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Joe here for Joyrider TV what we're going to look at today is single-handed Hobie 16 sailing we've got probably between 12 and 15 knots of wind I've got a Hobie 16 and just me let's go and see what we can find okay it's a little bit crowded for the launch with these moorings here so I'm just gonna take the boat into plenty of space for launching the sails are well
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eased I've got the down haul off making sure I don't let the boat go away from head to wind I'm pushing from the back though just to go a bit faster as we try to get away from these moored boats the back of the boat is the worst possible place that you could hold a note so I'm just gonna do this as quickly as possible and making sure not to let the boat turn
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from head to wind now just gonna let it slip back a little bit more now ready to go off we go taking control of the mainsheet as soon as possible and we're just going to get into some space and then the first job that we'll
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have to do is set the jib traveler and the downfall so I'm gonna go into as much space as possible to do this even in this wind which yeah it's probably no more than 10 knots at the moment I'm going to pull the downhaul on pretty hard to get the mainsail as flat as possible because for
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one person the same area on a 16 is pretty juicy right so just heading up here alright jib traveller I'm gonna set all the way out in fact I'll just pull the jib sheet through a bit so that it's available on the windward side then the
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down hook and pull it all the way on which generally is to the top of the warning sticker on the mast just there that is generally what we'd call all the way on it depends how stretched your sail is of course okay now we're ready to go we're gonna start off with a close reach and then with the traveler and the
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main sheets we're using the traveler kind of as gears and in the main sheet as the throttle so we're going to set the traveler in a generally correct position and in the main sheet we're going to respond to the gusts so for this wind I've got the traveler just maybe just inside the toe strap and then we'll just see how much power that gives us we can change that later
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with a relationship between the jib traveler and the main traveler the jib traveler always wants to be either as far out as the main traveler or a little bit more and then the jib just going to have a little bit loose so that we don't have to worry about it too much so we've got a bit of wind checking our area looks clear going to shoot in and I'm going to move out onto the trapeze
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good idea for single-handed set the trapeze links a little bit shorter just for a bit more security and here we go and we're off looking for the gusts so or a close reach I'm just using the main sheets for the majority of the power-steering into the wind if we get hit by big gusts it's big gusts coming
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so we'll see how this works out they're steering a little bit easing a little bit of mainsheet as a boat settles they pull the mainsheet in again and then we're continuing here okay so I'm gonna pull the jib in a bit more I left the jib sheet quite conveniently really cranking the jib in now that should flatten the jib up reducing the power on them all upwind points of sail
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little power for my weight let the traveler offer their notice how did that I'll do it again so what I'll do is I'll take the mainsheet and I'll just put it in the water a little bit that allows us to get hold of the traveler rope
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and then I'm just gonna ease that out mainsheet is in the stick hands all of the rapes and as a windsurfer and this Aubree's it ripped turndown wind just easing out a little bit there's a number one vasiliki of course very popular
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very popular date for windsurfing gusting up to about sixty knots all this much upwind now some moving as far forwards as the tiller extension will now we could use we've only got what we've got so we using a combination as before of
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steering I'm a sheik and we've got some wind surface these gonna be far safer here to go down so I'm cheating out easing the sheets moving back slightly don't go under the and now we've got under him we start headed back up again
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good idea to keep an eye on your ropes at all times at the Maine the mainsheet on the trampoline so I want to get that up there and it's sailing especially spirit good idea to develop a technique by holding the mainsheet and the tiller extension in the same hand but when you need to do skilled tasks like that
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okay this is very good so they're gonna go for we could do this from going from upwind to downwind we could do it from on the trapeze that wind is something to consider if you're still out on the trees but you want to go in it's gonna be a bit fruity
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because usually what in this scenario and Aaron way from on the boat so I'm just going to move in onto the trapeze again changed my main sheet to stick hands there we are unhooking water on the boat and I've snagged the main sheet in the corner there
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I'm gonna ease a load of jib before we bear away all right and now I'm gonna go for the bear way I'm just gonna ease the mainsheet up as I turn the corner juicy gust coming let's see what happens and there we are now on the downwind we're just gonna maybe ease the traveler out a little bit more this is the same as if you're
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sailing with two people except occasion you might have to reset the jib we're gonna sail downwind just keeping the apparent wind on the boats there'll be a video about apparent wind coming soon but the wind that you can see on your wind indicators coming across the boats at ninety degrees there we go okay so we're gonna jive shortly on the jibe we're gonna jive
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first sort out the jib afterwards perhaps what we could do for convenience is release that jib traveler now so then it's done okay so here we go we go for a jive turning down wins let's go to slack just trying to stay cool there it's a boat lift to the hope all right now a little bit of sheet
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management needed so uncle' ting the old jib sheet putting the new jib traveler and then sheathing the new jib sheet in there we go I let the mainsheet go completely which wasn't intentional but it's no disaster by any means and here we go we're still sailing the boat trying to keep those
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wind indicators at 90 degrees across the boat so this is standard for any camera and saving without a spinnaker you're just sailing the boat downwind watching those wind indicators keeping them by straight across the boat like that okay we're gonna go downwind a little bit more before we alter our course in the gusts what we're doing is just easing a little
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bit of mainsheet turning the boat more down wind which is going to help to take the power off a little bit and it'll take a bit further down winds the ideal time to jibe is just after a gust because that's when the boat feels like it's almost like it's freewheeling so here we go as a gust just easing out
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slightly and turning down winds then coming back that gust goes so as we head up here we're not gonna need to bring the traveler in but it's pretty windy now I reckon it's probably 18 knots I'll just keep the jib sheet close to the side of the boat I'll hook on coming up towards
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the wind chips flapping already so I'll pull it in a bit just make sure that the wind would sheet is uncleated put the jib sheet in a handy position and now out onto the trapeze now sheet in the jib a little bit more we could try banging it up wind a little bit so getting as far forwards as possible trying to keep the boat fairly flat
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for a tack shortly what we'll do with the tack because we're short of hands and it is quite windy i'm gonna release the jib before we go into the tack and then as with all tacking of catamarans the thing that's the most important especially with which way the boat is pointing and that would be as close to the wind as possible
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and in the second most important thing is what we do with our mainsheet and now to be in as tight as possible there'll be a video coming soon specifically on tacking right now twenty knots now this wind is really picking up it's about 20 past 2:00 in the afternoon here in vasiliki wood this is when the
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wind gently whoa so we are we game baby just on the jib there Oh got a little bit too high to go too high and it feels like you're stalling by letting a load of mainsheet okay so I'm gonna get onto the boat first chucking the rope out of the way coming in easy a little bit of sheet as we're coming in of course this can all be refined if you want to race or you just
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want to make it look a bit prettier and now here we go so we're getting ready so like I said I'm gonna ease the jib sheet up a bit first so we don't get pulled over on the chip and I've brought the traveler in a bit already checking where we're gonna turn main sheets in tight here we go try not
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to hit the camera with the tiller extension and now I'm taking the jib sheet pulling it in let's get the nose around a little bit there we go now I'm gonna let that off again just pull the jib travel all the way outs Sheetz in
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we're gonna go for another tack I think so I've got a gym pretty loose to let the trip travel off first so it's done unhooking pushing away booze a bit huh normal there we go bet on that time so as well as cheating the main in it's equally important to
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let the mainsail out as soon as the focus head to wind that which is indicated by the jib backing yeah this square that up a bit they want to clip that on the way through here we go and if you don't want to trapeze when you're single-handed that's
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all right you don't have to we need to do again with your stewardship traveler because it's quite windy if it's not windy you don't have to do this on the upwind but because it's quite windy we're having to do this we can let the main traveler out never all the way to the ends we've got a stopper knot in the
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Travel line to stop it from going all the way to the ends and here from sitting on the boat with doing exactly the same as before is a combination of Maisie and steering to keep the boat under control we're just not gonna go as fast it's we're not cheating okay maybe we're going for one more tack checking the area and then we're going
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to tack into letting off the jib traveler jib sheets bringing the main traveler in a bit and here we go okay I've just had to reverse the rudders a little bit there to get us through so if you stop while you're head to wind it might be
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necessary to reverse the rudders because at that point the boat is going backwards for a second so here we go just uh about the tweak dude and we're going to go come on more attack and then we're gonna head on to our beam reach which should be the photo phone of course we shirts so in a gym
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travel around not too much jib this times is really pretty windy and let the traveler out all the way to the knots so we're about 15 centimeters off the end hooking on sheathing the main in two we've got holes just lifting ever so slightly and then there we are out on the trapeze we're going to bang it down on a reach
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this is where that good way isn't so much for problem smaller joy don't know there's a photographer on board just yet all right so in the gussets moving back the Gus dies down moving forward slightly you know there is a photographer on board perhaps I don't know sixty now scream if you want to go
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faster scream if you want to go so on it's not screaming because Kelly see what happens all right we go for one more jive and back on a beam reach so I'm going to come in off the boat of the trapeze post jebal for Lil Bit chip traveler off
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chucking the stick off the back so don't hit the camera and coming down wins there we go keep carrying that momentum proof there we go nice easy one there bring it back up changing the jib sheets over jib traveler making sure the jib sheet is by the side of the boat now so chips just slapping slightly that's okay
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because we don't want the power and the jib on this wind it's probably beating over 20 knots surfaces I explain like with the J Winnetou okay it's pretty steady here so I've gotta travel around away the mainsheet block-to-block
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and we're just using the steering to control the power so it's quite a low-maintenance your easiest as I can say my way down steering-oar it to sell reach which would be nice I thought that it might be too tight to be on the safe side and here we go coming forwards but now
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I just giving it a leg stretcher there we're just trimming the wait the water bit of a lull there so go forwards a bit next Gus it's coming so I have to jump back a bit I've got the mainsheet you have to dump very quickly vital thing I'm pretty good at going out
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believe me even so I preferred to sail without the cleat when it is a bit gusty like it is just here and they kinda wind shifted a little bit so stand a bit closer to the wind now something a bit trip easing a bit before words generally my gust coming here they see what happens possibly nothing okay so we want to bring the boat up
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towards the wind a little bit more so I'm gonna bring in a bit Jim you need a bit of traveler as well so get up transfer the mainsheet to my stick hands so I could bring the traveler in if at any point you want to sail closer to the wind but you can't if your traveler is out you could bring your traveler in and that should enable you
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to sail a bit closer if we did capsize in these conditions there's a strong chance I wouldn't have the weight to get the boat back upright with any amount of technique we need a bit more wind to bring the boat back upright if we're single handed I'm 85 kilos or there abouts you need about maybe 100 120
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kilos to bring you're 16 okay so almost there so coming in off the trapeze I'm gonna completely dump the jib now I'm going to do as much now as I can so there's no last-minute panic as we reach the beach so I'm letting her down up as well checking out this wind surfer he's okay oh yeah it's okay
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it's a bit close trying to keep the boat fairly high making sure I'm not tangled up so I'm ready to jump off the boat when we reach our destination basically doing as much as possible to make this as easy as possible rope on the foot that's not going to help the other 16 video and there we are and we
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made it yeah okay if you haven't got someone to grab your boat for you you will have to get off the boat and grab it at the front take never take the mainsheet off until your boat is being securely held in the shallow water but there we are thank you very much Charlotte I've got
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it in here okay once again now hope you found this video useful in some way if there's any aspect of your catamaran sailing whether it's a Hobie 16 or anything else do let me know and I'll try to fill you in on the details of what you could do better or differently or how something works thank you to all
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