The Wydah museum on cape cod is so cool. The guy who discovered the wreck was in the last area grinding concretions off coins, picked up one he just finished and handed it to me. I was the second person to hold that coin in hundreds of years, cool feeling
Not only storms, they probably had no idea of rogue waves, we are only beginning to understand the mechanics behind them, the boat were small and flimsy, it must have been hell during a storm.
I work on a 100 year old sailboat and we've been in a few storms, a good distance away from the eye and it's very intense. You have to hold on or get thrown into the wall.
@@GwaiZai we sailed around cape horn in winter time and my god the waters were brutal. And right now im sailing in Japanese waters, and we've been in a typhoon (far away from it) but still feel it good.
seems like they're just getting started. Problem is the frequency of their videos. These people (or person?) might have day jobs to contend with. Love the content as it is though.
I'm currently researching to write a novel about the golden age of piracy and your videos are a massive help, thank you for your hard work in making this.
@@robsellars9338 hey, there, Sorry for the long reply, been at my Job alot. No i havent finished writing it, yet and hopefully it will be in Amazon, if i find a publisher. The plot line revolves around several lower Crew Members of Black Sam Bellamy with the Main Character being press ganged into Service and Findling out the brutal life of a pirate, covering his capture of the whydah galley and Sam Bellamy's end in a nor'easter of the Coast of Cape cod, plus Much Much more. It will be from the perspective of the Main Character, written in his diary and Letters and this would be the first, did well in english class in creative writing so thought why not. Thanks for your time and Intrest in it. Hope you have a fantastic Day. :) :)
🤩🤩 Your channel is very informative, pirate era landscape is fascinating to see and your voice is calm, nice to hear. Keep going make more videos. It’s amazing to watch your videos.
I remember the Real Pirates exhibit that detailed the Whydah! It was so cool to see all of that treasure and many more artifacts from real life pirates
A common technique used by both sloops and square-riggers in a storm is called "heaving to." For a square rigger like the Wydah, that would entail sailing on a beam reach (parallel to the wind), shortening the main sail, and and then bracing the main yard around so that the fore sails are working as normal but the mainsail is backed, and you slow or stop. Ideally, you can get underway again if needed by bracing the main yard back around. For a sloop, you point off the wind, and just back the jib.
In a fore and aft rigged vessel, to heave to, you come up into the wind until your set sails are luffing. You then shorten and steady the vessel if necessary streaming sea anchors or backing the jib or outer jib
Incidentally, there are a number of ways to deal with storms at sea, including streaming sea anchors etc, and as the Spanish, English and pyrates found out in the High Caribe often the hurricanes were such that ships could not survive. Noting most pyrate vessels were smaller fast sloops and brigs, the best way to deal with a storm was to either stay in Port or seek shelter in the lee of an island or sheltered Bay.
@@andrewstackpool4911 Discretion being the better point of valor, best not to venture out into a storm in the first place, especially in a smaller vessel. I shipped out on a 15,000 ton 500' long ship for 3 years in the Pacific and had some really wild rides, and although we didn't stay in port, we did change course to avoid the worst.
Assuming you know the storm is coming (which they rarely did) and also depending on the port it might be safer to put out to sea. I had a 26 foot sailboat and would rather bring it out at anchor in a storm than remain at the dock.
@@ThePiratesPorthave you ever heard of the pirate Felix von luckner?? And if you ever have the time visit the wydah museum in Yarmouth cape cod it's well worth the trip
Great artworks shown! Reminds me of a painting I got to see in person at an exhibition once. J.M.W. Turner "The Storm". It is pretty small but it is such a beautiful painting. Pictures dont do it justice. Like many artworks the real painting is much more beautiful than a reproduction on a screen!
This video has amazing timing! I'm trying to write a short story that takes place on a ship in a storm and have been having a hard time finding information about how sailors/pirates dealt with storms if they were unable to avoid them.
I wondered about this, since I plan to do a chapter in my comic where a storm washes away two of the pirate crew members (the Captain and cabin boy), and the rest (mainly the Quartermaster) of the crew try to search for them. Def glad to hear about this ^^ Thank you for posting!
Not an expert but I'd guess the longboats would fare better. Smaller is more sturdy from a fracture. And the center of gravity would be lower. And it would be less impacted by winds
@@skybirdnomad longboats were primarily used for sheer speed on flat planes, and mostly weren’t taken too far into open waters as they were considered more disposable, and not necessarily meant for long voyages. They were long, sleek, and shallow, to allow movement in as many areas as possible, such as coastal waters into shallow river ways. They were small and light to allow easy portages inland from coasts.
Very interesting, lots of new information. I searched for pirate videos after a recent dinner discussion about old vs modern pirates and this really hit the spot. Subscribed, thanks mate
I wonder the financial system of the era. How bank, credit, money and government worked in that era and how did these Outlaws used them to facilitate loans or finance their expeditions.
For legally endorsed piracy, privateering, you could buy shares in privateering expeditions, helping finance the ships, provisions, arms, crew, in exchange for a share of the loot and prizes. Govt also got a cut.
The concept of the corporation was developed in that period to finance voyages and protect/insulate the ship owners from total financial loss. The corporation was established for singular trips then dissolved afterwards. Pirates likely used the drink, pillage and plunder strategy for financing 🤣
In 1979, I rode out Hurricane David at sea off Charleston, SC. We were safer at sea than in port. It was an interesting 24 hours that makes a great story but I wouldn't want to do again.
My mans The Pirates Port's voice got me feeling like I met John Candy at a party in the 90s and he's personally telling me a story in the corner and I can't tear myself away from it. Big shoutout to the algorithm for bringing me here.
It's likely that one of the chief strategies used in heavy weather was heaving to, which would have the bow just off the wind and at an approximate angle of 30 degrees to the oncoming seas. This tried and true tactic is still popular today among all sailors and can also be used when a sailor simply wants to take a break and not worry about tending to the boat. Another tactic likely used by pirates and all sailors of the time, and even still today, was to trail warps or a long line weighted at the end while running with the seas, under sharply reduced sail or even "bare poles," i.e., no sails at all, assuming there was enough sea room. The intent of this would be to slow the boat down to 1-2 knots while keeping it stern-to the wave train to prevent it from turning sideways and broaching, or even pitch-poling, i.e., endo. Today sailors might use a sea anchor or better, a device called a Jordan Series Drogue, which is a long line with numerous small parachute-like attachments that serve as a "brake" that slows the boat down and prevents it from turning beam-to the wave train and broaching or being thrown off the side of a giant wave down into the trough. These devices also, by slowing the boat down, keep it from rocketing down a steep wave front and burying its bow into the next wave, putting it in danger of being pitch-poled. Storm survival tactics really have not changed much if at all since the Golden Age of Piracy. There are some new purpose-built devices like sea anchors and the Series Drogue, which has been used to great success by many modern sailors, but the goal is still the same--slow the boat down and keep it from turning beam-to the oncoming waves. Do those two things and some very extreme conditions can be survived with little or no damage to the boat.
Long time ago I was on a c3 hull with 70 foot waves...screw out of the water and green up to the bridge...looking at the waves head on....and. a little anxious but we road it out...no one would eat or drink anything save for water.then the fresh water system gave out. Had a tug tow ship to port for repairs...
It's a lot more than 10, actually. On average, more than 30 cargo ships go down each year -- 348 between 2011-2020 alone. That's well over a third of all ships lost worldwide -- 876 -- during that period.
That's an incredible number considering how strongly built those cargo ships are. Makes me think how tough and skillful early sailors were with small wooden boats and why anyone would want to go on a cruise.
What about a sea anchor to hold the ship’s bow into the wind and waves? Not sure when they were invented or how widespread their implementation or effectiveness might’ve been anyway.
It’s better to run with the wind under reduced sail but maintaining full hullspeed. I’ve been in a 33’ sailboat mid pacific in 50’- 60’ swells and 12’ cross swells. It ain’t no thing. Just don’t look behind you. It’s too scary. Looking to the sides and ahead it doesn’t seem so bad. It’s also possible and quite fun to surf the boat down swells. But basically, at sea when you see a storm you just light up a j and keep going. Maybe turn the music up.
Yes, sea anchors were used to control speed. Strangely enough, if a ship is being pushed by a storm and goes too fast, it can "sail under". It's a complicated phenomenon to do with the ship's hull length and the frequency of the waves (the distance between one crest and the next). You also have to go fast enough to steer the ship, as the rudder does nothing if the ship isn't moving faster than the water. Oddly enough, smaller vessels can ride out storms that destroy larger ships, as the smaller vessels ride on the back of each wave, rather than fighting through them. There are many instances where storms sank large (even modern) ships, while private boats and small sailing ships survived. It would be a helluva ride, like a Splash Mountain that lasted for hours, so not fun.
Lost my boat and was rescued by coast guard during hurricane Ian. Got wrecked 4 miles offshore on a sandbar. I got a new boat but storms sucks I can testify
Great video. Now I’m curious about how the Polynesians managed to survive and storms at sea in their outrigger canoes! They had very little protection compared to European sailors. But they were also much better navigators and were incredibly in tune with the weather and sea states.
Subscribed! Really awesome video :D I do hope you’ll speak just a little slower in the future for us foreigners who don’t have English as our first language.
Don't know about other pirates but Ruari the Turbulent and the MacNeils of Barra clan were often aided by stormy weather when they committed piracy when sailing there Birlinn ship's which are descendent of the Viking long boats which I think being an experienced sailor would have it's advantage in stormy weather
Ships that carried whale oil would often dump the oil in order to help calm the seas around them in an oil slick. It would lighten their load as well to help with maneuverability, ballast, and drag.
Pirate walks into a bar with ships wheel down his pants. Bartender says: Do you know you have a ships wheel down your pants? Pirate says: Aye, and it's driving me nuts.
I strongly encourage anybody who is interested in life in the age of sale to read at least some of the Aubrey Maturin novels. Although set primarily in the period of 1803 to 1815 over a century after the Golden Age of Pirates it still gives an excellent idea of what life at sea was like during the Age of Sail. Many different storms are described as are many of the measures the crew took to protect the ship and themselves...
Maritime disasters do still happened. For example, the US flagged oil tanker “SS EL Faro” steamed out from Jacksonville, FL on Sept 29, 2015. She was heading for Puerto Rico. Tropical storm Joaquin was in the gulf at the time but was heading out toward the Atlantic so it should have missed the Faro and wouldn’t be a problem. Plus it was just a tropical storm the Faro could handle Then the storm turned and ran down the length of the Florida coast while developing rapidly into a Cat 3 hurricane. The Faro was caught just two days after leaving port but even still her captain was confident she could take the storm’s beating. She had been designed for that purpose. Even a Cat 3 wasn’t suppose to be able to sink her But Faro was now a 40 year old vessel and wasn’t as sturdy as she once was. The waves overloaded her pumps, listing the shop before sinking her before the crew had time launch life boats. Faro was lost with all hands. A crew of 28 Americans and 5 Poles. So even modern ships can get caught by hurricanes and sunk. It’s still a dangerous game
Believe it or not, Im an airline pilot and I regularly use "red sky at night... Red sky in morning" to get an idea of what the weather is likely to be that day
I know it's not the same thing, but I flew in a helicopter for the first time yesterday and it was very windy, which made for a rough ride. Often, the helicopter had to fly at an angle giving me a wonderful view of the ground thousands of feet below my flimsy door, which was the only thing standing between me and death. It really gave me a sense of what it must have been like for these sailors to know they're at the mercy of mother nature and all the faith they placed in their man-made craft to carry them to safety.
"Any source of flame was exterminated so it didn't fall over and cause a fire." Onward bound artic round captain: "Sorry crew, you can't have a ship and heat it too."
Anybody who's worked on a boat in even slightly rough waters can testify to how scary this must have been.
I'm just a lamd luber. My full respect to all sailors and captains. The sea can be a cruel mistress
Because i work on a massive bulk carrier we don't get affected much, aside from rogue waves
Not if you yell out "The sea is my mother! She'll not take me back into her watery womb!"
@@bigchungus2667 Don't speak too soon.
For some reason being on a boat in a storm doesn't scare me at all nore do sharks.
Loved the background sounds... the creaks and groaning water noise ... real goosebump risers.....
The Wydah museum on cape cod is so cool. The guy who discovered the wreck was in the last area grinding concretions off coins, picked up one he just finished and handed it to me. I was the second person to hold that coin in hundreds of years, cool feeling
This is also the origin of the phrase “a loose cannon”.
Woop! Glad you are back - don't leave us this long again!
This is great! Excellent art on display here, and I really dig the creeky wooden ship sounds beneath everything. Lovely touch and polish.
I like how even pirates were like: this is a good fuckin kitty right here
Imagine how terrifying a storm would have been on one of those ships in those times.
The game Sea of Thieves, though heavily stylised, gives off the feeling of getting caught in a storm quite well
Not only storms, they probably had no idea of rogue waves, we are only beginning to understand the mechanics behind them, the boat were small and flimsy, it must have been hell during a storm.
I work on a 100 year old sailboat and we've been in a few storms, a good distance away from the eye and it's very intense. You have to hold on or get thrown into the wall.
@@cumonurface that is very cool. In what waters? I've sailed in the BVIs but want to do the Grenadines for less drinking and more adventure.
@@GwaiZai we sailed around cape horn in winter time and my god the waters were brutal. And right now im sailing in Japanese waters, and we've been in a typhoon (far away from it) but still feel it good.
this channel is amazing i find pirates so interesting but can almost never find good quality videos. now i know where to find them
Thanks! I’m glad you like the videos!
Great videos, well researched and with wonderful visuals. Very underrated history channel.
seems like they're just getting started. Problem is the frequency of their videos. These people (or person?) might have day jobs to contend with. Love the content as it is though.
Just one person here. And yes, life gets in the way sometimes. Doing my best to get new content out when I can and I am glad you like it.
@@ThePiratesPort maybe you can take a holiday to the caribbean and document some of the real world history/sites? :)
Well, how do you know?
I'm currently researching to write a novel about the golden age of piracy and your videos are a massive help, thank you for your hard work in making this.
i reccommend reading Wilbur Smith's book "Monsoon"
@@SungazerDNB thanks, i will check it out
Books suck
Hi Martin, did u write your novel yet? Will it be available on Amazon? What is the plot line? Did you write anything before? All the best!
@@robsellars9338 hey, there, Sorry for the long reply, been at my Job alot. No i havent finished writing it, yet and hopefully it will be in Amazon, if i find a publisher.
The plot line revolves around several lower Crew Members of Black Sam Bellamy with the Main Character being press ganged into Service and Findling out the brutal life of a pirate, covering his capture of the whydah galley and Sam Bellamy's end in a nor'easter of the Coast of Cape cod, plus Much Much more. It will be from the perspective of the Main Character, written in his diary and Letters and this would be the first, did well in english class in creative writing so thought why not. Thanks for your time and Intrest in it. Hope you have a fantastic Day. :) :)
🤩🤩 Your channel is very informative, pirate era landscape is fascinating to see and your voice is calm, nice to hear. Keep going make more videos. It’s amazing to watch your videos.
Thank you very much!
been waiting for your videos this past weeks sir...
and finaly another interesting video can't wait...👍😁
Same
Hope you enjoy it!
SURE WILL! MATEY☠️
All these sunken ships and only thanks to a few survivers their tales could be told.
Thanks for yet another great and inspiring video. :)
I remember the Real Pirates exhibit that detailed the Whydah! It was so cool to see all of that treasure and many more artifacts from real life pirates
A common technique used by both sloops and square-riggers in a storm is called "heaving to." For a square rigger like the Wydah, that would entail sailing on a beam reach (parallel to the wind), shortening the main sail, and and then bracing the main yard around so that the fore sails are working as normal but the mainsail is backed, and you slow or stop. Ideally, you can get underway again if needed by bracing the main yard back around. For a sloop, you point off the wind, and just back the jib.
In a fore and aft rigged vessel, to heave to, you come up into the wind until your set sails are luffing. You then shorten and steady the vessel if necessary streaming sea anchors or backing the jib or outer jib
You forgot to close with
"Aaaaaarrrrrr!!!"
Incidentally, there are a number of ways to deal with storms at sea, including streaming sea anchors etc, and as the Spanish, English and pyrates found out in the High Caribe often the hurricanes were such that ships could not survive.
Noting most pyrate vessels were smaller fast sloops and brigs, the best way to deal with a storm was to either stay in Port or seek shelter in the lee of an island or sheltered Bay.
@@andrewstackpool4911 Discretion being the better point of valor, best not to venture out into a storm in the first place, especially in a smaller vessel. I shipped out on a 15,000 ton 500' long ship for 3 years in the Pacific and had some really wild rides, and although we didn't stay in port, we did change course to avoid the worst.
Assuming you know the storm is coming (which they rarely did) and also depending on the port it might be safer to put out to sea. I had a 26 foot sailboat and would rather bring it out at anchor in a storm than remain at the dock.
Wow, my son (5 y/o) loves pirates and it's difficult to find educational videos that are also engaging... This was great.
YOU'RE BACK!! We've missed you! The video is fantastic! Thank you!!
Darma darma trazy? Nah i meam im okay
As a cape codder im glad to have found your channel and this video I live 10 minutes from the wydah museum but have always been fascinated by pirates
Glad you like it Garrett!
@@ThePiratesPorthave you ever heard of the pirate Felix von luckner?? And if you ever have the time visit the wydah museum in Yarmouth cape cod it's well worth the trip
Just want to let you know this was my first video from your channel. It was damn good and I subscribed
Thanks!
Very informative! Keep'em coming!
I study pirates and sailor history as a hobby, and this info is great! Nice work! New subscriber here!
Thanks Byron glad you like the videos!
Great artworks shown! Reminds me of a painting I got to see in person at an exhibition once. J.M.W. Turner "The Storm". It is pretty small but it is such a beautiful painting. Pictures dont do it justice. Like many artworks the real painting is much more beautiful than a reproduction on a screen!
This video has amazing timing! I'm trying to write a short story that takes place on a ship in a storm and have been having a hard time finding information about how sailors/pirates dealt with storms if they were unable to avoid them.
Awesome! Glad it helped! And feel free to post the story in our discord, I’d love to read it when it’s finished!
Hey! Me too! hahaha
Great video, good to see you back, hope you're well. Love covering the superstition.
I wondered about this, since I plan to do a chapter in my comic where a storm washes away two of the pirate crew members (the Captain and cabin boy), and the rest (mainly the Quartermaster) of the crew try to search for them. Def glad to hear about this ^^ Thank you for posting!
I’ve always wondered how pirates did it in those galleons and man o wars, but image the vikings doing it in those tiny longboats
Not well
Vikings are built different. 💪
LMFAO Pirates weren't (for the most part) sailing galleons and "man o wars" they where on sloops, schooners, and some frigates and brigs.
Not an expert but I'd guess the longboats would fare better. Smaller is more sturdy from a fracture. And the center of gravity would be lower. And it would be less impacted by winds
@@skybirdnomad longboats were primarily used for sheer speed on flat planes, and mostly weren’t taken too far into open waters as they were considered more disposable, and not necessarily meant for long voyages. They were long, sleek, and shallow, to allow movement in as many areas as possible, such as coastal waters into shallow river ways. They were small and light to allow easy portages inland from coasts.
Another great upload 👊
Very interesting, lots of new information. I searched for pirate videos after a recent dinner discussion about old vs modern pirates and this really hit the spot. Subscribed, thanks mate
Thanks!
Great 👌pirates
Another awesome video matey!
~The Admiral~
I wonder the financial system of the era. How bank, credit, money and government worked in that era and how did these Outlaws used them to facilitate loans or finance their expeditions.
For legally endorsed piracy, privateering, you could buy shares in privateering expeditions, helping finance the ships, provisions, arms, crew, in exchange for a share of the loot and prizes. Govt also got a cut.
The concept of the corporation was developed in that period to finance voyages and protect/insulate the ship owners from total financial loss. The corporation was established for singular trips then dissolved afterwards. Pirates likely used the drink, pillage and plunder strategy for financing 🤣
Do you understand the word pirate?
It’s called gold a limited amount nobody was printing money
@@lonerider5315 you talking to yourself again? Your question don't make one God damn bit of sense.
Another good video!
Do we know if pirates kept journals?
If yes how about making a video about that.
Edward Thatch aka Blackbeard kept a journal but only one entry that was copied survived. The rest was lost unfortunately.
Well, William Dampier did for sure.
I've learnt something from this video, thanks.
In 1979, I rode out Hurricane David at sea off Charleston, SC. We were safer at sea than in port. It was an interesting 24 hours that makes a great story but I wouldn't want to do again.
I can imagine Harry!
My mans The Pirates Port's voice got me feeling like I met John Candy at a party in the 90s and he's personally telling me a story in the corner and I can't tear myself away from it.
Big shoutout to the algorithm for bringing me here.
Damn that's one of the nicest compliments I have ever gotten. You made me smile with that one!
Amazing video!
It's likely that one of the chief strategies used in heavy weather was heaving to, which would have the bow just off the wind and at an approximate angle of 30 degrees to the oncoming seas. This tried and true tactic is still popular today among all sailors and can also be used when a sailor simply wants to take a break and not worry about tending to the boat.
Another tactic likely used by pirates and all sailors of the time, and even still today, was to trail warps or a long line weighted at the end while running with the seas, under sharply reduced sail or even "bare poles," i.e., no sails at all, assuming there was enough sea room. The intent of this would be to slow the boat down to 1-2 knots while keeping it stern-to the wave train to prevent it from turning sideways and broaching, or even pitch-poling, i.e., endo. Today sailors might use a sea anchor or better, a device called a Jordan Series Drogue, which is a long line with numerous small parachute-like attachments that serve as a "brake" that slows the boat down and prevents it from turning beam-to the wave train and broaching or being thrown off the side of a giant wave down into the trough. These devices also, by slowing the boat down, keep it from rocketing down a steep wave front and burying its bow into the next wave, putting it in danger of being pitch-poled.
Storm survival tactics really have not changed much if at all since the Golden Age of Piracy. There are some new purpose-built devices like sea anchors and the Series Drogue, which has been used to great success by many modern sailors, but the goal is still the same--slow the boat down and keep it from turning beam-to the oncoming waves. Do those two things and some very extreme conditions can be survived with little or no damage to the boat.
Wow good stuff. Thanks
You can't heave to if you can't sail to windward which these ships couldn't do, hence the sailors terror of a lee shore.
Nice. 😎
How do they deal with storms?
A whole lot of courage, sprinkled with a lot of prayers, I reckon
Great videos.
Long time ago I was on a c3 hull with 70 foot waves...screw out of the water and green up to the bridge...looking at the waves head on....and. a little anxious but we road it out...no one would eat or drink anything save for water.then the fresh water system gave out.
Had a tug tow ship to port for repairs...
im writing a story about a pirate galleon caught at sea and this was very helpful, thank you :)
I love the format, great info and concise. Thank-you for sharing:)
thanks!
Superb video! Very informative! Thanks!
Once again thank you that was interesting.
Glad you enjoyed it!
@@ThePiratesPort February of next year I'm going to Nassau and I'm going to attend that Pirate Museum there.
Great content
Thanks glad you liked the video!
Wow that was a great video. I guess I never thought about the storms they encountered.
I remember working on an air craft carrier in 40 m swells and it was scary. I can only imagine that on a small pirate boat.
XD
Thank you for fueling my hyperfixations!
It’s always so interesting to hear where popular sayings originated from
It's a lot more than 10, actually. On average, more than 30 cargo ships go down each year -- 348 between 2011-2020 alone. That's well over a third of all ships lost worldwide -- 876 -- during that period.
Nice
That's an incredible number considering how strongly built those cargo ships are. Makes me think how tough and skillful early sailors were with small wooden boats and why anyone would want to go on a cruise.
Thanks for making this!
I am glad you liked the video Eric!
What about a sea anchor to hold the ship’s bow into the wind and waves? Not sure when they were invented or how widespread their implementation or effectiveness might’ve been anyway.
It’s better to run with the wind under reduced sail but maintaining full hullspeed. I’ve been in a 33’ sailboat mid pacific in 50’- 60’ swells and 12’ cross swells. It ain’t no thing. Just don’t look behind you. It’s too scary. Looking to the sides and ahead it doesn’t seem so bad. It’s also possible and quite fun to surf the boat down swells.
But basically, at sea when you see a storm you just light up a j and keep going. Maybe turn the music up.
Yes, sea anchors were used to control speed. Strangely enough, if a ship is being pushed by a storm and goes too fast, it can "sail under". It's a complicated phenomenon to do with the ship's hull length and the frequency of the waves (the distance between one crest and the next). You also have to go fast enough to steer the ship, as the rudder does nothing if the ship isn't moving faster than the water. Oddly enough, smaller vessels can ride out storms that destroy larger ships, as the smaller vessels ride on the back of each wave, rather than fighting through them. There are many instances where storms sank large (even modern) ships, while private boats and small sailing ships survived. It would be a helluva ride, like a Splash Mountain that lasted for hours, so not fun.
Lost my boat and was rescued by coast guard during hurricane Ian. Got wrecked 4 miles offshore on a sandbar. I got a new boat but storms sucks I can testify
Nice video very underated
The intro mnusic is legendary
Great artwork
This is nicely done! I subbed!
It's amazing how some of these wooden boats survived storms that give metal ships of today a tough time.
Cool video. Good job!!! 👍✌
Thanks
Love your channel!!
Well done matey.
nicely done man
When my cat is frisky, it means he has wind. :D
Grandpa was Royal Navy. He always said they took a deep breath and ran along the bottom.
Great videos! Great pieces of information.
I just wanted to point out that Samuel Bellamy died in late April 1717, a year earlier.
You are correct. I must have made a mistake with the script there.
@@ThePiratesPort It can happen. Happy to help☺
How did you make a video about them ?
Great video. Now I’m curious about how the Polynesians managed to survive and storms at sea in their outrigger canoes! They had very little protection compared to European sailors. But they were also much better navigators and were incredibly in tune with the weather and sea states.
Sailors fear land more than the sea. I never liked being close to shore unless it was necessary.
Damn , never would have thought
@@MK-hm5gg Yeah, you got a fighting chance out off shore. Land will just bust you up. Been there.
Great information…thx
well described... lots of sailors still at sea combining natures force with human intuition.
The Picture at 3.40 is in german!
3:36 This map is in German. We're can I find it?
Subscribed! Really awesome video :D I do hope you’ll speak just a little slower in the future for us foreigners who don’t have English as our first language.
Thanks Thea. You can turn the subtitles on and auto translate if that helps.
Don't know about other pirates but Ruari the Turbulent and the MacNeils of Barra clan were often aided by stormy weather when they committed piracy when sailing there Birlinn ship's which are descendent of the Viking long boats which I think being an experienced sailor would have it's advantage in stormy weather
Ships that carried whale oil would often dump the oil in order to help calm the seas around them in an oil slick. It would lighten their load as well to help with maneuverability, ballast, and drag.
I was a 3rd Class Boatswains Mate and I know this weather you speak of personally.
I enjoyed that !
Thanks!
Informative. Thank you from manhattan
Glad you liked it Victoria!
@@ThePiratesPort Thank you
Interesting
4:50 I see a dutch indie man ship
ye they're just like the black pearl from potc
Pirate walks into a bar with ships wheel down his pants. Bartender says: Do you know you have a ships wheel down your pants? Pirate says: Aye, and it's driving me nuts.
Batten down the hatches matey!!
I strongly encourage anybody who is interested in life in the age of sale to read at least some of the Aubrey Maturin novels. Although set primarily in the period of 1803 to 1815 over a century after the Golden Age of Pirates it still gives an excellent idea of what life at sea was like during the Age of Sail. Many different storms are described as are many of the measures the crew took to protect the ship and themselves...
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So where was that ship exactly ?
Maritime disasters do still happened. For example, the US flagged oil tanker “SS EL Faro” steamed out from Jacksonville, FL on Sept 29, 2015. She was heading for Puerto Rico. Tropical storm Joaquin was in the gulf at the time but was heading out toward the Atlantic so it should have missed the Faro and wouldn’t be a problem. Plus it was just a tropical storm the Faro could handle
Then the storm turned and ran down the length of the Florida coast while developing rapidly into a Cat 3 hurricane. The Faro was caught just two days after leaving port but even still her captain was confident she could take the storm’s beating. She had been designed for that purpose. Even a Cat 3 wasn’t suppose to be able to sink her
But Faro was now a 40 year old vessel and wasn’t as sturdy as she once was. The waves overloaded her pumps, listing the shop before sinking her before the crew had time launch life boats. Faro was lost with all hands. A crew of 28 Americans and 5 Poles.
So even modern ships can get caught by hurricanes and sunk. It’s still a dangerous game
"Terrible storm!" ⛈️
Believe it or not, Im an airline pilot and I regularly use "red sky at night... Red sky in morning" to get an idea of what the weather is likely to be that day
I know it's not the same thing, but I flew in a helicopter for the first time yesterday and it was very windy, which made for a rough ride. Often, the helicopter had to fly at an angle giving me a wonderful view of the ground thousands of feet below my flimsy door, which was the only thing standing between me and death. It really gave me a sense of what it must have been like for these sailors to know they're at the mercy of mother nature and all the faith they placed in their man-made craft to carry them to safety.
"Any source of flame was exterminated so it didn't fall over and cause a fire."
Onward bound artic round captain: "Sorry crew, you can't have a ship and heat it too."
I felt dizzy in calm weather on a boat. Can't imagine a rough storm.
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Just get sick then it's over. Hang on tight.
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The barometer was invented around 1780 or so. Plus a handy hurricane hole would do! Of course a lee shore spells doom.
I bet those ships were a sight to behold back then
In those days what else was there to do?
I have always wonder we’re that phrase originally came from know I can die happy
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