Pilot boat in storm Force 9

[narnasqueneth]

I repect all my Irısh pilot friends which they most probayl work rough weather conditions.Irısh Sea is one of the most dangerous open sea pilotage area.You go out and meet the ships open sea.Which is not very calm most of the times.

God bless you Irısh pilots we fully appreciate your work.

Turkish Straiths pilots

[The6711]

great video. that boat sure rides well. My Dad use to run the pilot boat can-Do out of Gloucester MA. I use to go out with him to put pilots on the ships and guide them to the harbor. There is video about my Dad captain Frank Quirk on youtube just go on and hit videoforpilotboatcando. For all the pilots and captians of the pilot boats be safe and good luck.

[dougl33]

Great boat and nice shots. No where's near 30 foot waves though. Closer to 8-10's.

[wordup714]

seems like r/c boat?

[LordSnow1488]

if that sea was force 9 that little ship was with the fish and on the sand...

[ds96521240]

the interceptor 42's handle the rough conditions better than the 55's.

[bmwnasher]

The dutch pilot boat columbia picked up our pilot in the north sea awesome boat you must see it its on you tube ...I WANT ONE

[tripi39]

In US that is forcer 9 stor.????jejejje where i live in spain that is about 4 or 5 no more....our boat sunk with force 5.....

[MrRubendeRuiter]

just awesome:)

[unregalito]

Here goes my breakfast...

[dbus14x]

Great boat ,had many years on one,never let us down

[75mikele]

it is amazing !!!!!!!!!!!!

[hamushka]

maybe a 9 :-) looks like wind & tide is together, but still fun

[pilotspride]

Name of song please? Thanks.

[A9420]

Bittersweet Symphony - The Verve

[klavss76]

Nice vid but I'd say this looks like Beaufort 6 or 7 not 9.

[DieDooie]

at least 7 or ++

[Lobointrepido]

Yes, I agree, may be the wind but not the sea

[xylady2]

not force 9 lol:P

[gschjetne]

Least seaworthy pilot boat I've ever seen was a small beat-up skiff with an outboard out of Funafuti.

[Spideal1]

force 9 is strong gale, not storm force

[jamesmurray88]

yeah f 10 is storm force, and that is NOT pleasant!! i can assure u!

[dakingpin165]

my dad is a pilot tony kingston on that boat and has never been in a helicopter !!jolf1245 is a LANGER ahahah

[jolf1245]

Showing off. In conditions of heavy weather Sea Pilots are transferred by helicopter, they don't risk their lives unnecessarily. This isn't force 9, though.

[frankwildcat]

There are no helicopters in use at any Irish port, sometimes they have to work in these conditions, check out 'Violent storm force 11 smoking water' a little bit more windy here!

[jolf1245]

Well I didn't know that. In the German Bight there generally are. But on the other hand German Bight is one of the areas with the heaviest traffic in big-sized vessels in the world, so I guess thats why. I wouldn't want to climb 10 meters on the outside of a LCC under that kind of conditions.

[GTAcrazyfan12]

That looks fun my friend!

[frankwildcat]

Yes that was an error, but search 'Violent storm force 11' on you tube search to see some bigger waves and more impresive footage that i recorded , maybe you will like and appreciate that video.

[gamesbok]

It's not a pilot boat. It's an RNLI life boat.

[frankwildcat]

It is an Interceptor 42 pilot boat built by Safehaven Marine, not an RNLI boat.

[nmcarpenter]

@gamesbok Pretty sure it says CORK PILOT on the side of it. Try moving your monitor closer to your face. :D

[gamesbok]

@nmcarpenter They only wrote CORK PILOT on the side because they want you to think it's a CORK PILOT boat.

[dprider02]

The hard part is when the pilot has to transfer himself onto another ship in conditions like that!

[huggysthejellyfish]

they where haveing fun :D

[RammuDK]

During the transfer from the pilot boat, the other ship will position itself to shelter the smaller pilot vessel with its larger hull.

[denisfowler73]

Im not too sure how u measure swell size but those waves were not 30 ft. maybe 15-18 in my opinion.

[frankwildcat]

There are some newer videos of these pilot boats with even better rough weather footage, search "Violent storm force 11" in you tube search, its well worth viewing.

[kode1303]

Looks like a toy boat in them waves ... phew!

[jipasd]

The people onboard those ships really have balls of steel.... And also likely a broken spine.

[sailorman37]

It is a great job,i love it! just not sometimes in the winter!! we would class those conditions not as rough,just a heavy swell running.

[Sjoerd675]

that are havy waves, but don't think it's force 9.

[doaflip99]

hah u picked the song

[streetfreak111]

whats the song

[doomenik]

bitter sweet symphony by the verve

[sailorman37]

Thanks, i looked at the other great vids but didn't see any going alongside in bad weather shots, my comment was directed at the performance of the boat, not at your vids that are very good.

[sailorman37]

it doesn't really show what the boat can do, how about seeing her going alongside a ship in bad weather, that's when you can tell if she's a good pilot boat or not,i drive one for a living.

[frankwildcat]

There are other videos that show the Interceptor pilot alongside ships on you tube.

[rymert19]

Those aren't 30ft. seas at all. Maybe 15-20. Still rough stuff though.

[fastfishcat]

Great way to show what your boats can do!

[callicutsurf]

the song is by the "verve"

[mugargusci]

I love the sea! Wish to reincarnate in a seafarer!

[Jjonathanhart]

Great video of the boat sailing in rough waves. I'd like to know if the song playing was done by THE HOLLIES, because it sounds like them, especially with the vocals. I remember this song was a big hit.

[dandini2999]

Hi, The song is called 'Bitter Sweet Symphony' and is by UK band 'The Verve'. And I want one of those boats!!! Bye.

[Petemurch]

so cool love it

[BuniBuns333]

thats livin in the zone

[lagoonis]

Whats the name of the song?

[lifeshoat]

awsome and stunning images.maybe lifeboats should be interceptors ?. lovely music wish the tune finished though . did some training on a trent/mersey . i now do commercial safety/rescue on thames or floods.

see my video . again excelent video

p.s make it longer with the whole song ,love viewing it.

[49commcop]

beautiful boat, really impressive in the rough stuff. nice video with good music.

[coolcork]

fancy that on a monday mornin after spendin d wknd on d raz.

[w3matic]

Yes this is force 999 video. Impressive.

gerard

[Larsadam]

damn they go well

[crackmanturkey]

there is no problem for pilot tag....

there are very hardd

[vfioma]

Questo video è semplicemente GRANDIOSO!!!!!!

Complimenti ha chi lo ha messo su youtube!!!!BRAVISSIIIIMOOOOO..­..

[giovanninoal]

beautiful video show of the nature, I enroll you hello The TRUE MEN Of SEA SON the PILOTS Of the PILOTINE Of SEVERAL the PORTS Of The Ps WORLD: moved sea a po true?

[brentjh1]

I beleive this specific boat is designed to be capsized in rough weather and then right itself again!

[kdlkdl]

highly skilled brave people

[frankwildcat]

Its an Interceptor Pilot boat, used in Ireland to transfer pilots on to ships, shes not self righting, although can be, so you had to watch some of the bigger breakers when beam on.

[booboy1066]

I agree fully with you glazlad.Brave men and women on board those boats.

[booboy1066]

Yeah i think its an RLNI(British)Lifeboat,they can over turn,then flip back round again.

[cousteau]

is that one of those cool english lifeboats? ... they look like they would handle an absolute pounding! not a big swell tho really, just wind chop

[RNLIenthusiast]

@cousteau Hi, a late reply I know, but anyway. No, this is not an RNLI (or English) Lifeboat - they are a lot bigger and much more technically adavanced than these! The boat in the video is a pilot boat, carrying someone who is familiar with the sea and the harbour in that particular area. That person is then dropped off onto a ship that is unfamiliar to the area, so the pilot can help them navigate.

[exellenta]

i was driving a boat a bit like that in a hurricane scarry shit

[landyman110]

Thanks Frank for the reply!! Just back from Seawork 07, good to see the boats there again. Makes our workboat look a bit sad, but here at Brighton marina we still get the seas !! make you hair stand on end when we're checking marker buoys in the entrance. Take care mate.

[84jamesp]

Thats pretty cool. would of loved to take the wheel.

[hothead2500]

Great video! My father is a captain on a pilot boat in the C&D canal in MD. I couldnt imagine being in seas like that haulin ass.

[landyman110]

Well I think its a really good video, isn't youtube about entertainment rather than physics?? just enjoy the bloody thing. For what its worth Iv'e been on this boat. Seawork 2006. Nice bit of kit!!

[frankwildcat]

Thanks for the positive words, I was so sick of replying to people with nothing good to say I was going to delete the video, which would have been a shame for the 24,000 people who obviously enjoyed watching it!

[jazzsharthebeast]

hi great vid very interesting . . . . do u know who is driving the boat because it obviously requires lots of skill in stormy seas thanks wb

[Bluehairypig]

Some people have nothing better to do than bitch. I posted a video on Metacafe about rowing the North Pacific and got slagged off by some people for my efforts. .

[Bluehairypig]

Anyway good video and good boats, they do look similar to the RNLI Mersey Class. I bet the pilots have fun getting on/off the Jacobs ladder in those conditions!!! I skipper a 19 metre RIB in the North Sea and enjoyed watching your boats in action. I've been in small boats in the Pacific, Atlantic, Eng Channel and North Sea, but the roughest I've experienced were off Carlingford Lough in the Irish Sea, must be the depth and wind channeling

[JimBCA]

Nice edit of a great boat

[ilovemy007car]

she rocks

[yokiemabob]

i want his job

[tahuyamg]

It's a great video. Working in the Bering Sea as a crab fisherman I definitely know 30ft sea's. I have to say those don't look to me like they are that big. Even if the video was taken 200ft up. You can still judge the height of the sea's in comparison to the boat.

[frankwildcat]

OK, to avoid argument lets just say it was a fucking rough day for a small boat and that she did well, I cant re-edit the video to remove the wave height referance, 75% of the trials & footage was missed or unusable due to camera shake and focus from the wind, typically the best moments were lost.

[eddietwang]

l have been on a charter boat and fished in 30 foot swells of flamborough head in yorkshire..we were in an open coble and the seas were rolling in very slowly unlike your own film.its certainly a great sea boat that would inspire confidence,as did the yorkshire cobles even though most of us ended up spewing all day

[frankwildcat]

I dont know about playing! It was blowing force 9 at the time, it was wind over tide at the entrance to Cork Harbour in the tidal race. Offshore its not going to be worce, the seas maybe bigger but not as steep or dangerous. Sorry you wern't impressed.

Frank

[Premair]

Show us the video of the boat being 20 nm offshore by the weather bouy and then you'd have a video of a boat in force 9 weather. As it stands, we have a vid of a boat playing in the surf. Don't get me wrong, it would still be an awesome ride and you have done a good editing job but the title is a bit misleading.

Cheers

(Just another computer sailor) :-)

[ProductionDesignrMAX]

1)Video shot from 200 feet above sea explains a lot. 2) I am sitting behind a computer just like you, but the difference is that I was in force 7+ in middle of hurricane Dennis about 150 mile north east of the BVI, alone with my fiance in a 38' sabre sailboat. I assure you we had zero time to make a video to show you, but I do have a couple of pictures of blue water coming over the bow and a knockdown.

[frankwildcat]

For the record, Wind speed was verified from Roches Point light house's weater station at the time, wave height by a weather buoy 20nm offshore.

[ProductionDesignrMAX]

Force 9? What planet are you on. 30 ft. HA

[frankwildcat]

Videos are taken from a lighthouse on cliffs 200ft above above the sea so wave heights are deceptive.

But belieave me if you were driving the boat as I was, instead of sitting behind a computer, putting down other peoples efforts, you might have had a different opinion. When you show me a video you made in similar conditions, on a small boat, then ill respect what you have to say.

Frank