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what is up YouTube? Today I want to go
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sailing and I want to take you with me.
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it's springtime a lot of people have
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been asking me: is sailing difficult?
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is sailing expensive? no, to both of those.
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it's not that expensive, you can get into
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it for as much as you would pay for
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camera equipment or a motorcycle a
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thousand dollars sounds a little
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pricey but no more than a lot of other
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hobbies - is it difficult? no, it's a lot
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of vocabulary and it's kind of
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intimidating vocabulary because it's
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brand-new but once you learn some of
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that, and you get underway and you start
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learning some of the you can
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be good to go so today I've done my best
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to put together a comprehensive tutorial
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on the basics of sailing talking about
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the points of sail the vocabulary and
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then sailing if you want to skip
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straight ahead to the sailing you can
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skip to the 11 or 12 minute mark now-
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I've kept this fairly basic I'm not
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going to I'm not gonna
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do more the advanced techniques but this
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is a fairly long video so thanks for
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watching and let's go sailing-
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in order to understand how to sail, you
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first have to understand your boat's
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relationship to the , so let's say
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the wind is coming from this direction
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we're looking at an overhead view of us
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on the water easiest to understand this
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is looking at a clock and approximately
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10 + 2 is gonna be called the
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you're not going to be able to take your
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boat into this area because if you take
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your boat here the wind is going to hit
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you straight on and the sails are going
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to luff in the wind it's called going in
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and you're not going to move
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anywhere as long as you're outside of
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this 45 degree angle you can go here
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that's going to be called
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you can go here also that's your boat
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right there called a you can
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go here or anywhere I'm just giving the
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designated areas and this is called a
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and you can go straight
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downwind
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there's your wind hitting right here
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your boat is going this direction that
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is called either or dead
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same goes for the other side
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it's called a broad reach you're going
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at a 90 degree angle with the wind
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that's going to be called a beam reach
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and you're gonna be right here at a
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close-hauled which is close to the no-go
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zone but you can still go with the wind
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hitting you and you propels you forward
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now how does that work?
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how are you if you are
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either at a close-hauled or perhaps a beam
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reach when you're not going dead
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downwind so let's say I have a piece of
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ice right here that's gonna be my
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let's say this is going to be the
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this finger is the wind and my thumb is
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the water now the wind and the water
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work as two forces against each other
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against my boat the wind is pressing
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against the sails while the water is
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pressing against the and the
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so you have those two opposite forces
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going and it makes it go forward. When
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those forces are working against each
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other the boat moves forward
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because of a combination of the shape of
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the boat kind of shaped like an arrow
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along with like
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an airplane wing and the wings that are
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below the water that you don't see the
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keel and the rudder and you're forced to
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go forward now when you're going dead
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downwind you don't get the same physics
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you can move forward but it's simply
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because the sails are acting like
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catching the wind and you
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move in that direction typically if
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you're in the beam reach area at a
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degree angle is when you're gonna get
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the most force from the wind reacting
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against the force from the keel and the
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water and it's gonna give you your
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fastest point of sail another way to
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think of this and you can quiz your
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friends doing this you can look in a
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mirror but it's to designate the wind
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coming from this direction so you are
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the wind right I can't go this way it's
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a no-go zone right if I turn slightly
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it's gonna be a close-hauled turn it a
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90 degree that's a beam reach turn
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this way it's gonna be a broad reach go
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completely down this way it's gonna be
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running with the wind you get the idea
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now let's put this stuff in practice