Steering SNAPPED Near Land! Using Emergency Tiller for First Time | A&J Sailing
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2022
- After spending a week in incredible Princess Louisa Inlet, we hauled anchor and sailed back towards civilization in order to reprovision. 48 hours and 75nm miles later we were back in the Straight of Georgia, sailing in 20kn winds and surfing down 6-8ft swells when our STEERING FAILED.
Suddenly our boat was seemingly out of our control and at the mercy of the wind. This is the FULL story of what happened..
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I (Allison) met James while working on a remote island in the PNW three years ago.
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The ethereal beauty captured in this video really touched my soul. Then the steering issue scarred it! What a juxtaposition to find yourself in. Music selection was spot on! Thanx for having us all aboard!
Jen you described our experience out here perfectly! We are learning that sailing is one big juxtaposition ⛵️
The uncomfortable, scary, low moments are what make the high moments so great. Definitely a lifestyle of extremes!
Thank you for the soundtrack compliment! Allison puts a lot of work into finding the right tracks. Thank you so much for being here with us!
Still can’t get over the spectacular scenery.
Isn’t it incredible!? And you guys have been to some pretty amazing places! Can’t wait for you to visit and sail with us here✨
Really glad you made it safely home. Thank you for sharing.
You guys work great together under stress! My palms were sweating watching that wind-action and boat movement. ⛵
Aw, thank you Colleen! Sailing is certainly a good test for a relationship 😅 we've had to work thru a lot of things out here!
Haha those damn bananas will get you every time! Glad you guys were able to get the secondary steering figured out so quickly!
Yes, very glad! Thanks for watching guys! :)
That WATERFALL! Gorgeous!! But I was a little anxious when the steering went out! You guys do very well with sudden mishaps! Damn that tubular yellow ( yum yum) fruit 🍌! Lol
Chatterbox Falls!! Isn't it amazing? 😍
Gosh, thank you! That experience really tested us! But that's the way it goes out here most days. Builds character I guess😅
@@AllisonandJamesSailing chatterbox falls…interesting name. Water does talk, even sings…. One of my favorite sounds is the sound, gentle waves make over a shore of smooth rocks.
Such beautiful scenery. Can understand why you didnt want to leave that place. And what an exciting trip back across the open water!
Allison’s comment about having a better feel for the boat on the tiller is so very true. When you were learning to dock the boat, James, I was thinking how much easier the lesson would have been with a tiller rather than a wheel. More fun too, I reckon xx
The inlets are really beautiful! That lesson would have probably gone a bit differently, we're actually thinking about taking out the wheel all togethers. They are pretty fun! (and much simpler to fix)
Great quick thinking with the emergency tiller. Glad this worked out well for you guys. Loved seeing the candid footage of you guys wrangling the boat for a while. I could feel the tension and stress through the video haha. Great episode.
Thank you!!! Us too. It's still stressful and uncomfortable for us to watch the footage but we're sure glad everything worked out well and we feel much more confident and prepared for future fails!
Loved the shots in this ❤😊 also what an experience, I would have been sea sick and a nervous wreck. Glad you guys are ok!
Thank you Caroline! We're enjoying filming more moody PNW shots here this Fall!
It was quite the experience! It's funny in a way, steering failure has always been a big fear of mine.. but I wasn't expecting it to happen so soon into our first sailing season! Kinda glad it happened and is over with so that I don't have to worry about it! We're confident and prepared if it ever happened again! -A
BANANAS ARE A TERRIBLE CURSE
Remove incapacitated wheel for easy tiller use. I leave a wrench in aft lazarette with tiller handle
Yes we would definitely remove the wheel next time! Ours is also in the aft lazarette with the wrench attached. We make sure it is within arms reach and accessible at all times 😅
You did handle that very well. ♥️♥️♥️♥️
Aw thank you! Grateful to have you guys on speed dial as well, to talk us off the ledge 😅
Really love your videos, so much so that I'm systematically working through the back catalogue as well as keeping up with your new releases.
With regards to your water situation in this video, I was wondering about the pro's and con's of collecting fresh water from some of the falls and streams running into the chuck. Thinking it would be fairly easy to take an empty container or 3 and fill them up at the stream, then tow them floating behind the dinghy to your boat--could be used either for drinking (boiled or treated of course) or washing. (I think I read about something like this in the Patrick O'Brian novels.) Of course, you had other things that needed attending to, but I just wondered if the rainy season on the coast would allow such water collection.
Also, well done with that emergency tiller! The angle you had to use it at to avoid the wheel must have added so much effort.
Awe wow, so glad you're enjoying them!! Thank you so much.
Was a good first go with the tiller! We could have removed the wheel to make it easier on ourselves! Thinking about removing it permanently and replacing with a tiller and getting an autopilot for that! Just getting rid of the risk of cables breaking altogether.
💧I had a chuckle about that in our latest episode saying we needed water when there was a waterfall rushing down the mountain behind me! We certainly could fill containers from natural sources and do just fine.
I'd be hesitant to put it into our water tanks/lines so as not to gunk that up with dirt and debris but we do have a gravity fed water filter onboard that we use when hiking. There's certainly no shortage of water around! What were really missing in those moments I guess is fresh food and cold beers lol
Nice job getting it under control, tillers will most often give a much better feel for the boat than a wheel will especially the Hydraulic wheels that have very little feel, at least you have a cable steer much nicer. but remember to be very careful with the wire clamps and always put them on in the correct position, the rule is the saddle should never be on the dead end or the old saying (never saddle a dead horse) is a good way to remember and never over or under torque and make sure cable is very dry and free from oil debris or any contaminates.
Cheers mate! Thanks for the tips, I'll have to pull the steering cable cover to check if I have the wire clamps around the right way, I didn't know that you should never saddle a dead horse!
This place reminds me of home Milford sound nz
Yes the fjords of the BC coast are very much like Milford Sound :)
Great job on these videos. I hope you get more subscribers.
Thank you Mark!!! UA-cam is a slow grow, hopefully we can hang in there for the long haul! Thanks so much for watching!! Cheers!
Luckily your Black Box wasn’t completely empty. I think you should just eat that exotic yellow fruit, and not tempt fate having it aboard.
haha! Agreed John! During our second stroke of bad luck (which we haven't yet shared) we also had bananas onboard! We don't let them come anywhere near our vessel these days..
Ok i found this interesting since the J34 i will be on in March 2024 does not have a steering wheel . Guss i will learn the day we do it . I have had a four man inflatable row boat that could hold a small engine on lake along with a paddle boat but that's it fore my solo stuff .
Nice, Tillers are great. We’re keen on taking out our steering pedestal & swopping it for a Tiller. Better feel for the boat, more cockpit space and bonus tiller autopilots are cheaper. You’ll get the hang of it!
Love this stuff,sure better watching youtube stuff that you like then the sadness on the news.
@@user-ln8fu2lx3x Absolutely, couldn't agree more. Not sure the news is helping anything...
I always say when your driving your car do you keep moving the steering wheel back and forth? seems so many think the boat will not go straight they over steer instead of just holding it straight and just a tiny movement if it goes way off course. Theres so many people that have trouble with cable steering. I changed it on a few of my boats to gear or hydrolic.
Yes! Similar steering tactics to driving any other vehicle. It's one thing to hear that but another to experience it!
It's interesting to watch yourself in moments of panic! We still laugh at our Navionics track from that day. But it didn't take us long to get the hang of it and we learned that we actually prefer steering the boat with a tiller. Thinking about removing the wheel and installing a proper tiller - eliminating that point of failure altogether.