Towing A 700HP Boat With A Super Yacht!!! (Captain’s Vlog 92)
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- Опубліковано 4 лип 2019
- We go though the entire process of how we connect the chase boat with the Tow line to a superyacht.
Captain Tristan Mortlock is an award winning Super Yacht Captain with over 15 years experience. He started his yachting career in his teens and now runs one of the most successful charter yachts in the world. Tristan is currently serving on Motor Yacht AWOL, a San Lorenzo SD122, built in 2009. AWOL is a multi award winning yacht and her crew take a lot of pride in their work.
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I am a Union Ironworker and find it cool that we do a lot of the same stuff when it comes to rigging, knots,and safety. Good job guys.
I noticed that too as Im a Union Jouneyman Lineman and some of the rigging/knots etc are the same.
Great to meet some more crew members. Lots of info again in this video.
Great job in filming both from the tender and AWOL. Keep up the good work Captain!
I've read every comment here, and seen all of your videos. Everything you do on AWOL you do with safety in mind, down to the tiniest detail and multiple redundant systems you safeguard your ship, your crew, and your guests.
But here we have a situation where you are not. Multiple experienced industry professionals have commented below with facts and figures of how this tow line could be set up better. "It's worked for 6000 miles" is a surprisingly flippant answer to hear from you.
Love the channel, best regards
Instead of coiling the tow try flaking it across the deck. That way once the helm is off the boat you can kick the yacht slow ahead and the line will payout smoothly. It's what they do in normal marine towage. Any reason the crew don't use the crouch straps on the life jackets?? Keeps up the video's
Hey captain, as part of my job I am trained in rope rescue, one of the things we are taught are critical angles in rope deflection. It looks in the video that you have a very wide angle on your line that the tow line is attached to. You might want to look into it because at such a wide angle, you could be compounding tho load on your anchors, but more importantly your line. A longer line could make for a narrower angle and reduce the stress on the line and anchors. Great video, I find your work to be very interesting!
With around 90° between the anchored lines on the main boat each end will be stressed by around 70% of the pulling force. Above 120° the forces on the anochers can exceed the force from the towed boat.
Yes, but all the loads are still way below what the equipment can handle. That shackle looked like it could pick up the chaseboat with lots of safety factor to spare.
I am surprised with that much line out that they didn't narrow the angle by tying it on both ends to the towing boat in a U shape (instead of using THICK black line) and then attaching towed boats shackle to it so that it didn't slide much to change the geometry of the towing line. Am I explaining myself correctly?
Captain, you clearly are a mentor for your crew. Well done.
Thank you Sir 🙂
Nice video , I see all the video from you, good work Captain and you crew.
Thanks for your videos Tristan, they are very informative and give a little insight for the sea worthy wannabe's. I spent 10 yrs in the Navy, but still learning :)
Being able to spend a week onboard AWOL will be a forever dream for me. I'm 59 now, so the next best thing is to simply watch the excellent videos like you provide.
Sorry you didn't reach the 100K subscribes you needed (71.1K as of 16 Oct 2019), but I'm now a subscriber.
Keep up the good work.
Yet another wonderful video... thanks so much.
Amazing, just AMAZING!
Love seeing how different programs toe seems like every yacht has there own way of doing it nice to see a real deal captain with a channel
Many thanks 👍😎
Love, love, love it the best informative 'how to' one I seen . The case boat is a decent boat in itself and want to see more like this, in a positive comment it's great to see how you keep Awol running behind the scenes!!
That’s awesome, thank you. I hope you continue to enjoy the video. 👍
Today I've watched 5 of these videos I'm so obsessed with this Yachting thing ... was in a Yacht week cruise for 7days in Croatia 2019 yerrrrrr it was fun... Greetings from South Africa
Great job, but he did walk right on top of the tow line while it was being pulled out (as he talked about not doing that). That guy on Below Deck did the same thing and got strung up and almost lost a leg.
I have been a subscriber for a while. I love the videos. Keep up the good work Captain and Crew!
Thanks for all that nice videos. Could be interesting to hear about how your plan to handle unexpected critical maneuver with the chase boat on tow, and to see how your prevent the chase boat to hit AWOL when stopping. Keep up the good work :-)
Love seeing your dreams in play! Lots of sun screen. Cheers!
Thank you very much for explaining the entire procedure for towing the boat. Great!!!
Tolles Video Tristan. Schön, wie Deine Crew am Dreh mitmacht 😊
Hei man :) saw AWOL in Calvi today :) looks even better in real life ;)
Have a good journey!
This is really just a story of how much David loves the chase boat.
Hi Captain, really enjoying this very informative channel you have. Only happened to stumble across it by luck and I'm pleased I did. Keep up the good work.
Greetings. During preps for a small boat skipper for inland waters and rivers, we were taught about towing and if I am not mistaken there were so crucial things like marking the towing line/s and of course the towing vessel with specific flags/symbols.
Excellent video.
Always top stuff.
Great to hear. Thank you.
I think this is my fav SYC vid yet... awesome
As a retired mariner, I am very much enjoying your insightful vids. Love all the electronic gadgets and how clean and tidy everything is. Some of the comments are well worth reading too. Thank you.
Thanks Roger. All the best 👍
You are not retired !!!! there is not such a thing as a retired skipper !! you are just taking a rest !!!! :-) :-)
Answering the right questions!! Thanks!
Pre-requisite afloat. Old,n,tru. Ye gotta know the ropes. Rifftastic.👌
That 'Black line' is called a bridle, mate. The bridle is far too short, creating too large an angle at the bridle apex (as others have pointed out), putting additional stress on the bitts.
When securing the eye of the bridle to the bitts the eyes shouldn't simply be thrown over the post, rather the line should be taken outboard, round the forward post and led back and looped over the aft post.
Tip: coil your Dyneema towline in a figure-of-eight when stowing, prevents all those kinks when flaking the line out (which he doesn't do either) before setting the towline.
There's not much seamanship going on here.
He probably knows what he is doing a lot more than you. He also probably knows that “that black line” is called the bridle.
@@theolopez3299 His actions on video prove otherwise. If he knows its called a bridle he would have called it that. Me, I qualified up to Able Seaman before studying and obtaining my Second Mate's ticket, deep sea, foreign-going (UK tickets, so I am reasonably well trained). 10 years sea time. You?
Dyneema wouldn’t be my first choice in tow line.
It has next to zero stretch, so there’s next to no shock absorption in that tow system to account for when towed vessel, is straining against a swell while towing vessel is pushing down the face of a swell.
The constant jerking motion places undue strain on your 2 tow point bollards.
If for example you had a rubber car tyre in the middle of the tow line it would both deform from round & stretch even to provide that shock absorption in the tow system.
Or you could select a towline with stretch like polyethylene rather than dyneema.
Dyneema s other great failing is that the fibres are brittle if bent much past 90 degrees so knots selection is critical to avoid doubling the line back on itself, if you don’t want to prematurely weaken the dyneema fibres.
It would be preferable to employ a shock absorber in the tow line than to use say a polyethylene line that stretches, for safety reasons, risk to crew. A stretched polyethylene line that parts can recoil with great force.
Using a non stretch line like dyneema in a towing application at sea without employing any form of shock absorption is just transferring all the strain to both vessels which is less than desirable long term in my opinion.
Thanks for the feedback, you make some great valid points. I will definitely do some more research into this.
Last year we towed over 6000nm with the same line with no signs of stress damage to either the line or the 2 vessels.
Either way, I’ll look into into it.
Thanks again 👍
Super Yacht Captain Your very welcome! Lovely vessels bye the way! Crew also seem very proficient, capable, & committed- with commitment to OHSW.
The Dyneema has less than 1% Stretch is all.
I’m not saying stop using your dyneema, just saying employ some kind of stretch shock absorption within your towing system is all to account for the lack of stretch in the dyneema.
You have a good system & it’s served you well thus far - but you could improve it is all!
The chaser is too nice to tear it up being towed.
Fair weather & smooth seas.
@@SuperYachtCaptain Yes, perhaps a "snubber" would be helpful in protecting the line from shock.
@@SuperYachtCaptain - Ian is spot on. Maybe film it in heavy seas from the Axopar. Look for stress cracks on the Axo. Partial mitigation is the weight of the towing bridle:; because it's mounted high, when there's slack, its own weight will create a reasonable pulling force, before any snatch hits.
Very informative, thank y’all !
Awesome video. Thanks for letting us come ride with y'all.
Thanks, I hope you continue to enjoy the vids. 😇
Good video. If you cow hitch the bridle on the AWOL side to the eye of the towline you can avoid a lot of chafe and also reduce, somewhat, the hunting of the chase boat. Avoids any metal and all the sliding.
We used to tow with a 50m line made up of a set length bridal to reduce the angle from the aft bits and slap from choppy conditions and Spectra straight back to the tender. The set length bridal also reduces the amount of movement the tender on tow will have. P.s life jacket crotch straps are always better used!
The line from the stern cleats is not redundant- forget about the angles (which you should not). If it breaks, you're toast. you should have an independent, redundant system from port and starboard from AWOL.
Towing question: (1) where is the night lite for the vessel being towed and (2) don't you provide for catenary once the towline becomes taut ?
For the vessel being towed we show the 2 side lights & stern light. The towing vessel (in this case AWOL) has an additional masthead light and a yellow stern light. This light sequence is for other vessel in the vicinity to know that we're towing.
Love the professionalism.
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Great vid...thank you ...Comments great too
🙏 great to hear. Thank you 😎
Thank you!
I like the Chase Boat. I would enjoy watching a detailed Walk-Thru of that!!!
Coming soon 😉
If you go back to older vlogs, there are some scenes of it, even on board and from the cabin
Boote Polch has some very detailed Videos Bit they are in german
love it thank you :)
once again a video well done!! ok now that you've teased us with the chase boat, when do we get to see that bad boy in action? Would love to see all 700hp on display!
😉 full action video of the chase boat to come soon 👍
Very Interesting
That was very interesting video.
That was a question I have been wanting to ask.
Nice chase boat.
just the steering wheel of the small boat (the wheel, not the systems) cost around $800.00 //////////
Good to hear, glad you enjoyed.
Enjoying your videos. Trying to add friends to your subscriber list.
I see you have Caribbean charters. Will you and the crew be taking the boat to the Caribbean? Would love to see your video of the crossing.
I always assumed Chasing Awol would need a pilot on board even when towed in case of problems
Hi Captain, this video helped me, On a much smaller scale I was thinking about about towing our sealegs rib behind our Prestige 520 fly, We have a small Willaims on board sitting on Swim Platform. Our holiday home is one side of the estuary and the marina the other side. It makes for a long 50 minute drive around. Sometimes we go over on the rib and park in visitor berths. then go out on the 520. Then going off for a cruise somewhere, and finding a nice anchorage I then wished I had the Sea Legs just to drive up onto a beach where the tide as gone out. I need to ask this question what are the pitfalls? I sure don't want to sink the boat being towed.
Top notch video
Thanks 😊
Nice impression aboud towing a Boat.
Only remark I have is the long rope between the 2 ships..
No flag in the rope?
Any other Boat (speedboot or jetski) can think to go between the 2 ships with result hanging in a rope....
I think towing like this is dangerous.
you could add something to the boat to make it have more drag so the boat stays straight. like a small anchor on a short line.
I am a scout and in the netherlands we have land and water scouts. im a waterscout and we have 12 sailing boats so when we go camp for a week we tow our 12 boats the last boat always drops an empty beer crate on a rope to pull the whole tow straight.
cool to see how you do it on a yacht!
Once we go up to cruising speed, it stays straight as an arrow. It’s just slow speeds it tends to slide around. 👍
@@SuperYachtCaptain ahh all right
SYP - slow speeds explains why the tow boats movements looked bad. It reminded me of people pulling trailers on land that seemed to fishtail all over the place.
I don't know why a rigid bar (like a trailer hitch and tow bar.) couldn't be fabricated that offers more control. It could have hinges to account for lateral and horizontal movement and an emergency release switch.
Here's a vlog worth considering, in some ports you're not able to berth, so if clients want to go ashore they'll need to use Chasing Awol, what's the procedure for getting clients safety onto Chasing Awol and onto dry land?
Ok, that was all so interesting thanks for sharing. I do have a question how is the tow boat identified as a towed boat by other boats, could be an problem if something is dragged over your tow line. i was thinking more or less at nighttime. :)peace
Why not use a thimble on the tow line (fitted inside the splice) so that you get the free movement as it slides across the bridle but have rope on the outside 🤷♂️ great video 👍
It looks like the towing line was attached to the clear through the loop, in an emergency it will be impossible to release this line with weight on it. it makes sense to wrap this line off around the cleat as you would a mooring line.
Interesting to see the tow line like that -- I would be very concerned about chafe. Why not two loops, one port and one stern to the tow line, to eliminate chafe and provide redundancy?
If I understand you correctly, I think you're suggesting two individual lines from the connection forward to the towing vessel.
That wouldn't eliminate chafe, as the connection would still be rope on rope. In fact, it would tend to make it worse, because the friction would be localised to the pick up points. There would also be reduced rope breaking strain due to the high angle the ropes would turn through at the connection.
The other great advantage of doing it this way is that the loads on the two sides are self-equalising. This in turn means that there is no danger of one side going slack and then shock-loading when the towed vessel comes back into line.
As I understand it, the lines typically used on boats are optimised for static loads, flotation and resistance to the harsh conditions. (Dyneema was mentioned here). You could argue for a rope optimised for dynamic loads, as used for main ropes in climbing and mountaineering. However a climbing type of rope would be unsuitable for a number of reasons - mostly to do with durability and safety. I've seen boaties use other ways to absorb shock. Tyres, weights etc.
I'm looking at this as a one-time mountaineer, not a mariner, so I stand ready to be corrected by the mariners. The whole setup looks weird to me, to be honest.
Great to see the safety precautions and great care in paying out the tow line and staying inboard of the bridle. On Captain Cook's first voyage around the world in 1769 other than for natural causes only one member of the crew died on the voyage due to accident which was unusual for those times. That death was a seaman got his foot caught in the bight of an anchor rope and was pulled overboard and went down with the anchor.
It's probably not that unusual when men (usually) on deck of a ship and many lines going overboard, it is a frightening thing to see one of your work mates, or you, get a foot caught in a line going over the side! It's happened in the USA where the "Deadliest Catch" crew one season saw one of their crew dragged over board and the captain and crew acted very quickly and I believe they saved him, but seconds counted and if they hadn't acted quickly they would have recovered a body instead of a living crew mate. Always be careful where you stand when lines are going over the side!
The bight is an extremely dangerous place to be and if your caught, you’re gone in a second. Especially the guys on deadliest catch, those cold waters have no merci.
Great vid SYC, as always. Considering your improved performance, following last winter's refit, how does towing a chase boat affect the fuel consomption of the tow-boat?
Great question. To be honest, the increase in fuel consumption is hardly noticeable. 👍
thanks capt for your kind reply I am enjoying your vids . are you ever going to take AWOL to Portsmouth gunwarf .if you do I would love to come onboard to meet you . you all seem like very nice kind people . take care and stay safe .
Sure wish those filming had shown close-ups of the chase boat connections of the bridle to the chase boat (looked like custom S.S. fittings on the chase boat?) and AWOL’s bridle to AWOL (line loops through the center of AWOL’s cleats then over the horns of the cleat, or double loop over the horns of the cleat, or other?) I believe line loop to cleat recommendations have changed over the years? I really appreciate all the fairlead options on the stern of AWOL!
In case of bigger waves, we put a heavy weight in the connection line. It wil sinking down. When you go forward, the downforce of that weight will help you, to get smoth towingforce and it works like a shock absorber if the vessels are fighting waves. Even when you slow down, this weight will help, that the vessel in the back don't touch you. Because of the downforce. The weight is sinking to the ground and works a bit like an anchor. (sorry for my bad english. I'm out of training.)
I agree, the weight will act as a sort of spring. Thanks for the advice 👍
I like how flexible Barb is!
Very interesting LYW
Hi Ian Moore commented below I think my followup comment bears repeating here
Ian Moone I agree with you Ian. You mention 'polyethylene' for a tow line the usual tow line material is Nylon it has 15-30% elongation before deformation which is why it is use for dock lines , anchor lines , or 'snubber bridals ' for chain anchoring and all sorts of mooring lines to absorb shock loads. It's what commercial tugs use if not using steel cables. Dynema (in the non prestretched version) does have the highest strength to diameter and great UV resistance but not the best a chafe protection. (Dynema actually polyethylene is a modified long chain Polylethene plastic , Like plastic bags and milk bottles! ) It Used to be called Spectra in USA but they changed the name to the European name for less confusion. Polypropylene is not good for large towing applications , it is used for ski line towing because of its natural floating ability and fair shock/stretch ability but does not have great UV resistance, it also does not hold knots well . Nylon is the line of choice for non static load applications.
Cheers Warren
My question is the same as cuznjo1. I was also wondering what you did with the chase boat at night if you are out on anchor instead of in port... do you tie it up alongside?
Most yachts tie tender and chase alongside, as far as I've seen.
If you use som 2 - 3METER HOSE on the AWOL BLACK ROPE .. To take ware and tare of the black guide rope
And some hose in the tow eye on the sliding rope.
Then you don't have the same ware and tare .. .
We use similar constalation on the ropes when we water ski after a RIB 50HP
simple and good advise !! THKS !
Great video SYC! Two questions tho. 1. how long is the chase boat? and 2. what is the longest boat this type of super yacht can tow?
Out of curiosity do you display towing lights and shapes when towing the chase boat?
has there been anytimes have to cancel charter tour contract because the quests broke the law?do still have to pay the remaining contract out and do drop them off at the nearest port/country and they make their own way home?
Hi Tristan, I like the quality of your camera. What brand and model Is it?
I haven't looked to see yet but I think this is the last video in the chase boat playlist and we haven't got to see inside the cabin of it yet. I'm really curious about what it looks like.
Super Yacht Captain. GOOD OXFORD BAY HOTE. RISSA.
Hi if the battery on the chase boat is off how do other boats see that your towing particularly at night?
What a complete faff that is, surely there’s a better way. What happens if the sea gets really rough and the wind starts blowing will not the little boat be pushed all over the place and maybe into AWOL itself. Still it was interesting to watch, and would like to see the boat brought back to AWOL, to see how you do that.
Nice finishing touch would have been to show how you recover the chase boat. Otherwise neat concise summary of the launch procedure.
He has shown this in a previous video. They just pull in the tow line by hand and jump on the chase boat
Nice video bro
Did I see bow thrusters on your chase boat? Very nice chase boat for a very nice super yacht. Thanks for the video.
Tim Kirchhoff axopar 37 ,Boote polch has some Videos of that boat
@@martinhausfeld6689 Thank You
The chase boat has bow thrusters...wow!!,
She certainly does 😀👍
I was wondering about that. Glad you answered.
I've been watching your channel now for a couple of days and was curious about your owner's yacht. I noticed on Yachtworld that AWOL is for sale! I realize this is a business, but wondering what the business plan is? AND, what impact that will have on you and the crew?!?
Often crews get "sold" with the boat. There are many types of companies that charter.
Wonder how that was done. What was the tall sailing ship off to port?
Ends of black line should also be wrapped on bollards and not with an eye splice. If for any reason you had to drop the tow while pressure is on you won't be getting that loop off without cutting the line. Just a suggestion. Also not a fan of the single bridle. With the strength of soft shackles the argument of a hard shackle hitting the stern is no longer an excuse.
Hi so how does it steer do you put it in neutral
60m long, but interesting that you use Dyneema Light... pretty much zero stretch.... and does it float? I was always trained to use stretchy (to avoid shock loads) and a foating rope (so it won’t get caught in the prop if a problem) e.g. Polypropylene. Can you bring me up to date?
I’m curious about chase boat’s engines so I always seen engines trimed out of water so you didn’t do it!! Which way is better you think Captain engines trimmed up out of water or in water??
Questions. Only tow if weather good? Towing flag? Tow at night lights? Towboat recovery to transom or alongside?
If you attached a rubber hose to the loop on the grey line, you will reduse the friction and spare the line, because you can't have a shackle.
Though I know this is an old video, I hope to get an answer about towing....do you have a flag showing for towing or something like that, I know there’s a flag for divers etc but unsure of towing??
if life jacket is not worn correctly it can actually be worse than not wearing it at all (USE THE ANTI DIVE LEG LOOPS)
Looking nice...Thanks..
Thank you 👍😎
You are welcome. Be safe sailing.....@@SuperYachtCaptain
If the tow line brakes at night how would you know it? is there someone watching the chase boat all the time its being towed ?
No drag shute to stop it from slapping?
Did the chase boat have to be custom fitted with those hard point so it can be towed or do those boats come like that from the factory?
Completely custom design.
What do you do if the rope breaks? Is there someone constantly monitoring just Incase that happens and not realize it broke 10 miles ago?
Great video , though i feel like then camera person cut away from right when she was securing the line, did she just loop it over the cleat? Also, that looked like a major shackle, would have been cool to see how it operated. He just flipped it open, what keeps it closed, I mean, it’s got a couple hundred thousand Euros behind it... so it’s gotta be good.
Does this boat get towed every where even on ocean crossings?
How often do you have to take the boat out of the water for maintenance, repair and paint? Cost?
Hi Tristan, As both an EX RNLI member and also a Master myself I always enjoy watching your vlogs. I currently drive a training ship but wish I had got into the super yacht industry when I was younger.
Couple of points to note mainly from my Lifeboat days. A lifejacket is useless without a crotch strap worn, I have seen time and time again lifejackets, even well fitted ones, slip up and over the head. Also a comment earlier about Faking the line on the swim platform rather than coiling it would make for a much smoother transition into the tow. Keep up the good work and look forward to seeing the video of the chase boat.