7 Valuable tips that sailing instructors don't show you. These will help to maintain your sailboat and enjoy life on the oceans. Then, some fun footage of th...

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finally we had some waves hopefully the

wind will follow so we can stop this

motoring and put up some sails

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hello my name is Patrick Childress on

brick house and today I have seven very

important sailing tips for the

long-range Cruiser and certainly number

seven is the most valuable I think even

the most experienced Cruiser will find

from good use than tip number seven and

at the end of this video I put together

some segments on the large wooden

sailboats in Madagascar and the

tremendous amount of weight that they

can carry and about the hard-working men

who

those quotes it's they have all my

admiration in the world for how much

work they put in for very little money

in Madagascar is way past the horizon

and somewhere well over the horizon is

Tanzania Africa and the island of

Zanzibar I love the sound of those names

but first we'll be stopping at the

island of Myatt out here in the

Mozambique Channel so right now let's

get to tip number one

when we are hard on the wind slamming it

to big waves swimming into this port

light and also sometimes on the windward

side of the boat those port lights will

also have a little drip and even though

I've taken silicone grease and you can

also use Vaseline I've rejuvenated the

seal but we can still get small drips

though an anticipation of extreme

weather now I found it's really best

just to take out the screen and install

a storm window this plastic is

quarter-inch thick six millimeters and

it's just some smoked plastic that I

found in a trash pile at a marina so

it's really easy to take out the screen

and put in the storm window

no more leaks tip number two how to keep

the water out of the chained pipe for

the windlass it's pretty easy actually a

nice wad of modeling clay will do the

trick you just squeeze it in around the

chain and have it overlap the base of

the windlass and that'll keep 99% of the

water out the only problem is and very

cold weather the clay will become very

stiff then small rags we'll have to do

tip number three the hatch on the

foredeck how to help that seal on the

inside do its job to keep from big waves

slamming up here and water dripping on

the inside and it's called chinking a

little bit of line to help fill in this

gap slows down the waves so that the

seal can do its job

it just goes around the edge and it's

tied in the back with a simple knot

this is our 4 year old shits cat Lily we

picked her up at the island nation of

pullout when she was just a little

kitten

you know how when a lot whis is always

being put in the lion with each coil but

this is pretty much the standard way of

doing it and stowing a line the problem

is then when you release a line and it

goes through quickly it's all hung up

because the twists are trying to come

out faster than they can untwist so it

gets hung up inside of whatever fitting

it's going through in this case a break

so it's much better to rather than coil

a line to hand a line H a nd hand bring

it over and back and over that way you

don't put those twists in the line when

it runs out they'll run out nice and

clean nice and fair very quickly without

any snags

two-five catching rainwater you don't

need a big area to catch a lot of

rainwater this bimini the water runs

down to the hard Dodger and then

downhill into this gutter which is made

from thin walled PVC cut lengthwise and

attached to the hard Dodger with four

screws and some sealant along the top

edge this line just sits in here has a

knot to help hold it in place and the

water runs downhill

while angled aft and then through

surface tension the water adheres to the

rope and runs right into the bucket

you

number six hard to imagine sitting in a

nice calm anchorage like this big ocean

waves that can come over the side of the

boat and fill the cockpit with water or

even smaller waves they can come over

the side of the boat these were solid

and fixed permanently with twist locks

there could be all kinds of damage these

would have been destroyed long ago but

when big ocean waves come crashing over

the side

they just don't cause any damage they

just get us wet on the inside these side

curtains are held in place with just

little snaps they're of an oval shape so

if you want to pull them apart by hand

pull them up from the bottom oval not

from the side through the top but from

this bottom oval and they come right off

it's probably the most important tip of

all in this whole video because it

contains hundreds and hundreds of other

tips and this is one very important book

that I think every long-range cruising

boat should have onboard offshore

sailing 200 essential passage making

tips by Bill Seaford bill Seaford has

been in the boating business most of his

life he's quite the expert and I don't

care who you are no matter how

experienced you are you read this book

you're going to find something very

unique that's going to help you out in

any long-range cruising situation this

was edited by Daniel spur he actually

all these information into a book format

daniel spirt was an editor at cruising

world for many years and then he became

the big man at practical sailor in r and

practical sailor for many years and

spurs guide to upgrading your cruising

sailboat is another very important book

to have on your long-range cruising sail

boat full of expert information offshore

sailing and spurs guide upgrading your

cruising boat to excellent books to

always keep on your boat here is the

part about the wooden ships

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you guys have this it's a highway

you got my mom

my mother's this it's a highway

if you jump side by side to Jemima

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photocopy a Papa

that's a sign on tactically

maybe go see everyday

negotiate

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my record

Musti if I succeed with what you pay

Basava bpm

one of those in my name

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