Podcasts · Offshore Sailing and Cruising with Paul Trammell

Sail Trim with Carl Damm

11 May 2026 · 1 h 17 min · S7 E303

Carl Damm is the owner or Damsel Marine, a yacht management, maitenance, and consulting company. He is also a sailing instructor with ASA and Nautic Ed.

We talk about how to properly install and bed deck hardware, filling the bolt holes with epoxy, backing plates, sail trim, setting halyard tension, how to use a cunningham, setting proper leech tension, reading tell tales, moving jib cars, adjustable jib cars vs pin-stop vs twings with low-friction rings, why a sailor should carry a knife, mast bend, using the traveler, vang, and mainsheet, barber hauls, the proper way to set a whisker pole, the foreguy, afterguy, and pole lift, the staysail and when to use it, spinnakers, the boom topping lift, sail twist, when to reef, heeling, how to know when to reef a catamaran, whether or not you should learn to use a sextant, paper charts, essential electronics to have, radar, AIS, Damsel Marine, sailing instruction, keeping it simple, minimizing integration, and more.

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