Sailing in Heavy Weather - wiping out and getting into trouble

[zzp1]

yeah, sailing is difficult to learn ..........

[SailorChick01]

oh fun!

[zzp1]

Non-seamanship all the way down to disaster .......

[tillybears]

karma for putting your spinaker up in that wind. can you tell i do foredeck and hate our spinaker?

[Anataalks]

Reef down 2 spots and put your storm jib on and gorgeous sailing.

[Anataalks]

what the hell are you doing with a spinaker in that kind of wind?

[MrHobiecat]

@mousepad99 ALL the boats in this video are lead mines (giant lead keels)

THEY are not going up on a plane unless they are towed by the USS Enterprize.

[jhnewsome17]

Race or no race, it's just plain stupid to risk boat & crew. If no one was injured it was a miracle.

[DisruptiveMoose]

That's the problem with sailing downwind when it's windy. You reach the maximum hull speed very quickly and any gusts you get past that point are converted into pressure on the rig rather than into pushing the boat forward, so the mast breaks very easily. Was everyone alright? It's a horrible thing to happen! :(

[warjacare]

A programmed disaster. All racers in trouble, barely controlling the boats. Unreefed sails and too much wind. But who cares, it's a race and the insurance pays all damage. Viva USA.

[vibratingstring]

@warjacare

Armchair sailor.

[Alejandror355]

IT`s the most dangerous sailing video I`ve seen, in that situation it's very dificult to help the man in the sea, isn`t it?

I send you a video less dangerous than yours.

Good luck

[starchaser28]

This was one of the most dramatic sailing videos I've seen. Hope everyone was Ok.

[indikon1]

I am the guy who ends up in the soup. Thanks for posting this clip, I had lost my VCR tape copy.

The guy who pushes me in was getting hit with the wreckage of the spar and falling foward - it was not intentional

[alecmelnikov]

@indikon1 Oh, wow!

[tincoffin]

@indikon1 Any idea why the mast fell down ?

[indikon1]

@tincoffin

We think (but not sure) that the backstay (not the runner) was too tight and the tip actually broke going aft and than the cap shrouds came loose and the rest is history.

[MrHobiecat]

@tincoffin bunch of people with more money than brains flying spinnakers in a gale, thats why.

Once a mono-slug hits its hull speed there is no point in flying more sails, she aint going any faster.

[TommyGuitarful]

@indikon1 lol, it looks like he just got mad with you and came running over and chucked you in :) I'm sure it wasn't so funny at the time, glad you made it out safely.

[JohnnyPeachPit]

Why did the dudes on the last one throw that fellow in? Isn't being dismasted embarrassing enough that you don't need to have a MOB, too?

[alecmelnikov]

@JohnnyPeachPit At the end of the clip, the mast is down but the boom-vang is still on tight. As the mast swings around the boat, the boom swipes across the cockpit, pushing crew against lifelines and sending one unfortunate folk for a swim.

[zamjenikdirektora]

this is funny...

[Cronopioslover274]

Oh, my Goodness! were everyone saved?

I think the sails were too big for that boat.

[daskew100]

alecmelnikov: do you have any more of this stuff? I am on the boat in the middle clip. The boat is Challenge 88 and the regatta was the 1 ton worlds in SFB in 1988.

[alienhuman]

LOL and here I sit barking orders at these guys.... lots a luck huh? LOL

[SailinganFD]

IOR boats may lead to asshole pucker... It looks like many of the shots are on sf bay? Thanks for putting this up!