Thanks for the post. This is the first beach perspective I’ve seen. I was driving that boat when the 56kt gust hit. We had already developed a hole in the mainsail behind the batten, and the gust blew out the sail about 100 yards from the race finish. Smart crew work kept everyone safe and on board, as well as kept the boat off the rocks. For unprecedented conditions in the PNW, we were lucky. But not amateurs.
What other options did you have? I think I would probably have dowsed the jib and tried to hove-to and drop the anchor to keep the boat off a lee shore.
Slightly overpowered😂, broaching power… i expect this hit so fast that you couldnt drop the head sail and reef in the main, happened to me in malaysia but i turned straight into the wind to take the punishment out of the sails.
Sailboats heel over a ton more before getting into too much trouble. Had my rudder out of the water and windows dipped last week during a race. Not a big deal because of our ballast and design. That mailsail is expensive though lol. Awesome footage.
Why does everyone keep saying he didn’t reef the main? It is clearly reefed. Some of these comments are pretty harsh. None of us was there, and we’re only seeing a 45 second clip (from shore, no less) with no context to what led to this. Glad everyone on the boat is fine.
@@StormyMonday0896it is clearly in first reef. Top of main is at forestay attachment height instead of top of the mast. They also probably carry bigger genoas. Do you even sail?
Wow. Lots of armchair skippers, judging on a few seconds of video. Go buy your own boat if you know so much. Things happen on the water, sometimes quite suddenly. I’m sure the skipper was doing the best they could on the day and with circumstances we know nothing of.
Vaht…vaht is it…sinking about?😂 Not sinking. Just got caught with too much sail for the conditions. Good seamanship. Sailing with the jib AND using as much of the mainsail that still provides some power to still work his way windward!👍
Why are you trying to go to windward in these conditions with sails that you have allowed to be torn up? Why not heave to? Or head off the wind to get to some shelter?
@@csquaredvisionsfpv8964seems to be an educated guess, I‘d say. And as the skipper of that boat wrote, the finish line of that race was only some 100 yards away… possibly windwards. possibly also in the direction of something like a safe haven… anyway, it surely was difficult to find into that. also gusts do occur unpredictably, so studying the forecast would NOT have helped. I doubt the race would taken place and been started at all, if the forecasts were announcing winds of 50+ kt. So everybody got surprised.
All happened very quickly apparently considering the shattered mainsail, but the boat was not even close to sinking and the jib kept the boat manoeuvrable.
Its not sinking, even if the mast was flat in the water, that boat isnt sinking. They just got caught out and blew out the main sail. Unfortunately, with no main they cant put up a smaller head sail so they are juat making do.
@@sailinggreenpearl2571 I would need to see the local charts and weather displayed. My comment is based on the situation with the sails, which is entirely preventable, and continuing to beat uphill? Why? I would heave to and make repairs, and get a storm jib up..Maybe the trisail... Need to see the charts.
It's not sinking, but he was flying way too much sail against that much wind. I've been out in worse, But not running that much canvas! Racing... that's why.
Exactly, the difference between racing and cruising. Racers test the boundaries, cruisers reef ahead of squall and don't blow out sails, or spill cocktails!
That boat was FAR from sinking thanks to great boat handling. It looked worse than it was. The main sail was ripped out. But, the jib was perfect, and was keeping steering under control. It appeared the captain may have been heading to the beach preferring to run her aground rather than put her back in the deep on one sail. Any plan that is carried out in tough weather is a good plan.
almost looks like the current and the wind are keeping that boat in one place. I can imagine maybe they pulled out the head sail because the main was torn. I don't think you would expect them to use the head sail in bad weather right?
I grew up on an island in Puget Sound. Storms like shown here are quite common. In fact, I would not consider this one to be a big deal, relatively speaking. It just something the locals learn to handle.
The title is complete nonsense. The boat is having a very expensive day out, but is nowhere near capsizing, far less sinking. We are not told whether it was, in the end, driven onto the lee shore, or whether they managed to sail out of trouble on their headsail, or start the motor and get home. Both are perfectly possible.
I'm not remotely close to being a sailor or boater but wouldn't it be safer at that point to drop sails and get into harbor on engine power...? Waves coming from the rear if possible or head on.
Some sailors just have no idea about how much canvass to put out! You’d have thought he’d have twigged it when the main got shredded! 🙄 Rather than put the main away, he carries on with full headsail, virtually capsizing! Stupid! Any experienced sailor will know and tell you that an adequately reefed boat will sail just as fast as a boat with its toe rails in the water. This cost of a new main should help him with his slow learning!
Nop far from sinking Sailboats can to a full 360 capsize roll THEN self righting back up without sink These boats are built to withstand all these, just the sail isn’t
Depends on the boat. If the capsize screening number is over 2, like, say, a Catalina 30, no, it might not come back up. And nothing is designed to roll to 180 and come up, you have to rely on being pushed back a bit by wind and waves to come back up. You might not. You would be surprised how many production boats are not suitable for the purpose (sailing on the ocean).
@@charlessnachez4248 Not really, you need to know how to choose the right one. A self righting boat is anything with a capsize screening number under 2. Get down below 1.8, and any wave or wind will tip the balance even if you are pitch poled, you will come back up. Your rigging may be snapped, and the sails and gear all over the boat, and you are still getting knocked over, and structural stress is coming in to play, and then the mast tears loose, leaving a big hole in the cabin top, and you get knocked down again, and fill with water. Self righting is no guarantee of safety.
Yeah I wonder why he did that? Skipper should know the weather in advance I thought he was going to swing it round and go with the wind to take sail do but looked as if he was going backwards lol
Not to mention that those sheets are carbon they're usually mylar the shiny licking but those are not I'd like to know more about the leaching lines on that
I think they left the sails up during a storm maybe the winds were too strong and they couldnt winch them down. Must stay vigilant when sailing it can go bad fast as Mother Nature is nothing to play with
...... To paraphrase a well known quote from a certain film:.... "you are like a child, Donny, wandering into a film that's already well into playing.... With no context to warrant commenting....." Plzz, Captains Courageous of th peanut gallery, cut th crew of this vessel a modicum of slack, given the actual circumstances and their actions
@@spencerking1742you're over canvassed, there's one reef in each of the genoa and main and the head's sheeted in too hard. Too much too high. You needed two hankies. Maybe just a trysail. You could have got upwind with tighter main and slacker head. Then held it to shorten main....then head. But you did live to sail another day.
Main looks reefed. 56knts would knock down a boat even under bare poles. I have what remains of a cole slawed genoa from something like this on my own boat
How do you know that they didn't check the weather? But even the weathermen have been found wanting occasionally! Mjust a aybe this was just one such occasion?
@stevve86 Yeah, I suppose that wouldn't be the worst idea, and i really don't have a good answer for you because the skipper and crew were apparently experienced. In my own experience, open sails and flapping jibs, etc, have a tendency to get caught up in other rigging, which might cause problems down the line. If it had been me there, I'd have cut down the rest of the main, at least. But sure, I've no clue what was happening in that moment and they could have been preoccupied trying to keep her steady with all they had.
@@Admiralofthedeeps Yes of course, thats why it always hard to tell when you havent been there. So no judging or smartassing what so ever. Just thought I would probably open the boom completly and open the jib way more so there is less wind cought. Was just wondering if there was a reason for not doing so. But again... we are all learning I guess
Well, if you had to beach her, that would be a fine sandy beach to draw up on. Fortunately the ship is not sinking, just too much sail in a high wind. Maybe the sailing master got a little cocky about sailing with full sail for a little too long.
It has 2 point of reff.. and he was managing it well. If he would've turn to the wind he would have lost the control. He was staying it out of the rock. He did a great jod managing the situation. He saved the boat by keeping it under tension.
Given the sails they do have up and the wind strength it would be a challenge to get the next tack in. The lack of forward speed won’t help either. But we don’t have that video!?
We dropped the jib and got the engine on to back out. Easily 60 seconds from disaster but due to quick thinking and good seamanship we got out without any hull or rigging damage (other than the exploded main, clearly!)
@@spencerking1742 thank you I was genuinely interested having been in a similar situation in a small sailing dinghy. I had to jump into the shallows to turn it around. Good to hear you had an option and took it!! And as you say that’s good seamanship! 🤔
She lost her name but she still running under a gym and going good in the Wind but her water line is does seem to be low which is right about where is a boat or both of the class should be
