Demontare dublă în mijlocul Oceanului Atlantic – Actualizare în timp real din zona de dezastru…

45 thoughts on “Demontare dublă în mijlocul Oceanului Atlantic – Actualizare în timp real din zona de dezastru…”

1. !!! If there's one sailboat in the ocean I would never think would face such a situation, this boat was Aquarius. Well, life surprises us! Nice to you're both fine, already found help on the way and it seems will do it fine to a port. Please, after you arrive and are well explain to us what happened, what you believe was the cause of the failure, ok? Didi you had the rigging checked after Socotra?
   Wish you calm seas, a steady favorable current and all my best positive thoughts! Hope to hear good news from you soon! Be patient, I'm sure you'll do it!

2. Dear Friends, I am with you and wish you all the best. Hopefully you reach a safe harbor to repair all the damage you had. Best, best wishes. I was shocked, to read about it, because I have an Amel Mango, with exact the same Rigg that you have (last Build before Super Maramu). Please, when you are in the mood, describe, how this could happen, and what could be the case of the damage, and if there is a secret, how to prevent this happening. My best wishes to you, you are the heroes 💪💪💪💪💪💪💪

3. My heart goes out to you! Sending prayers

4. Getting to Martinique by motor, over 1000 miles was a test and a great accomplishment. 
   Shows how well maintained the boat was. I am convinced you will get to the bottom of this mast failure.
   Congratulation Sailing Aquarius, I am impressed !!!!!!! 💙💙🤟👍👍

5. Good thing you have diesel propulsion. Tough to transfer sunshine in jerry cans…

6. Fu.kin sailboats, there's always something with them😂😂😂 i own 1. Glad you're safe and curious how rigging could fail so we can all learn from this.

7. Be safe

8. Two bits of wisdom from my cruising buddy boat (who is an experienced shipwright). He has long argued: 1. Dont sail downwind with a twin headsail configuration unless the rig was specifically designed for this; 2. Racers tune their rig for speed. Cruisers should tune for longevity and reliability. He is particularly critical of riggers that tune the stays as tight as guitar strings, as likely neither the chainplates nor the boat itself was designed for such stresses (particularly newer, more lightly constructed production boats). Me? I only sail with a headsail + mainsail and have my stays tuned to the minimum (necessary to achieve tension on the leeward stay on a reach). Of course, we have no idea what caused this particular incident so these thoughts may or may not be relevant.

9. Wow. So sorry. I have cruised tens of thousands of miles and never experienced a dismantling. Closest I came was cruising in company with a Westerly 42 that was dismantled. No fun at all. But we were just 250 miles out at the time. WHEN. When will boat builders realize that you can make water but you CAN’T MAKE DIESEL. Why wouldn’t they make your boat with 265 gals diesel and 158 water, plus a water maker. My Cal ll-46 carried 200 water and 270 fuel! We also had a 20 gal/hr water maker. We could motor nearly 1800 miles. And they all do it. All the manufacturers. I don’t get it. Well good luck my friends. At least your have following conditions! Hope you find a rig.

10. This is a horrific experience. So glad that neither of you have been injured. It will be a slow go to get to land but the sun is bright and you’re not sinking. Wish you well.

11. All the best of luck to you guys. Hope the rest of your journey is as safe as possible.

12. Very sad Hope you stay safe. Drives the point home that regardless of the manufacturer of boat, prior to a ocean crossing is to completely inspect the rig from chain plates to masthead, you might not find anything or maybe so? Also not using a triatic and have independently stayed masts gives possible safety and options

13. Bad seamanship. Period.

14. You still have the mast/boom you can Jerryrig a new mast using your lines, and have a junkrigged boat, this way she will sail (badly) and get you home, or in a commercial channel.
    I hope you get to a harbour safely, and are able to repair your boat, my advice would be to use the old mizzenmast as a sparemast for the future. Keep the dry side up!

15. Yeah i feel your pain rofl a lot of companies that sell maritime or ham radio equipp use these bloody horrific phone connectors on their products dont have the propper crimp tool or spare connectors your screwed . Give me oldskool soldering iron all day long .

16. God bless you. So glad you are ok. Can't imagine what you have gone through. My previous sailboat was a 58' ketch. Remembering that we all try to prepare in the event the worse happens. Praying for your safe transit to port. You have done a great job in saving yourselves & your sailboat. ⛵
    S/V Cork ~ Texas

17. Back in the day, after a couple days of gales during which my masthead tri-color was lost, I was dismasted one night in a glancing collision with a fishing trawler about 100 nm south of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia on my way back from a summer cruise in the Canadian Maritimes. One of the trawlers stabilizing booms took out the mast on my Cape Dory 28'. The seas were still rough and I feared a hull puncture so I just cut the rigging loose with bolt cutters and was unable to salvage any of the mast for a jury rig. Fortunately I had enough diesel to motor back to the mainland, but only after I got another 5 gallons from a passing mega yacht.

18. Glad u guys are ok saw your distress on fb
    and I was looking into if I could help but I was 200 Miles from Barbados when I saw it…

19. What made the masts come down? Weren't they mounted correctly?

20. no youtube commenter here will sail to your position to escort you and build a jury rig

    that says it all

21. So In unerstand that you have to be more of an electronics and and diesel man than a sailor these days.

    I understand your situation was dire and that you did a hell of a job salvaging your mast : long ago in the 70's friends dismasted once on a 33ft in heavy seas and they worked as hell to get the mast up, cut it in half an establish a jury rig.
    If you were 1000 miles from the nearest land why didn't you set a jury rig yourself ? It would have been harrowing for both of you but at least you could rely on yourself. Now you're left with a diesel engine that's ready to fail just to follow the law of series… then what will you do?

    Wish you the best of luck anyway.

22. How old was the standing rigging???

23. Glad you are both ok. Ken looks kinda in his element, being a good man in a storm….but its a crap situation to find yourselves in. The problem with triatic stays…one mast takes down the other. I have no doubt that if anyone can make it through this, you two can. Holding thumbs for you and sending lots of good vibes…..you are indeed a good man Ken, you will get through this..

24. Hello, your misfortune touches me a lot and I am sad for you. There is an Amel base in Martinique, they may be able to help you. Otherwise try to contact specialists in France in La Rochelle, Port Saint Louis du Rhône or Port Camargue. I hope your morale is good and that you arrive safe and sound. Courage !

25. Sailing downwind over the Atlantic is very, very hard on the rigging and the boat. Load switches from side to side every 4-6 seconds. You might think it is not lot of load. But the rig take up all the momentum from the forces from the keel. In one hour you the load shifts from side to side 700 times. That is 16800 times over 24 hours. If your rig is old, not tuned right, things like this can happen even in light conditions.

26. I hope they didn’t pull both masts out just to make a viral video. A double dismast on an Amel is totally unheard of.

27. I don't know what caused this problem. But i often see, sail yatch sail with the Genua only, because it has a furlex syster, without knowing, that the main sail is stabilizing the mast. So the first sail choise should always be the main sail

28. Geez, that's My boat. The same exact boat. Wtf happened?

29. Why didn't you just furl your sales and make them smaller when you knew it was going to be windy?

30. When they bought this boat the ringing was already due to be replaced for years and years and they just assume they could go out with really old rigging and they were proven wrong

31. Boy the trouble people go through just to get YouTube views 🙄 😂

32. throw all the masts and use only diesel…….the money you need for repairs can buy you oil to go arround Earth 10 times…sailling is a fraud.

33. judging by the AIS they reached Martinique. it means everything is OK

34. Ya know, on these modern boats, the aluminium masts are stepped on deck and the shrouds are in stainless steel. Well, stainless steel gets brittle after a while, and it breaks like glass, even when it looks like new.
    On my classic boat, the masts, two telephone poles in wood, are stepped right into the keel, and they are flexible like a fishing rod, they would not even need shrouds !
    But for extra safety, there are some heavy galvanized shrouds, served with tar, that protects the steel, looks nice and even smells good.
    Modern times man ! It aint as good as ist looks. 😉

35. We were anchored next to you in Nuku Hiva a few years ago. Sad to see this. There must be a story…

36. When I saw your short and read the blog entry, I was shocked. How could this happen and then to you, when I had just watched your last videos and the shorts from the Atlantic and yet everything was OK. And then this… bad. It's great how you coped and helped yourselves as much as possible. Also great that you got diesel. And now I hope to hear the following sentence from you soon. "we made it!" Until then fingers crossed.

37. Hang in there! Your ability to overcome adversity is impressive! 😎👌

38. How come this doesn’t start with how this happened??

39. just saw you entering Le Marin couple of days ago and later on at the mooring .

    So you made it.

    Second Amel dismasted i saw here (it was 4-5 years ago)

    you should have a excellent support here to rebuild all of this. (Amel resealer/base and Caraibe greement)

40. OMG.. i feel so bad for you guy,, hope you get over this.. and you can fix it.. the boat and in your heads..

41. Un bon marin saura monter une voile de secours sur un bout de mat plutôt que travailler sur de l'electronique pour appeler à l'aide.

42. Jury rig a sail with what you …peter Blake style

43. Jury rig sail really…you cant motor 1000 miles

44. Move on to the solution…forget why… again jury rig a sailing rig

45. I was a damage controlman in the navy and this brings me back. Good job remaining calm and getting it done!

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