Sailing Offshore in Hurricane Irma

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In this video we see what happens to two sailboats that tried to run away from the category 5 hurricane Irma which at one point had maximum sustained winds of 185 miles per hour. You will see the rescues of the two sailboat crews. You will see the interviews of the C-130 plane that spotted both stricken yachts.
Capt. Linus Wilson, OUPV Near Coastal talks to Gary E. Brown the editor of All at Sea magazine which covers boating in the Caribbean and beyond as part of a Slow Boat Sailing Podcast interview. Mr. Brown outlines why it is foolhardy to try to evade a hurricane with a sailboat at sea. He draws on his decades of experience and his and his friends experience at sea during the "wrong way" hurricane Lenny. Key points are that engines often fail because of clogged filters in high seas, there is not enough wind to sail ahead of a storm, and sailboats move slower than tropical storms.
Most of the footage is public domain footage from the USCG. Thanks to the heroes in the USCG that saved six sailors and a dog and filmed the rescues here!
CLEARWATER, FL, UNITED STATES
09.10.2017
Video by Petty Officer 3rd Class Andrew Barresi
U.S. Coast Guard District 7
Crewmembers aboard an MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter from Coast Guard Air Station Clearwater rescue two boaters and their dog 100 miles south of Apalachicola, Florida, Sunday, Sept. 10, 2017. The boaters, aboard the sailboat Magnolia Wind, alerted the Coast Guard after loosing steering while en route for Mississippi to avoid Hurricane Irma. (U.S. Coast Guard video by Petty Officer 3rd Class Andrew Barresi)
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KEY WEST, FL, UNITED STATES
09.17.2017
Video by Petty Officer 1st Class Michael De Nyse
U.S. Coast Guard District 7
The crew of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Hamilton responds to Hurricane Irma relief operations in Key West, Florida, Sunday, Sept. 17, 2017. (U.S. Coast Guard video by Petty Officer 1st Class Michael De Nyse)
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Date Posted: 09.18.2017 23:39
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APALACHICOLA, FL, UNITED STATES
09.10.2017
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U.S. Coast Guard District 7
Crewmembers aboard an MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter from Coast Guard Air Station Clearwater rescue two boaters and their dog 100 miles south of Apalachicola, Florida, Sunday, Sept. 10, 2017. The boaters, aboard the sailboat Magnolia Wind, alerted the Coast Guard after loosing steering while en route for Mississippi to avoid Hurricane Irma. (U.S. Coast Guard video)
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Date Posted: 09.11.2017 17:50
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@SlowBoatSailing 7 лет назад

Check out our video about preparing your boat for a monster hurricane: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-yYNDeNhFwVM.html Here is our round the world vlog: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_cpbh_ixpDA.html

@terrysouthard2417 7 лет назад

Great job.

@en8581 7 лет назад

Sorry- meant to say south? (assuming storm is heading west for example). Just wondering.

@en8581 7 лет назад

Thanks for presenting this, however, it would have been nice to clarify/expand upon the issue of trying to outrun a storm vs heading tangentially to get out of its path. I agree that trying to outrun it is risky, but, if you have 2 days notice is it not a different issue to head 300-400 miles south

@SlowBoatSailing 7 лет назад

Elliott Bennett I think Gary E. Brown did an excellent job of addressing the pitfalls around minute 5. Here are a few more. Storm tracks are unpredictable. Irma was supposed to go up the east coast and these boats were caught in the Gulf of Mexico. It takes days to prepare for on offshore passage (fill fuel, change filters, get water, et cetra). Storms are huge and move 15 mph while sailboats have top speeds of 6. Even 20-25 knot winds are enough to create rough seas to clog most fuel filters.

@melellington4892 6 лет назад

You've got a monohull blind spot. Many catamaran sailboats sail 10 to 25 knots, not "6" tops. Needless to say, there are also some very large monohulls that are much faster than "6" knots. Sensible sailors who plan to flee the path of a hurricane prepare their boats weeks before the storm could reach them. I can't imagine a competent sailor limited to just 'days' to prepare. If it is hurricane season where your boat is located, sensible sailors keep their boat prepared to get away in a day or two. If there are tropical storms developing, you have at least a week to prepare to leave before it reaches you. Just because you don't know exactly where the storm will track, it is a near certainty which way it will NOT track. Hurricane Irma for instance was headed North and West (until it reached central Florida). Whether the storm chose to track up the West or East coast of Florida is not critical to know. If you don't have a safe place to secure the boat on or near shore on either coast, you sail tangentially to its track (assuming you don't have a slow monohull). When the eye of category 4 hurricane Irma passed over my catamaran in the Florida Keys on September 11th, with 130+ mph winds, it was well anchored in a very shallow and narrow, mangrove hurricane hole. The eye of the hurricane passed right over my boat---dead center. It was located one mile east of Cudjoe Key. The boat suffered two lost hatch covers (which I forgot to lock down) but my mainsail remained on the boom. Otherwise not a scratch was on the boat. However, because I ordinarily have no bilge pump installed, some rain blew in through the open hatches and I got an inch of water in the bilge. My salon table/settee and 4 berths were still dry. I sponged up the bilge in an hour or so. Other boats in the area did not fare so well. Many hundreds of boats (probably 1000+) which were anchored/moored out among the islands, were lost to the storm. Approximately half of them either crashed ashore, disappeared out to sea, or sunk in place. Lots of boats which were dry docked were also strewn about---many were blocking the highway or lying up in people's yards or crashed against other boats and sunk in a marina. Consequently, I'll choose a hurricane hole any day over a marina or mooring---providing I can't manage to sail out of the path of a hurricane.

@aldoacitelli 7 лет назад

Dramatizing 40 knot winds

@saylaveenadmearedead 7 лет назад

the boat were fine..... the people just panic instead of heaving to.

@daviddawes2862 7 лет назад

That is exactly right. In the video it is clear that the second boat was not in distress. It was the crew who had all the problems, most of them imaginary. The professor can spew out all the nonsense about not going to sea in a storm but history has shown that a seaworthy boat is safer offshore than inshore. Of course a seaworthy boat also requires a seaworthy crew!

@rustie4242 7 лет назад

There is no need to over dramatise it. Rescuing people in 40 knot wind is what they do everyday. So they are not really risking their lives in those conditions. Sailors that know what there doing would be out of the zone before hurricane season...

@JoelWelter 7 лет назад

20 to 25 foot seas are not an easy rescue. Any rescue has risks (they train for them), but this was not a "normal" rescue. Don't be so casual about the CG's efforts. I find it offensive and I think you don't know what you are talking about.