A Super Yacht In Bad Weather - Lost An Engine 

I posted this video FULLY KNOWING there would be some abuse thrown at me from the comment section. I have completed approximately 33 700 nautical miles at sea. A large portion of the East African coast, South Africa, 2 cross Atlantic's, the English Channel, and a large part of the Mediterranean. I HAVE EXPERIENCED FAR WORSE SEAS than the ones displayed in this video. This video was made because I received a comment that requested a video showcasing bad sea. This is the worst we would take this boat in with following seas and as a result, made the video. I have no problem with you commenting the sea is not that big, because... its not. The way the boat was reacting, the key turning off, all of it together was enough reason to film the video. Anyway, thanks for the abusive comments, the more people that comment the more my channel gets displayed to people so, thanks for your help ;)

It is really hard to catch the size of the seas on camera. Waves always look smaller on video, especially the large swells. What looks small on video, in reality is, allowing hundreds of thousands of pounds to body surf. That said, in the grand scheme of things, that isn't a particularly bad sea state but, like you say, it depends on the capabilities of the yacht. Just like a car, going around a corner at 45 mph is mundane in a Ferrari. Hit that same corner at 45 in an SUV and it will be a hair raising experience.

Jared, I'm a former Navy Diver. I can appreciate this video and the challenges you and your crew face. I enjoy your videos, they are informative. It's my desire to purchase a yacht in a few years, and your blogs helps me to have a better understanding of what to expect. Thank you! Please continue your blogs and forget the naysayers...you're doing a creat job, not to mention a service for the industry, both for crew and owners. Good luck!!

I was a naval officer serving on a guided missile cruiser (a big ship) in the Pacific. Once we had to ride out a storm that was severe enough that the bridge crew had to hold onto overhead lines. The ship would roll so far that our feet couldn't touch the deck. On each roll we were suspended in the air, hanging from one arm, while we tried to do our jobs using the other arm. It was alarming seeing the port or starboard bulkhead almost become the deck on every roll. That was a very exhausting thing to endure, especially at 2, 3, 4 in the morning.

As a captain for over 30 years, I know that feeling, it's completely physically and mentally exhausting. I would be much more comfortable in my 42 nordhavn

10 years at sea in the US Navy. Best you can do is prep for rough seas as best as you can and then ride out the bad weather.

i was a commercial fisherman in alaska i aways tryed to film some of the storms but cameras does no justice

Plexiglas cover for those keys? Strange that they are mounted so close to the deck like that.

Totally enjoy your videos. Great job and great insight into yachting life.

Running ahead of a following sea can be a nightmare at the helm, and at times, unavoidable. Thanks Jared, for sharing so many aspects of yachting. Well done, as always!

Great video. Not all sailing is smooth seas, calm winds, sunny days. You did a great job explaining high wind/gale conditions, following sea. I learned a lot. Never seen a large yacht from inside during rough seas.

Thing most viewers probably won't realize is that big seas and motion rarely show up well on camera. Especially when filmed from the boat that is moving etc. Even when watching extreme waves hitting full sized ships the size and force of the waves really is lost on video. You have a great series of videos Jared - I have viewed most of them and have grown to like your passion for the job and interest in the viewer!

We call that water bottle incident, ..Murphy's Law.

Damn chef, haha. He doesn't give a shit. I bet he's got a round bottom fishbowl somewhere, for cooking in a hurricane. And a rockclimbers gear to strap him to each wall. He's going "Sluurrrp. Ah, just a pinch of curry. And some roasted cashews.", while on the radio the news broadcaster is going "It's confimed! England has sunk into the sea and Spain has shattered into a hundred islands. Oh the dread! Norway has been swallowed by a freak wave!" "Hmm, maybe some lavender blossoms as plate decoration for the ladies?"

Great video, I know that you can’t judge the seas from a video. But after 40 years at sea I.have learned that surfing like that can be very dangerous. The vessel could get into an ever increasing roll cycles where she could eventually capsize. The only way to avoid this is to either increase or reduce speed or of course change speed. So the fact that your engine stopped was a blessing in disguise. There are some historic events where two sister vessels both disappeared when going down wind. I am talking about large cargo vessels which were lost with al crew gone. I like your videos, keep up the good work.

Enjoyed that, brought back memories of my days in the SA Navy in Strike Craft, top speed 40 knots but in heavy seas the throttles would be at 16 knots but we would go over 40 knots and on some occasions the bow would sink in as far as the bridge, meaning we would have to go into reverse to extract the boat.

Force 7 28 - 33 knots Near Gale Sea heaps up and white foam blown in streaks along the direction of the wind.

Pure gold. Thank you for the experience. Amazing crew, that was a serious situation to go thro. Going through that weather was bad enough but loosing one of the only things keeping control is a nightmare. Hats of. Would be amazing to work with such a crew.

Happy that you make us viewers aware of how much waves the vessel is made to handle, bad weather is relative to how the vessel is designed, and also how the people on board are used to the vessels movement, i have seen people complain about rough weather when the sea was almost flat, and the reason for the vessel rocking was mostly because we only sailed 11 knots(she was designed to do 18) and the stabilizers were broken. I like your videos, gives a good and unfiltered view of how life is on board ships

Again, an amazing video. Love to watch it in the train after a long day of studying. Keep up the good work! Greets from Holland.

Enjoying the videos Jared your answering questions I’ve always wondered when I see this yachts in Vancouver BC

The most inportent thing to do in this kind of wether is to act calm so all the guests on board act calm If you panic the guests will start to panic Keep calm show that its just another normal day at sea and it should be all rite The crew and caption are traind for this situacion but the guests are not so use your calmnes to train the passingerst that its nothing to be afraid of Best of luck

My worst storm with a 180’ USCG black hull was rolling to 39 degrees on the inclinometer, having a Viking stove rip the welds off the bulkhead and finally being in a troff and seeing the crest of the wave taller than out mast at about 85’ ! Never go below and keep your eyes on the horizon, when you can see it

Nice video, brilliant to see a proper hands on vlog from the deck side

Awesome video. Best editing on this one. Keep it up. I can’t wait to see you as The Captain in years to come.

If i were a passenger/guest, I would be more interested in the behind the scenes sort of thing on the yacht instead of just sitting around and letting people do stuff for me. Boats have always fascinated me but I've always been afraid of open water especially the ocean. Glad you made it out of those rough seas alright.

Good video and excellent narration.

Ah miss the sea. Once went from Unimak Pass to 200 nm from Russia in 30 foot seas at 26kts. 900 nm trip to rescue a fisherman. Fun trip

Really nice quality videos, fun to watch and interesting. Keep it up!

retired USN, and just love watching these type videos, the sea is truly a great place to be

Great video, glad the situation worked out.

As a diver , I’ve been in worse seas with a smaller boat. I feel ya. I can remember buttoning up everything and coming back from an oil rig during a storm and watching my boss lift out of his seat and float mid air. One thing I would recommend is keep some painters tape on those mirror doors. Peel it off when it’s done and no smudges but keeps them secure.

Sold my 38' Carver 20 years ago but do remember my least favourite is a following sea. It keeps the helmsman 100% busy and gives the vague feeling of not being in complete control. I was only on a lake but the reach was big and it came out of nowhere. You always remember the scary cruises fondly years later. In rough weather I prefer the flybridge with lots of fresh air keeping my eyes on the horizon - better than dramamine! If I was the owner you would have a clause in your contract to keep a 2 or 3 day scruff whenever possible. It suits you. :) Keep up with the vlogs Jared. They are great.

😎 nice weather and storms, you have both!

Great video and respect what you been in as use to sail

Great video! I have tried to film rough seas where we are taking green water over the bow and on playback it looks like nothing. Keep sharing. Thanks

love your videos buddy . . so informative because they never show you on the yacht brokers what sort of seas a m/y can take. keep em coming.

Awesome video, Jared. Catching up on some of them today. :-)

I feel you, just recently I was stuck in a 9 day crossing. 5 days of it was normally a no go weather but we decided to trudge on due to timings of other things. Nice to see even the large yatchs face the same troubles. ;)

Jared nice video! I have experienced this multiple times on a Navy training vessel which is about 41m and is definitely not designed for big surf! I'm surprised no one became too sea sick!

Ive been in a 130ft boat while cruising easily 5-10 foot waves. The yacht had no stabilizers so it was rocking back and forth pretty bad but we were fine.

Well, done. Surfing in any ship is difficult on the boat and the crew, humourous part is the cook doing his best like everybody else, good on all of you.

I dive on all kinds of boats here in Southport, NC. I think it be a joy to work and live on a yacht. Seems like a great experience and a great gain in knowledge. Good luck bud safe travels.

Learned a little more about yachting. Good video!

Thank you so much for posting this video! I really wanted to get a feel for how it could be in a bad storm and whether or not I'd be able to handle it. Hopefully I wont experience this whilst being a greenie! - Fellow Saffa going over to the MED soon.

Great insight to the yachting world, really enjoyed the video.

love ur videos especially the live action...

Hi, We crossed the Atlantic in 1985 on what was then a super yacht.( 100 ft,) We got into hours and hours of building following seas,,,many times she felt like she might broach, are nerves could stand no more, so we made the decision to fill the now empty fuel tanks with sea water for ballast,,,, it worked!

Love your videos man

I pull shrimp pots and halibut skates in weather like that on my 22 foot Alaskan Raider. Just another day, no wine glasses to break or refrigerators to worry about.

We surfed the swell every time we went out .but of course our Cap was very experienced . We would gunn the engine to get to the top of the swell , put her into nutrul and surf to the bottom of the swell then gunn to the top of the next swell . Never had a problem .

I agree in 1982 i was on a military ship in the roaring forties force 12 , thank God it was a 17000 ton ship .

You know Jared, your dead-on, it’s what the boat can handle. Keep up the great videos...

sick video man keep it up

Another great Video !! keep them coming

If it makes you feel any better, I understand a little of what you went through. We, too, went out on Lake Erie (Very large, but very shallow) for a 105nm sail. The winds climbed past the forecast and our anemometer stopped functioning as the wind climbed past 40knots AWS (we were moving about 10 knots so I figure over 50 knots true wind speed). The waves grew in the shallow lake to over 15' (4.5m) and steep. We hit 15.6 knots SOG as it was throwing us across the lake. The difference is that our boat is 26' (8m) with a beam of 7.5' (2.3m) ... and I was hand steering on a tiller through 18 hours of that nonsense. Albeit different situations between your mega yacht, and my little old sailboat, but I understand the emotions you were going through. One difference is you were looking down at the waves from inside, while I was outside, looking up at them as they blocked out the sun/moon, every time we were in the trough of a wave. As you said... maybe big ships don't worry about such things, but when the little boats are in it, it's a different world. Anyway, thought I would share as I know few other people that have sailed / motored through such weather. Thanks for the walk down memory lane and keep up with the videos. Wealthy mega yachts aren't my world... but strangely addictive to view.

Thank you for another awesome video Jared! ^_^

Jared, take a peek at this 360 recording. Just for ideas. Great as always to see you!

Hard to imagine, an secured water bottle could of caused a disaster with engine failure, very good video, exciting to watch. Matthew looks forward to sending an Instagram or indicated that. With Fall they have fashion season. I feel happy your using your life at sea to inspire everyone

The camera never justifies the wave height and wind either

I went on a fishing charter and the swells were way bigger than that but it was a small boat so it took it better but I remember just bouncing around and things just flying. It was crazy so I could imagine what you’re feeling

Good videos,keep filming!

As a fisherman on the Oregon Coast been in a lot worse but in a 60 footer, my advice for weather like this is Prayer(and a lot of it), We always thanked God after crossing the bar!

Great video boet!

As a Navy veteran myself you won’t get any judgement or “why didn’t you do this this and this” type comments from me because honestly no amount of preparation can fully prepare you and the boat for really crappy seas and storms. We would always do what we called “secure for sea” where we would tie up, strap up, and in many cases duct tape anything and everything that we could think of that would go flying or swing open or what have you lol, but that was on a Navy warship, not a yacht with guests, so I can imagine why doing stuff like that wouldn’t be an option. Anyways, love the sea stories and hope you share more in the future, I’ve got a few myself lol. Take care mate!

New subscriber, love the videos, your very good at it.....

Love your videos 👍 I crewed on 100fter from Washington State to Cabo a few times and everyone talked about the “Green Flash” have you experienced that? I never did but every sunset I was glaring 😳

I want to buy a Super yacht just so Jared can come work for me.WOOF!

The one thing you learn when being on the ocean lots is anything and everything happens, its the law of the sea if something can go wrong.... it will eventually.

your exactly correct, you were surfing, the problem for the helmsman is you go from no real control on the rudders to tremendas loads very quickly at the bottom of the wave. ive done this sailing, very dangerous indeed. displacement hauls are never went to plane.

Going just a little slower than the waves and not letting them hit you directly on the side it’s the best thing to do. We had even worse weather once in a smaller boat. It was a 17 meter lobster type motor yacht. The waves were mostly around 5 meters but in places reached 7. We were doing a crossing across the Adriatic from Italy to Croatia. At first there was just wind but as you said the waves start building up as time goes by.

Worst weather I've ever been in on a boat was 9 foot to 12 foot swells in a 34 foot sport cruiser, we were not more than 10 or 12 miles from the channel we needed to get into and we were cruising at about 35 knots trying to outrun the waves because they would swamp the boat entirely if one hit from behind and we were literally jumping the boat from crest to crest of each wave. Let me tell you that being at a 50 degree vertical angle on a smaller boat is something you never ever want to experience, we got in okay but the entirety of the cabin was a wreck.

Love your vids keep it up

Great video!

In the Navy thats Tuesday :)

Great content. Subbed

I love your vids! keep the hard work up

Nice yact definitely need one

I have a 52' sportfish I've been in some heavy seas and I had filed some massive waves ! Then the next day I watched the videos and omg I looked like I was telling a fishing tale ! It looked like I was in the bay LOL ! It never shows up on video ! 🇺🇲

I agree with you....not for open rough seas.

Sounds like a miracle 💪!!

I've been on a smaller boat doing that. Dude its not fun. Glad you guys are safe after that.

Good vid, mate!

Correct conditions at sea depends on the type of boat. Really like your videos. Well done

We were in the med for 4 years at the end hated that never ending wind !!!!

I work in the north sea so get very used to big seas but in a 60m vessel designed for it. Very interesting to see the effect on a smaller vessel not designed for it. Worst my last ship saw was 26m wave height and I’m counting my lucky stars that I wasn’t onboard then.

Crazy. What are the odds that a water bottle would be in the perfect place at the right time to shut off an engine. Keep up the good content, bro. I am hooked.

In 1970 I was on a Canadian navy frigate in the North Pacific in 30’ + waves for about 12 hours. That big ship was tossed around a lot, and no one was eating anything.

Hey Jared! Below Deck TV Show? What a Train Wreck! Hope things go Better For You! Thnx, CJ

After seeing all the beautiful Mega Yachts and their luxury, it’s great to see what actually happens on them while they’re in use. The host (Jared) is amazing. Very knowledgeable and just the right tone as a host and skilled guide. Thanks so much for creating this channel. I spend WAYYYY too much time here... but it’s better than watching the news....

You're right Jared for a small yacht that is big seas, coming from a merchant background 10 meters waves is when s*** really hits the fan for 300m ships.

ive been in 4 meter waves in a 34 footer and the best things to do is secure all items an go with the wind, we did have a kiel tho

Great vid mate. This video shows why a small steel hull Feadship costs 3-4 times more than a similar sized composite Sanlorenzo. Horses for courses.

Smashed it.

New on your vids. Love them. :-)

In my experience, the people who tell you what you should have done in a particular sea are people who don't have much experience of being at sea. Most people who have actually been there know that you only ever try to make the best decisions that you can under the circumstances.

Good shit homie

Good stuff

Great vid!

Love your videos. You and Becca are such a cute couple. The weather looked scary enough to me. Please keep it up. New subscriber