Broken Mast

[harebare101]

wat is the mast made out of

[servicesafloatnz]

Vang too tight for jibein that.... I donesalething on a javelin

[DisruptiveMoose]

Never try and gybe with the vang on that hard, the boom will be too loaded up to flick across. You should let it right off, wait until the boat is travelling as fast as possible, pull the tiller over and flick the boom across. On the other side bear away straight away to put the boat under the rig and then continue sailing as you were.

[titanrivera]

espero q nunca me pase esto cuando salgo solo a navegar!!

[Patterfixxx]

AHHHH, faiiiil !!

[SailingontheRiva]

You need to do this and that....bla bla bla .....nice video....actually is what it says...this is YOUTUBE!!!!

[fishermanfranky]

nelson says : HAW HAW

[hagenar]

I know it won't ever happen, but Lasers would be much better if the class rules changed to allow carbon masts and booms.

Trapped in the paaaast maaaan!

[Clearly69]

Rookie.

[363gun]

Fuck what are you doing with your Laser :-)

Please can you so it again

[HeyTheo]

i sat though this video going "why are you sailing like that?nooooo don't do that!". poor laser well there goes 1000 bucks you deserve loosing it for making a mistake like keeping you boom vang so tight, now you know the dangers of an auto jib i guess. but you look fairly experienced you have nice equipment you shouldn't have made such a mistake in the first place.

[117Chiefy]

@HeyTheo

i reckon he is an experianced sailer. although... how many times have u gone sailing a just cant be bothered to undo the outhaul or downhaul just because you know that as soon as u start going upwind again u will just have to crank the thing back on. i know that im really lazy when i sail my laser!

[J7storm]

At least he had a following boat, could have been a fatal trip if he had nobody out there to help. Scary.

[jsmcguireIII]

Did not seem like a sufficient shock to break the spar. Perhaps already fatigued from excessive vang pressure? I have this as a bad dream sometimes, and I'm a mile or two offshore - so I sheet way in when jibing and nurse that baby around. Also watch you don't hang the main sheet on the transom corner!

[gax857w]

Something about Lasers breaking makes me smile!

[BoscoWins]

@gax857w

Does somebody own a sunfish?

[Verb1037]

Epic Fail!!!

[hous4k]

šikovnej

[tincoffin]

sikovnej indeedski

[LUCASgProductions]

if you pause at :24 you can see how much the boom is bent upward

[vanesslavitess]

hahaha !!!!! :) :) it's bad ... poor mast !!! :p

[michaelhenriquesrj]

2000 reais

[samm6598]

nice vid... this should be a lesson to always set ur controls right even if not racing- if not it puts lots of strain on the sail and mast- as you can see!

[MannieKam]

really a 'nice' day for sailing...

[untamedvaJJ222]

thats what happens when u sail downwind with ur vang cranked

[miro2501]

@untamedvaJJ222 he was worried not to capside so he cranked boom wang :)

[bobby064eva]

omg i bet it damaged the mast hole, its a great video(Y)

[iamjustsomebody]

woooosh i'm beginning laser sailor from holland, and this shit scare's the hell out of me.

olny by the thought that my mast is gonna break with that wind, which i'm sailing allot in that hinda weather.

greetz

P.S. He was lucky, and sry for my bad english

[punk6047]

better than yours m8!!and it was the one i use in practise...not my racing one!!!the racing is unbreakable>!!

[punk6047]

my mast has also broken like that once with 33 knots of breeze!!!i was going from reach to a run and when the gust came my friend with another laser cupsized and i lost my mast !!i took the sail on board and it still had strength to move the boaT!the mast broke just over the boom vang base...luckily i didnt lose the vang too!!!

[prankster185595]

maybe your mast was tooooooooooooooo old

[schwizzler]

Never seen a bottom section break like that. I've seen lot's of top sections go...

[BradG902]

I've done that - exactly where he broke it too! That was when I found out that the inside of the mast was corroded! ;)

[sailafeva]

ive never seen a laser mast break there its normally near the place where the two parts conect. Most always the top part. Ive been K.O by my mast falling on me once and it dos hurt.

[swintofik]

haha niga plz

[muziekh4l]

Hij heeft echt geluk gehad!

[kivancgom]

He is lucky nothing happend to sail

[raymie64]

would have done if the top mast went!

[251jamesp]

didnt know how to control a jibe... what a green horn

[mostnamestaken]

That was you at one point... remember that and I am sure you're not even a good laser sailor now so I would watch what you are saying if I were you.

[lafromage]

at least it didnt fall anywere near him, if a full rig sail landed on ur head, it wud nt be a gud thing!!

[sagnefusciule]

houch!

[mostnamestaken]

ow that sucks.

[eivorra]

oh!!! not a funny thing!!

[racing16]

Bummer