Gus VanHorn Pirates wouldnt take a cruiseship. Way too many pelople, staff and guards onboard. Also way too hard to navigate through the ship. It takes a long time to learn the layout of a cruise ship if you take the crew areas into account as well.
Broken rudder chain is no joke. But my Catalina has an emergency tiller. I had to dig it out of a storage locker. Got me in. You gotta know you’re boat.
Thank You. You are obviously a man of the sea as well. If you have ever been in a situation in the middle of the Ocean, you know that you are small, and insignificant. That being said, it isn't a question when you see another sailor in distress. smh* No matter your experience, storms at sea will really check your will.
I saw an episode of a family being rescued off that boat in the middle of the pacific due to a broken rudder and it was left to drift. I hope they got their boat back it was everything to them.
i read about this. he was picked up during bad weather and it floated to northeastern US shores. She was cleaned out by assholes as it was beached and he was sad and gave it away. Glad he survived. That was a nice old boat. Wish I would have found her.
@@IkeBrider - you never know,might have been single-handed and the sailor fell overboard. The main is down & furled, the head is tattered, maybe the result of a storm. But look how high the boat rides, apparently no flooding issues, boat looks to be in very good. But I wouldn't want a boat that lost its sailor(s) like that. Boat is cursed, stigmatized, bad luck.
@@halibut1249 i got helicoptered of my single handed boat during the halloween storm, (otherwise called 'the perfect storm'...) i looked for the boat for about a month, no soap. i certainly HOPE somebody salvaged it, fixed it up, and sailed all over with it. i had about 3 grand in it. i've bought 3 or 4 boats since then. no sense crying too much...
The main boom looks messed up, the sails would have to be replaced and we don't know how the rudder is fairing but it does look like a very nice ketch.
Sad to think that they will report the position and it’s likely to be sunk to remove it as a hazard to navigation. There is a heartbreaking story there somewhere.
I watched a similar one to this on YT. Some guys who came across an abandoned sailboat and a couple of the crew boarded and whilst one filmed the other guy opened the cabin door and there inside was the skeletal remains of the owner. Doesn't show that on the YT clip but it does on a report. Apparently the poor guy had just died from natural causes. I think the crew that found it were allowed to leave after reporting the co-ordinates to the coastguard.
Obviously he would have been fine if he stayed aboard, could have gotten off at the Vinyard and gone to the pub! If you go to sea for the first time, on a proper ocean crossing alone in your own boat, you will sooner or later get strong winds and big waves, and you will be terrified! Thats a given! But the more you do it the more you realise that they weren't really that big, and the wind wasn't that strong. That your boat is actually fine and so are you. after days of rough weather and being scared you will get used to it, and start learning to enjoy living in this wild nature. That you can deal safely with most conditions, as long as you think first, take some deep breaths, and do what you must. People panic way to quick, and rely on rescue, and go to sea unprepared, missing the knowledge, guts and skill. A storm is an endurance thing, where you pray a lot, and promise god never to go to sea again if he lets you live this one time. But you keep going back, and its not that dangerous really as people think. People do it all the time on smaller shittier boats than this one. He should fix it up and do it again, and prepare well and maybe take a experienced sailor with him when it blows hard, just to show how to deal with it, and keep it fun.
I will grant you that the Westsail is a boat that will handle just about anything Mother Nature can deal out, conversely it's also called a "Wet Snail" for a very good reason. There are many other proper oceangoing boats that will handily deal with storm conditions which also sail well. Just about any of the Pacific Seacraft line of boats will sail circles around a Westsail and offer the superior sea keeping abilities.
I've been in 100'(yes) seas on an Aircraft Carrier. I wasn't attached to the command, and had never experienced that. My platoon and I weren't (scared), but rationally nervous.
There is a yt channel which do sailings and they have uploaded a video showing how theu rescue the peolple on the boat due to a broken rudder, the channel is called *Monday never* And the boat is called *Dove II* search on gog
That doesn’t say Dove II on the back of that boat! And Dove Il had windows along the hull. Same colours though. ua-cam.com/video/4kmmicp-mSs/v-deo.html
Abandoned Sailboat Washes Ashore at Norton Point The sailboat’s owner, Bill Heldenbrand of St. Joseph, Mo., told the Gazette Monday he was sailing alone from Green Cove Springs, Fla. in early May with the ultimate goal of crossing the Atlantic Ocean. His trip didn’t go as planned. Instead, after seven days at sea, the novice sailor encountered high winds and huge seas three-quarters of the way to Bermuda. Mr. Heldenbrand was rescued by a passing oil tanker and forced to abandon the sailboat. The tanker took him to Quebec City. The Running Free drifted to places unknown - until Friday, when Mr. Heldenbrand received a phone call from Nancy and Bruce Hulme, who spotted the sailboat coming ashore. Mr. Heldenbrand said that he is driving from Georgia to Cape Cod to retrieve the sailboat, which he has arranged to have towed to Falmouth. That move may be completed as early as Monday evening, he said, though a previous attempt on Sunday to free the sailboat from its sandy berth proved unsuccessful. “It was a surprise that it beached itself on Martha’s Vineyard,” Mr. Heldenbrand said. “I am hoping to get it off the beach and get some repairs.”
Bill Hellenbrand is lucky I wasn't the one to discover his sailboat abandoned on the high seas. I would have boarded her and declared her salvage. Then I'd own a nice sailboat OR his insurance company could pay ME the market value of the boat to reclaim it for him. The fact that she made it through the weather, unoccupied and unhanded, all the way to Martha's Vinyard still afloat -- Tells you that the boat is quite seaworthy and any shortcomings were of her master not her seaworthiness.
Thanks for posting update. This whole situation was a botch job. That sailboat should have been reported by Hellenbrand AND the Capt of the tanker who picked up Hellenbrand. It could have been a crime scene or accidental death. This all could have been avoided. Glad Hellenbrand survived. Kudos to the Capt of the Summit for assisting and I am sure he/she reported this drifting sailboat. Fines should have been issue especially when the boat washed ashore.
Hurricane Season begins June 1st but can be earlier as well. Bad move to have tried Atlantic crossing. I would do it in like January or February, truly away from the time frame of hurricane season in the atlantic from June to November. Glad owner is alive.
Anther one that was probably the victim of too much sail up overnight while the crew slept with no watch. This is common especially for the ones who solo. In that area serious squalls out of nowhere can shred your sails like nothing. Frequently when the sails are shredded they get entangled in the rudder and prop and can render a boat dead in the water. Looking at this boat's foresail and rigging it appears as though this was probably the case and that she was unfortunately abandoned as a result
Daniel keirstead sr He didn’t. He got rescued by an oil tanker. I think if my boat was fucked and I had a rescue ship right there I’d abandon ship too if I was far out
Daniel keirstead sr I’m surprised so many people are saying he shouldn’t have abandoned ship. I can see not getting out of a still floating boat to get in a life raft but if I can get rescued then fuck the boat, I’m sure it’s insured. Some of these sea conditions I see these small sailboats in is crazy enough in a functional boat.
The is a UA-cam video of a boat called dove 2 that gets abandoned due to a broken rudder. Apparently it hasn’t washed up anywhere. So probably a good call from the crew to abandon ship.
It applies even in wartime when the crew of the ship in distress, or sunk, should be rescued, even if as prisoners. Better a live lamb than a dead lion.
@ Cameron Gibbs -- It's not that it's "the code of the sea", you great gallumping ridiculously romantic foot eating doofus. _It's that it is_ *International Maritime LAW.*
If I was on that ship I would dive overboard silently when it was leaving the scene, swim out to yaght, make necessary modification/repairs and sail to the nearest port in my newly aquired vessel... That's like winning the lottery...!
RWBHere ...No. it wouldn't have been. Admiralty Law applies in international waters. Jasper Asis might not have been able to claim ownership immediately: Court would've had to decide. But a verdict for cost of salvage, paid by the original boat owner, would have been more than boat's worth, and Jasper would've could claim it then.
jasper asis ...oh, what a hero you are...how do you propose to pull yourself up on the deck with the kind of freeboard on that vessel?....obviously you aren’t a sailor, so I’ll explain “freeboard” its the distance between the water and the deck....cheers🍷
Seems a pity to have left the boat, it appears that he could have ridden out the storm, and with a little more preparation continued sailing when the storm subsided.
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+314194: I'm sure his degree of experience played a role in his decision. If you're not that good of a sailor then put your life first, but more importantly you need to understand that the north Atlantic can be a serious task master. Don't bit off more than you can chew.
Touche', it is easy to second guess from the comfort of an office chair and the dry warmth emanating from a large computer screen, now that I look closer I previously missed the shredded foresail. I will pay more attention in the future. Cheers
Wow I am amazed of all these covetiousness, people wanting to claim other people's property. How about doing the right thing as a seaman/ sailor, and notify the authorities and owner so they may get their boat back.
The medical equipment on a cruise ship is minimal and the Doctor often inexperienced and accustomed to more modern equipment than could be brought on a ship. Indeed, the equipment suitable for use on a ship are the older manual instruments and few of the younger Doctors even know of them.
You would be surprised at how many truck containers that fall off ships that are lurking Just below the water waiting to sink a Vessel.......... I remember one!
Cargo containers not truck containers and yes they are serious navigational hazards. Can't see them on radar or AIS, difficult to spot with binoculars and they're made of steel so they can do some serious damage to fibreglass or wood hulls.
This Dove II was abandoned on 12/21/2016, 3 adults and 2 children were rescued by Tilly. I hope that they got their boat and on their new journey of blessings and a brand new beginning 🙏, may God bless them!
Wow, then this ship travelled forward in time, witnessed the abandoned boat and filmed it, then when back in time to 2013 and posted it on youtube. If that family had only watched UA-cam back then they could have avoided this.
@@mcearl8073 too true sadly, UA-cam is such an amazing thing in so many ways, enabling unparalleled access to experiences most could never have. But then you realize there are a lot of very opinionated ignorant people all too willing to share that with you.
Me too, when I used to own a sailboat, I always wore a tether and harness just in case I went overboard, it would keep you attached to the boat and give you a fighting chance to get back aboard.
This boat rocking and rolling in relatively flat seas. This what you get with a boat having poor comfort ratio and poor capsize screen formula numbers I bet this boat has a fin keel and spade rudder Built for coastal cruising and lakes, not for blue water
That sailboat is sitting well above her design waterline and bouncing on the swells rather than riding them. Something important and heavy is missing. Maybe she dropped her keel weight?? That would make her effectively impossible to sail. I hope whoever was aboard had a liferaft.
Actually, no. She's listing to starboard a bit because her boom and mainsail are in the fucking water. Pretty easy to see in the video. Also, the boat ran aground later. there are pictures with the keel. This was inexperienced sailor in a rather larger storm that abandoned ship to a nearby tanker. So, yea. It's looks like you don't know what you're talking about.
I sold a sailing boat to a man in Texas. It washed up on one of the islands and was totally destroyed on the reef. Man never found. I figured he fell overboard. Never heard from him again. No telling how long the vessel was adrift. Could have been months.
+flappy188 It implies that your vessel is still afloat...always step UP into a lifeboat. All too often they rescue sailors in a liferaft, only to find their vessel still afloat somewhere...
Poundingsand I don't get it. Are you joking? As in they need to step up because their boat sank? If I was going to have to abandon ship, I'd want to do that before the boat was completely gone and I was in the drink.
No, I'm not joking. But nor did I write the saying. It suggests that your boat should be riding really low in the water, and you have to step up into the lifeboat, not that you are jumping off at the last second...
Was stranded near Martha's Vineyard some time later as I understand. Owner could get hold of her. A pity nobody made a salvage claim : he / she would have got a beautiful boat for the towing money. Which would have been fair as it appears the owner was just one of those would be sailor who didn't care about his investment.
Mann ueber Board sollte es richtig heissen . Bin selbst mit Freunden auf einer Stahl-Yacht (Skorpion) 1982 in 25 Tagen und fuenf Stunden ueber den Atlantik. Cran Canaria nach Kingston (Barbados). Von Sturm bis absolute Flaute wir hatten das Ganze Programm . Teilweise auch etwas langweilig. Nur vermissen moechte ich es nicht !
You would ask to leave a safe situation where there's food, water, comfort, etc etc.. To be placed on a damaged sailboat in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, during what seems like a storm. Just for the sake of being able to call first date dibs on a abandoned boat?? Smh The lengths some would go, sometimes is just astounding.
It might be the sailboat lost my the family rescued by those who said Tilly Mint. They performed a rescue at sea and the sailboat was abandoned..busted rudder...in heavy seas.
I doubt it, this one has two masts, likely a ketch. I believe the SV Dove II was a 56 foot sloop and suffered the loss of it's rudder then after first evacuating the wife and children to the 67 foot sloop Tilly Mint, the tired skipper messed up the sails when trying to use an improvised rudder and called the Tilly Mint back to pick him up. This possible ketch appears to have had it's sails blown out, we do not know if it still has it's rudder from the video alone. I believe the SV Dove II skipper left the engine on and the VHF radio broadcasting the AIS so that the vessel could be tracked by passing ships so that it wouldn't be a navigation hazard and he could hire a boat to tow it but they still lost track of the ship, likely the engine shutdown and the radio drained the batteries. It was in the middle of the Atlantic, so if it drifted anywhere, it would've been towards Bermuda and Florida. The rescue was coordinated by the UK coastguard over sat phone. I'm a bit surprised that the coastguard knew to call the Tilly Mint in hopes it was in the area but I guess the larger sailboats with hired Skipper's and crews would likely register their trips with the respective coast guards. I believe the Tilly Mint is currently for sale.
The sailor couldn't handle the "ruff sea's" so he bailed out on to a tanker ship. The capt'n of the ship said he can't take the boat. That he must leave the boat if he wants on his ship. So he did. The boat was left with no note inside informing his abandonment. Or passage. (trustee kid) most likely.
If the seas are too rough, hove to, then go below have a tea and get some rest. When hove to, the boat will be calm but it would be adrift with the current. As long as your rudder and storm jib holds, you're perfectly fine when hoved to. The only danger is if you drift into some reefs or into another boat.
A guess and a common reason people abandon boats at sea: she lost her rudder. If you can't steer it, it's useless, and her passengers abandoned ship onto perhaps a cargo ship that was passing by.
@@bobbytowesr3387 I'm a year late etc etc, but this video is eight years old, and the video of the Dove II was four years ago. They're not the same boat.
+andy hustler The cruise ship would have to go too slow if it towed it, about 5 knts even less depending on seas, less than a quarter its cruising speed.
I would have tried to stow any loose rigging, that swinging anchor and sails and then stayed with her. I'd hate to abandon a likely dry boat for a life raft, out of panic. If she ain't sinking, stay with the boat.
This makes me CRAZY! As a sailor he should have done the proper thing and scuttled (sunk) his boat. Leaving the craft floating at sea only puts other boaters in harm's way. Properly insure your boat and do the right thing if you are faced with this type of situation. Scuttle it and keep others from potentially crashing into it at night!!!
To save others the trouble of looking up the ship's fate: it washed ashore on Martha's Vineyard a few weeks later. The 36.5 foot sailboat - the Running Free - wound up on a sandy beach. The owner drove up from Georgia to get it. While the boat was beached, the locals looted it. The police then gave limited amnesty - looting is against the law - and some of the items were returned (but not all). The owner, a Mr. Bill Heldenbrand, had it towed to New Bedford. However, the Running Free was so badly damaged that he sold it for $1 as scrap, probably (this is an assumption) to the tow company to satisfy their bill. Interestingly, among the items looted and then returned was a "sail in a big bag." Thus, those claiming that there was no sail left to sail it are wrong. Theoretically - and nobody knows how bad conditions were - the captain could have ridden out the storm and then gotten a sail up (assuming there was some rigging left, which appears to be the case, but who knows). Just goes to show, all the youtube channels showing blissful sailing without a care are highly misleading.
Sailing attracts a high percentage of mentally unhinged people. Needless to say, there's thousands of things that need to be thought of, and boats need to be continuously maintained, and have parts replaced. And the great majority of people who buy boats don't have the passive income required to maintain a boat year after year. If you looked at average ownership periods of boats, it isn't high. At the end of the day, living on a boat, or doing lots of deep ocean cruising is for people born into money with lots of idle time on their hands to learn to be proficient sailors. Anyone without strong financial backing, even if a highly expericned sailor, eventually reaches a point where they cannot keep a boat seaworthy. Then the probability of catastrophic failure increases exponentially.
You're supposed to aid someone in distress but on the Ottawa river while in a kayak or a small sailboat , I've been swamped by speeding larger boats who seem to try to sink me and run away without checking to see if they did or not !
Carry a wrist rocket and some marbles or ball bearings, one gets too close you put one over his head, he keeps coming, lower your aim and hit him in the teeth or the sunglasses.
A boat that size (a ketch) probably had spare sails below. Looked like the main was on the boom and maybe the topping lift of mizzen boom had broken. Two or three true sailormen with some food and water could have sailed her into Bermuda in a few days.
could be wath happen, i am they did not let her a drift, position was took and since cruise ship navigate on coast line, i am sure that they sent the coast guard to take care, leting her at drift would be a danger for other boats.
If the captain of that sail boat was born on the east or west coast and not a land lock state he might of weathered the rough seas. But I guess when you got money to burn you do what ever you like.
I think that ketch runs about $40,000 on the market and is about 37 foot long so it's not that expensive as yachts go. Presumably it may go for less if recovered.
There we're a lot of romantics that have set sail for a Circumnavigation and never to be heard of again! This guy is really lucky considering his inexperience! He should maybe acquire an experienced Blue water sailor to accompany him for a season ! I don't know any sailor that would set off on a Atlantic crossing in the month of June!
I think he may be thinking of the sloop SV Satori where the "crew" panicked and sent out a Mayday against the experienced Skipper's wishes so the Coast Guard ordered him to abandon the ship. The skipper dropped his personal bag on the deck so that when the ship was found beached, it was clear the ship had not been in trouble as his bag was right where he dropped it. They still make UA-cam videos of trips on the Satori. However, the ship in this video appears larger and has two masts, possibly a ketch which makes me wander why it was abandoned, the jib seems tattered and the boom on the foremast is askewed as if it broke off but they would still have the mizzen mast to limp home with. Looks like the crew and skipper panicked and sent out a Mayday instead of first assessing the situation. At least that would mean they're likely alive. Of course, these abandoned ships are quite dangerous as unless they have a radar reflector up or their marine VHF still powered and transmitting their AIS, they are difficult to detect. If you don't have dutiful crew member on watch, you might easily crash into one, plus on a sailboat you may not have a radar or may only run your radar intermittently to save power. An even bigger hazard are partially submerged cargo containers, no profile for a watchman to see, no radar reflection, no AIS and your front depth sonar can't see them either plus they're heavy and made of steel.
We were on the Summit and saw this first hand. I believe it was reported that we were 200 nautical miles off the coast. Everyone was standing at the rails watching the activity. The captain later announced that this was the second time in his career he found a boat adrift and he said it is a super rear occurrence especially considering the size of the boat and the distance we were from the coast.
I say bs it's a very common occurrence but I think more likely he stays clear so he doesn't have to stop. .... more likely is many someone's did not pay attention and boom there it was and they had no choice but to stop
You don't know what you're talking about. Take a few minutes on the Bridge of a ship. They have this amazing invention called "radar". It's crazy, you should look into it.
@@roosdad1 If the sailboat does not have it's radar reflector raised or it's VHF radio broadcasting it's AIS, the boat would probably not show up on radar.
Maybe unfurled voluntarily… maybe not. Shredded, it certainly is. The boat may have broken her mooring : there is a line hanging at the bow. And what seems to be fenders hand on the starboard side … But then again the anchor hangs from the bow and what seem to be fenders may well be the boom and furled mainsail left askew on the starboard side … Many questions with no answer … Let's hope for the best : hate the idea of a solo sailor or two persons washed overboard. Sadly enough it happened before.
Definitely not broken from mooring but abandoned. Neither main or mizzen has a sailbag or is tied to the boom. Also the thing that looks like a fender is the main boom hanging overboard. The line hanging from the bow is likely a sea anchor to keep the boat facing the wind when there is no sail up and therefore no control.
Bloody hell. I hope the person helming the rib wasn't the captain of the ship 🤔🤣
Rules of the sea, your obliged to stop & help if someones in trouble.
"trouble"???? Was there a call for help? This looks exactly like videos of PIRATES
Max Hughes lol what
Omgoodness u streched what's going on a bit....everythig isn't bad ....!!!
@@maxhughes5687 The sails were shredded, the anchor was dangling and there were lines in the water. Enough signs that there was distress aboard.
Gus VanHorn Pirates wouldnt take a cruiseship. Way too many pelople, staff and guards onboard. Also way too hard to navigate through the ship. It takes a long time to learn the layout of a cruise ship if you take the crew areas into account as well.
Broken rudder chain is no joke. But my Catalina has an emergency tiller. I had to dig it out of a storage locker. Got me in.
You gotta know you’re boat.
ended up beached and he got her back.
Maritime law mandates all sea going vessels must come to the aid of any vessel in distress .
But this is a law that is rarely enforced.
It rarely needs enforcing, it is a code that goes beyond laws
Thank You. You are obviously a man of the sea as well. If you have ever been in a situation in the middle of the Ocean, you know that you are small, and insignificant. That being said, it isn't a question when you see another sailor in distress. smh* No matter your experience, storms at sea will really check your will.
Lots of variables though. Not least the risk to the rescuing vessel and its crew.
"distress"? Who decided that?
I saw an episode of a family being rescued off that boat in the middle of the pacific due to a broken rudder and it was left to drift. I hope they got their boat back it was everything to them.
Grumpy OldMan same
The Dove II
Yes
No, is not this boat tho this happened 6 years ago
It wasn't the pacific!
i read about this. he was picked up during bad weather and it floated to northeastern US shores. She was cleaned out by assholes as it was beached and he was sad and gave it away. Glad he survived. That was a nice old boat. Wish I would have found her.
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That's a nice boat, I would love to have found it and salvaged it. I miss my sailboat I used to have one like it.
My first thought was for the missing crew!
@@IkeBrider - you never know,might have been single-handed and the sailor fell overboard. The main is down & furled, the head is tattered, maybe the result of a storm. But look how high the boat rides, apparently no flooding issues, boat looks to be in very good. But I wouldn't want a boat that lost its sailor(s) like that. Boat is cursed, stigmatized, bad luck.
@@halibut1249 i got helicoptered of my single handed boat during the halloween storm, (otherwise called 'the perfect storm'...) i looked for the boat for about a month, no soap. i certainly HOPE somebody salvaged it, fixed it up, and sailed all over with it. i had about 3 grand in it. i've bought 3 or 4 boats since then. no sense crying too much...
I don't know squat about sail boats. But i know beautiful things when I see them and that boat is a beauty.
The main boom looks messed up, the sails would have to be replaced and we don't know how the rudder is fairing but it does look like a very nice ketch.
I just saw a video about when they on the boat got saved in the middle of the Atlantic
The guy driving that boat is hopeless!
ABOVE YES I NOTICED SAME GOOOFY BEHAVIOR HE'S USELESS N SCARED
Sad to think that they will report the position and it’s likely to be sunk to remove it as a hazard to navigation. There is a heartbreaking story there somewhere.
Legend has it, the rudder fell off and was abandoned at sea. It washed ashore a couple months later and owner was able to reclaim it.
@@nashvilleoutlaw nice to hear.
sad to see this i pray all on board are okay rip it not
I watched a similar one to this on YT. Some guys who came across an abandoned sailboat and a couple of the crew boarded and whilst one filmed the other guy opened the cabin door and there inside was the skeletal remains of the owner. Doesn't show that on the YT clip but it does on a report. Apparently the poor guy had just died from natural causes. I think the crew that found it were allowed to leave after reporting the co-ordinates to the coastguard.
Well if they lost it in the pacific it did not make it to the atlantic.
Obviously he would have been fine if he stayed aboard, could have gotten off at the Vinyard and gone to the pub! If you go to sea for the first time, on a proper ocean crossing alone in your own boat, you will sooner or later get strong winds and big waves, and you will be terrified! Thats a given! But the more you do it the more you realise that they weren't really that big, and the wind wasn't that strong. That your boat is actually fine and so are you. after days of rough weather and being scared you will get used to it, and start learning to enjoy living in this wild nature. That you can deal safely with most conditions, as long as you think first, take some deep breaths, and do what you must. People panic way to quick, and rely on rescue, and go to sea unprepared, missing the knowledge, guts and skill. A storm is an endurance thing, where you pray a lot, and promise god never to go to sea again if he lets you live this one time. But you keep going back, and its not that dangerous really as people think. People do it all the time on smaller shittier boats than this one. He should fix it up and do it again, and prepare well and maybe take a experienced sailor with him when it blows hard, just to show how to deal with it, and keep it fun.
I will grant you that the Westsail is a boat that will handle just about anything Mother Nature can deal out, conversely it's also called a "Wet Snail" for a very good reason. There are many other proper oceangoing boats that will handily deal with storm conditions which also sail well. Just about any of the Pacific Seacraft line of boats will sail circles around a Westsail and offer the superior sea keeping abilities.
I've been in 100'(yes) seas on an Aircraft Carrier. I wasn't attached to the command, and had never experienced that. My platoon and I weren't (scared), but rationally nervous.
I have an excellent idea what you're referring to. Semper Fi, bro.
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oceannomads i agree.
There is a yt channel which do sailings and they have uploaded a video showing how theu rescue the peolple on the boat due to a broken rudder, the channel is called *Monday never*
And the boat is called *Dove II* search on gog
I seen that
Oh yes Dove II
That doesn’t say Dove II on the back of that boat!
And Dove Il had windows along the hull.
Same colours though.
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Coast guard at that time receive three or more distress call, thats why they call the monday never crew
this yacht is not the Dove ll ua-cam.com/video/e8bfj2Mx65k/v-deo.html
Abandoned Sailboat Washes Ashore at Norton Point
The sailboat’s owner, Bill Heldenbrand of St. Joseph, Mo., told the Gazette Monday he was sailing alone from Green Cove Springs, Fla. in early May with the ultimate goal of crossing the Atlantic Ocean. His trip didn’t go as planned. Instead, after seven days at sea, the novice sailor encountered high winds and huge seas three-quarters of the way to Bermuda. Mr. Heldenbrand was rescued by a passing oil tanker and forced to abandon the sailboat. The tanker took him to Quebec City. The Running Free drifted to places unknown - until Friday, when Mr. Heldenbrand received a phone call from Nancy and Bruce Hulme, who spotted the sailboat coming ashore.
Mr. Heldenbrand said that he is driving from Georgia to Cape Cod to retrieve the sailboat, which he has arranged to have towed to Falmouth. That move may be completed as early as Monday evening, he said, though a previous attempt on Sunday to free the sailboat from its sandy berth proved unsuccessful. “It was a surprise that it beached itself on Martha’s Vineyard,” Mr. Heldenbrand said. “I am hoping to get it off the beach and get some repairs.”
Bill Hellenbrand is lucky I wasn't the one to discover his sailboat abandoned on the high seas. I would have boarded her and declared her salvage. Then I'd own a nice sailboat OR his insurance company could pay ME the market value of the boat to reclaim it for him.
The fact that she made it through the weather, unoccupied and unhanded, all the way to Martha's Vinyard still afloat -- Tells you that the boat is quite seaworthy and any shortcomings were of her master not her seaworthiness.
In 2013 after 40 knot winds,Bill Heldenbrand's sailboat drifted for 700 miles before beaching itself at Martha’s Vineyard. The salvors kept the boat.
Thanks for posting update. This whole situation was a botch job. That sailboat should have been reported by Hellenbrand AND the Capt of the tanker who picked up Hellenbrand. It could have been a crime scene or accidental death. This all could have been avoided. Glad Hellenbrand survived. Kudos to the Capt of the Summit for assisting and I am sure he/she reported this drifting sailboat. Fines should have been issue especially when the boat washed ashore.
Nice
@@acts9531 Thief and a dh
Hurricane Season begins June 1st but can be earlier as well. Bad move to have tried Atlantic crossing. I would do it in like January or February, truly away from the time frame of hurricane season in the atlantic from June to November. Glad owner is alive.
Right. Just a little difference in temperature, and stuff.
Maybe they wanted to cross the Atlantic really fast on the edge of a hurricane.
"Running Free" - Chillingly apropriate.
Useless boatman
Anther one that was probably the victim of too much sail up overnight while the crew slept with no watch. This is common especially for the ones who solo. In that area serious squalls out of nowhere can shred your sails like nothing. Frequently when the sails are shredded they get entangled in the rudder and prop and can render a boat dead in the water. Looking at this boat's foresail and rigging it appears as though this was probably the case and that she was unfortunately abandoned as a result
And you're wrong.
Why is the anchor hanging over the side? This is very odd.
Just shows how hard it can be to sink those boats.
Apparently so, looks like the captain gave up before the sailboat did.
@@PintoBlades Maybe he fell overboard.
Daniel keirstead sr He didn’t. He got rescued by an oil tanker. I think if my boat was fucked and I had a rescue ship right there I’d abandon ship too if I was far out
@@mcearl8073 For sure.
Daniel keirstead sr I’m surprised so many people are saying he shouldn’t have abandoned ship. I can see not getting out of a still floating boat to get in a life raft but if I can get rescued then fuck the boat, I’m sure it’s insured. Some of these sea conditions I see these small sailboats in is crazy enough in a functional boat.
Happens more often than naught, but when you lose your rudder, you have no control and are at the mercy of the ocean.
Rudder failure is #1 cause of abandoning sailboats. Anyone sailing in oceans should carry drogues in case of rudder failure.
Looks like one abandoned because of broken rudder!
Seems like a common problem with sailboats.
And tattered sails
The is a UA-cam video of a boat called dove 2 that gets abandoned due to a broken rudder. Apparently it hasn’t washed up anywhere. So probably a good call from the crew to abandon ship.
@@Verdigris. Wrong. But nice try.
www.soundingsonline.com/news/son-if-you-go-out-in-that-ocean-youre-going-to-die
According to my son, who is an entertainer on the ship, they HAVE to stop if they come upon a vessel like this.
+Mike Peterson First rule of the sea is to help other vessels in distress. Human life above all else.
Of course they have to stop !!!…
Its the code of the sea
It applies even in wartime when the crew of the ship in distress, or sunk, should be rescued, even if as prisoners. Better a live lamb than a dead lion.
@ Cameron Gibbs -- It's not that it's "the code of the sea", you great gallumping ridiculously romantic foot eating doofus. _It's that it is_ *International Maritime LAW.*
Just because it is a sailboat doesn't mean it is a blue water boat. Blue water boats are built stronger.
Aparece el barco encallado en la playa
Stranded Yacht Resists Removal Efforts in Martha's Vineyard
Looks like the front anchor is banging on the boat
If I was on that ship I would dive overboard silently when it was leaving the scene, swim out to yaght, make necessary modification/repairs and sail to the nearest port in my newly aquired vessel...
That's like winning the lottery...!
That would have been theft.
RWBHere ...No. it wouldn't have been. Admiralty Law applies in international waters. Jasper Asis might not have been able to claim ownership immediately: Court would've had to decide. But a verdict for cost of salvage, paid by the original boat owner, would have been more than boat's worth, and Jasper would've could claim it then.
jasper asis ...oh, what a hero you are...how do you propose to pull yourself up on the deck with the kind of freeboard on that vessel?....obviously you aren’t a sailor, so I’ll explain “freeboard” its the distance between the water and the deck....cheers🍷
jasper would get to the boat and find out there is NO gas in it lol
@@Slick1G3 - *Don't need* gas.. that's why it has sails. Mind you, jasper probably doesn't know how to sail, either.
Seems a pity to have left the boat, it appears that he could have ridden out the storm, and with a little more preparation continued sailing when the storm subsided.
+314194: I'm sure his degree of experience played a role in his decision. If you're not that good of a sailor then put your life first, but more importantly you need to understand that the north Atlantic can be a serious task master. Don't bit off more than you can chew.
Touche', it is easy to second guess from the comfort of an office chair and the dry warmth emanating from a large computer screen, now that I look closer I previously missed the shredded foresail. I will pay more attention in the future. Cheers
But still never leave the boat unless it's going down.
Agree. 1/sea anchor 2/ rear stay sail taught 3/make sure radar and mast light on. Puke bucket ready.
Without sails, and obvious damage? OK, ancient mariner.
I was on the summit when this happened⛵️
Did you start the clapping? Oh, I see you were probably eating.
Did you watch this as you ate at the buffet?
Wow I am amazed of all these covetiousness, people wanting to claim other people's property. How about doing the right thing as a seaman/ sailor, and notify the authorities and owner so they may get their boat back.
One way of entertaining your passengers.
Under maritime law, any boat abandoned on the high seas is considered fair salvage.
Cleatus McGurkin, law and what is right and ethical don’t always coincide!
Cleatus McGurkin, law and what is right and ethical don’t always coincide!
Very well said! My first thought was for the welfare of the missing crew!
Probably the powder-keg. These merchant ships runs heavily armed.
Oh wait, wrong movie!
You have to help are sea just like it is illegal to refuse a person water in the desert right? Or left???
That boat is dove || it was left behind by a fam that was rescuded by another sailing team!
It actually washed up on Martha's Vineyard.
vineyardgazette.com/news/2013/07/11/looters-descend-grounded-sailboat-police-warn-arrests
Name of boat?
there is a video of mayday call and rescue. lost a rudder in middle of atlantic
ua-cam.com/video/e8bfj2Mx65k/v-deo.html
If I was the Mate I would claim salvage and jump ship
A chance for office workers on vacation to see the real world.
Ha well put. Probably the most exciting thing to happen on that cruise, by far.
Gawd almighty who keeps cracking nuts in the background???
kenna Sebastian the coast guard might have been many hours or even days away cruise ships have medical facilities
The medical equipment on a cruise ship is minimal and the Doctor often inexperienced and accustomed to more modern equipment than could be brought on a ship. Indeed, the equipment suitable for use on a ship are the older manual instruments and few of the younger Doctors even know of them.
You would be surprised at how many truck containers that fall off ships that are
lurking Just below the water waiting to sink a Vessel.......... I remember one!
Cargo containers not truck containers and yes they are serious navigational hazards. Can't see them on radar or AIS, difficult to spot with binoculars and they're made of steel so they can do some serious damage to fibreglass or wood hulls.
Mann ueber Port ! Vor allen bei Einhand Seglern geschied dieses immer wieder! Makaber aber wahr. Beim Pinkeln sind schon einige ueber Bord.
This Dove II was abandoned on 12/21/2016, 3 adults and 2 children were rescued by Tilly. I hope that they got their boat and on their new journey of blessings and a brand new beginning 🙏, may God bless them!
Wow, then this ship travelled forward in time, witnessed the abandoned boat and filmed it, then when back in time to 2013 and posted it on youtube. If that family had only watched UA-cam back then they could have avoided this.
Why is everyone saying that. This isn’t the Dove II, it’s not even the Dove 1 lol. You can see the name of the boat on it at times.
@@mcearl8073 Because the average person exhibits the retention span of a goldfish nowadays.
J Denmark Yea really, it’s just amazing people can write things so wrong with such confidence
@@mcearl8073 too true sadly, UA-cam is such an amazing thing in so many ways, enabling unparalleled access to experiences most could never have. But then you realize there are a lot of very opinionated ignorant people all too willing to share that with you.
I bet this is the boat that had to be abandoned do to a missing Rutter !!! There is a couple that went and rescued the family!!!
I remember that case the family lost everything.
No it's isn't, that's was the Dove II
"Rutter"????? *facepalm* Education is dead....
Judging by the swinging anchor he was hoping to drop anchor for the night have a picnic and sail across the Atlantic....!
More likely it was a drogue or para anchor to slow the boat in rough seas. It would be on the anchor rode.
Dave Purrington I think I saw a swinging anchor too. It appears to have slipped off the roller.
My first thought was that the yacht was crewed solo and the the poor man (or woman) fell overboard. Relatively happy ending.
Me too, when I used to own a sailboat, I always wore a tether and harness just in case I went overboard, it would keep you attached to the boat and give you a fighting chance to get back aboard.
What in hell is that "gun fire" noise???
Secure the anchor. Quite my job on cruise ship. Salvage sail boat.
I taught the same 🙂
Me too!
That's the boat that a family was on they were rescued by another sailboat I saw in a video yeaterday
as a sail broke, the crew abandoned the whole boat, it doesn't matter that it had 2 masts with as many sails
It wasnt abandoned due to that reason. It was a a doned for a broke. Rudder
This boat rocking and rolling in relatively flat seas. This what you get with a boat having poor comfort ratio and poor capsize screen formula numbers
I bet this boat has a fin keel and spade rudder
Built for coastal cruising and lakes, not for blue water
That sailboat is sitting well above her design waterline and bouncing on the swells rather than riding them. Something important and heavy is missing. Maybe she dropped her keel weight?? That would make her effectively impossible to sail. I hope whoever was aboard had a liferaft.
Actually, no. She's listing to starboard a bit because her boom and mainsail are in the fucking water. Pretty easy to see in the video. Also, the boat ran aground later. there are pictures with the keel. This was inexperienced sailor in a rather larger storm that abandoned ship to a nearby tanker. So, yea. It's looks like you don't know what you're talking about.
@@Mike-zf4xg ouch, but well said
@@Mike-zf4xg Its been a year now, have you calmed down now.
You clearly know nothing about sailboats. If it lost a keel, it would be upside down.
I sold a sailing boat to a man in Texas. It washed up on one of the islands and was totally destroyed on the reef. Man never found. I figured he fell overboard. Never heard from him again. No telling how long the vessel was adrift. Could have been months.
Rule #1 for sailors: Never step DOWN into a lifeboat.
+Poundingsand why not?
+flappy188 It implies that your vessel is still afloat...always step UP into a lifeboat. All too often they rescue sailors in a liferaft, only to find their vessel still afloat somewhere...
Poundingsand I don't get it. Are you joking? As in they need to step up because their boat sank? If I was going to have to abandon ship, I'd want to do that before the boat was completely gone and I was in the drink.
No, I'm not joking. But nor did I write the saying. It suggests that your boat should be riding really low in the water, and you have to step up into the lifeboat, not that you are jumping off at the last second...
This is a much better option than ( Captain always goes down with the ship)
Was stranded near Martha's Vineyard some time later as I understand.
Owner could get hold of her.
A pity nobody made a salvage claim : he / she would have got a beautiful boat for the towing money. Which would have been fair as it appears the owner was just one of those would be sailor who didn't care about his investment.
All thieves love the "I found it".
@no candy Tool
That would have been my boat
What is that intermittent banging noise?
Camera..close to the guy taking video..
Looks like a Pearson 365
Bullerias or a Catalina 40!
Looks Like same Sailboat I saw in another video that was called in Abandoned in the Gulf of Mexico
+Rebecca Rodgers I just watched that video
+Rebecca Rodgers I just watched it again, not the same boat
+Steve Mason Same. One video leads to another.
+Rebecca Rodgers nope it is not, sorry folk!
Copy that.
The rudder broke the family tried to repair but couldn't fix it they are safe
sad to see the striped sail.
Mann ueber Board sollte es richtig heissen . Bin selbst mit Freunden auf einer Stahl-Yacht (Skorpion) 1982 in 25 Tagen und fuenf Stunden ueber den Atlantik. Cran Canaria nach Kingston (Barbados). Von Sturm bis absolute Flaute wir hatten das Ganze Programm . Teilweise auch etwas langweilig. Nur vermissen moechte ich es nicht !
Hope the crew are OK, but the skipper of the "life boat" needs a lesson in boat handling!!
Im pretty sure he knows what he is doing. His last job was not at Burger King.
If i was on that cruise ship i'd be asking to be put on that yacht and i claim it as mine
LIABILITY says NO
Steal and go to hell.
You would ask to leave a safe situation where there's food, water, comfort, etc etc..
To be placed on a damaged sailboat in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, during what seems like a storm.
Just for the sake of being able to call first date dibs on a abandoned boat?? Smh
The lengths some would go, sometimes is just astounding.
Board from the stern
It might be the sailboat lost my the family rescued by those who said Tilly Mint. They performed a rescue at sea and the sailboat was abandoned..busted rudder...in heavy seas.
I doubt it, this one has two masts, likely a ketch. I believe the SV Dove II was a 56 foot sloop and suffered the loss of it's rudder then after first evacuating the wife and children to the 67 foot sloop Tilly Mint, the tired skipper messed up the sails when trying to use an improvised rudder and called the Tilly Mint back to pick him up. This possible ketch appears to have had it's sails blown out, we do not know if it still has it's rudder from the video alone.
I believe the SV Dove II skipper left the engine on and the VHF radio broadcasting the AIS so that the vessel could be tracked by passing ships so that it wouldn't be a navigation hazard and he could hire a boat to tow it but they still lost track of the ship, likely the engine shutdown and the radio drained the batteries. It was in the middle of the Atlantic, so if it drifted anywhere, it would've been towards Bermuda and Florida. The rescue was coordinated by the UK coastguard over sat phone. I'm a bit surprised that the coastguard knew to call the Tilly Mint in hopes it was in the area but I guess the larger sailboats with hired Skipper's and crews would likely register their trips with the respective coast guards. I believe the Tilly Mint is currently for sale.
That was my fist thought but looks like a couple years difference.
This one beached on Martha's Vineyard.
www.soundingsonline.com/news/son-if-you-go-out-in-that-ocean-youre-going-to-die
The sailor couldn't handle the "ruff sea's" so he bailed out on to a tanker ship. The capt'n of the ship said he can't take the boat. That he must leave the boat if he wants on his ship. So he did. The boat was left with no note inside informing his abandonment. Or passage. (trustee kid) most likely.
Ahh yes. I'm being rescued during high seas. Let me just take a second, and pen a nice note.
flyingtigre1 did he get his sailboat back eventually
If the seas are too rough, hove to, then go below have a tea and get some rest. When hove to, the boat will be calm but it would be adrift with the current. As long as your rudder and storm jib holds, you're perfectly fine when hoved to. The only danger is if you drift into some reefs or into another boat.
Aye! Scurvy dogs, arrg!
Wave Rover?
Does anyone have follow up information on crew and/or vessel?
MrPe Be it's here in the comments somewhere. It washed ashore near Martha's vineyard.
Yeah. After the crew of the rescue ship cleaned his pants out, he vowed to never go sailing again.
I'm not sure if the Martha's vineyard claim was a valid report, more likely a joke about the owner/skipper being privileged.
That looks like a nice boat , I wonder what happened?
A guess and a common reason people abandon boats at sea: she lost her rudder. If you can't steer it, it's useless, and her passengers abandoned ship onto perhaps a cargo ship that was passing by.
@@xs10z there's a family that's looking for it, they had to abandon in bad weather due to having lost their rudder.
@@bobbytowesr3387 I'm a year late etc etc, but this video is eight years old, and the video of the Dove II was four years ago. They're not the same boat.
@@bobbytowesr3387 Dove II was a sloop. This boat is a ketch. Not Dove II
Take it in tow skipper and crew claim salvage and split the money between them , nice little bonus i reckon .
+andy hustler The cruise ship would have to go too slow if it towed it, about 5 knts even less depending on seas, less than a quarter its cruising speed.
So I know who owned it
name of ship and owner?
I would have tried to stow any loose rigging, that swinging anchor and sails and then stayed with her. I'd hate to abandon a likely dry boat for a life raft, out of panic. If she ain't sinking, stay with the boat.
This makes me CRAZY! As a sailor he should have done the proper thing and scuttled (sunk) his boat. Leaving the craft floating at sea only puts other boaters in harm's way. Properly insure your boat and do the right thing if you are faced with this type of situation. Scuttle it and keep others from potentially crashing into it at night!!!
Free boat. Just needs sails
Can anybody make out the name of the boat ? …
Most appropriately, it was 'Running Free'.
Another one that got caught in a blow,
To save others the trouble of looking up the ship's fate: it washed ashore on Martha's Vineyard a few weeks later. The 36.5 foot sailboat - the Running Free - wound up on a sandy beach. The owner drove up from Georgia to get it. While the boat was beached, the locals looted it. The police then gave limited amnesty - looting is against the law - and some of the items were returned (but not all). The owner, a Mr. Bill Heldenbrand, had it towed to New Bedford. However, the Running Free was so badly damaged that he sold it for $1 as scrap, probably (this is an assumption) to the tow company to satisfy their bill.
Interestingly, among the items looted and then returned was a "sail in a big bag." Thus, those claiming that there was no sail left to sail it are wrong. Theoretically - and nobody knows how bad conditions were - the captain could have ridden out the storm and then gotten a sail up (assuming there was some rigging left, which appears to be the case, but who knows). Just goes to show, all the youtube channels showing blissful sailing without a care are highly misleading.
The boat had a very appropriate name.
www.wavetrain.net/news-a-views/490-abandoned-boats-swan-48-spotted-again-plus-another-hits-the-beach
I always have a Sea Anchor with me!
If I found a abandoned sailboat it will be mine!
That's the dove two it's owned
Sailing attracts a high percentage of mentally unhinged people.
Needless to say, there's thousands of things that need to be thought of, and boats need to be continuously maintained, and have parts replaced.
And the great majority of people who buy boats don't have the passive income required to maintain a boat year after year.
If you looked at average ownership periods of boats, it isn't high.
At the end of the day, living on a boat, or doing lots of deep ocean cruising is for people born into money with lots of idle time on their hands to learn to be proficient sailors.
Anyone without strong financial backing, even if a highly expericned sailor, eventually reaches a point where they cannot keep a boat seaworthy.
Then the probability of catastrophic failure increases exponentially.
im bad is se the anchor
FREE BOAT !!!!
jutubaeh ???
No free boat, rectum! Belongs to someone.
Arthur Bradley why free boat
There's a legal thing called salvage, you can not simply leave your boat adrift and then demand it back when somebody picks it up.
@@tellmesomething2go yes free boat for the claiming & towing it is maritime salvage law
Should have at least secured the jib.
Maybe shark got people from the boat
You're supposed to aid someone in distress but on the Ottawa river while in a kayak or a small sailboat , I've been swamped by speeding larger boats who seem to try to sink me and run away without checking to see if they did or not !
Carry a wrist rocket and some marbles or ball bearings, one gets too close you put one over his head, he keeps coming, lower your aim and hit him in the teeth or the sunglasses.
Put a couple of crew aboard and claim Salvage??!!
That boat was not able to go anywhere, no sails and probably no fuel
A boat that size (a ketch) probably had spare sails below. Looked like the main was on the boom and maybe the topping lift of mizzen boom had broken. Two or three true sailormen with some food and water could have sailed her into Bermuda in a few days.
could be wath happen, i am they did not let her a drift, position was took and since cruise ship navigate on coast line, i am sure that they sent the coast guard to take care, leting her at drift would be a danger for other boats.
Your a thief
If the captain of that sail boat was born on the east or west coast and not a land lock state he might of weathered the rough seas. But I guess when you got money to burn you do what ever you like.
+riphaven wtf ru talking about
I think that ketch runs about $40,000 on the market and is about 37 foot long so it's not that expensive as yachts go. Presumably it may go for less if recovered.
There we're a lot of romantics that have set sail for a Circumnavigation and never to be heard of again!
This guy is really lucky considering his inexperience! He should maybe acquire an experienced Blue water sailor
to accompany him for a season ! I don't know any sailor that would set off on a Atlantic crossing in the month of June!
Maybe he's a hurricane hunter...
Nice boat, did he really get her back or you just having me on, looks like he gave up
I think he may be thinking of the sloop SV Satori where the "crew" panicked and sent out a Mayday against the experienced Skipper's wishes so the Coast Guard ordered him to abandon the ship. The skipper dropped his personal bag on the deck so that when the ship was found beached, it was clear the ship had not been in trouble as his bag was right where he dropped it. They still make UA-cam videos of trips on the Satori. However, the ship in this video appears larger and has two masts, possibly a ketch which makes me wander why it was abandoned, the jib seems tattered and the boom on the foremast is askewed as if it broke off but they would still have the mizzen mast to limp home with. Looks like the crew and skipper panicked and sent out a Mayday instead of first assessing the situation. At least that would mean they're likely alive.
Of course, these abandoned ships are quite dangerous as unless they have a radar reflector up or their marine VHF still powered and transmitting their AIS, they are difficult to detect. If you don't have dutiful crew member on watch, you might easily crash into one, plus on a sailboat you may not have a radar or may only run your radar intermittently to save power. An even bigger hazard are partially submerged cargo containers, no profile for a watchman to see, no radar reflection, no AIS and your front depth sonar can't see them either plus they're heavy and made of steel.
The majority of abandoned boat are still afloat the people would have been ok if they stayed with the boat.
that's because we don't count the abandoned boats on the sea bed...
I guess the real question to this video is: so what?
We were on the Summit and saw this first hand. I believe it was reported that we were 200 nautical miles off the coast. Everyone was standing at the rails watching the activity. The captain later announced that this was the second time in his career he found a boat adrift and he said it is a super rear occurrence especially considering the size of the boat and the distance we were from the coast.
I say bs it's a very common occurrence but I think more likely he stays clear so he doesn't have to stop. .... more likely is many someone's did not pay attention and boom there it was and they had no choice but to stop
From what I've read, drifting abandoned vessels aren't that rare. Some may even spend years drifting before they're discovered.
You don't know what you're talking about. Take a few minutes on the Bridge of a ship. They have this amazing invention called "radar". It's crazy, you should look into it.
Abandoned sailboats are not rare but the ocean is very very large.
@@roosdad1 If the sailboat does not have it's radar reflector raised or it's VHF radio broadcasting it's AIS, the boat would probably not show up on radar.
Damn, what the hell is that repeated BANG on the audio. Sounds like a gas powered nail gun!!! Jeezus, move the mike.
door onto deck opening and closing .
YEA! SO EFIN ANNOYING.
Yeah, sounds like a little .22 caliber doing a 3-shot burst!
Move the MIC? Serious? This was just documenting a live event.
zia never noticed the door. The video was too interesting. That applause was misplaced; there could have been a corpse aboard.
La rançon de la vulgarisation...
Why didn't the officers pull the sailboat to the marina?
another victim of the Bermuda triangle . . . dum dum dum
most badly executed boarding at sea that I have ever witnessed
It's seaworthy when she can make it to shore even on her own but,,, who wants to chance it. Know your limitations and still, "it happens".
I'll take that back because the jib is unfurled. Anybody know?
Maybe unfurled voluntarily… maybe not.
Shredded, it certainly is.
The boat may have broken her mooring : there is a line hanging at the bow. And what seems to be fenders hand on the starboard side …
But then again the anchor hangs from the bow and what seem to be fenders may well be the boom and furled mainsail left askew on the starboard side …
Many questions with no answer …
Let's hope for the best : hate the idea of a solo sailor or two persons washed overboard. Sadly enough it happened before.
Plus the mizzen sail unfurled and hanging loose : bad omen…
It does look like a bust mooring, the boat does not look like it is rigged for sea what with the anchor hanging off the bow.
Definitely not broken from mooring but abandoned. Neither main or mizzen has a sailbag or is tied to the boom. Also the thing that looks like a fender is the main boom hanging overboard. The line hanging from the bow is likely a sea anchor to keep the boat facing the wind when there is no sail up and therefore no control.
Well I can't tell if the jib is on an auto furler or a halyard but it definitely wasn't stowed appropriately.
Well? What's the story, ? Whata waste.....