VIOLENT STORM FORCE 11, smoking water

[euevcfazendoarte]

Adorei o vídeo e a música que está ao fundo.

Por favor, me diz quem está cantando?

Obrigada!

[PureRockenEuzo]

1:55 - surfing!

[leonardoturbot]

when they catch a rope around the prop, chuck norris goes over the side with his pen knife to clear it.

[cpobyrne1]

Great video, and impressive boat handling. But I seriously doubt that that wind speed is anywhere near 85 knots. And incidentally force 11 is defined as winds in the range 56-63 knots.

[Guitarque]

Powerful boat! It's certainly a peacemaker.

[NightSailor]

That is a Pilot ship. It must be 65' long. Not really out in a storm--she is delivering or returning from delivering a pilot to a ship entering or leaving a major port.

[christinemayc1]

@TyTy4882 How dare you diss the music.. sasha FTW ;D

[keefer2111]

This is just like Lake Superior in november.

[Etheryczna]

It would be much better without this noisy music...only sound of raw sea...

[JulioHooligan]

Whats these boats range, could you convert one to be a trans-ocean cruiser?

[peteteap1]

Uma lancha com um comportamento exemplar um prazer de navegação tenho uma sorte poder navegar ao leme de uma lancha “5 estrelas”.

[RMR2ENG]

@peteteap1 Es Piloto em Sines?

[frankwildcat]

@RMR2ENG Yes this is Atlantida Azul, she is now operating in her home port of Sines, Portugal  for the last two and a half years, this video was during sea trials in Ireland just after she was built.

[LetsPartyDJ4U]

i have watched these type s of vidz for an hour dont even like boats...i would ride these boats anyday

[alaina66]

ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS MUSIC!! I have a bunch of these tunes on CD> Bless you for the music....

[hzdGame]

You guys have some ballz doing this, really.

[TyTy4882]

Another cool video ruined by lame music

[randomsmartdude]

Good pilot

[jcadlols]

These pilot boats are absolutely unbelievable. It's a beautiful thing to see it in action during a storm. :)

[83snowgoose]

Amazing boat, terrific helming and must be the best vid of a boat in action on YT. 110% Thanks

[DasHearach]

If I win the big one on the lottery I think I'll be asking Sunseeker and Safehaven to get together to build my boat!

[bouymarker]

its that time again! any new videos of this kinda stuff?

GREAT WORK!

[windrider1967]

I like the way it's starts to surf at 2:00...

just like a sea kayak...

I would'nt dare to go out in that kind of sea !

[Jasminewynja]

I have no idea why, but everytime I'm watching this kind of videoclips all i long for is to be out there on the stormy oeceans. It's like I'm watching home at a youtube clip. I must be crazy or something. *lol*

Great video and great choise of song! :)

Thank you Frankwildcat!

//Jasmine

[Morrypix]

Boy oh boy he was a cool son of a gun, purposely letting her wallow broadside on to those big haireys at 3.04" before he took her out! I can just hear him telling the Pilot etc, there you are, did I not tell you, not a problem, she could sit there all day!

[notombstone]

frankwildcat, I would like to talk to you, but I want you to get my contact info off of my youtube video: called "You'll Get Swamped" in short, I might want to use some of your actual footage in a movie documentary we are working on. I am Bob Brown

[cowboy00185]

yahaa!!

[mariosubb]

PILOTI, gente con le palle fumanti !!!!!!

[bert666666]

The guy must be an actual surfer! The way he get the waves and his kick outs are great!

[geedunk13]

Could I do this in a Nordhavn 43 or 47? (PLEASE RESPOND)

[ubahphat]

Just the best boat drivers allowed! Surfing those following seas looks pretty challenging, even for these guys. Did they broach at one point?

[marc8752]

Le gars qui a fait les séquences ne doit jamais avoir barré en gros temps, quand cela devient intéressant la séquence est coupée , c'est frustrant

[KiaOra53]

What an incredible wee craft - she looks rock solid.

[westernlight2010]

subbed! :)

[Maverickf22flyer]

Impressive way to ride the sea:D

Purely awsome!

What's the name of the second song please?

[boonhqmonaro]

what a great boat. the driver is amazing

[Badboyzdawg]

wow frank you crazy nah just kidding how tough is the boat does it have the flip over jets on the side? and btw Cool boat and your a brave guy

[LaurentziuRo]

stupendous !!

[blindun]

i always wanted to build a scale remote control boat like this,in my country seas are rarely calm so with this type of hull with counterweight at the very bottom i will have no problem even if it capsize

[rafa6694]

bom video ,o barco vai um pouco devagar!! DÁ GAS SEM MEDO!!

[wacker1960]

Been at sea as an engineer for many years but still loved watching this. Some good surfing going on there , question - did she broach or was she steered deliberately to starboard like that?

[Maverickf22flyer]

A perfect sightseeing with Sansha - Xpander while watching the waves from the onboard cameras..., very well done!;)

Great video!;)

[corkkayaker]

imagine kayakin in that 

[EngineersWorld]

FUN :P

[800dozer]

The Interceptor has an extreme keel design to be able to have that much steering control in those conditions ,nice bow flareing to but in 20' seas its going to get a bit wet .

[Gamerskull99]

looks like a floating toy lol

[Gamerskull99]

lol smoking water

[685952432]

It should reduce speed

[allywallywong]

hey Frank, read your report on this exercise (the one you did for Dag), bloody hell man!

i wish dag and I had an interceptor when we crossed the gulfo de lyon in december last year.......

proper boat testing on proper boats- every boat builder should be this comitted to the seaworthyness of their design.

Regards

Alex

[insanelewis21]

wow, such good handling skill, surfing in a 55 foot boat FTW!!

dont the RNLI in the uk use these??

[jimmah55555]

30,000th view !!!

[giankhi]

I don't see force 11 storm, it's very severe condition, the wind in very high but the sea is max F 6/7.

Search the video "genovafoce" with a 25 meters boat in F7 (for me) sea condition.

[allywallywong]

donut.

remind me never to go to sea with you.

[xfiles169]

I really dont know what is on the pilot's mind... i love to learn the skill, coz i myself have my own a boat, but never encounter such actions.. Great handling and a very good video.. just wonder how irt was shot... wish i can joint and share the experience..

[Sjofugla]

Just fantastic!!. This video is even more dramatic than the other one I watched.

Oh, and the quality is just fine, infact nothing wrong with it:)

[2qwk]

you know frank, just a thought. these vids would be a hundred times better with an HD camera. The HD cameras show so much better depth than standard cams. I know these videos do know justice to how big those seas really are. If you watch deadliest catch in hd the seas look so much bigger and closer to what they are seeing than if you watch it in standard def.....

[frankwildcat]

The problem with HD is the resulting file size, trying to upload on to you tube would be difficult and latter viewing with low grade broadband would be slow and intermitent, also at the screen size of you tube i do not think any differance in quality would be noticable, its different with a 40" plasma screen, where you would see the difference.

[topbanana188]

I don't agree. You can see a big difference with high def original footage. The viewer can also opt-in if they have the bandwidth. Anyway, thanks for the vid!

[malanga13]

@frankwildcat guys the present format is the most correct format for this media. It pleases everybody.

[llPh3n0mll]

@frankwildcat No there is a huge difference in wuality seen on youtube videos. I render and upload HD videos to youtube no problem, if someone with a slower internet can't load it they have the option to lower the quality down to 480p, 360p, etc...

[JamesCStewart]

the ability to recover from a roll doesn't mean that it should be done. things can still go wrong

its like testing the air bags on your car by crashing it

[abcmatt]

I thought it strange that a boat with a keel and also being a pilot boat was not self righting. Sorry Frank but their website states that they are self righting boats. Even if the keel starts at midships is still should self right in rough seas if all is secure.

[frankwildcat]

Hi, they can be built inherantly self righting due to the Buoyancy of the superstructure preventing her staying inverted after a dynamic roll over, but the boat has to be built with anti flooding air intakes and other mods etc, this particular boat was not speced as self righting. Would she have recovered from a roll? probably, but i didn't particuarly fancy finding out on this day!

[2qwk]

Thank You for going threw the trouble of making these videos. I truly love to watch these rough water videos as I do this myself on a lower level. Please keep the videos coming, you do a great job. I truly appreciate you making these videos for all of us to watch.....Thanks again.......

[frankwildcat]

Hey thanks, I enjoy making them. Just have to wait till December and the winter storms again.

Frank

[markpod64]

Nice boat frank what is she like pinned up against a ULCC in that kind of weather ??

[frankwildcat]

Well they are both hard chine deep V hull designs with similar deadise, so I imagine they would feel pretty similar.

[markpod64]

Would love a go of the boat frank am sure i could do it justice.....

[abcmatt]

A keeled boat works better in the rough or even in general because it helps the boat track through the water. Having just a hull that just meets at a V is like a cork hence your 180 spin. Most work boats are designed to right themselves if they roll so they were in no real danger from going down the wave like that.

[frankwildcat]

I have to disagree, this boat has a full keel, which can help tracking in rough seas, but the deep V hull is of equal importance. In this case though the turn was to avoid a channel buoy and to stay in camera range. In fact this boat is not self righting, so care was needed in these seas.

[DvSjOhNo]

lucky he did breach when he was going down the wave like that, i work on a 47ft jetboat and that happened to us, luckily we have no keel and did a 180!!

[kolovee]

in a rough water such as this ,,, do you open full trottle or keep your rpms to a minimum speed

[laybackbarrel]

The conditions were exactly like this the first time i tried kiteboarding. It was funner going downhill but it looks like this guy is having an easier time going uphill. laydenzer That must have been fun in your 28 foot aluminum!!!!

[renenkel]

It's a pilot boat, right? It must be enough of a challenge just staying upright in conditions like that, but don't they also have to come alongside a cargo ship, so that someone can jump on to a rope ladder and climb 40 feet up the side without getting killed? Scary job, that :-)

[RMBmike]

For such 'little' boats, those things seem to be able to handle that stuff better than a big shod does. And kudos to the music selection... Xpander by Sasha.

Haha, love the part at about 2:20 when he seems to be just 'surfing' the boat on the waves. If I didn't know better, I'd say he's even having fun out there. Haha.

[phillyprodigy]

i want to do this and sky dive as well

[leydenzar]

wow this guy knows his stuff, like he's just playin in the waves. i experienced ocean weather like that in a 28ft aluminum 12 passenger speed boat with twin 225 mercs, it was pitch black out, winds gusting 65-70 knots. needless to say the pucker factor was extremely high, i learned to trust the skippers who pilot boats for a living everyday in all weather situations.nothing but respect for them.

[forkdriver500]

They MUST have bow thrusters to turn in the trough like tha. All my boaties say never do it, it's suicide! But those little beauties are built for it.

[dany88xx]

Dio non è solo in cielo...

[rautaruukki]

These boats are a credit to you Frank...I wish I owned one of those 28ft interceptors !!

[Poisonseed]

Ο τύπος είναι όντως "Pilotos"...

[kotsosgr55]

@Poisonseed Μπορεί να είναι και ελληνικό...  Πόσα ξένα πλοία μπορεί να έχουν την ονομασία Πιλότος?

[neurofire]

Love this - thanks for post. These seafarers are musicians of the waves - timing is everything. I LOL'd watching the maestro's 'surfing.'

Hats off dudes.

[ammarignosila]

that is a one way ticket to death caused by seasickness for me!

[kaffedrickare]

thats a dream tob e on thats sea in thats torm in that boat.......

[dropdbeat]

This footage is outstanding!

[idn]

I don't know much about the ways of the ocean, but I do know a lot about whitewater boating in rivers. When I look at this I think, "wow, what a boat" and "wow, what a captain".

[kidthing1119]

I was in something like that, only it was 9 foot waves and a 24 foot bayliner! scary as hell!

[TegMystery]

I know the feeling, I went through 10ft seas in a 28ft searay

[boatskip33]

This is probably one of the best rough weather videos on you tube, and the fact that they were deliberately taking the boat out into these extreame conditions says a lot about the confidence they had in the boats abilities. Conditions certainly were hurricane force. The quality of the footage was simply excellent.

[DaBassie1]

I would enjoy this.. If I knew I were save ;P

[P15Martin]

Very Knarly, great video!

[lahinch95]

All I wonder about is how or what type boat had to take pilots off or put them on about 100 years ago. In these type conditions, I would love to nkow how they did it. My complements and hope to get back to ride again. Tell Michael Coleman

hello.

[sailcorkharbour]

"Avoiding the buoys can be a real challenge"

don't know how you do it, having come through the same area myself many a time in far less seas, its a challenge not to hit one when she in a following sea and you need all the room you can get to keep her on her toes.

[morebullshi]

Looks like a blast.

Wonder if they risk hitting a buoy?

[frankwildcat]

Avoiding the buoys can be a real challenge, especially running in with a big following sea. In the troughs all you can sea ahead is a wall of water with the buoys visable only breifly on the crests!

[morebullshi]

Yeah! I'd bet!

Thanks, though. Great video. Makes me smell salt water...

[Cheekyhobson17]

Amazing !!! and well done !! especially the "surf" from 1:56 to 2.15 gives me the heebee yeebees ;-)

[sailcorkharbour]

Should stick the old Deep Purple number "Smoke on the Water" to it... Lol

[seamermar]

Such a kind of boats that as cork they float,

only can be made in a shipyard at Cork. Bravo.

[midnightcruiser55]

how ironic but still its a sweet boat

[sailcorkharbour]

Fantastic footage. Any more of the footage taken from onboard. Sea like a boiling pot

Well done

[midnightcruiser55]

that coxn has some balls letting those waves follow him up his arse