New instructional Video..THE TRAVELER

[Giulietta]

With the recovery of my stollen laptop, I got all my files, notes, photos and videos I shot for the video series I was making.

It's taking me longer now because some of the videos are now in a different format of Movie Maker..but I am getting the hang of it thanks to Chuckles and CKGreenman, please be patient.

Anyway, I will resume the videos where I left them.

This once conludes the various main sail features and trim..

The next series will be about the head sail...

Then in the end sail trim etc..

After that..the spinnaker.

I just need some time.

Anyway, Cam will put it together with the other ones in the Videos thread he made for them. HERE

Comments, are welcome, unless they are bad.. ..and do them here..

I will make sure I read them and adjust accordingly.

PS Thanks Val for the correction to my English (Traveller has two LLs in English of the Queen), and T for your comments.

Alex

[Valiente]

I liked the tip about taping the wheel to show three or five degrees of helm. Most people use a turk's head knot or a piece of tape to show zero degrees, but it makes sense to show increments in different colours.

[sailingdog]

GUI must be slacking... he said he was gonna have this done on MONDAY... Nice video Alex... good job. Of course, some of it doesn't apply to use folks with Tiller-steered boats...

[Giulietta]

Originally Posted by sailingdog

GUI must be slacking... he said he was gonna have this done on MONDAY... Nice video Alex... good job. Of course, some of it doesn't apply to use folks with Tiller-steered boats...

If you are talking about the 5 deg ruddet hing..I have something to tell you...

DUUH

The rest applies to everyone......well you...you just skip the part about heeling...and the one about sailing close-hauled...and the keel part..and to you beating is not 30 to 40, its 90 t0 80 ( )..and ohh I forgot...skip the part about sailing efficientely

[ronspiker]

Excellent,

[max-on]

Giu, THANKS!!!!!! That is just the pick-me-up I needed today.

If you have not heard our buffoons of a senate just decided to spend a trillion dollars which the country does not have, who is going to bailout US!

[Valiente]

I thought the US was self-bailing? Or am I confused "scupper" with "scuppered"?

[denby]

bump......

[tweitz]

Giu --

Great job, as usual. I refer some new sailor friends to your videos regularly. And even us old farts can learn from each of them.

[SEMIJim]

Thanks for the instructional video, Alex .

I'm finally becoming One with the traveler. Weekend before last, in moderate air, reef in the main and flying the #3 (we had guests), I observed, while going to weather, the top tell-tale spending most of its time flipped forward. So, remembering what I'd read, I eased the mainsheet until it stopped doing that and re-positioned the boom using the traveler. Gained an instant 3/4 of a knot .

Then, last weekend, this time in 15 kt winds, full main and the #1 (150%), again going to weather, we were over-powered. So, after getting everything where it needed to be for "maximum smoke," I simply dropped the traveler down and eased the genoa until she was back on her feet and the rudder angle was more tolerable.

Hey: This stuff actually works!

Jim