Beautiful day on the water. Thanks for sharing!

@plymouthwelshboy

8 ай бұрын

Oh you are most welcome. It was a breezy day and I struggled most of it......I am, as everyone knows, not the most skilful sailor🤔😆 and try as I did I couldn't keep up with Polly. But, as they say any day in the water is far better than a day in the office .....thanks for stopping by...take care now 👍

Lovely day out. I see that was Polly from the "Sailing Polly to the Pub" video! Thanks for this.

@plymouthwelshboy

8 ай бұрын

Most welcome

Love your videos. Do you have a down haul on the luff of your main sail? Can't help thinking tightening that would sort out that crease. Thanks for sharing

@plymouthwelshboy

8 ай бұрын

hi - the crease is due to either of these issues - firstly the srit boom attachment i use slides down the mast occasionally - it should be set at half way between the tack of the mainsail and the lower forward end of the top yard when it is fully hauled up. OR its because i haven't tied the mainsail halyard on at the correct point on the top yard - it needs to be very aft heavy and i always untie it after every trip and never seem to get it back in the same place next one out it is one of the issues to sort permanently during winter maintenance. the downhaul on the tack is pretty tight

@bevetsg1

8 ай бұрын

Something as simple as a small bit of wood screwed onto the yard at the right spot will give you a place to aim for and a way to keep the halyard from sliding down. In the video you were only using the part of the sail below the crease. Take a look at the jib luff tension, I think you need more. Stays to port and starboard off the end of the bowsprit might help too, I remember watching mine sag off to leeward before adding some. Small tweaks, one at a time and take notes as you go, it will come together eventually.@@plymouthwelshboy

@damoog5985

8 ай бұрын

@@plymouthwelshboy thanks, well it seems you have it all under control!

@plymouthwelshboy

8 ай бұрын

Useful tips to go investigate further. Appreciated 👍

Nice topside on the hull -- part decked with combing and sensible sheeting systems - and what looks like a nicely balanced rig. Altogether better than the open dinghy we have seen sailed by Roger in France. Good to be based in Plymouth with fair weather access to Newton Ferrers etc. as well as the creeks above Plymouth itself.

@johnstarkie9948

8 ай бұрын

Coaming.

@plymouthwelshboy

8 ай бұрын

the rig is brilliant when i have it set up properly and i'm not doing stupid things like sitting on my jib sheets or forgetting to release the appropriate one after tacking and backing the jib. John welsford's navigator is roomy, stable, safe, versatile, seaworthy. My standing lug yawl rig can be used in several ways. when balanced the boat sails herself with tiller locked off. There is good freeboard and you physically sit in the boat with a higher back coaming which makes it a dryish boat when going to windward. Plenty of lockers which also act as watertight buoyancy chambers. big locker under that foredeck. Everything happens in slow motion even in brisk breezes. And plymouth is brilliant - the yealm, avon and erme; all the creeks up the tamar and lynher. a relatively easy day sail to salcombe or to fowey. and all of plymouth sound to play in as well.

@tomcarr1358

8 ай бұрын

Great pleasure to receive your engaging response. Morwellham Quay was the furthest I managed to get up the Tamar. A potential father-in-law took us up to the museum on the quay and into the tin mine. All in a lift keel Southerly yacht.His house was overlooking the arm of the Yealm which dried out on low water springs at Newton Ferrers.@@plymouthwelshboy

@plymouthwelshboy

8 ай бұрын

It's a great stretch to sail. The yealm is lovely