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Sailor explică: Ce a provocat dezastrul Fastnet ’79
So looking forward to this video, stunning location, it was worth the wait, safe travels, look forward to the next
By focussing on one boat the author was able to make a succinct video picking up the important points particularly about how designers were focussing on speed rather than seaworthiness. I was on a wooden long keeled cruising boat a bit further south in Biscay. We eventually took down all sail, trailed warps and endured a very difficult 24 hours.
One thing alluded to in the video was that in the Fastnet many boats were abandoned by their crews but survived the storm. Often it is the human reaction that a "life raft" will be better than the mother boat, even though it is a flimsy vulnerable inflatable and in reality offers less protection than the yacht which was abandoned.
Wow what beautiful corals and views too.From the light house or other ways well worth the trip. Coral was well liked too. So sweet. Really enjoyed the video with so much diverse. Can wait for next week video. Good job guys 😘⛵️🏖🌴😍❤️
An extremely clear and concise commentary, one of the best I have ever seen. The well-illustrated and straight-forward points made about wave formation and behaviour, and how racing rules influence boat design, are excellent learning points even for experienced sailors. I have had the privilege of talking and sailing with survivors of the '79 Fastnet and their experiences profoundly influenced my own attitudes towards safety preparations and sailing practices on my own boats.
At 1:34 it is a very nice shot of "Brindabella" in the 1998 Sydney Hobart race before the conditions worsened.
There are later shots of Brindabella in huge waves under stormsail only!
An interesting video.
I am a 70 year old Australian sailor, I have sailed in 3 Sydney Hobart races including 1993 which was the worst before the 1998 race.
I sailed as a helmsman/navigator.
In the ninteen 80's I recall a family barbeque after a local Sydney club racing day.
A friend of my father sailed in the 1979 Fastnet race on an Australian boat.
His take away from the Fastnet disaster was that too many boats did not have "storm boards" for the hatch sufficient to cope with the breaking waves that were crashing onto the yachts.
He also said too many crews jumped into life rafts (only to perish) while the yachts they abandoned survived the storm.
Just a comment, food for thought.
ps. In 1993 Hobart race I was aware of a case where the crew launched a liferaft against the skipper's orders ( he had no option but to get in with them) and they watched the yacht happily sail over the horizon, never to be seen again!
In the 1993 Hobart I retired (my) boat after discussing our options with the owner and we limped into a refuge port at 3am with no electrics and no motor. Many of the crew were annoyed that we retired.
But I was the one listening to the weather reports and I was the one assessing how competent this crew was to handle a REAL storm.
I was the one to assess how they would react in a REAL emergency!
Choose carefully, who you go to sea with!
Curious why the thumbnail for this video shows a yacht pitchpoling that is not 1979 Fastnet-era. Initially I thought it was a famous shot of a Mumm 30 from the 2003 Tour de France a la Voile, which was much in circulation. But can't be sure.
Yeah, Nope!
a 30 foot Half Ton mono-hull Sailboat ??? … how could anyone make a 30 footer that light, even now ???
My father told me about this a long time ago (that's the year I was born), my father is a sailor, and that love passed on to me, and this story has always remained in my memory, and when I sail, I always look at the weather report, even though I sail in the Mediterranean, which is relatively quiet
very interesting
Dude your channel is good, I’m stoked I found your channel
Are you saying year 1959 or 1979?
Half ton boat that’s only 1000 pounds,? You made a mistake
I’ve surfed 80 foot high waves in the north Atlantic in January, on the more 24,? A 24 foot 1800 pound offshore racing dinghy with 1000 pound ballast.,? It would nose dive 2 feet in the bottom, the wave then rise back to the top the surface again I wrote the same waves for miles,🙏💪🏼 the sales wing and wing backed up, became breaks down the waves, at night, throwing phosphorus bubbles everywhere as it surfer down the steep waves, we wrote a 15 day storm downwind on the outside, I we sailed from Martha’s Vineyard to the Azores to Spain in Spain to Barbados🥳 looking to buy another one🌈🖖🏻
Thank you for the very well done video. Many of the brand new boats carry a lot of the same similar characteristics as the fastnet 79 boats.Wide beams for two cabins and shallow drafts so they can get closer into Shore while they Cruise. A lot of the new designs should not be taken out into the ocean as they are not suitable and should be used for their intended purposes on protected Waters and Inland Lakes. Although many of these new boats have been cruised successfully there is a greater risk taking them into oceans with changing weather patterns. When I built my 39 ft steel hull I had read John Rousmaniere's desirable and undesirable characteristics of offshore yachts which was an excellent read. For any sailor or couple that intends to go Blue Water sailing please do your research before purchasing a sailboat. This research may save you and your family from making a bad mistake. And as they say research is free and worth the time.
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Excellent decriptions. Extremely well done oresentation.
Who picked up Matthew, Dave & Mike in the life raft? How long were they out there?
Racing hulls are often planing nowadays, leaving the displacement in the past. Broader aft, heavier keel, different rigg. And we have much better weather forecast and navigation. A race would probably be called off or never start if too tough weather is ahead.
Excellent insight into some of the factors that caused this tragedy Id like to add that the tall mast of a sailboat is actually a stabilizer similar to the way a tight wire rope walker uses a long pole that bends down at the ends this lowers his center of gravity to below the level of the rope he is walking on also at the same time it adds a resistance to the ability to roll off to the side because of a conservation of angular momentum a sailboats mast has a weight at the top that is on the end of a long lever (the height of the mast) this mass and the top of the mast slows down the boats roll rate and dampens it a lot so that when a wave is trying to roll the boat over often times the wave will pass under the boat and be gone before the hull will have a chance to respond by rolling over from the effect of the wave but once the mast is broken (demasted) from a knock down this stabilizing effect is gone and the boat will roll much more like a power boat in the waves and if the wave height is over half the beam of the vessel it can cause a capsize potentially. Also the air resistance of the cloth of a mainsail dampens the roll rate through a aerodynamic principle that has nothing to do with the mass inertial conservation of angular momentum I was referring to before so don't get these two separate effects confused even though they both act in a very much similar manner when your mainsail is down your boat will roll a lot more than when it is up and the same effect also happens during a demasting without that long pole sticking up there is no dampening effect to the roll of a boats hull and now you have a ballast that is even making the rolling effect worse normally the mass of the mast works as a counter to the righting force of the ballast and with that mast gone now you have ballast trying to capsize your boat by making it want to roll faster. Standing rigging is vital for safety on a sailboat that mast has to remain up if the sea state is rough for safety of the vessel
Thanks for an educational and fascinating look into something I knew little about.
Excellent video , particularly for a non sailor.
Two things caused the disaster, bad design and bad seamanship. End of discussion!
The keel design or a wide beam has nothing to do with ridding out a storm. Full keel sailboats are not made anymore since fiberglass, aluminum or steel has be used in the construction. They are just as seaworthy and stability. The width the transom and the bow shape can increase the boat waterline length in addition efficiency of hull, and keel developing lift and smaller reducing drag, etc. The sailboat shown is submarining and is about to go into a broach because of the spinnaker and full main are overpowered it, not because of wave action.
Only had a single reef in the main, in those conditions she should have had a storm jib only. With a main up with a single reef in those condition, the wind coming around would force her bow down in the oncoming wave allowing her to pitch pole. After the fist pitch pole, she would have lost her mast and turn abeam to the waves, and allowing her to capsize to the point she rolls over. The fact she was still floating is a testament to her seaworthiness and had they reduced sail instead of pushing her on the edge racing this may have been avoided
I've raced sailboat for 55 years, mainly on Lake Erie, a shallow pond with highest recorded wave of 22 feet and ever wave breaks like the surf. Raced once in 14 to 16 foot waves, eleven seconds apart, storm jib, double reef, beating up to international buoy, burying the bow pulpit with water up the mast, every fifth wave or so, etc. etc. A sailboat was lost, in this race. Why because after turned the buoy and fell off down wind, they took off life jackets and foul weather gear to dry. The eleven wave broke of the stern, flooded the cockpit and cabin because they had removed the boards in the companionway. The second wave cam over the stern took the boat down in all of 8 seconds. One survived with horseshoe throwable around him after washing up on a beach that was a mile away. Father who sail on Erie for forty years and his son drowned, bodies were recovered after the lake warmed up.
Currently racing Rboats 40 ft, 6.5 ft of beam full keel, 52 ft mast, 22 ft main, 15,500 lbs, 8,700 lbs. of ballast and 17 inches of free board on Erie. Last year of racing sailboats, bought a motorcycle because it's safer.
Good educational video, thank you.
AH what a sad story 😢
One thing to add, I’m no sailor, but I’ve been on boats in that area of sea many times. It’s famous. The sheer force and number of currents, sea depths and sudden gales. I’ve watched waves going over giant ferries. Over. And those ferries had cabins, cinemas and stabilisers. They knew the sea they were going into. This was suicidal.