The thing that amazes me is that these people know how difficult this passage through Haulover Inlet can be, but few to none have any life vests on (including the children -- I thought that i even saw a small child wearing an inflatable vest). Darwin awards all around in this video!!!
@@hounddog2952 Really? I think the captain should make people aware how to use the vests and where they are. These waters are warm at least, but many factors can overwhelm even a strong swimmer, like being swept out to sea. The captains here seem to be inviting people out who don't look like they could swim very far. When you don't take any precautions, you put others at risk having to save you or your passengers. That is cold-hearted at best, ignorant anyway. You can see the people in these boats, and you don't care.
@@hounddog2952 Olympic swimming competitions have life savers on guard for exactly the same reason as wearing your life vest. If you injure some body part you need to swim or get unconscious its the only thing saving you from drowning.
If you are referring to the Hurricane 185 dude I concur. What makes people continue to pound through rough seas with extra tonnage up front, I will never understand. SMH.
Getting a line caught in a prop is one of those things you ideally never do more than once. For me, it happened early in my career and required that I jump into early season, 45 degree Lake Michigan water to get it sorted out. You kind of remember things like that, and don't want to repeat them.
Midnight Express and Valhalla are building some of the nicest boats in the business right now, just gorgeous and perfect for fishing or a just a day out. Just my opinion though.
I mean...most of the time it's the small boats that do the best in haulover. I have a 14ft jon boat i take through there regularly with no issues at all
Truly concerning how many children don’t wear life vests , especially in the smaller boats. They’re heading into extreme chop and the captain is oblivious. As a parent myself to two kids, I’m blown away to just how reckless that is. I also see a lot of people crammed into the bow when the weight needs to be better distributed. Boats taking on water and multiple people hanging out…once again, the captain not stepping up and properly addressing the situation.
That engine failure crew at 16:42 didn't just lose fishing rods and have the engine shut down, they also dropped the anchor while underway. This is why they had to raid a storage area to grab the spare anchor rather than use the one at the front like normal. The anchor rope may have also tangled on the prop to add to the drama. You see at 17:53 the anchor rope is pulled all the way out of the boat.
The guy with the graft right next to his face was genius material and his scholar first mate next to him with the hook 🪝 almost in his face are examples of true anglers . Top tier boating at its finest !
I feel like these new boat owners (Im not going to call them captains because they dont have the experience to be given that honorific), should be required to watch several hours of these videos and have discussion about what is being done right and wrong. It would help so many.
@@alyssa0411it's weird because I grew up in less populated areas so life jackets weren't as important for experienced kids, but we didn't have 4000hp entitled assholes driving cigarette boats while taking selfies
I love the "dare devils" in the dinky little open bows. They're gonna ride the bow until they get the first splash. Then they're scrambling for the stern.
"That looks quite tight..." Well, I've been tighter. I chartered a sailboat near Destin, FL. In discussions with the owner, he assured us that it had been under the Destin bridge. At 30 minutes before low tide, we went out. The VHF antenna scraped every bridge bent. So, we didn't stay out long. About an hour later, we returned to the same scraping sound on the bridge bents. We were both smart and lucky that day. I prefer smart over lucky.
I was once asked by a friend I was visiting if I wanted to go out in his boat. The winds and surf was pretty high so I declined. He replied "I didn't ask if you wanted to go for a FUN ride, how about a SCARY one?"
I could never understand how people would take out a small ass boat out of that Inlet or into the ocean for that matter. When I lived in Miami we would just sit and watch some of these people and shake our heads in disbelief.
It must have do with the American culture. Those fiberglass hulls will turn to mush if you slam them down hard enough on a wave. Also, many of the people who haul gas out of the inlet are just gambling they don't hit a bad wave. Relying on your luck is not very conducive to a long life. If you have a really big boat, then those waves don't really matter but it has to be really big. Overall, this is my favorite channel. I sailed hobie cats in the surf for a couple of years so I have some understanding of the ocean. This channel is a lot of fun to watch.
@@kat13man when was the last time you;ve seen fiberglass "turned to mush" from hitting waves? i've seen some split and take on water, but that was the worst and the boat still made it back w a good captain keeping it on plane and some luck.
You must be one of those people that call the police on all your neighbors whenever they annoy you and contact the HOA whenever someone’s grass 1/4” too long. You’re a true hero.
@@danocean5826So fun = reckless and endangering people’s safety to you? I hate to break it but there are some people who should be penalized for the dumb sh- they are doing on these boats.
I'm certainly no ocean captain, but in regard to the HCB Suenos, and any other boat heading out in rough seas, it would seem reasonable to have everybody seated astern unless they are sitting in one of the helm chairs. I'd also like to get some insight on what the captain could have done, if anything, to improve the situation as far as speed/trim/entry angle etc.
In a boat that size, he should have added some power, and stayed up on the tops of the waves. If you notice, you see the guys in the 40’+ Cigarettes, and other large go fast boats hauling ass over the rough stuff, and they are definitely having a much smoother ride than this boat. There is no reason for him to be slowly climbing over each wave and then going down the backside. Running the inlet the way he’s doing it vastly increases the odds of him stuffing the bow, like he did when he almost washed all of his passengers from the front of the boat to the rear. However, I agree 100% that in conditions like this, the passengers should have been in the rear facing seats behind the helm. The closer you are to the fulcrum point (at the stern), the smoother the ride. But hey, what do I know, he’s doing something right, he’s got a $2M boat, and I don’t!
Speed…he was going way too slow. When you’re going against/into the swell like he was you want some speed to keep your bow up long enough to hit the next wave before your bow drops. When you’re going with the swell you want to use your trim tabs to keep your bow up so you don’t nose dive when you over take the wave.
yes, there is a reason he can't put the boat on a plane to stay on top!!! The frequency of the waves is greater than the length of his boat. The Go fasts are longer relative to the frequency of the waves, and their power to weight ratio is much greater. @@chipgascoigne1761
The simple answer to the question "how did this happen?" Unfortunately no knowledge of boats,brains,or common sense are required to own a boat like this, just a lot of money!
16:46 Not only did their engine stall... but they dropped anchor as well. At my marker you can see their anchor drop from the front of the boat.... and then the entire line drops out (17:55) as they get turned around by the waves.
As a boy standing on the dock enthralled, watching a beautiful boat pull into the harbor. An old lobsterman next to me said “ Kid, just because he has a fancy boat, doesn’t mean he’s a good captain”……..
If you put out enough line, it can work as well. Rule of thumb that was taught to me is to put out at least 5x the water depth with rope or 3x with chain. Most people I know put out 5x with chain and don't use rope...
@@kihe3301 You want the anchor to be pulled as flat as possible over the seafloor so it can bite in and hold the boat. Rope has almost no weight under water, so when the boat pulls on it, it will stretch it tight and as a result pull upwards on the end of the anchor. Chain is much heavier so it will create a bow, with the anchor end of it sitting on the bottom and just being dragged along it, creating ideal conditions for the anchor to bite into the bottom and holding the boat.
Captain at 23:00 should have his boating privileges revoked and his head examined. His decision is to take the three youngest girls in his group and place them precariously on the bow of his boat without PFDs and nothing to hold onto while he apparently tries to bounce them off into heavy currents, swells and breaking waves and fairly dense boat traffic. What could possibly go wrong?
THis goes for a lot of boats i never seen anyone using engine trim to bring the bow up for these deep swells. works for both following and head seas 14:35 is example of what happens like many others on here
I am continually amazed at the number of children (and adults, actually) not wearing a life jacket. If you want to endanger your life this way as adult, that's one thing, but to not put one one a child is reckless, at best.
Video educativo ensinando a futuros capitães como não conduzir embarcações em saida de canal com mar agitado. Parabéns pelo conteudo. Saudações do Brasil.
Cannot undrstand how those not seaworthy soup spoon shaped bow rider boats are permitted to be sold for use in open sea and not limited for lakes or rivers
"BAY RIDERS" the intercoastal canal is well suited to them. And once you clear the inlets, the wave action c an be way less. It's funnled into the inlets and waves go up when ocean floor goes up
Because we live in a country where the individual can make their own decision on whether this or that is safe or not, not some faceless bureaucrat who has never had any kind of adventure in their life. Anyway, I know lakes rougher than what your seeing here.
@chrisw7642 not true. I grew up boating. I didn't just make money n decide to buy a boat I have no idea how to operate or the rules/courtesies of the water. But, good try
Sat up front on a ‘speedboat’ in Thailand in 2007 and i lost momentum, basically the boat went up and i went down! Slammed into the seat and injured myself pretty bad. Ended up 6 years later in surgery for a ruptured vertebrae and six screws inserted into my lower spine!
