What makes you watch YouTube sailing videos?

[mjcoon]

I love sailing and film making, so any sailing youtube channel is of interest.

The only one that consistently keeps me coming back is Leo:

Pete

I see that Leo published another chapter on 9th February according to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xM9SPT11mNU

Mike.

 

[Airscrew]

Oh Yes,

Like many, I always look for practical advice and experience on YouTube.
And tests of yachts we cant afford....
And Dylan. We have a Centaur...

But whilst I haven't looked at many 'lifestyle' videos, I have been rather hooked on SV BoraBora.
Real people (British, which may help/suit some), on a budget, on an old British yacht with real life yacht problems and challenges, and finding a bit of fun together.

Watch and read...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8vaSgS77Io

and

https://sailingsvborabora.wordpress.com/category/blog-posts/

 

[Seven Spades]

I watch them selectively with the fast forward button under my thumb as I hope to go Blue Water next year and it is nice to get tips. I would rather learn by other people errors than my own! I cut out all the dross(I have no interest in watching other people getting drunk or talking about food etc) and look for problems and problem solving and interesting places I might want to visit. I love it when equipment gets reviewed.

 

[Mataji]

Many look just like home movies and are full of “look how great I am” scenes. Dylan’s are good because he is a professional camera man who loves boats and sailing.
My favourite however was the series made a few years ago by the couple from Australia, who bought a boat unseen in Nova Scotia for about $10,000 and then made a series of about 25 or so 20 minute films showing the commissioning of the boat, and then their trip from Halifax round the top to Alaska. It took 3 summers to complete the trip but the photography is stunning. They can be found on YouTube if you search for Teleport.

 

[steve yates]

Many look just like home movies and are full of “look how great I am” scenes. Dylan’s are good because he is a professional camera man who loves boats and sailing.
My favourite however was the series made a few years ago by the couple from Australia, who bought a boat unseen in Nova Scotia for about $10,000 and then made a series of about 25 or so 20 minute films showing the commissioning of the boat, and then their trip from Halifax round the top to Alaska. It took 3 summers to complete the trip but the photography is stunning. They can be found on YouTube if you search for Teleport.

Hands down one of the best youtube sailing videos out there, helps they were both photographers. The other must watch was sailing kudu, or kudu round britain,the young lad (nathan I thiunk) trying to take an old corribee round the uk, that had a real human interest and contact element.

 

[doug748]

...The other must watch was sailing kudu, or kudu round britain,the young lad (nathan I thiunk) trying to take an old corribee round the uk, that had a real human interest and contact element.

Used to post on here, his sailing career petered out in East Anglia I think.

Here is an old bloke to cheer us all up:

https://youtu.be/hSUhxa8v2hw

 

[Billows]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KPyOz8L5LM
Wharram cat in the tropics and the crew is quite decorative too
Dylan wouldn't approve

 

[Bilgediver]

Is there a list of favourite videos anywhere?

Check out the series of Keep Turning Left. On YouTube. The sailor is a cameraman and it shows. He captured amazing scenes and the commentaries are good.

 

[RupertW]

I liked watching some of the earlier warm weather ones where they were starting out with little experience and got further and further but switch off when it becomes purely commercial.

Real cruising yachts coping with rough weather are interesting still - loved the cross North Sea one just now - and those actually showing an approach to somewhere I want to go to or sailing the kind of boat that I sail.

Otherwise it's usually instructional ones on using spinnakers or asymetrics, trimming sails, or setting anchor or mostly taking and putting back together boat bits which I am currently having an issue with. It's a fantastic resource for, "How do I wire and set up this Vectron thingy" before I choose which one to buy, or how do I drill out a screw or patch a gel coat dink and so on.

 

[Seven Spades]

Sailing Yacht Florence is in that category. They are a young English couple who are on a bit of a shoe string (so skipped the Galapagos), they are quite charming to watch. Their boat seems well founded with few mechanical problems and they have a sailing dinghy as a tender not an inflatable.

 

[Heckler]

Check out the series of Keep Turning Left. On YouTube. The sailor is a cameraman and it shows. He captured amazing scenes and the commentaries are good.

Hmm, lets see, Eleyna or Dylan?

 

[Kelpie]

Sailing Yacht Florence is in that category. They are a young English couple who are on a bit of a shoe string (so skipped the Galapagos), they are quite charming to watch. Their boat seems well founded with few mechanical problems and they have a sailing dinghy as a tender not an inflatable.

Yes just stumbled across them, like them a lot.
The fact that they named their tender 'The Machine' made me chuckle.