00:00Look at you, you fucking giant.
00:02What the hell?
00:04You're sitting on a high chair.
00:06Oh, like a child.
00:08I'm going to be teaching you about sailing.
00:10Seems like something you would know about.
00:12Everyone assumes that, but don't judge a book by its cover.
00:15And today's episode of Dana Learns, which is, by the way,
00:18the title that just happened to become named the show.
00:21Sure.
00:22Not that I teach, it's that you learn.
00:24It's just all about you.
00:25I didn't make it that.
00:26Yeah.
00:27They made it that, the universe.
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00:52Have you ever been sailing?
00:53I have sailed on a boat, not like a sailboat, so no.
01:01I don't know what you mean.
01:02I've been on a boat, but it doesn't have a sail.
01:05That's not sailing.
01:06Yeah, but it's water.
01:07What do you mean?
01:08It's sailing the seas.
01:10Oh, you know what?
01:11Yes.
01:12I don't hate what you're saying there.
01:13I know.
01:14But no, I haven't seen the big fucking flag and poles and shit, no.
01:18What kind of a boat were you on?
01:20Like a speedboat type of thing.
01:22Like you go, your boys, you link up with all your other boys on the water and you all drink
01:26beers together.
01:27One of those.
01:27That's fun.
01:28Not sailing.
01:29Okay.
01:30Right?
01:30Could be.
01:31Sailing would probably require what?
01:33A sail.
01:33There you go.
01:34Yeah.
01:35And that is basically the main engine that carries the boat forward.
01:41Yeah.
01:42I'm more of a mechanical propeller guy.
01:44Do you know what it's called when there's no wind?
01:46Idle.
01:47Well, maybe.
01:48But we're idle.
01:49There was a term for this back in the day.
01:51I think it's called the doldrums.
01:53It's the doldrums.
01:54What's the front of the boat called?
01:55This, I actually know this.
01:57The steer.
01:59Ah, shit.
02:02The front of the boat is the...
02:04It's, it's, I know it.
02:05It's on the tip of my tongue.
02:09What am I doing?
02:11Bow.
02:11The bow.
02:13Okay.
02:13What's the back of the boat?
02:15Can you show me again?
02:16No, there's no, I don't have a gemotion for this.
02:19A gemotion?
02:20Sure.
02:21What's a gemotion?
02:21Don't worry about it.
02:22I know it.
02:23It's like the, it's like the, I don't know.
02:26It's like the deck, I don't know.
02:27I don't know.
02:28The second I hear it, I'm going to know it.
02:30Stern.
02:31Stern, that's what I, yes.
02:32When I said the steer, that's what I meant.
02:34The stern.
02:35Well, you know.
02:36What am I supposed to do?
02:37S-T-E.
02:38Sure, right.
02:39If I were to say something's in front of us versus behind us in sailing terms, you'd do that?
02:44Starboard and something.
02:45No, that's right and left.
02:46For and back.
02:50Aft.
02:51No.
02:52I don't give a fuck about that.
02:53For and aft.
02:54Do you know what side starboard versus what's the other side?
02:57jerk.
03:04You're treating me like I'm your first grade teacher who's going to help you.
03:09Yeah.
03:10Sort of that, but I'm not.
03:11jerk.
03:14Lee.
03:15Lee?
03:15The lee side of the.
03:16Oh, well, why the fuck, why did you stop me when I started with S?
03:21Because that's not my job.
03:28All right, all right, all right, all right, lock in, lock in.
03:31Dude, I'm fucking dumb, man.
03:34I was wrong.
03:35The opposite of starboard is...
03:40Port.
03:41Yes.
03:41You just saw your mouth.
03:43That's it.
03:43You did.
03:44I did?
03:45You did.
03:45I led you to.
03:46You led the horse to the drink.
03:48I led the pig to the trough.
03:50Come on.
03:51Come on.
03:51Which one's right and which one's left?
03:53Oh, port's right.
03:54No.
03:55Starboard is to the right, port is to the left.
03:58Well, I was close.
03:58The side that the wind is coming from is the windward side.
04:05The side that the wind is basically shielded from or is coming, the opposite side against,
04:11right, is called the lee side.
04:13Let's talk about different parts of the sail.
04:15Let's do it.
04:16Typically in a regular sailboat, you have your big sail, which is called your what?
04:19White sail.
04:20Main sail.
04:21Oh, close.
04:22They can be different colors.
04:23Do you know what the smaller little sail that's usually behind that is called?
04:27The small sail.
04:28The jib.
04:29Like the cut of your jib, buddy.
04:30That's probably where that comes from.
04:32You think so?
04:33Because they got cuts in them.
04:34No.
04:35Yeah.
04:36I don't...
04:37They...
04:38No.
04:39What is the mainsail attached to?
04:42The one that goes up is called the what?
04:43I don't know.
04:44The mast.
04:45Okay, the mast, yeah.
04:46What do you mean, okay?
04:47That's the question.
04:48You think I know this shit?
04:49This is why you're teaching me.
04:50You said, oh, okay, the mast.
04:52You knew that.
04:53You did know that.
04:55I'm trying to get you to answer things without me having to tell you that.
04:58Okay.
04:59It's the mast and the, uh...
05:01Yeah, what's the one under?
05:03Don't look at me like that.
05:05You know that guy, that little kid that went, that goes viral for going like...
05:09Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
05:09Justice and all of them.
05:11Yep, yep.
05:11Big Adrian Justice.
05:12What's his saying?
05:13Boom!
05:14It's called the boom?
05:15It's called the boom.
05:16Wow.
05:16Oftentimes, when you're sailing, right?
05:18Yeah.
05:19Your goal is sort of to harness the wind.
05:22Yes.
05:22So that you can have it power you.
05:24Yeah.
05:25Now, that doesn't necessarily mean that the wind needs to be directly behind you.
05:29Oftentimes, you will sort of sail at an angle to the wind.
05:34Yup.
05:35You go as far as you can and then you got to switch course a little bit to keep going
05:43zigzag pattern.
05:44Yes.
05:44What's the thing under the boat that keeps it sort of on course and from capsizing?
05:51The anchor?
05:52It's a board and it's placed in the center of the boat.
05:56Center board?
05:57So it's a center board.
05:58See?
05:58You just got to help me.
05:59You got to get me there.
06:00What do we steer with?
06:01Like a wheel, like...
06:03That's on a big sort of...
06:05That's what I'm thinking of.
06:06...schooner.
06:07Yeah.
06:07A guy wearing a yellow hat.
06:08Yes, that's what I'm thinking of.
06:09In the rain.
06:10Yeah.
06:11The rudder, right?
06:12Okay.
06:12Do you think that it's possible for a sailboat to only sail with the wind pushing it or is
06:20it possible, do you think, for a sailboat to sail directly into a wind going against it?
06:26You're trick questioning me and yes, you can do that.
06:30How do you think you do it?
06:31You have to have side sails.
06:39Oh lord.
06:40It's actually a process called aerodynamic lift.
06:44Ooh.
06:44And sailing, when we head into the wind or travel upwind, it is the air passing around the shape of
06:52boat that effectively sucks it forward.
06:56I don't know if there's a whole lot else I really want to teach you.
06:58I think I'd rather just get out on the water with you.
07:00I would love to do that.
07:02Or I could take you to the New York SailGP, May 30th, 31st, to watch.
07:11It's close to shore action.
07:13I would love to see from the shore these sailboats in action.
07:1750 foot catamarans going over 60 miles per hour.
07:2260 miles per hour.
07:24If I look away, I'll miss them.
07:25Check out the SailGP.
07:26Go to SailGP.com to see all the action.
07:30Thanks, Francis.
07:30Great to see you again.
07:31Great to see you too.
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