Compelling viewing

[Fr J Hackett]

I have watched this chap for a couple of years, his videos are quite good but not for the faint hearted. I get the feeling that one day he is going to go out and not come back, hope not but.......

 

[bikedaft]

He is good, thanks for posting

 

[Zagato]

Determined indeed, especially as he now has to battle Crohn's disease and recovering operations etc whilst trying to reach his destinations. Hats off to our Viking.

 

[Skylark]

Adventurer, sailor, photographer, film maker, linguist and narrator, great guy.

 

[Supine Being]

He's good but, like the OP, I worry about his safety sometimes. Mrs Supine couldn't watch when he was at the mast on that episode. I said, he obviously doesn't go overboard as dead men don't post YouTube videos.

 

[[70521]]

Over the years I've enjoyed Eric's YouTube Channel, but worry his health is deteriorating - he has spent some time in hospital - and needs to get fully fit before his next big adventure.

I've now seen two videos with people struggling with those Rolly Tasker foresails, has anybody got any first hand experience with them in different conditions?

 

[Fr J Hackett]

Over the years I've enjoyed Eric's YouTube Channel, but worry his health is deteriorating - he has spent some time in hospital - and needs to get fully fit before his next big adventure.

I've now seen two videos with people struggling with those Rolly Tasker foresails, has anybody got any first hand experience with them in different conditions?

In fairness he did hang onto them for longer than he should and left a rats nest when dealing with the last one that caused his problems.

 

[Stemar]

I get the feeling that one day he is going to go out and not come back, hope not but.......

He strikes me as the sort of person who'd prefer to check out like that than slowly in a hospital.

 

[NealB]

He strikes me as the sort of person who'd prefer to check out like that than slowly in a hospital.

Sorry: not a very scuttlebutty type of quetion, but ..................wouldn't we all?

 

[Tranona]

He's good but, like the OP, I worry about his safety sometimes. Mrs Supine couldn't watch when he was at the mast on that episode. I said, he obviously doesn't go overboard as dead men don't post YouTube videos.

Very appropriate watching that sequence just when I am working with a rigger to take all lines back to the cockpit. Been spoiled for 20 years of in mast furling.

 

[Supine Being]

Very appropriate watching that sequence just when I am working with a rigger to take all lines back to the cockpit. Been spoiled for 20 years of in mast furling.

I'm not against having lines at the mast, and there's surely an argument that it's better given the extra friction involved in bringing all lines back to the cockpit - I've no firm view either way. I just worry when he's single-handed in those conditions and not hanked on. Then again, can I honestly say that, unlike him, I wouldn't just run up there to sort things out before thinking about my harness? I'm not sure I can.