Sper că toți învățăm ceva din acest videoclip. Părăsesc portul Miami și traversez Gulfstream îndreptându-mă spre Bimini. Sfârșesc eșuat pe plajă noaptea. Aproape de sfârșitul videoclipului poate fi greu de urmărit, așa că fiți avertizat.
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Cea mai mare greșeală a mea de navigație de până acum. Traversarea curentului golfului în Bahamas.
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This video should be used to teach folks why it's best to "Always go into an unfamilier harbor in daylight" !!!
Subscribed !!! Best story of gulf crossing and what can go wrong.
Try to run on the solid rock with 7kn of speed with the boat type you have, that would be the end of the story for the boat. l ran to the rock with my boat, the boat was stopped in just a second and only what happened to the boat it was a stretch into the top coat. Nothing is stronger then the full keel boats.
Great video and great advice. Pooped is a wave crashing into your cockpit, broaching is when you are overpowered, the boat turns upwind and skids out. What you were refering to is a knock down.
NEVER NEVER NEVER enter an unfamiliar port at night, especially in difficult conditions in a place like the Bahamas. That’s a kindergarten rule. You said several times “this is sailing”. You should have clarified it to “this is bad sailing”.
Another great video…well done!
After watching the video and going to the comments I was surprised to see the yeah Mike comments 😢 you need more knowledge. Did you really want others to come risk their lives for you because of your dumb mistakes wonder why nobody answered a call 😮 maybe you have deleted the negative comment's and I expect this one will disappear also. You are on Your Own Now you can't google it
Can you share your Navionics track? Curious where you hit bottom relative to the channel! Thank you
Music makes this video unwatchable for me.
Hey Mike, it's Rodney and am on your channel today but it's just great to see you man
yo, never only easy! Is it become more easy with time?
if you ever found peopples that look for help on the boat, please let me know.
Dude this was intense
Fact is that you should have left Miami at first light. That could have been the 20 minutes you needed, EH!
I made it to Chubb key back in the 80s
in my short stretch to chub cay I ran into a couple of different very crazy scenarios one being like an idiot I put a radio right next to my compass cuz I wanted some music and thought nothing about it until I was a hundred miles off track halfway to the Bahamas from Miami has a sailboat with towels being waved at me from a boat I pull over next to the boatand the people are panicked out of water no drinksthey passed through the Bahamas somehow without seeing island turned around came back passed through them again without seeing and island and was halfway to Miami and I told him I had them I gave him a setting back the direction I just came but my compass was off from a speaker on my radio being too close to these were my first steps into the Bermuda triangle I remember them well
Be safe man. Thinking back I still get emotional from things that happened to me on the thorny path. Avoid hogs key reef and great inagua. I found 25' seas there a d truely thought I was gonna die. I was only using a radio direction finder. Lots more tec these days. The more worried I got the more people showed up out of nowhere to help. Be bold push your fears. Ask for help. I had a massive tanker turn course and knock down waves for me to turn around and go back to great inagua. If not for that I would be at the bottom of Mona passage.
Shallow boat so you can stay inside the banks. My trawler was 4' draft so I pushed it and was glad I could. Like being in a pond. I followed a guy Mr Fuller. From Fuller brush company. He was familiar and took me all the way to Georgetown.
Enjoy the exumas. Buying a cape dory and hope to get out there again next year.
You started too late for the crossing, an early morning departure would have been a Loy better
Best YouTube sailing vid I’ve seen, for so many reasons!
Dude, I have been in that position, I have run aground with fading light, I have gone places I shouldn’t have, and I too have failed to listen to that little voice telling me I was making a mistake, and I have gambled with the Sailing gods, but never with such high stakes !
I just bought my ‘84 Catalina 30, I’m in Annapolis, and I’ve got eight weeks to get her ready to get down to Florida and cross to the Bahamas in a few months.
Wish me luck.
Thanks for sharing
Wow that's crazy! I hit a rock, but it was daytime. Bent my rudder shaft. My buddy got scared and quit. This was the Northern Penn. Of Newfoundland, scary situation! But I sailed four days and made it home, with some crazy winds! I know what you went through! Not a good situation! What are your plans for this winter?
What chart are you using?
Yeah, this is precisely why boaters leave Florida at 4am, to arrive in Bimini with plenty of light left.
thanks, I won't go into a port I do know at night. 🙂
I call bullshit in this whole video. Or maybe a huge amount of incompetence.
Heating the beach? No you were hitting the sandbar that guards the channel into Bimini. Follow the chart notes that tell you you HAVE to approach the entrance channel from the south, not the west. But what do you expect from a sailor who doesn't know thw difference between being pooped and broached.
Would love to see a screenshot of your track into and through the channel.
Simply plan your passage to arrive in daylight….by several hours…not minutes.
I have mad respect for you Cap. Instead of another Boobs, Butts and Bikini's YouTube channel, you put post what's REAL. You've earned another subscriber and I look forward to seeing more.
Fair winds,
Capt. Blackheart Charlie
s/v Aurora, Key West
remind me to never go across there
i hit bottom at night entering johns pass madera beach fl. in a morgan 28, my fault i knew the pass but neglected to realize exstream low tide, with better than 2 ft following swells, aux power was running, first hit i did hard left rudder and full power, next swell launched us forward, second hit boat is into a port turn, now ive got the mic calling may day, boat now becomes full broad side to the swells and rolls over on the starboard hull with the third hit, everything below went crashing everywhere, still full broad side to the swells now im braceing for the 4th hit, silence no hit, full power we came around bow into the swells and escaped to deep water, im checking bilge for water, no leaks, morgan out island is a tough boat, we hit hard 3 times, i was shakeing with terror and adrenalin, dropped anchor a mile out kept watching for water in bilge, no sleep with boat reaching back and forth on the anchor pitching rolling, in the swells, coast guard responded to my may day, i was beyond happy to tell them all ok back in deep water, next morning no visible hull damage, two others were aboard, looking at me like wth you almost got us killed,