BOAT CRASHES INTO SANDBAR NEEDS HELP !! | Boats at Haulover Inlet | Boca Inlet | WAVY BOATS
BOAT CRASHES INTO SANDBAR NEEDS HELP !! | Boats at Haulover Inlet | Boca Inlet | WAVY BOATS
Sailboat runs a ground at Boca Inlet and is at risk of capsizing. Rough waves are battering the vessel and a distressed call was made. Emergency agencies are contacted and respond to the scene.
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Is there anything the Sail boat captain could've done differently guys? 😳
Look f"a"rther ahead !!
Well, he set up the tow lines nicely, good bridal pull configuration.
@@XploiTee Haha, the name on the boat is LOOKFAR...oops. That boat must have one hell of a fin keel Aaand, the water is very shallow there. Guy in the water is standing up. Gheez...
Depth sounder - Dept chart or GPS I don't sail but I was taught this in coast guard class but I am only certified up to 35" but most of the sail boat people I know think they are special - I don't have the patience to wait for the wind I want to get on with it already
try not to get stuck
Can we just talk about how bad ass that life guard was. Paddled out into near open water, into one of the most dangerous inlets in the world, left the safety of his board to battle the surf and throw a rope to this vessel in need. Job well done to you sir.
Pull it down from the main halyard. This will lean the boat more onto its beam and present a bigger surface to the water and float the boat even in shallow water. Then easily pull it into deeper water. This avoids risk of damage to , prop, keel, hull, rudder etc. Have done this many times.🤗😄
You've done it many times? How often do you ground your boat.....(just kidding).
Was looking for this comment. I was shaking my head the whole time SeaTow tried to just brute force this job. If twin 300's isn't moving it, you need to change your approach because it is not lightly aground.
Poor boat was standing on it’s keel with the hull a foot out of the water. 🤦🏾♂️
@@pcs5852 😂 thankfully not my boat. Helping others in this same situation.
Yep, use a halyard to pull her over and get off the keel and floating on the hull side. Then pull her free. That wasn't capsized, They sail every day heeled over further than that.
"I realize that you are standing in surf trying to help me, but there is NO WAY I am bending down to grab the line. You must throw it over my bow rails and into my hands."
Had the "skipper" never heard of a device called a BOAT HOOK ?
Yeah! Where was the boat hook?
I was thinking the same thing
I had the same thought, get your belly down on the deck and reach for the &#($% line.
😆😆
it is absolutely necessary to list the sailboat, so that the keel is no longer stuck in the sand. The mainsail halyard is usually used, pulling it from another boat, to starboard or port side
Exactly.
Once i got unstuck by puting 100 liters of water and a crew member on the end of boom and swinging them out. No wind and waves in that situation. Only my poor decision
Thinking same thing. Sea tow should’ve had a line on now and stern and pulled sideways back out to sea. Or have a 2nd sea tow pulling the top of the mast from a halyard, as you stated.
Done it myself and it works like a charm. Spare halliard to another vessel that pulls the mast over about 45 degrees or so to lift the keel off the bottom, then just move everything out to deeper water.
Preferably the side opposite the cooling water inlet. I'm sure I saw the exhaust pumping sand.
I really hate to see sailboats in trouble, people live on them. glad to see it all went well. Thanks for the video!
There's 2 types of sailors. Those who've run aground, and those who lie about it.
I just learned this saying this past weekend during courses and i love it haha
I mean, this was pretty stupid. Check your gauges , know your keel, assume the water is shallow.
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When that day happens i'm going to stop sail. Id be ashamed to death.
I learned how to sail back in 1976, but, I started going in boats in 1964. This had to be a very novice boater. Anyone who knows anything about boating can see those breakers in that stretch of water and realize that that means that there is a shoal or sandbar under them. Look just 50 yards out how calm the water is and then, in this area, there are waves breaking. If you don't know what that means, you should not be driving any sort of boat.
A novice boater perhaps but note that the boat is registered in Washington state. How did it get to Florida?
@@debbieraby Surely, by truck!
@@zubitron5 with a massive fin thingy underneath or the fin is modular?
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If you ever go aground afterwards be sure to carefully check down below in the keel area for any stress leaks. There is an unordinary amount of pressure put into that area whenever such an undertaking occurs.
Shout out to all my, Seatow, Towboat, and Coast Guard.. and other Maritine vessles.. for being the competent person(s) making my job easy...Thank You! - Local HarborMaster.
Are you fucking kidding? That was a horrible rescue.
The tow boat was pretty incompetent, he should have heeled the boat before pulling it.
For all the seatow and tiowwboats around would it be too muck to hope one of them actually knew how to.... you know... TOW A BOAT? Goes double for Captain Keelgrrinder. Someone should put the Benny Hill soundtrack on this or the song that starts a circus so its less painful to watch I'd bet my biggest testicle he has never once raised a sail on that boat.
They needed two two boats for this job, or actually _ANY_ mono-hull sailboat that's aground. Boat #1: Main tow either from the bow or stern as conditions dictate. Boat #2: Rig a line to the tip of the mast. Pull at a 45-90 degree angle along with boat #1 to heel the stuck vessel over as far as safely possible, this will help get the keel out of the mud/sand.
@Wogden 700 I've _been_ pulled off just like that in moderate weather in L.I. Sound. Had to have the rigging retuned but no _MAJOR_ damage. Not like pounding against the bottom until high-tide returned anyway!
I ran aground in an inlet one time with an outgoing tide. I have a deep keeled downeaster. Years I went out the same inlet and never ran aground, I was going out and well off the jetty and got stuck on the sand bar. Truly terrifying feeling all the water pushing against your hull and feeling the boat like you've never felt before. Like when your boat turns on it's side after getting hit by a wave broadside , it's like time stops and you're in some weird scary zone.
It can happen to the best!! Great job seatow & everyone else who helped!!
First thing I'd do after this is check the hull for leaks, and once the boat is safely docked or anchored, check the engine raw water system for sand or mud. Oh and pass the hat around to pay for the tow.
Didn't you notice the water coming out from the bilge pump?
Hopefully they had Sea Tow Insurance - it's cheap - less than $150/yr - if now, that has $5k written all over it. Maritime law don't fool around.
@@dougaltman9148 yes, I saw the water coming out, was thinking it was either A/C or bilge pump. Being the boat looked like a long range cruising sailboat, I doubt they had A/C running. That's why I decided to make my comment.
Ahh stimulus be here Wednesday...pull it on the hard and pretend to be a captain...😂 that sea toe driver could be the first mate!both looked clueless...sheer luck.🏴☠️⚔️🧐
Also might need to be hauled to check for structural damage.
glad to se he made it out with no injuries.
I was surprised to see Sea tow trying to pull this sailboat off the bar directly.. Problem is that the Keel of the sailboat is in the sand.. Take the halyard, give it to a small boat, pull the sailboat over sideways using the mast as leverage freeing the keel and then pull her off..
exactly the good way to do
That's basically the advanced method. Lol if they'd have gotten stuck in a place where sailboats are a lot more common, I'm sure that's what would have happened. But when you're in powerboat central, you gotta take what you can get if you run her aground like a pinhead
Cool to see everyone work together like that. Good job Sea tow.
That grounding was much more severe due to the surf than any I've experienced, but fortunately conditions weren't life-threatening. There are worse things than warm water and sandy bottoms. Thanks for capturing it! Heeling a sailboat over is a great way to get afloat (that's how I've done it), but in those waves you might just as easily get pushed further onto the bar. They got it off successsfully with no apparent damage (although for sure I'd be checking everything, including the bow cleats, the bottom and the engine). Call it an expensive win and learn from it. Just the other day I saw a video of a guy sitting in an arm chair and a bunch of sailors commented he was doing it wrong. (with apologies to the original author).
'warm water and sandy bottoms' - reminds me of a girl I knew
next time they should "look far" ,so far they can see the tides table !
That is how I did it too, towed gently with the spinnaker halyard, healing boat over until it did not touch the bottom, and we had a wing keel, worked very well despite that.
The text book way to do it, on a sailboat with a keel stuck in a sand bar, is, as you described it for sure. I hope he, this way, got a strong keel on that boat. One of those bolted on ones, if the bolts are also corroded, may outright come off, if you tug and plow it out of a sand bar like that.
@@1corinthians15.1-4kjv a story I heard from a tow using the spinnaker halyard was that the mast came down
Where my guy on surf board go haha he deserved a good 50 spot
Strong swimmer. 🌊
@Stellvia Hoenheim he swam out of the danger zone the minute the guy caught the ropes. Dove into a wave and wasn’t seen again.
@@jayquick6520 :(
I used to work for sea tow in north east. Fun trick but dangerous one for sailboats is have one boat tied off to main halyard raised all the way up and another boat towing. Halyard boat lists the vessel over to free up keel while it’s dragged to deeper water
Know yer draft. Know yer tide. Read a chart.
Employ native guides in unknown places.
He forgot about the keel, thought he was in a motor boat. :)
if you've seen that 11foot8 channel (The Canopener Bridge), few read the truck height signs or draft charts, lol. (/sarcasm)
@@Zarcondeegrissom haha very similar! its excusable in random spots but that bridge and this inlet are famous so these guys earned a big fat fail sticker =P
Famous last words, 20\20 hindsight bull crap as your own boat runs aground.
Legend has it the Lookfar still haunts that sandbar to this day 🧟
hahahahahaha,lol good one mate
At least half a rudder and chunks of rudder are still seeking revenge.
Love these videos. Good job to the rescue crews! Looks like sail boats can capsize pretty easy. I know it was in shallow water.
Sailboats are designed to sail leaning over. In a storm with a bad gust of wind they can go right to 90 degrees (mast more or less flat on the water) and pop back up. Assuming they’re closed up well so water doesn’t get in, they’ve been known to do a 360 (mast completely under water then back up the other side) though quite often when that happens your mast and rigging get very damaged. (You do not want that to happen, of course.) The issue is mostly getting things buttoned up to keep out the water when you’re getting pounded by decent waves. Not likely to sink but it will make quite a mess.
Good and early remedial measures is very important in situations like this. Good job brothers.
what could have been done to help towing it off was to heel the boat over to reduce the draft of it (add a weight to the end of the boom or mast top). it was common to do back in the old days and use a anchor.
That was frightening to watch 😯⛵️glad all went safely in the end 🤗
Thank you so much for providing a great service AND for the entertainment as well. I know absolutely nothing about boats, so everything I see is new to my eyes. I really appreciate you using great filming and editing equipment. It's crystal clear on my end and is just beautiful on a big 5K screen/monitor. QUESTION (for anyone): I'm learning that this location, Haulover Inlet, seems to be very well-known, just judging my the "hot dogs" that go in and out regularly. I guess my first question is this: Is there a marina or a boat storage area or something once inside the inlet and out of the open ocean? I'm just wondering where all of these boats are coming from and returning back to. The second question is this: As I mentioned at the beginning, I am an absolutely know-nothing layman when it comes to boating, safety, navigation, etc. I know ZERO about boating. But with that said, aren't you supposed to wear some sort of flotation device in water like this? I've seen several videos now where a person goes overboard due to being ejected from the boat by big waves. And why don't the adults have the kids wearing floatation devices through all of this? When I see little kids hanging on for dear life and screaming, I feel like I want to arrest that parent for child endangerment (I'm retired LEO in California, that's just the charge that jumps to the front of my mind.....there might be a more specific Harbor and Navigation Code that I'm not aware of). Thank you very much!
I’m no expert sailor…… nor was I ever in the Navy…. But I was in the Army. Looking 👀 at this situation….. it always gets me how no one thinks of wearing a life jacket ! ! ! I’m glad that everything seems to have turned out OK 👍. 😎
Another fine video as usual! Keep up the great work. It truly is greatly appreciated here in Dayton, Ohio!
Glad you're enjoying the content, Jim. 👍
AAA in the water they're wonderful and surprisingly pretty reasonable on a yearly basis
I first-mated on a 25 foot sailboat on Lake Texoma in the 80s. First lesson I learned is Stay off the Brown....Stay On the Blue.
I enjoy these videos. It's like watching the old version of Puppy Bowl! A couple of whistles and mostly visual entertainment!
Sail boat apparently didn’t “look far” enough 😂
Ironic
The name comes from the book A Wizard of Earthsea.
Perhaps the problem was that they did look far, but missed the sandbar that was near?
Bunch of wingnuts including the towboat. All they had to do was heel the boat over using the main halyard. This lifts the keel off the bottom and the boat would have slid right across the sand bar. We do that all the time, and FYI, a sailboat is meant to heel over,
What I was going to say. Just like clearing a low bridge....
Agree. Also, since there was some wind, unfurling the jib could have helped at various points.
if the water isnt passing over the gunwale of your sailboat when sailing you either dont have wind or you are doing it wrong. This thing barely got a splash on it so it wasnt even close to proper running angle for a sailboat.
Came here to say this, unbelievable that they didn't know to use the halyard to heel the boat, could have been out of there in 2 minutes with one tow boat on the halyard and one on the bridle.
Should also have a much longer tow rope tow rope to help “spring” the yacht
Love it when the guy was standing on the sand bar throwing the tow rope.
Been in a similar position myself (9 ton sloop), with 6' waves pushing me up on the bank, and a 40 knot breeze pushing as well (cyclone brewing). Loaded a sand anchor in the dinghy, and ran it out into deep water with 2HP Suzuki on 8' tinny. 30 minutes cranking the anchor winch got us off. Ran back to anchorage, broke out the Scotch!
6’ waves, 40 knts and you could manage a 8’ 2HP dinghy around a bank? Congs mate
@@balbareto Desperate situation calls for extreme actions. Remote location, no help within 4 hours. A lifetime surfer, I was stretched. And that little Suzuki was screaming, out of the water half the time. I was really afraid I might kill it! The dinghy was a very light tinny. I found my experience in surfing came in handy on quite a few occasions in my 10 years of cruising.
@@Devo491 it is true that in desperate conditions we can manage what we couldn’t imagine. I sail in my 1,5 ton small 24´ boat, but as you say, I also feel very useful all my surfing experience in many situations. Keep safe Devo, hug.
I saw the dog on the sail boat and my anxiety level shot through the roof!
Me too😥😳
@@franklix me three! He/she looked like a big dog and was a good boy to stay in cabin.
Multiple ways to have avoided this but here are two. 1. Make sure you are aware of tides and how that could impact you entering any harbor or channel 2. Sailboats of this size need at least 8 foot of clearance. This captain must be very green.
Hes less Green now lol. I just want to learn im enjoyong the comments
they really needed another boat on the Halyard to pull the boat over , While the other one Pulls , Thems the breaks hitting sand Bars are common Occurences
why is there only one person on tow boat useless
yup , been there many times just to get out of the canal on low tide
Another fine relaxing day Sailing!!!
Looks like the keel plowed into the sand. Probably should have tugged it from the stern. Hopefully the keel and the prop/shaft are OK. A couple of marker buoys at low tide could help the novice boaters but it would take business away from the tow boats and boat repair folks. Always interesting, thanks!
Others also mentioned it should have been towed from the stern. You guys are right on this one. 👍
That was my first thought - Drag it in the opposite direction of the grounding. However, some of these boats have foils and the rudder post is questionable. The guy tossing the rope was standing and the boat was a foot to two above waterline so I guessed five feet of draft. I would have yanked to starboard right away though.
With a sailboat you need to tow it sideways so the keel slides across the sand not digging into it. That's why the boat is sideways in the first place, the waves push the boat sideway. Have three boats pulling, One on the Bow, one on the stern and one in the middle pulling the boat over with the main mast. Not a lot just enough to keep her leaning over.
@@leebenson4874 hey that makes sense, I just finished 3 sailing courses and none mentioned this as a technique, thanks for the input
@@leebenson4874 Agreed. Someone earlier in this thread mentioned a dismasting if tried. I passed that comment by and then considered the side pull force on a halyard versus the force mother provides when she blows. A stick that crashed in a blow is rigged improperly or too light for any sailing rig. That lightly rigged commenter must have been a dinghy sailor who never advanced to the big rigs. Hang the rags boys! :)
meanwhile the wife is sittin with the dog wondering if they will make their 6pm dinner reservation
Wives and sailboats are a doomed combination.
Amazing how shallow these waters can be at low tide. I've seen this happen on the San Francisco Bay. The captain had to be rescued by helicopter. Got to watch out in low tide when you have a keel. Thank you for posting.
Happened to me over by Bair Island near Redwood City, was visually about half a mile or more from the shore. My 5' draft boat got caught on the most minor sandbar and before I knew it I was stuck with an outgoing tide. It receded to the ground, and then some! Had to wait till 2am when the tide came up and show up to the marina. Seatow and the CG could not help me out or risk grounding themselves as well... After that I got Navionics and all's been good so far.
Bravo for the rescue. Great video. Thanks
A new sideline for for Matts Off road recovery? with Ed and Lizzy! "we'll get 'em out!"
The way to remove a sailboat from grounding is to put up the sails and fill them with air, putting the boat on an angle and lessening the depth required for the keel. I don't know why they didn't do that and it also appears that their engine was not blowing wet exhaust.
Thank you for uploading.
Running aground can happen to anybody. I was on the USCG buoy tender Iris (out of Astoria Oregon) and we got called out to assist a tanker that was having an emergency and it was after midnight. The Colombia River bar was breaking from jetty to jetty and it could be heard for at least a mile. Anyway the Iris was heading out and there was a rumble shudder that lasted for 10 seconds or so, then nothing. We kept going, got the recovery done and when the sun started to rise you could see fuel oil floating around the entire cutter. The hull had hit bottom and ruptured a bunch of hull plates. We were then instantly off to the Seattle dry docks for two months of work. We had been over a breaking bar many times but that day with the dynamics of the river going out and the tide going out also, jumping sandbars had formed mid-channel to cause a hull breach.
I feel sorry for that poor dog on board - he looks terrified. What great heroes the rescuers are to continuously have to go help these inexperienced boaters.
The sailboat skipper should have had the entire crew on deck all on the same side to heel the boat as much as possible. That reduces the draft of the boat and lifts the keel. As a Chesapeake sailing crew member on a "Triton" I was often elected to sit out on the end of the boom as it was pushed out to a right angle relative to the mast, with the "topping lift" snugged. My weight out on the end of the mast provided maximum leverage on one side to get the bottom of the keel off whatever it was we were stuck on. It always worked. Luckily the Chesapeake is very forgiving with it's sandy mucky bottom (no rocks).
To know the extension of submerged rocks was important, and the right direction to choose
Nice GOD BLESS YOU GOOD SAMARITAN...!!! YOUR REALLY GUARDIAN OF THE SEA. I salute you sir.. Angel of GOD!!!
I was more worried about the dog than the boat lol
I was really worried about the dog to! Put a flotation device on him...
@@Toolboxboy69 frrr!!! Dog safety first!
I was more worried about the dog than anything else!! LOL
I was trying to see if the kids had on life preservers. Sometimes it looked like yes, than nope, don’t think so.
*Keep the keel between the red & green bouys/channel markers.* *Or ... in a sailboat, run a B&G chart plotter, if you don't have a forward looking depth sounder/sonar.* *Just saying ... that's hard to do if you're a Captain who cares about your crew.*
@3:20 I was like, dang that surf guy is one strong swimmer, holding that wet heavy rope and just kicking to stay afloat...Then I realized that dude is standing up and that sailboat is beyond stuck..
LOOKFAR Captain - "fuck, we're stuck." EVERGIVEN Captain - "bloody amateurs, I'll show you what stuck is."
Shittino: “Oh look, a pretty little town”!
Don’t know what “Sea Tow” cost, but, ummmmm. It was worth it this day!
It'd have to be more than a carton of piss..
$175 for a year of service from Sea Tow
@@stephentuttle4275: Thank you! The other comment deserves no response. Here in Idaho, if you must be towed, it’s either Sheriff department or Fish and game. I believe, as of 2018 anyway, it was upwards of $250 a tow. In ‘21? Who knows.
@@TERoss-jk9ny that's more or less the going rate for sea tow when you don't have a membership here in Miami, the annual fee seems like a scam until you get stuck just once🤣🤣
@@stephentuttle4275 worth every penny
Officer on duty,job well done 👍 bravo
Glad the Dog is ok...🐶👍
Yeah, where's his life jacket? He looked worried.
Been in same situation. The tow has to time his pulls with the wave surges. Might also need to run a line through the main halyard to heel the vessel enough to break the suction. Lucky it was a sunny day in FLA and not where we were.
to heel aside is correct solution. Could work even without towing sometimes
"Vashon" on the stern. They were about 4500 land miles from the sound.
Two options the sailors could have done once aground 1.) Put sails up to get the boat to heel to reduce draft to make it easier for sea-tow 2.) Both people on the sailboat could use their own weight by standing by the shrouds and/or placing the boom over the leeward side of the boat and hanging on the end in an effort to reduce draft.
I started with sailing. Inshore so no tough channels to navigate. But had plenty of sandbars to worry about, and they frequently moved. I went to powerboats because sailing is not fun when you get pulled off a sandbar every other trip. Thank God for Sea Tow.
There certainly are a lot of 'experts' on here, but just a thought... With Sea Tow pulling straight off the bow, the police boat or another towboat could have taken a tow line to the main halyard from the sailboat and pulled off the beam of the sailboat, healing the boat over, thus reducing the draft at the same time the towboat pulled forward.
Vashon - where the boat is from - is way out here in Washington State. They went a long way to get stuck :)
And to think of all the passages he could have gotten stuck in here. Maybe he was looking for a new challenge. Wonder what he would do in Deception Pass.
Allways thought a SandBar involved mixed drinks on the beach...!
A second vessel with a long line attached to a mast halward to pull the yacht over on it's side more. By pulling only on the bow the keel will continue to dig into the sand bank. If the yacht is healing more the keel will lift off the bank. Hope this helps.
I had just exactly same situation in Saint Petersburg last week..... but the smaller sailboat ..... broken keel as a result ..... God bless the seatug skipper
Get a boat to pull the sailboat by the mast to the side so it heals over making the draft shallower at the same time have another boat pull it forward.
Sailor continues pumping sand through his cooling system the whole time.
Free sand blasting
At my port (Lake Michigan), last year, they actually had big barges come through and they dredged the harbor out. Lake Michigan doesn't have tides, but the sandbars at the port, especially right outside the pier heads, could go from 15-50ft deep to a mere 7 in a matter of seconds. This caused larger vessels, such as the barges, to get stuck when coming into port. My family's own small Sea Ray srv240cc sits 4ft deep with the i/o drive trimmed down fully.
I was praying for them!!!! Sea tow you guys are hero’s!
no apostrophe in heroes.
If you have an extra 4' to 6' under your boat then it's YOUR responsibility to know your position 😉. Another great video.
What do you mean?
that surfer lmao
That dude got out there pretty fast considering the wave action. 😳
@@WavyBoats He was a lifeguard from the Boca Hotel Beach Club. Sea Tow should have flipped him $200 bucks from the $2000 tow. Without that extra hand. It would have been very interesting watching the Sea Tow Captain and the panicked owner get those lines over. Especially when one considers the depth at the bottom of the trough was about 2 feet and still going lower with the tide.
Good job. I thought for sure when it listed that it would be swamped.
Ah . ... good times. When I was young my parents owned a 32' motor cruiser with displacement hull, designed for inshore use. The previous owner had upgraded it by replacing the standard 40 hp inboard for a 150 hp Perkins marine diesel, including upgrading the shaft and replacing the screw with a four-bladed high thrust screw. In addition he mounted a steel pipe through the rear sun deck all the way through to the keel and fixed to the hull to create a kind of towing bollard. In effect he turned it into a sleeper tug. It didn't gain much speed - at most 1-2 knots with enormous bow waves - but it was really handy for towing. One summer we ran across a 30' sloop that in a stiff breeze and choppy water had hit a sandbar on the leeward side of the IJsselmeer , a former sea inlet closed of with a dike to be turned into a large fresh water lake (we Dutch are good at that). We ran over a long 1'' thick line but even with the (relatively) high thrust we could not dislodge her. As we already had launched our dinghy from its davits to clear the bollard, we transferred all but the skipper over to our boat and then used it to create a list by tying another line to the halyard of the main sail and pulling perpendicular to the (single keel) yacht. This time it reduced the draft enough to dislodge her from the sandbar and we managed to get her back to deeper water where we returned the crew and we each went on our merry way. Had we failed we at least could've called the KNZHRM (Dutch rescue services) through the maritime radio our boat was equipped with (pre-cell phone era).Their boats are more powerful and designed for these kinds of jobs in inland waters. This video reminded me of that experience and made me wonder why the rescue boat tried to use brute force in stead of getting the other boat to use the halyard to create a list and thus reduce the draft. In the end I guess it doesn't matter as they managed to dislodge the yacht anyway. BTW if you want to enter a sea inlet you're not familiar with, it might help to beforehand look at the map and tide tables..... it may spare you the embarrassment of running aground.
Should of went into Palm Beach inlet? Then south thru the intercoastal.....
I saw Lookfar in ft Pierce the other day. I’ll have to let him know he’s famous!
Lookfar didn't look far enough lol !
good work... did not think it would happen. but the waves helped a lot
Raise the mainsail if possible. Wind direction looks good to heel the boat with a fully powered up main
Now that he's got the keel well sanded, might as well have her hauled, and paint the rest of the bottom.
I had a new commercial fishing boat, and dredged a channel for a boat on the beach, then had to re antifoul the stern area, the sand from the prop removed the paint.
Being in the right place at the right time, priceless! Great capture of the action. Heal it over and a stern pull would have much easier and gentler on the boat. During a sailboat race on Lake St. Clair, MI. We ha a 28 ‘ healed over so far we could see all but 12 - 15” of the tip of the keel. The wind was blowing so hard we were about 5 kts above theoretical hull speed. Down right scary.
Outstanding !!
Nicely done to all hands!!
Looks like they needed to make a call to Matts's Offroad recovery.
"So, we got a call . . . "
@@marvindebot3264 yes! "We'll get em out"
@@stout_tossme7541 Well, more like "off" in this case 😁
@@marvindebot3264 lol
LOL
Suzuki power marine💪🏻🤙🏻. Not the fastest motors but the most reliable.
had a previous boat ground on a River Thames sandbank, lost the rudder as got towed off. good learning experiences it was. Lookfar should imo wait for the tide to come back in
100% Klasse , und rettung !
Does this cost? How do they settle up in the water? Do they discuss ahead of time? Sorry I'm from DFW. Don't know anything about boats
I have the same questions
My guess is this guy pays the yearly fee of about $180. Most cruisers are members.
@@SV-DEDICATED thx
If you're not a member, you call SeaTow and give them your credit card info before they even come out. Then they throw in a free year of membership after that.
the Sea Tow annual fee covers towing, line in props ,fuel drops and and some other minor services. If you are hard aground or sinking it can cost more. It's still a great service but it doesn't cover major events. If this sailboat had a SeaTow Membership that probably covered this call. It was one SeaTow boat and about an hour of work. I was a Captain for them years ago in Fort Lauderdale. The guys from BoatUS were circling like vultures hoping to get the job. It is very competitive between the towing companies.
At :40 seconds dude asks.... "Why is this guy still on it?' Pro tip: He's saving his retirement.
Set full sails so the boat heels and the keel will lift off the ground. There was plenty of wind to do that. I had to do that once. Works great in sand groundings that do still have good water depth.
have a 2nd boat pull from top of the mast to heel over, use a boat hook to grab the pennant, but most of all pay attention to your chart Plotter and the tides
Monohull sailboats are almost impossible to capsize. Even if they do capsize, a good design will right itself shortly after. The most common reason for a monohull sailboat to capsize if it somehow loses its keel, which is what makes a sailboat so hard to capsize. The keel contains thousands of pounds of lead or steel and it is hung well under the bottom of the boat, acting like a counter weight. There are numerous stories of monohull sailboats caught out in giant storms. The crew panics and calls for evacuation. They are winched off the boat by a helo, and returned to land. Months later, the sailboat is potted bobbing around in the ocean crewless, having survived the storm, and whatever else the boat had encountered in that time. This boat was never in any danger of capsizing.
Right. no experienced person would have thought that but I must say that the whole idea of most monohulls righting themselves after they capzise is a myth sure it takes a lot for one to capzise but sir I begg you consider thinking they will right itself unless its under 15 feet right itself loool
@@rafwhy9888 Sail boats capsize when in a big seaway. After a wave has capsized a boat, there's going to be another wave right behind it. That wave will certainly right such a top heavy vessel as a capsized sail boat, and if it doesn't, certainly one of the next two dozen will. This, of course, doesn't happen as readily on a motor vessel because they don't have keels that hang so far under their boat and don't have tons of iron or lead ballast hanging from them. That's what I mean by righting itself. Yes, I realize that there are poorly designed sail boats that don't have enough ballast, and are more difficult for a wave to right the boat, but any sailboat that still has its keel attached will almost certainty right itself once the next big wave hits it.
@@operator0 How important would be the position of the capsized boat in the water and how probable is it to find itself in that position. How bout water thats going to start coming in even if he closes the hatches. How long approximately before that becomes an issue. by motor vessel you mean power boat or sail with a motor??? I had a 1978 coronado centercockpit and three power since then. Never thought my sailboat could right itself even though it had a beatuful kneel but I think about sailboat in general like say older then 90s I dont know get my drift :) like those cant possiblly right themselves you know bro not that youtube is a teacher but I have seen countless hours of boat fails never been able to see a sailboat right itself
@@rafwhy9888 The center of gravity is so high on a capsized, well designed sail boat that all it really needs a little nudge that isn't directly on the stern or bow. Even a 20 or 30 degree tilt would easily be enough to flip a well designed sail boat back over. Yachting Monthly did a capsize test on a cheap Bavaria about ten years ago. The boat was a shoal draft and they let it stay inverted for a good 30 seconds. There was water ingress, but I was quite surprised at just how water tight the boat was when inverted...even for a cheap boat like this. To my untrained eye, I would say it could be upside down for a good 5 minutes before it took on too much water to flip back over. Certainly enough time for the next dozen waves to hit the boat. Even if I'm off by 50%, that's 5+ chances for a big wave to flip it upright. And remember, this was a cheap, old boat in need of a lot of maintenance. I would have no doubt, what-so-ever, that a well designed sailboat could capsize multiple times in a large storm and end up with the black side down, bobbing away peacefully after the storm had passed. The '79 Fastnet and '98 Sydney to Hobart races prove it.
@@operator0 I had seen lots on the hobart but didnt think about capzise I watched the Fastnet stuff now and specifically said they capsized and righted itself I also just watched the yachting monthly test you mentioned all interesting But I really appreciate your feedback and I understand what your saying a 20 30 tilt would help and ya I guess thanks
What could the guy have done differently????...... Know the draft of his boat, have a depth sounder on, looked at a chart ahead of time to know what the depth of the channel is. The tow would've been a whole lot easier if they had pulled the sailboat from the stern. Sure the transom are of the boat would've got a good soaking , but they're designed to get wet, but you would've avoided dragging the keel all the way through the sand bar.
It really depends on the topology of the sandbar. Sandbars move, they're not necessarily where they're listed on the chart. Even if you are going slow at 3 KTS that's still 5 ft per second, it doesn't take very long for you to get shallow real quick. There are some forward facing sonar options on the market now, but they are far from prevalent.
@@otm646 true, but looking at the lifeguard standing in waist deep water tells me one look at a chart and a keel boat owner should see that there's no way a keel boat can enter that channel, even with a shoal keel, at low tide.
Rig a tow bridle around main mast and use halyard winch to raise bridle to spreaders. Then pull from that higher angle so the keel swings away from the bottom. Done it, it works great.
I had a sailboat about that size (Pearson 39 centerboard yawl) and went aground at high tide late one afternoon near Key Largo. I tried to get off on my own by walking out two anchors at 4:30 in the morning thinking about sharks, etc. I got pulled off on the next high tide (24 hrs later) by a sportfish towing me into deeper water using the spinnaker halyard to heel the boat and drag the boat sideways into deeper water. I don't really think there is that much load on the rig because the boat will readily heel over because there is little resistance to heeling over. Readily pulled me into deeper water. Don't use the jib halyard because the masthead sheaves won't allow the load to change direction effectively. Those rescue boats remind me of water rats. The smell profit but don't have the experience to do a good job. I notice the bottom of the boat is pretty fouled. Makes me think the captain/owner hadn't been using the boat much in the first place. Where is Vashon?
*Wow!* *Absolutely everything the towboats did to pull that sailboat off that reef ... Caused much more damage to that vessel than needed to be caused.* *Then again ... I guess a skipper didn't know any better either ... And that's probably why yacht insurance is so damn expensive.*
Yes, but all of these people are very successful drug dealers, so they don't have to worry about the cost.
Listen up, now hear this...Next time use the halyard to pull the boat sideways. The pull will lift the keel off the reef.
That's a lot of force on the standing rigging... no thanks, I'll take the areas designed to handle 18,000 pounds of weight please.
Pulling the halyard is actually pretty standard for boats that have run aground
@@maximmonmont6459 Not in those conditions. In calmer conditions absent of breaking waves, sure.
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