Another pro tip: Lift off the throttle while going into head seas to prevent launching the bow over a wave, give some throttle out of following seas to prevent the bow digging in. Perhaps more for racing drivers but can be useful if you're caught in rough conditions or are going over shallow spots.
I love seeing boats in rougher sea conditions. Too many boat videos show them in less than challenging sea states. Love seeing Grady Whites at their best. I just purchased a 98 Sailfish with original Saltwater Yamaha OX66 2 strokes. The Hunt hull allows me yo fish and cruise Buzzards Bay and Rhode Island sound with confidence. I havr had the boat for 4 months and have fallen in love with it! Goes anywhere!
@@stevecastro4277 Here is a video of my boat heading down the Sakonnet River towards Rhode Island Sound from last year! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-PNUWlCTcjhg.html
Finally. Talking about trim in choppy Sydney harbour rather than on US lakes and flat Florida conditions. A small ski boat can really struggle in harbour cruiser wake and 2ft wind chop.
Insert standard captain wave launch here- I’d love to see them in a production meeting - right so we’ll film it doin some gnarly turns and then we gotta find something to jump it off? Agreed? Yep - job done
I've got a lot to learn about rougher conditions. I don't like slamming the hull down on the water, but several times this happens on these videos. It seems to me, again - low experience - that would be dangerous or have potential to damage the boat. Mine is a 86 GW Offshore 24. Love it. Just don't like slamming it. Thoughts?
Trim may play a part, that's covered in this video. The depth of V in the boat's hull will also. A deeper V will pierce the water more sharply on reentry, ramp the buoyancy back up more gradually and soften the ride. You have the hull you have, I don't know it. Speed needs adjusting appropriate to the conditions. If you're heading into chop launching of one wavelet and landing right before the peak of the next it's going to slam. In confused waves it's going to be hard because the wave period will constantly change. Your best hope is playing subtly with the throttle and steering while learning to read the sea.
Self bailing is one of the truly great hull designs ever. Bilge pumps are great, but to have water flow out via gravity is far superior--far far superior. But never ever forget--no matter how fine the design--maintain your below deck fittings, sea cocks, etc. With a catastrophic failure, no pump can keep up and even self bailing can be overwhelmed if too much water is coming in. I think some people truly feel that if they "pay a lot" you "should be safe" and it simply is not true. You MUST maintain--or pay someone else--to maintain your boat, no matter how fine the design. And YOU must learn a few things--again, no matter how fine the design. I just saw today, a fine 40 footer hit by lightning--they instantly lost all power--in rough stuff. They hit their EPIRB--good, but what else should you always do? Do you know? Think about it, what happens when you lose power--what does the sea do to your hull? And what might YOU do to stabilize the boat until help arrives--any idea? Some of you know, but I see many who have no idea, and if they boat, they should.
There are Several Great Boats & unfortunately there are many I wouldn't recommend. Grady White boats are Good Boats. Regulator' Everglades' many other. & Then there are CAPE HORN they are truly in a class of their own. 2" thick Hull. More closed cell boat foam & well if there wasn't any Cape Horn Boats I would consider Grady White
what ? didnt get the last part ? if you have a wave coming from back and push the boat side way so it leans to the side and starts to roll over. so you should not stear the boat to that direktion it leans to? is int it worse to steering to the other side where the waves is coming from? then it tipps over faster ? its like you have a slide going on with the car and if you steer to much with the slide it will do a u turn, should you not try to steer with the slide so it starts to "surf" only if you know this is gonna tipp over if i dont do anything. so here we go. waves from back starts to push boat side way to the right. and its a warning for tipp over to the right. to witch way should you steer the boat then ? to left or right ?
I don't agree with all of this my first boat was a 74 18 ft Grady. Now I have a 26 outrage Whaler with twins. But what he saying digging the bow in if you hit a wave the wrong way you're really going to flip the boat or it's going to hit the waves so hard it is going to throw you out of the boat. Over the years I've had other boats and if Captain boats up to 68 foot. Respect the sea that's about the best I could make it in one sentence he doesn't tell you that
@phil yeah the boat I was talking about was my last boat that was in a 26 Robalo with twin 225. I hit a wrong wave the wrong way and it scared me half to death. I just have a little more respect going a little bit slower in the ocean these days
I own a a Robalo 242 with a variable deep V hull and it absolutely cuts through the waves (vs crashing down), especially when I Iower the bow with the trim tabs...like The Captain said.
I understand trim tabs but changing engine angle explanation needs a better look. In your video you could tell by your words if we should raise and put more prop in the water. Please redo. Thanks
@@scooter1391 ah got it. since you've been behind the helm for so long everyone else in the planet must also know all of this information. Gotcha. If YOU know it, no one else can possibly find this as new or useful information to them since you've passed down your vast amount of knowledge to the rest of humanity. Good to know you troll.
