This video teaches how to recover a capsized single person dinghy, focusing on the techniques to right it after turtling. The crew should sit at the bows, facing the stern, to observe all sailing dinghies. Capsizing is part of the fun of learning to sail dinghies, and the video demonstrates a simple one-person technique that can be adapted for two people.
To correct a capsized dinghy sailboat, it is crucial to know how to make the boat upright when sailing a Dinghy or small boat. If you don’t know how to deal with a capsized boat, sail on a more stable one. The most simple technique to recover a dinghy if it has capsized to windward is to let the boat turn completely upside, with the helm still in reverse, gently motoring into wind.
Capsize drills are also provided, with Grant and Sarah giving tips on leaning out with body weight and putting weight on the board until fully upright. The scoop method involves trawling water near the stern until the scooper has control of the centerboard, then moving to the centerboard trunk and freeing the mainsheet.
📹 How to sail – Capsize a single handed sailboat
How to deal with a capsize when sailing a single handed sailboat.
📹 Righting a capsized sailing dinghy
How to right a capsized Optimist dinghy.
Someone is GIVING me a small boat, which apparently has been well maintained and repaired. I have a couple sailing lessons under my belt and am super excited to get out there! You’re articles are much more tuned to the small boat I’ll be using so thank you for the easy to understand instructions and demos!
Good article. I sailed a Laser, the boat shown, for 35 years. Notes on the Step Over. See Time 3:35. If you are sailing as shown on starboard tack and you start to capsized, swing your right leg over the side of the boat. This allows the boat to roll under you. If timed right, you will be sitting on the side of the boat with your legs on either side. Put your right foot on the dagger board and lean out keeping you left leg on the left side of the boat. When boat starts to right itself, let it roll under you and bring your right leg back into the boat. The trick here is to NOT to let go of the tiller or the main sheet at any time so when the boat rights itself, you sheet in and you are on your way. With practice you will loose 5 to 10 seconds.
these sailaboat tutorials are perfect for learning to sail my vanguard zuma. I find however that when I capsisize, its often difficult to reboard. at the mast where it meets the deck I have installed a line attached to a rope ladder at the transom. any other input would be greatly appreciated…..thanks again from florida tampa bay area.
2:20 the best way to avoid damaging the trailing edge of the dagger board is to climb on the the leading edge. If you climb on from the trailing edge, you tend to pull it back, which can put a point loading on it at the back of the dagger board trunk. I took a 2 inch semicircular sharkbite out of a dagger board by climbing on from the back… Pulling it out all the way as shown helps too.