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ZI DE MAI! Ne scufundam! Lady K Sailing – Episodul 39
somebody was looking over you and the fact you had all that assistance was a blessing in disguise Lady K must have 9 lives 😻Lady K WINS Davy Jones LOOSES 🔱
This is technically the third time I'm commenting in this video but it's important so you commented during the video that your Stern hole that is the hole in the floor that water would normally drain out of wasn't working I will tell you why it wasn't working and why they never work in those kinds of situations the reason is really simple when you pull the plug if there's no water moving past it underneath it doesn't do its job it's actually designed to create suction so the water moving past the hole while you're moving create suction that pulls the water on deck or in the cockpit out of the boat however if you stop your forward motion there's no suction and the whole ceases to be useful at that point you're better off taking a siphoning hose and trying to siphon it out or just hand bailing. Now that doesn't necessarily mean that you did something wrong here your instincts were in fact pretty good because had you had a hole in your hull if the hole is in the front and you continue to move forward you're only forcing water into the boat faster technically what I would have done knowing what I know would have been to continue forward travel for as long as possible but to turn the boat towards Shore and run for sure while she handbells into the cockpit and let the cockpit hole do its job while you keep as much speed as possible going to create as much suction as possible on the bottom side of that hole to get rid of the water as quickly as possible. I know my business on this stuff I was a house pilot at the Barry Marina and Barry Ontario and the late 80s you can look me up I had over 13 salvages to my credit by the age of 13 and many of them were five people who left their plugs out a lot of people don't really understand what the plug in the bottom of the stern is for same with the plugs under the water line they don't know when to open them and they don't know when to close them.
God bless you guys and your beautiful vessel You're blessed. Some people lose there home, being there vessel, and aren't lucky enough to repair, or restore anything. I can never imagine what anyone goes through in that situation. I've been on the water with dad since, I was a kid. He taught me so much. I'm 47 years old. At age 24, I purchased a 1985 22ft Sea-ray, with a cuddy cabin. One sink, and actually a head, Yay. lol. We stripped everything out of my cabin, and deck. Slowly I made her my own week by week, for year's. Even installed an outside freshwater shower. New Electronics, two new outboard motors, cabin, deck, sanded and repainted, my deck, hull, cuddy cabin walls. All my safety emergency gear, Ditch bag with all my survival supplies, incase I end up on an island, waiting for rescue. But now she still gets new ideas and, and I enjoy my adventures from duck key in Florida. With my friend's, family, and it's true serenity and therapy. Gid bless guts stay safe. 🙏 🤲 ⛵ ⛵
I don't think it was the worst day of your lives. It was the scariest, yes. This day was graduation for you two becoming seasoned veteran sailors. I'm sure by now yo have had plenty of time to reflect on this day. but always remember: You will not rise to the occasion, you will sink to the level of you training. -Lee Lauderback
Amazing story. So many folks would have panicked and not work through the problems. Great job.
As people shares their bad experiences they do give good lessons to others at sea.Things can go wrong while we are at sea.Knowing how to react problems having the right tools may help to survive.This case two buckets instead of one.Even on calm seas thing may go wrong.Being prepared and having another person with you is safer.Big applause for both of you.You have acted right and prevented your boat from sinking.👍
In such a situation u can use the engine’s water cooling the empty the water in the boat.
Freaked me out… Then I seen it was from three years ago… Glad you did not lose the LADY K
"You're gonna need a bigger boat"!
Way to persevere and solve it in the moment!
Crazy the two youtubers that have almost gone down, you guys and zingaro both are speed wheels failed I guess that's something to check very carefully
Wow that's scary. You handled the situation very well. Unbelievable you had the lucidity to think it could be that thing and went checking. Well done and thank you for sharing!
A lesson for all. Keep the wood plugs ready to go where you need them. Thanks for sharing.
Captain Q always asks boat owners, "Do you know how many thru-hulls are in this boat. Know where every thru-hull is." Good job, you saved the boat!
jesus guys.. I'd would have had that water poop brown.. well done!
Respect!
Thanks for sharing this experience. Thankfully all turned out ok. The great benefit is so many have learned from your experience. As we set up to adventure, we will prepare as best we can for such an occurrence. Lots of lessons here.
You unfortunate experience will help us prepare our boat better! Replacing all throw hulls and hoses and transducers. Install a second 2000 gph bilge pump. I also will Carry a ruel 3700 gph pump with 20 ft of hose and 25 ft of wire with alligator clips stored in a mesh bag And a small 24 series stand by agm battery. I was in the marine towing and salvage business as my side gig,that 3700 gph pump will handle a lot of water fast. Only takes a couple of min to deploy. Great channel! We watched all your Videos about boat manufacturers. Nice job! THANKS!
Whew wee!
in a pinch, you can cut your water intake on your engine and put the newly opened end of the intake hose into the taken-on water to pump it out…
Thanks for sharing. I will take some lessons from this.
So glad that didn’t happen on an Atlantic crossing. Good job finding the leak and having the equipment to seal it.
Wow! glad you are safe. what an experience. Similar sinking happened to me ans same the bilge pump did not work. The lesson I learned is to add the bil;ge pump to the check list before departing the dock, test bilge pump regularly and a portable bilge pump on board. . I was not at sea in the Caribbean and i made it back to the dock w/o sinking but lost $$$. I am enjoying the trip via you guys..
OMG. I got you confused between you and Lady Gecko sailing. Not only are you different visually, but your channel also seems to have some value!
Enjoying your sailing channel!
I see a lot of comments saying great job and it was since no one was hurt and the ship was saved.
Respectfully As I watch this episode i see some issues
Through hulls below waterline are on none of my boats, they are stuffed with wood bungs and glassed in. A proper sea going yacht has no below waterline through hulls.
When you travel out to sea unprepared and things go sideways it seems the first inclination is to hit the EPIRB or broadcast a mayday call. Expect no one to come save your bacon this puts rescue crews and others at risk. They are there for those making their living on the sea not sailors proving themselves at their own freewill.
At most this warranted a Pan-Pan call indicating “we might have a problem here”
Checkout how Roger Taylor MingMing prepares for solo UK to Arctic circle voyages with no EPIRB or radio. We make our beds and have to prepare to lye in them.
You’re hardier, more resilient, and stronger now, I hope the shock wears off soon. You handled it like a boss
Love U guys 😊🙏😇💪✊☝️
Always wise to fiberglass over the paddle wheel and transducer… unlike all the brass thru hulls, their plastic and easily to break.
I'll certainly be buying some of them bungs
I don't know much about boats though I'm aware that they have a bilge pump, and l have been wondering that in a situation like this, if you had more than one bilge pump, maybe three or more, would it have been possible to stay afloat until you either made it back or to your destination whichever was closer? Or are those pumps only designed to run for a very short time period?
It would have been a real shame to loose the boat for such a small issue like that…. Lucky for the buckets! That bought you some time. I would definitely look into fitting more pumps just in case something happens next time and you need as much time as possible to get to the dinghy….
what are you sinking about? :3
Too many ads won’t be coming back to this channel
good job
Thank you for your video.
You hinted at some good advice.
Seal and remove any thru hulls you are not using.
I have an old paddle wheel speed sensor that also has never worked.
I will be removing it before I launch this year.
PS I also carry with me a Standard Toilet Wax Ring for $2 that can be used to plug holes
Great everything worked out ok for you guys..thats scary shit for sure!..also this sailboat looks like a Sparkmans an Stephens design?..very simaler to my Northstar 36..built in 76
Desparados II
I think you can also use the engine to pump water out by shutting off the seawater intake and disconnecting the hose. I don't know how well it works and it doesn't sound that easy to do when you are waist deep in water but it was mentioned during a training course I was on as an emergency bilge pump.
Holy poop!
I've just watched this episode with a little reflection. Back in about 1990 I was crossing the Cook Strait, the often storm tossed strait between New Zealand's North and South Islands on my own in my 25 foot Spencer Stiletto; a glass over ply yacht I had had for a few years. I'd failed to get back north of three previous weekends due to southerly gales and decided that I'd just go this time as it wasn't too bad.
I sailed south of Karori Rock (on the bottom of the North Island) which is notoriously rough and tidal at times and eventually had to start beating up into Wellington Harbour on very strong northerlies. I had a 15 hp outboard mounted in the well in the cockpit and decided that I motor-sail in an attempt to get onto the harbour before dark. The waves were kinda big (I was getting a few in the cockpit!) and I was having a great time.
After a while I heard my boat name on the VHF from Cobar Radio run by a friend who lives up high on the southern coast and who keeps in touch with the fishing fleet, Ron (RIP mate) could thankfully see me. I pulled up the hatch boards and was about to lean into the radio when I saw that the boat was about half full of water. After calling Ron with a brief description and wait a couple of minutes please request, I leapt inside and and learned very fast that a worried man and a two gallon bucket, can move a lot of water.
I had already lashed the tiller so soi got into my work. Five minutes later I seemed to have the water level under some control, so I had another look for a water ingress point. I had already checked my three thru-hulls which were just fine so a bit of head scratching later, I went forward to look into the forward bilges for what I thought might be a hull breach but than thankfully found nothing.
At that point I called Ron back and told him what was going. He'd already called the water Police boat, Lady Elizabeth and advised me that they were planning on going off watch shortly.
I jumped back outside and found that I was closer to the infamous Barratt's Reef (the one that took the MVS Rangatira passenger ferry in April 1971 with significant loss of life! – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TEV_Rangatira_(1971)-) so I decided to drop my sails w3ith the intention of trying to gain ground into the harbour. Once the sails were down, I looked back inside and it seemed as though there was more water again.
At that point I decided that I make a PAN PAN call as I was quite close to a beach I could put IMPUDENCE on if worse came to worse. Wellington Police decided they would come and stand off and provide assistance anyway. Also within about three minutes, a helicopter that had been firefighting in the nearby hills was overhead and communicating my situation to the Lady Elizabeth. I continued bucketing water in between watch my forward progress towards the reef and harbour entrance.
The Police launch arrived about 10 minutes later and quickly put a crew mate aboard IMPUDENCE. Between the two of us, we got of the rest of the water as best we could while motoring under the 15 hp outboard around into Evans Bay inside the harbour where the Evans Bay Yacht Club slip way team were waiting to haul me out. At this point the Police took off back into the Cook Strait to rescue a fishing boat that had struck Karori Rock and was badly holed. They got him back into the harbour and kicked me off the Yacht Club slip way because he was at risk of sinking and I had found that I wasn't.
So lessons learned:
1. Patience. Come back again when conditions and much more favourable rather than pushing the boundaries;
2. Maybe consider a crew when crossing Cook Strait – Yeah nah, I love single handing but refer Item 1.;
3. Even though you think all is well, keep checking inside and out regularly;
4. Somehow, I still had VHF comms even though my single battery was under water for some time. I put that down to the liberal coating of Vaseline I had put on the terminals. I still don't understand this one!;
5. And the Biggy. When you are getting smashed with big waves in the cockpit, water is going EVERYWHERE. In my case, it was lifting the forward hatch and pumping a little water into the boat with every wave (I got the fire brigade to put a big hose over the front and was amazed how much water got inside my locked down wooden hatch (replaced a week later with a lovely glass Lewmar hatch);
6. Always have comprehensive insurance which thankfully I did as repairs cost much more than I thought they would; and
7. Don't panic. I always felt in control and my Air Force training taught me to think then act. Despite the drama, it might still be my most fun sailing adventure (Yeah Right!).
Thank you for the reminder and you great coverage of your incident.
Mike, Taupo, New Zealand
You can always install a RED LIGHT alert outside, speakers only , we just can't hear it
When I bought my Tartan 30 I had to move it to a boat yard to do some work, and noticed a dribble of water coming from the ST-60 mount. After pulling the boat I tapped the through hull with a hammer and it wedged itself out. After seeing that, I changed everything with a hole in my hull. So many people buy boats with the old transducers still in with the wires clipped. Glad you folks were able to recover from this.
I do enjoy these videos. I take applaud you for staying calm. As you've shown you think much clearer when you're calm. I think it really shows how good maintenance is so important. If I could offer some constructive advice to all. Make sure your bilge pump is in top order and consider having a back up. I have 3 (2 electric 1 manual). 1 decent (1000 or 2000gph) bilge pump would have handled this leak and kept the boat dry. They're not expensive ( about $50) and worth their weight in gold when needed. I really like the idea of having an external alarm or light for an early warning. Also, along with your stash of softwood plugs, it's worth keeping one of the appropriate size wooded plug tied to the relevant seacock or hull penetration. Saves having to find the stash and get the right size one in a hurry.
Thanks again and happy sailing to all.
Incredible how you worked through this challenge and wonderful the support that come to assist.
Didn’t the boat handle differently? Conical plug. Not triangular. That is missing a dimension! Congrats on surviving that. Imagine being 400 miles off shore and that happening. No 90 seconds.
Inspiring seeing the way you handled it.
You were lucky to be were you were at the time.
So you were heard and people could help.
Many years ago we sailed the Med in a First 27.
A small boat with a 8 hp disel..
We were sailing from Israel to Turkey , heading in to the wind in a typical Med choppy sea.
We woke up in the morning about 80 miles from home with the boat full of water.
It was as high as the leawerd bunk.
The boat was sluggish and as you did we began bucketing out.
The sea was coming over the deck, we could not do much but to turn around and head home…
80 miles in a sinking 27 foot boat.
We could not find the source of the leak.
And were convinced it was from the gland.
However after turning around and having the sea come over the stern rather than the bow..
The level of water slowly came down.
As we pumped and bucketed , the boat was controllable agene .
We then realized the leak must be from the upper deck.
As much as we looked we could not Figure it out.
And then I had an idea, I asked my father to open the bulkhead in the forcabin and look inside, I then took a bucket of water and poured it in to the anker well.. in the bow.
The water went rite through giving my dad a salty shower.
The ankor had acted as a hammer slaming in to the fiberglass as the boat pounded through the chopy seas , it caused a hole the size of a fist, the water came in behind the bulkhead and in to the bildge and the maim cabin.
5 dollers worth of fiberglass and some epoxy fixed it and we turned around heading for Larnaka Cypres for a day of relaxing from our adventure .
I know this is an older video – but do you not have a manual bilge pump in the cockpit? I have always had two bilge pumps – DC and manual (as the final emergency pump). I always kept my bungs attached near every thru hull area. These paddle and depth sounder units should have their design changed to install from the bottom with a reinforcment nut on top so they can't be pushed through the hull in rough seas. (my two cents) I've just recently subscribed to your channel as I am now shopping for boat #3.
Well done. I'm glad you got through it safely and the boat was OK. Candice was a monster at bailing. I guess there was no other choice, but still, she is strong.
I can't imagine you'd get any sleep with that wooden bung in there, but I'm sure you'll seal that off soon enough (or did, four years ago when this happened). EDIT: Yes, discussed in next episode.
I initially thought – clickbait. Glad that I watched it and that you posted this. Very genuine and I feel like I know have at the very least gained some valuable insight. Thank you.