I've been sailing since the age of 4 and have been a member of Hythe Sailing Club on Southampton Water for many years. Hence the interest in the major sailing events depicted here.
I'm also a board member at @sdrt and some of the videos on that channel were made by me as well.
I love that the most replayed moment is when a real yacht is in frame. Absolutely sick of these ultralights and their hateful cruising counterparts, with ikea interiors.
8 minutes into the video, the sea state picks up considerably. The wind speed (gusting to 9, not average) was checked subsequently at weatherfile.com/location?loc_id=GBR00002
Does all that footage exist uncut? I would love to see more of many of those boats. Any boat that sails comfortably and well in these conditions would be a great choice for an ocean-crossing family boat. Most boats can be rigged to sail with a smaller crew. The trend toward less overhang and wider stern might be fast downwind and make for an overall better race boat, but they're a beating (sorry) in conditions like these. The more "modern" the hull shape, the rougher they seem to be taking it. This is prime boat-shopping material, right here. I've been to Bermuda twice on a J boat and I will sail to Hawaii on a J105 next July. Someday soon, I hope cross these waters with my wife. She would not enjoy the ride most of these boats are getting today. And days like this happen out there. Something along the lines of a re-rigged 1970s Swan could be the way to go.
Yup, “Eve” Swan 65 making it look relatively easy. Large has advantage! But this video certainly shows how the conditions got worse for the smaller boats as the day went on.
as we can see, the taller the freeboard and the flatter the hull, the less seaworthyness with banging and acceleration, both old canoe shape hulls and low freeboard flat reggata hulls do fine, and foils should be installed in all sailboats for stability
Happily, whilst it was blowing its nuts off that weekend, we were tucked up in Gosport Marina with access to the pub, a fab Chinese restaurant, shops and power. It was howling. The moral is to pick your weather window. I think I made a good choice.....
I've had a look but can't see it. There is a gap of a few minutes when Lucky might have gone through - I think it was raining heavily at the time and I had taken shelter!
"...rose to 8 gusting 9 when the smaller yachts arrived. Coupled with a change in the tide direction, so having wind-over-tide, this resulted in some lively conditions after 3pm (8 minutes on the video)" Skip to 8:00, a VO65 fills the screen...
@@RodOrmston ok fair do’s, I’ll take that then - it’s me kitesurfing on the foil, was getting ragged around rather a lot by the time I got to Hurst, with a 9m kite, and it probably got windier over the following hour
Wow..just sitting here at a harbour waiting out a gale that is blowing through and happy not to be out there...watching this video reminds me of how much we love to sail. Every boat that competes in that race is a winner regardless of final place! Well done lads...now back to my coffee and brekky and more sailing videos! Mike 😊
I'm not familiar with the geography at the location of this video. But I guess the seas (waves) are still quite moderate due to shelter from the Isle of Wight. I It must have been a very different (worse..) sight if this wind force still prevailed out around Fastnet with the whole of the Atlantic Ocean attacking the boats. Is there any video coverage from that region as well?
Fantastic footage ! An external look at what I experienced and saw from the deck at 15:30 s/y Fujimo ab POL14833. Thank You very much for this excellent souvenir :)
Fantastic video Rod! I took part in this challenging race and shot some video in the calmer moments. I would love to include some of your video footage with mine with your permission.
If you're logged in to RU-vid, you should be able to go through a Captcha sequence on the 'About' tab on my channel and then RU-vid will reveal an email address. For your channel, you don't appear to have a contact email set - I would have come through to you on that if you had.
Great video, shows that those who had set up their boats for the conditions could manage OK. Good call by Race Committee to start on time. It is an Ocean Race.
Much more comfortable and probably faster on the boats with reduced sails especially small/storm jibs - the boat with their full size jib seem to be on the point of rounding up all the time.
