Looks like I'm going sailing!
Discussion
OK my uncle has a yacht, I think 35 or 45 ft and has offered/requested my presence as crew this season.
Never been sailing before, all my experience is air based really.
I can swim though and grew up in a village with a harbour playing/going out in boats when I was young.
So my question/s is/are there anything I should be doing in preparation to make it better/easier?
What do you wear?
Cheers
Never been sailing before, all my experience is air based really.
I can swim though and grew up in a village with a harbour playing/going out in boats when I was young.
So my question/s is/are there anything I should be doing in preparation to make it better/easier?
What do you wear?
Cheers
ATG said:
Get a mate to yell 'ready about' and then swing a baseball bat at your head. If you can learn to duck under it, you will have acquired a useful skill. If you can do the same while skipping rope, you're fully qualified.
On a 35ft+ boat the boom should be high enough to present less of a risk. Alternative advice is for the OP to wear one platform boot in order to get used to spending time healed over at 20 degrees 
ATG said:
Get a mate to yell 'ready about' and then swing a baseball bat at your head. If you can learn to duck under it, you will have acquired a useful skill. If you can do the same while skipping rope, you're fully qualified.
I'm sure there must be a way of having the boom going forwards, and everything reversed, which would solve the problem. But frankly since engines were invented the problem has been by-passed
I've been crew for many years (18 I think) and I have learned the following:
- Take a spare liver, you'll be thirsty at the end of the day
- Find a job to do if you feel sick in any way
- When your skipper says it will be 2 hours to go, believe it will be 4 hours
- Making a cup of tea with the boat going all over the place is an art form
- If you are good at DIY, expect to be fully employed
- every new port, buoy, patch of water, mooring get celebrated…. with champagne in our case, but usually with booze
- take sun cream and moisturiser
Enjoy!!
- Take a spare liver, you'll be thirsty at the end of the day
- Find a job to do if you feel sick in any way
- When your skipper says it will be 2 hours to go, believe it will be 4 hours
- Making a cup of tea with the boat going all over the place is an art form
- If you are good at DIY, expect to be fully employed
- every new port, buoy, patch of water, mooring get celebrated…. with champagne in our case, but usually with booze
- take sun cream and moisturiser
Enjoy!!
Practice this a few times : Wear all the clothes that you possess at the same time, including underwear, then squeeze yourself into an old cupboard that is propped (not very securely) on an out of control fairground waltzer ride, making sure you are blindfolded, take down all your trousers and then have a wee and take a dump in a small bucket on the floor of the cupboard, without getting s
t and piss everywhere.
t and piss everywhere. AlexIT said:
This!
Speaking as a qualified yachtmaster really the last thing the skipper should be doing is shouting. Thats the sign of someone who does'nt have things under control, I'd be getting off at the next port of call and making my way home.Things should be explained by the skipper in advance calmly so everyone knows what they are doing.
As far as kit goes a set of sailing gloves (i prefer the tipless ones) are always handy as mentioned before some deck shoes are useful too.
Dont get your fingers between a rope and anything hard like metal or you stand a good chance of losing them.
Don't wrap rope around your hands or arms(or anywhere else for that matter).
The area between the mast and the end of the boom is called the killzone for a reason.
Seasickness is usually caused by a combination of : Hunger, Tiredness, Boredom and Cold try to avoid them.
Its meant to be fun get out there and enjoy yourself!
dienamic said:
Where are you sailing, could wear anything from shorts and tshirt to full wet weather gear. A pair of deck shoes would probably be a good place to start though.
Moray Firth.Boatbuoy said:
Paddy_N_Murphy said:
Lucky bd.
That is all
^^^ This!d.That is all
Ayahuasca said:
Prepare to be shouted at.
My uncle used to be a trawler skipper so I was kind of expecting that although it wouldn't bother me.
tomash said:
Speaking as a qualified yachtmaster really the last thing the skipper should be doing is shouting. Thats the sign of someone who does'nt have things under control, I'd be getting off at the next port of call and making my way home.
Things should be explained by the skipper in advance calmly so everyone knows what they are doing.
As far as kit goes a set of sailing gloves (i prefer the tipless ones) are always handy as mentioned before some deck shoes are useful too.
Dont get your fingers between a rope and anything hard like metal or you stand a good chance of losing them.
Don't wrap rope around your hands or arms(or anywhere else for that matter).
The area between the mast and the end of the boom is called the killzone for a reason.
Seasickness is usually caused by a combination of : Hunger, Tiredness, Boredom and Cold try to avoid them.
Its meant to be fun get out there and enjoy yourself!
Cheers for that, as long as I'm outside on a boat I rarely suffer from seasickness. Inside is a different story.Things should be explained by the skipper in advance calmly so everyone knows what they are doing.
As far as kit goes a set of sailing gloves (i prefer the tipless ones) are always handy as mentioned before some deck shoes are useful too.
Dont get your fingers between a rope and anything hard like metal or you stand a good chance of losing them.
Don't wrap rope around your hands or arms(or anywhere else for that matter).
The area between the mast and the end of the boom is called the killzone for a reason.
Seasickness is usually caused by a combination of : Hunger, Tiredness, Boredom and Cold try to avoid them.
Its meant to be fun get out there and enjoy yourself!
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