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Lin & Larry Pardey: Are You Ready to Sail Off-Shore?
April 2, 2010 · 1 min · 54K views
What this video covers
A practical readiness test for first offshore passage-making, described by Lin and Larry Pardey: take the boat out in 15 knots, hard on the wind, leave the safety harness off, grab a weighted bucket, climb out of the cockpit to the windward side, walk to the bow, touch it, return via the leeward side, and get back to the cockpit.0:28 The exercise identifies where handholds are missing and where deck slip spots need fixing.0:39 Once that feels manageable, repeat it in 25 knots — still without the harness — because a real emergency may leave no time to clip in, and the sailor needs to know the boat's deck under pressure before that moment arrives.0:45 Passing both tests signals readiness for a first offshore passage.0:54 The core lesson: deck familiarity at speed, not gear or miles logged, is the baseline competency Lin and Larry Pardey set before going offshore.
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