Thanks
ppconsultant By the way...the eye pads, not the cringles ( that was a typo on my side) on my boat are from Wichard, and they have stainless steel backing plates inside the cabin roof. These are very high load rated..
Thank You ! lovely video with not only great content, but excellent timing and thoughtful/clear graphics. a wonderful explanation. if i had a boat, i would go directly out there and install a cunningham .. perhaps .. two ! PDZ is correct about angles of attack vs incidence. Thank You again for your sound advice.
Great how you compared it to the halyard, I'm always curious why we use some methods of tensioning, trimming, etc as opposed to others that appear to do a similar thing. Very helpful!
Hm, as a non sailor but a pilot, my only quibble is "Angle of incidence". It really ought to be called Angel of attack (alpha) - incidence would be the geometric angle to the boat, not the apparent wind. But like I said - I know very little about sailing, but these videos are very useful.
Very clear and useful to many. However I don't think some of this applies to fractional rigs and masts that bend, the dynamics are very different and depending on boat the mast bend and leech may be affected significantly by luff tension. Consider a windsurfer but take it back a notch, sail boards are all about cranking the luff to bend the mast and loosen the leech (let it flow out baby), fractional rigged boats are somewhere in between in my humble view. But this would be useful for yachts and trailables with fully supported/stiff masts.
very good video. Maybe you can improve showing more clarly were the mast is in the picurs of the % where you have to adjust the sail. Still, one of the best videos I found. Thank you very much!. I'm hoping to see how to trim the genoa soon..
Hi, thank you for this its a great video. if your Cunningham is not holding any tension then would your draft be at 60% or 50% if 50 then how do you get the draft to 60 on most boats? great video thank you
Thanks a lot for all your instructional videos. Saying hello from s. Korea! If the angle of incidence gets larger (by moving the draft forward), the apparent wind may start to hit the back of the luff. Does that make it difficult to point?
Very useful videos thank you. One quick question as a dinghy sailor have been generally advised to pull on the Cunningham when beating (in stronger winds) but your instructions seem to indicate that this actually makes it harder to point to the wind. Perhaps the advice I have previously seen is simply because it reduces the power and hence less likely to have to ease the main to depower... but do you have any thoughts on this? Thanks
I plan to install a Cunningham on my boat over the winter. I got some good information about the set of fiddle blocks I should use, but the line that runs through the cringle and is secured on the coach roof seems like it would require a lot more strength than the tiny pad eye shown in the video. Any thoughts on how to determine what level of force would be needed for a heavy 35' cruiser (Niagara 35)?
Its hard to determine, but that cringle has been there since 2007, the boat now was converted to an ORC race boat, races 26 races a year, with loads far greater than the ones you will ever have on a Niagara 35. I estimate less than 200kg force. You can see the team here --> www.giulietta-racing.com
I doubt it would be possible, you would have to see how your sail is attached, but in all honesty, installing one on a sail with an inmast furler will do practically nothing. Those types of sail do not allow much tuning and performance adjustments
