Good evening to all. Tonight I will not explain a topic to know in order to achieve the committee boat license, but I showed a video to show you what it means to go on a sailing boat. In addition to writing this blog post of topics mainly theoretical, I would publish at least once a week, a few short stories of lived experience, with the intent to explain to non sailors some theoretical and practical knowledge essential to be able to go boating sailing and at the same time, to get closer to the memories and emotions of the sailor who is long overdue.
My little sailing experience is mainly based small boats sailing dinghies calls. There are many types of drift: laser, 4.20, 4.70, 49er, Rs etc. ..
There are essentially two types of vessels sailing in a boat: the cruisers and dinghies. Distinguished from the drift boat keel for two main reasons: the drifts have the keel and their size is small, it can be up to five meters away, keel boats, or boats with a keel weighted (or bulb), commonly called cabs are larger, from six feet up, and just have a fixed keel.
Typically the crew on the drift is reduced because of limited space that there is available, and is generally composed of two, rarely three, and sometimes even one person.
The derivation of the crew is very important, as well as in a cab. Since these boats very light, about 100kg, the crews must be very close-knit, does not take much to capsize (a term that indicates when the boat capsizes and goes in the water), an imbalance of weight, not having anticipated a gust of wind or just be awkward. There is nothing wrong with capsizing, indeed, sometimes very funny, and others is inevitable because of strong winds, but we will speak in a scuff another post.
Now I leave you with a video, I hope that what excites me emotions. Look at this video, found on YouTube , reminds me that every time I feel the adrenaline going sailboat. In my opinion drifts are much more exciting of the cabs, because the relationship you have with the boat is much more physical and intimate:
-more physical as the crew, the crew, who are essentially forward and adjust the jib, and beyond, and the helmsman, who drives the boat, with their weights to try to keep the boat flat so that this Scuffi;
-plus intimate, not just for the fact that you are stuck with their team mate side by side, but also because there is sailing, the wind, the boat and then you're there, four key components related to one 's more. The actions that we do have a lot less mechanical than the cruisers, for obvious reasons: because the boats are smaller and also sails, so you do not need gear ratios of force to adjust the sails or sail the craft.
Maybe when I'll try the same adrenaline on a cruiser change my mind, but for now I find that the emotions you feel on a drift, not try anywhere else.
Fair winds to all!
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