Our Secret Revealed: You Won't Believe This is Possible on a Bluewater Cruising Yacht [Ep. 133]

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We take you on an upwind sailing ride through the fjords of Patagonia. Curtis does a how-to trim sails and upwind sailing video talk while underway, revealing his secrets to sail trim and our performance cruiser's actual upwind sailing angles, to help you learn to sail your boat just like us as we tack up the narrow and treacherous fjords against the wind and current. Your sailing catamaran can't do this!

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0:00 Intro & Sailing Navigational Plan
1:44 Leaving our anchorage - Caleta Grau
2:40 Setting the sails - preparing for our sailing adventure, tacking up wind, Kate and Curtis talk about their strategy, tactics, and navigational charts for tacking up wind in the fjords of Patagonia (how to verify your charted position with your depth sounder)
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12:28 Tacking upwind in Patagonia
14:35 Curtis reveals our sailing secrets including how to trim upwind, how to balance the boat properly, how to sail your polars (no it has nothing to do with polar bears or the north pole), and what our actual upwind sailing apparent wind angles and speeds are and lots more as we tack through narrow fjords.
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