Comentarii la: Sailor explică: Ce a provocat dezastrul Fastnet ’79

De: Philippa L

Philippa L — Fri, 28 Apr 2023 20:16:58 +0000

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.

De: b!tch

b!tch — Mon, 24 Apr 2023 15:05:38 +0000

AH what a sad story

De: m.l

m.l — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 06:55:16 +0000

Good educational video, thank you.

De: fixento

fixento — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 17:09:36 +0000

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.

De: Richard D

Richard D — Sun, 26 Feb 2023 14:06:27 +0000

Two things caused the disaster, bad design and bad seamanship. End of discussion!

De: Paul Sutphin

Paul Sutphin — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 23:11:34 +0000

Excellent video , particularly for a non sailor.

De: A 2

A 2 — Mon, 06 Feb 2023 01:27:47 +0000

Thanks for an educational and fascinating look into something I knew little about.

De: tallwill38

tallwill38 — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 02:44:50 +0000

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

De: andvil01

andvil01 — Sun, 22 Jan 2023 20:48:54 +0000

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.

De: katsbreez

katsbreez — Sat, 21 Jan 2023 05:49:49 +0000

Who picked up Matthew, Dave & Mike in the life raft? How long were they out there?