yacht in a storm

[philateliceun]

And a friend of me always looks surprised when I am telling him I will never go around the world on a sailboat.

[paveltrue]

That is one scary video. Were you guys racing or just cruising for the joy of it? :)

[MrChimochay]

Those are some gangsters there.

[TEHGROUND]

Great job you guys!

That's extremely impressive.

[alanlad1]

nope no way i could do that

[spacedmonkey98]

well bo*locks to all you wank*rs who have nothing better to do than to put someone elses' stuff down. How about get off you fat Ars* and go and learn how to sail a boat like it was designed to do!!! Just wish I was there for this video, You know ya really sailing when you dip your boom!

[ridgeback69z]

Expected seas for this race. Hard core, but nothing to see here.

[Twan5115]

MAMA Help me i am scared!!!!!

[Threesin]

watch?v=4JaNFoCRVOc <--- OMG YOU GUYS NEED TO SEE THIS ITS SO INCREDIBLE

[Biscuitchris7again]

"Now, me? I was scared. But Lieutenant Dan? He was MAD."

[jetguy1205]

This is not fake this is real as it gets

[PRN505]

epic.

[SthealthRaider]

That is fcking kick ass

[TommyGuitarful]

That's some nasty looking sea, looks like you guys took it all in your stride though. Nice clip, wish it was a bit longer.

[JamesVibe]

"Splice the main brace" to that!!!! Thumbs up if you know what im talking about

[2510skater]

ist das umgekipt



[ilovegoatsecks]

FAKE

[BooBooNZ]

June I think, about 2004.

[ThePath400]

What month was this?

[AlienshateU]

intense

[zitamillion]

little choppy eh?

[ViperaAllaGrappa]

wowwwwwwwwwwwwwww

[albertokarimmoussa]

anvedi!!! bella barca!!!

[todabrilla]

There's always the "That's not a real storm!" trolls who insist that the storm shown is a piddling nothing compared to the storms that they've sailed in. It's practically a rule of YouTube commenting!

[skroper]

YeeeeHaaaaaaaa

[fruble1]

Respect where its due. 8)

Now boys and girls.Try to imagine the vid at nigh,in the pitch black and in a major shipping lane.

****k me,where did that container vessel suddenly spring from.

[adamadip]

respect !

[19MJ74]

Just fantastic! Respect!

[gandalfs80]

epic.

post more.

[LindaGruzdeXxX]

YOU ARE CRAZY!

[MrPeunk]

i thought pacific was suposed to mean peaceful...

[alienhuman]

Ahhhhh... the peaceful Pacific :)

[JamesVibe]

oh shit, that looks scary

[NED2587splash]

respect guys!

[number1crazyvids]

what happened at the end?

[fairhillnorrie]

fell out of the pub drunk... great day though.. bit windy.. bit rocky at times..

[m31337u]

MÄNNER! - MEN!

[Barrylaw22]

Wow!

[RUSSSELLLLL]

now that looks scary, i would crap my pants. good job guys!

[yogiudo]

It is worse when you're in it.

[mrceebees14]

Damn,

[3rSt0r]

thats what i call a storm, hand experienced something similar on the Baltic Sea... its a mixed feeling between fear (or rather respect) and fun ^_^

[cmonty72]

Sailboats heel over only as far as the wind can push the sail and since the angle of the sail is relieved when the boat heels, the risk of capsizing is minimal . Most sailboats have a weighted keel that helps right the boat. I've had our windows in the water through 15' swells with no issues.

[V19torrent]

Could you actually capsize in one? Don't the keels sort of prevent that? I've never been in this kind of situation but it looks pretty awesome. :>

[dunjak111]

Its not unusual for a sailing boat to take on some water.

Guess I would have had a lot of fun.

If its really going to capsize, then you just loose the sail a bit, so the wind cannot push it that hard...

[Zielarz12]

Brawa dla sternika!

[ZeeDork7990]

Aggh Can't wait to be faceing that. Takes alot, but if you know your shit you will make it far. :D

[a090006]

holy shit,thinking,I was scared with3bft!!!:-)

[splintercellrob]

its impossible to survive like this because wat if theres a tidal wave? o_O

[fredster8]

Im 16 quite alot of sailing experience, had 32.8 knots when we where going from cardiff to santander luckily it was an easterly

but im with the author here, most boats anemometers dont record more than 65knots, and theres always time to use a video camera to help explain your experience visually.

[fishin1111]

yes, I agree with you also. Even though you explained yourself as 16 years old, it seems like you've had enough experience to help contend this persons experience(s) on this day...using the video camera, even if only 20 or so brief seconds, can make a huge difference to an insurance company if there were any damages to the vessel as a result. Or, to even help better explain things to the coast guard if needed. You are a very wise young sailor.

[ptolemy135]

must be nice

[ignacd4]

love yachting

[jm21390]

obviously the conditions were not that difficult if one of the deckhands has the time and a free hand to shoot some home video.

[BooBooNZ]

you ever heard of watches? 3 hrs on and 3 hrs off.... standard procedure at sea.....

We were racing here so there are no deckhands, and no it wasnt that hardcore but still not very nice.

[LaPistolerina]

@BooBooNZ I think he was trolling because it looks pretty hardcore to me!

[Putonyourfknshoes]

@jm21390 your a douche. it looks like they have 2 or 3 feeds in the main, sheet a long way eased and the boat is still burning along.

trust me. its fresh

[CaptainProtonEIC]

@jm21390 im gonna put poop oon your bed

[helar96]

@jm21390

asshole

[AudiofPA]

@jm21390 You can very plainly see that the conditions were pretty difficult. 

[bobtul]

nothing to get excited about, bit of a swell thats all

[CH3TT3RS]

basically people they're going FAST in lots of wind. who gives a poo about the precise number of knots? honestly :p

[jolf1245]

What did you rig in these conditions? A handkerchief for main and a very small towel as a jib, perhaps? Gosh, I have been riding conditions that were less heavy than that but possibly similar threatening when you take the type and size of my yacht into consideration and I had definitely different things to mind than measuring the windspeed and taking a video. Phew! Sailing isn't always what the tourists in the Mediterranean think it is....

[tzempelg]

i ve experienced 74kts if anyone interested...oh did we have fun back in those days...

[dmgcat]

LOL @kushnugz. Ive been sailing before on a 75'. I thought that it was fun. Looking at this video makes me redefine what I actually did. This video is sailing....this is what sailing is. What I was doing was more like taking a walk in the park. I wish I could learn to sail like these guys.

[michi386]

the weather is great!!

just love that

[grubeci]

I'm scared of my dyslexia at the wheel.

[moneymikey]

why would your dyslexia effect your competence at the wheel of a yatch?

[kushnugz]

he probably means he'd turn it the wrong way flip over and die.

that's what I got outta that lol.

[josegavin]

isnt that weather just beautiful.....................­..............hope you got out allright i guess you did thats why you posted the video mmmmmmm :S

[fossilhuntress]

omFg

[massi1944]

mamma miaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!! troppo troppo troppo bello!!!

[michaelsrulee]

Thank you for not adding dumb music!!! Go fast...Push hard!!

[skateboy159]

@michaelsrulee thats what she said

[biscayforce12]

Ye, thats pretty breezy. Can you tell me what the wind speed is? I've been in 2 big storms. The first was 110kts and the second 98kts (hence my you tube name). And what size yacht was this please?.

[defleppard10294]

its an elliot 50 canting keeler SPORTIVO

[biscayforce12]

defleppard 10294

Thanks for that info. Thats a lot of wind as the boat still has a lot of heel despite the canting keel.

[BooBooNZ]

You are talking shit. if you were in that much breeze you must have been on a cruise ship or similar....

We had a solid 40-45kts in that video, I have been thru my share of storms and never seen anything above 65kts at sea. this is on a 50fter.

[biscayforce12]

I don't do cruise ships and I don't talk shit.

The 110kts was coming home on the last leg of the Whitbread Round the World Race in 1977-78 on the 23rd March 1978 in the English Channel on Condor with Blakey

The 98kts was in the Bay of Biscay on the 13th January 1998 in a Swan 68.

As I said, I don't do cruise ships and I don't talk shit but I have "been there and done that" (twice).

You can think yourself lucky that your top wind speed is only 65kts.

Come back to me if you want verification.

[picaroonblog]

@biscayforce12 So, also with Robin Knox-Johnson, then. That's a mighty claim. Especially since conditions in the Channel on the 4th leg of the '78 Whitbread were force 9-10 (maxing out around 55kts).

[biscayforce12]

picaroonblog Running with boomed out Storm Jib and 3 reefs doing of 25kts+, the wind speed was pressed on the pin at 5kts past the 60 mark. So apparent of 65 plus 25 boat speed = 90kts. This was verified by the three ocean going tugs being dragged backwards at 5kts by their drilling rig tow that we passed about 2 miles away. They were recording 110kts. My memory of this is VERY clear as I was standing by the helmsman, Chris Edwards (the Major) at the time. Hope this makes everything clear.

[picaroonblog]

@biscayforce12 I'd not represent sailing into a 65kt wind as sailing in 110kts myself, regardless of boat speed. That said, if in fact you were there, that's a very cool thing to have done.

[andyingreece]

@BooBooNZ You're right about this bloke talking shit. I've spent 30 years sailing profesionally & like you I've been out in some frightening weather. But I wouldn't imagine that the wind speed was gusting to more than 60 kts. Didn't check. I was too busy staying alive.

[kaleilw]

@BooBooNZ He said that he'd been in two big storms, he didn't give any more information than that. For all you know he could have been on a scow crossing the Gulf of Alaska, where we do get those kinds of winds, or he could have been anchored in a wind tunnel on the outer North Pacific coast . Stop being so arrogant.

[TEHGROUND]

@BooBooNZ I'm 13 and the most I've been in is 30 knots :D

[xROLLINDICEx]

@biscayforce12 You do realize that would be considered a catagory 3 hurricane right....? "Category Three Hurricane (Sustained winds 111-130 mph, 96-113 kt, or 178-209 km/hr). Devastating damage will occur"

[biscayforce12]

@xROLLINDICEx

Yes, I know.

When you stand next to your crew mates and shout in their ear and they still can't here you.

When the sea turns white.

When your quarter wave is picked up and swept across the boat as a continuous cascade of flying spray.

When visibility is down to the bow of your boat.

When rigging has gone past moaning and is screeching.

When you can't stand up.

When if anything goes wrong it's going to cost you your life.

I know.

[xROLLINDICEx]

@biscayforce12 Yeah well im just saying if it can easily blow apart houses, it would destroy a sailboat with that much windage in mere seconds. So its sailing in that is impossible. Im gonna pretend that you were kidding when you posted your comment and just drop it.

[TommyGuitarful]

@biscayforce12 Rubish! How many 'small storms' have you been in then?

[biscayforce12]

@TommyGuitarful Rubbish has 2 B's. Small storms? What do you mean? If you mean winds of 70kts+ in a sailing boat then the answer is 4. 1st time English channel July '76 as recorded by the Coast Guard. 2nd time South Atlantic January '78 on "Condor". 3rd time March '78 English Channel on "Condor" and 4th time Bay of Biscay January '98 on Swan 68. Does that answer your question?

[DisruptiveMoose]

@biscayforce12 That's obviously wrong mate. 110 knots is pretty much unsurvivable. In the 1979 Fastnet some boats experienced wind speeds in excess of 60 knots - most boats got absolutely decimated. There is no way you could have survived being on a boat in 110 knots.

[biscayforce12]

@DisruptiveMoose I'm obviously RIGHT mate. How would you know. You weren't there.

Why don't you read the other comments I've made. Just cos you don't get out much doesn't make you any authority at all. You need to have been there to have known what happened. I know 110kts is a lot of wind. But when your on a 77ft yacht that was built and rigged to take on the Southern Ocean then running in 110kts is hairy but survivable. I Know. I survived. Along with the other 13 crew members. As did the boat.

[DisruptiveMoose]

@biscayforce12 I'm not saying I'm any kind of authority. Look at the beaufort scale - a force 12 (up to 64 knots) is described like this: 'The air is filled with foam and spray. Sea completely white with driving spray; visibility very seriously affected'. I don't see how you could almost double those conditions and survive. Hurricane Katrina reached 175mph winds, which is about 150 knots. You must know how severe the damage katrina caused was. I'm not trying to call you a liar or be rude.

[fsant653]

@biscayforce12 Fuck ass, a airplane can take off like a chopper at that speed

[biscayforce12]

@fsant653 As you weren't there you just wouldn't know what happened. You can be as offensive as you like but until you've experienced 110kts in a sailing boat keep you ignorant mouth shut and you're equally ignorant thoughts to yourself. (As the saying goes "It's better to let them think your stupid than to open your mouth and prove them right").

[fsant653]

@biscayforce12 I'm not the only one thinking that you talk shit

[biscayforce12]

@fsant653 Truth is you wouldn't know 110kts if it came and licked your sorry fat fucking arse. You have no idea what it's like to have been there. I was and I know AND I and the rest of the crew got through it. It was 110kts and no matter what you or the rest of you say or think 110kts is a huge amount of wind to be in. We didn't go out in it. We were caught in it. It didn't last more that 3 hours but it did happen and I was there. And if you don't like that you can just fucking well sod off.

[rottenman2010]

AMAZING , no way I'm going there.... I'm just fine in my computer chair ;) drinking ice tea

[GavinS1965]

Shit scary enough on 120 foot trawler..

[fiyahballz]

Heeling on a small lazer in a sheltered regatta is one thing, out in the middle of nowwhere and no-one to help you with massive rollers all around you and you begin to $h!# yourself

[skater11295]

i was talking about open sail and stuff in a channel with a bunch of cargo boats and stuff

but being in the middle of a ocean with bigass waves is alot more scary then deathrolling in front of a oil tanker

[skater11295]

i could just imagine everyone on oneside and the skipper lets go of the wheel by accident and they jibe and deathroll

its fun on lasers and stuff but on big boats when your heeling the wrong way its pretty fucking scary

[SeanOBriain]

This is why I'll stick to my powerboat! lol - you guys are crazy.. Sailing is beautiful, but you need some balls to go and try conquer a sea in that weather.

[ravinago]

man y guys r sideways

[dodoboy1212]

wow lol u dont know anything

[ravinago]

MAN U GUYS R SIDE WAYS, AS IN SAILING THROUGH CROSS WINDS AT HIGH SPEED WITH MAKES THE BOAT TILT DRRR. I Just but in a y instead of a u.

[skater11295]

hmm a shitload of wind is pushing against a 20-30 foot tall sail

and the boats just suppose to not heel'?

[ravinago]

LOL

[blum41]

its my live be ready on everythings

[BooBooNZ]

Thanks for all the comments. Look at some of my other vids for some more really extreme sailing. The is a lot more footage from this trip on the Auckland to Fiji race movie. Middle sea race and Hong kong to Vietnam was also pretty hairy at times.

[premton]

This is the only video that deserves the STORM title. A lot of people out there put heavy weather titles only because they sail in grey skies

[COLINEMM]

Wow, impressive stuff, i realise how difficult it would have been to continue recording on that tack.

[tlv156]

wow, i love the concept of sailing, but i don't know if i could ride it out on that tack for very long, i'd get tired trying to hold myself from falling over haha. not a sailor obviously, but i'm interested in learning. looking good guys.

[uglyphil44]

pull your vang on nah just kidding you guys got balls nice work

[lasersailorwill]

HE MUST RECORD TEH FILM

[ozzidan]

going hard guys !!!!! hang on, pull you hood over ya head, and think of cold beer, and warm women.

Hope nothing broke.......

[Sharkotron]

Were the using a spinnaker? Heheh

[emotionumist]

wow...can you please teach me how to sail in weather like this so I can join your crew? :)

[CusterFlux]

Finally, some extreme stuff, so many guys are posting "50kts !!!", and it's a vid of them having tea in the sunshine with the wind in the mid-20's.

[urallredneks66]

lol my brother and dad r sailing from numea to auckland next week

[olliefps]

that looks like alot of funny. night time is even more fun. then in the middle of the 3 in the morning watch the autopilot malfuntion causing us to autojibe and the mast comes down because we didnt switch the running backstay...but other than that i love sailing offshore

[BooBooNZ]

yeah I know, I have broken 5 rigs now, the worst being on the open 60 hugo boss 2000nm from cape horn at 60 south. Chainplate pulled right out of the boat. had to sail 200nm around cape horn with the boom as a mast.

[steelface581]

i at first thought it d be quite the rush... then i had a second thought, dont think i could do it..up close and personal with the sea in a little craft like that...those guys there have some guts!!!

[slippp40]

thats hardcore

[zenbe]

Makes me feel like when i was sailing on a Shipman 28 in Sweden, and the wind was 25 m/s and i was 15. And we saw windsurfers, they were fast as hell.

[MaXiMuSNFSpr0]

Extreme :D

[wxminstrel]

holy shitballs he's keeling pretty hard

[jackass1juniors]

i love sailing offshor its that near death thing about it u love an i dare u 2 put the spinnker up hahaha

[Survive29]

lol :O

[Brazdolph]

great!

[soddycool]

man im happy ill never had a storm wen i crossed the atlantic to caribean

[utubeuser1971aok]

ummmm....no thanks

[BooBooNZ]

Yeah Fiji 2005 on the elliot 50 sportivo.

Got a few more good vids which I will down load soon, 2007 middle sea race with 50+kts of wind and the latest sydney hobart.

[zacster007]

Is this the 2005 Auckland Fiji Race?

[zacster007]

yep ugly

[tzempelg]

baad bad weather \

[shad0fax]

Wow. That's the kind of weather one lives (and once in a while dies) for.

[porpoisefathom]

shadofax!! so true- i always tell people I feel most alive when i am in a storm!! perhaps cuz were so close to death..but wow do you ever feel alive whne in that situaiton!!..love it..

[kayorn]

he can't after that, he sunks :o))

[sisumatom]

I agree! That looks like some passage!!!

[einkauf]

please more

[djayyy108]

Too short, post more!