Crusing DVDs?

[Snowwolf]

Does anyone know of any Crusing DVD's? I am looking for a DVD that me and my Wife can watch that tells, about crusing and will show you first hand about it. That will give you an inside look about it and what it consist of? I have books but would like a DVD is anyone know of any good ones?

[tdw]

Originally Posted by Snowwolf

Does anyone know of any Crusing DVD's? I am looking for a DVD that me and my Wife can watch that tells, about crusing and will show you first hand about it. That will give you an inside look about it and what it consist of? I have books but would like a DVD is anyone know of any good ones?

There are bound to be quite a few about the place but I'd have a look at Dashew's stuff.

SetSail.com - the serious cruising sailor's website

[tdw]

The Pardeys of course also have some DVDs available. Personally I find their stuff is as boring as batshit but then I don't like bean sprouts either.

[Valiente]

Heh. OK, the Pardeys do represent the fibre in the cruiser's mental diet, but it's fibre that keeps the whole thing moving!

I use the one-in-five rule: If DVDs like the Pardeys contain 20 "cruiser solutions" and I haven't heard and can use four of them, then it's been worth my time. They've done it on the cheap for decades, but they've done it more than I'll have time left to live, and I admire them for it, even as I personally wouldn't choose 100 year old wooden boats to live aboard.

[tdw]

Originally Posted by Valiente

Heh. OK, the Pardeys do represent the fibre in the cruiser's mental diet, but it's fibre that keeps the whole thing moving!

I use the one-in-five rule: If DVDs like the Pardeys contain 20 "cruiser solutions" and I haven't heard and can use four of them, then it's been worth my time. They've done it on the cheap for decades, but they've done it more than I'll have time left to live, and I admire them for it, even as I personally wouldn't choose 100 year old wooden boats to live aboard.

V,

I grabbed a call and pressed the submit button a bit early. Intended to add that I wholeheartedly acknowledge what the Pardey's have achieved and that their books in particular have lots of good advice.

Definitely not slagging them except that I find them to be the mung beans of the cruising world. I admire their achievements but no matter whether you call it off white or cream , beige is always going to be beige.

[Valiente]

Originally Posted by tdw

V,

I grabbed a call and pressed the submit button a bit early. Intended to add that I wholeheartedly acknowledge what the Pardey's have achieved and that their books in particular have lots of good advice.

Definitely not slagging them except that I find them to be the mung beans of the cruising world. I admire their achievements but no matter whether you call it off white or cream , beige is always going to be beige.

Understood, but it's because of them my wife knows how to handle a pole on a heaving deck without braining herself or losing the pole, and they are also why I'm going to the bother of getting a rain-collection and shunting awning made, and why I'm going to have a crack at their el cheapo "flopper stopper" buckets that can dampen a roll in an anchorage. They seem to have worked out independently a horde of useful and fuss-reducing techniques. I have to credit them (and a bad experience under way) with dissuading me from having davits off the stern, and instead learning to use a bridle to launch the tender. A bit more work? Perhaps, but more security and peace of mind as well.

I understand they retain elements of a hippie ethic, but they work harder than any hippies of my acquaintance, and I'll take mung beans over the casserole of unknown origin that is most modern, over-gadgeted boats any day. I think they illustrate quite clearly that it's mostly our habits and habits of mind that keep us from sailing off in the first place, something they got past 40 years ago.

[42ndstreet]

the tv show Lats and Atts is pretty kewl and funny. I have a couple of Pardey dvds and they do seem a bit boring.(heaving to on a greaseboard).
Very impressive trips though.

[tdw]

Originally Posted by 42ndstreet

the tv show Lats and Atts is pretty kewl and funny. I have a couple of Pardey dvds and they do seem a bit boring.(heaving to on a greaseboard).
Very impressive trips though.

hmmm.

Used to subscribe but really it's a dumb show and a dumb magazine. Wish I'd thought of it first though.

[42ndstreet]

Know any good dvd's?

[camaraderie]

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