Riding Out Cyclone Gabrielle on a Small Boat on the North Island of New Zealand 

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I like that. Good to hear.

Hell yeah that is awesome!!!!

That is awesome

ain't that the truth, I just mentioned that to a certain you tube yachty who said he could've died during a storm, yet he didn't get 1 second of it. I fronted him about this and he said he couldn't record it because of the chaos, yet in the clip said he was hiding in the cabin hove to for it. Yet he didn't have the time to push a button on one of his 5 go pros or his expensive digi camera. I understand it must be hard to continually make content when just sailing, but resorting to BS tales is even worse than boring repetitive content

When i started talking about getting a sailboat, thats the first thing everyone says. "but what will you do when a hurricane comes?". from what ive seen from researching the issue, if you are prepared for the storm and have a solid hurricane hole or well build marina like this, and know how to secure the lines to allow for surge etc. a boat actually comes through the storm better than most houses right on the coast.

'the sea is your friend; it's the hard stuff around the edges that will kill you."

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Thank you 🙏🏻

I don't know how you can call that a cyclone. Maybe a bit of a blow. I certainly didn't see a wild rough storm. Come over to Aussie and we will show you a bit of rough weather.

It works great 👍🏻

I talk about it at the beginning of this video, there is no engine installed which is why I am moving it with the dinghy 🤷🏼‍♂️

Cyclone Gabrielle created devastating damage & loss of life in New Zealand, specifically the East Coast of the North Island was hit the hardest, over $13 billion dollars in insurance cost, around 300,000 landslides had been analyzed throughout inland Hawkes Bay Region and a vast area of the Kaingaroa Plantation Forest was also decimated, so it really just goes to show how a relatively small country can be so impacted so much by climate change 🤷

@@harpyhill El Nino and La Nina are what controls hurricane and cyclone strength.

Try mansplaining that to all the meteorologists and officials 👍🏻 also here is a list of all Cyclones that have ever hit NZ en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Tropical_cyclones_in_New_Zealand

@@SailorJames Comment wasn't intended to diminish your experience but to provide context. I wouldn't want people thinking they're going to have it that easy in the tropics. I have a boat in a (less well protected) marina here too, wasn't concerned about it during Gabrielle. There was a Lagoon 450 hauled out shortly after with damage, so things can go wrong. But we call them cyclones here out of laziness. They form as cyclones in the tropics then the aftermath comes down here, still delivers rain and gusts (a few overturned trucks where I presently am) but not the sustained winds. I know all about the list of cyclone aftermaths that have made it this far south. I've ridden my motorbike in a couple of them, including Gabrielle. Also from Wikipedia: _"During 10 February as Gabrielle moved back into the South Pacific basin, the BoM reported that Gabrielle had peaked as a Category 3 severe tropical cyclone with 10-minute sustained windspeeds of 150 km/h (90 mph).[12][20][21] Gabrielle began to experience an increase in northwesterly vertical wind shear, the JTWC downgraded it to a Category 1-equivalent cyclone.[22] On 10 February, Gabrielle moved into MetService's area of responsibility.[23] The JTWC also discontinued warnings on the system around 21:00 UTC that day[24] Gabrielle was downgraded to a Category 2 tropical cyclone by the MetService.[25] During 11 February, after Gabrielle had passed directly over Norfolk Island, the BoM and MetService reported that Gabrielle had weakened into a deep subtropical low.[26][27]" _ So _sustained_ 78.2 knots in the tropics as a cat3 cyclone, _gusts_ of 50-60 knots down here as a subtropical low. We can get those sort of gusts in a common or garden unnamed low pressure system. The difference with an ex-cyclonic low is the cataclysmic rain, which the Hawkes Bay got. Just to expand a little further on my comment about storms not knowing they're no longer allowed to be called cyclones. I recall the _Wahine_ storm in 1968. We know it as that because of the 10,000 ton ferry it sank in Wellington harbour. Nobody was calling it a cyclone here. It wasn't till years later that I learned the storm had been called "cyclone Giselle" in New Caledonia. But that produced a max gust of 148 knots in Wellington, still a record. I thoroughly enjoyed that storm as a small boy from the safety of a home I wasn't responsible for. It inspired me to design an "unsinkable ferry" (with laser cannons to burn through reefs) and I was shocked when my aunty informed me you cannot defeat nature.

It was a tropical low by the time it hit NZ here is the track when it was a cyclone www.bom.gov.au/cyclone/history/gabrielle23.shtml#:~:text=Summary,and%20then%20to%20the%20southeast.

@@theosphilusthistler712 Heck I remember that Wahine storm! I musta been heck 14 yrs old, all 6 of us in the lounge @ home waiting for the winds to blow the roof off our ChCh coastal house.... James, excellent commentary, love your content, Ed,

Never sailed on one