Tying Sailboat in Mangrove for a Hurricane
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- Опубліковано 16 вер 2024
- Do not try this for Hurricane Irma! Sail away from it in advance!
How to secure your boat for a tropical storm. We film the process as we anchor and tie up in a mangrove in Martinique. Then we film as the approaching storm passes right over us with winds nearly 60 knots. We are testing both our Rocna anchor and our Fortress anchors.
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you two are the originals in the craft of documenting sailing voyages and still the best. I bought your series on Vimeo and its nice to see you still putting out new videos on UA-cam. Safe travels!
This is a very well documented storm video showing a lot of footage most youtubers only give us a glimpse of. I haven't watched all of it yet so Im hoping it all works out. Ill watch the rest when i get home.
Enjoy! I won't give away the ending :-)
This is as good as the bahamian mooring video... I realized near the end, bows to the mangrove provides protection for the keel/prop and rudder! Provided the anchors hold! Force of wind I experienced while serving on a destroyer. Seas 25 to 30' / winds 70 + knots... We went to an anchorage after many hours. The force of wind broke the chain, links were as thick as your wrists. The sea is to be respected at all costs.
Thank you for demonstrating the importance of respecting natures power.
was wondering about direction too, but that makes sense
Foremost you did the right thing not anchoring near ANY other boats. They always seem to let loose. I have seen people on a 30 ft cat anchored in 30 ft with 15 ft of chain. AMAZING.
My first cruise in the early 1970s (I was crew with a Captain), we got chased by pirates at the southern tip of Haiti and had to sail INTO the hurricanes to escape the pirates. NEVER go through a dangerous place when there is no moon and back then there was no radar, no GPS nada. For weeks we worked 4 on and 4 off (cooking and navigating in our off time so 2 or 3 hrs sleep every 8 hrs) all the way to S America. It is quite a story. I am too old and ill to sail anymore so you two enjoy the adventure for all of us to see here as you so kindly share it with all of us! Thanks 0---)
PS: Here in Channel Islands CA (Santa Barbara USA) we get 80 knot Santa Ana winds EVERY year and the rest of the yr we always have some of the most heavy weather sailing of anywhere in the world. WE LOVE IT! Great place to train sailors or to test your new boats. Yes, this is also where we had the huge fires this year with the high winds. They spread ? 15 miles the first night and became the largest fire (or #2) CA ever had.
Excellent video Paul and Sheryl. I enjoyed watching your boat hold its position as the gusts came through. Seeing the wind animation overlaid on a map depicted your challenge with securing the boat in a changing wind field as the cyclone crossed your location. I also liked that you explained how you attached your lines to the mangroves. Kind regards, Paul Exner
Thanks Paul - glad you liked it. Filming the storm was quite exciting indeed! Best, Paul
Great animation that make the most out of this detailed tutorial. The soup sounds delicious.
i dont own a boat, and know little about sailing but i just binge watched a bunch of your videos regardless. PS you did a excellent job with your post production.
Super! Clear information on good seamenship. And Nice to watch.
Glad you liked it 😊
I found this video quite fascinating!
Great episode
No sensationalism, just facts. Love it!
That was really help full. Impressive to see the force of the wind work the boat like that. It really gives you a sense of how strong the wind was blowing!
Glad you liked it. Yes that wind was impressive... imagine if it was a full hurricane ...
Beautiful boat
Great job.. glad I found the video. Nothing makes you feel more alive than to weather a storm and come out just fine.
Thanks Robert. Yes its a great feeling for sure!!
I honestly don’t understand how there are any thumbs down on this video. This is a very informative and educational.
Thanks "Why Me?" for the kind words :-) Glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks guys, good and early preparations make all the difference.
Yeah, I appreciate the effort you put into that video. In the Florida Keys, where you're not allowed to tie to mangroves, my anchor pulled out of sea grass and I luckily woke up in time to keep my sailboat off a breakwater by starting the motor, in the unpredicted 3 AM blow. The anchors were just dragging along and didn't reset in the hard seagrass, they just bounced along.
Sea grass is difficult, and everything is tougher at 3am :-) bigger anchor is often the answer . Glad everything worked out OK for you
Get a delta plow anchor. I've road out 60mph winds with 150ft of anchor line out on just that one anchor.
Anchored for the tropical storm like a boss! Nice technique. Thanks for sharing!
I used 5 40lbs Danforths set WELL, and about 10 smaller anchors I found while diving, that other sailors cut off because they wouldn't dive on their anchor, off the stern and 300ft of 3/4 in line snaked about 20 times into the mangroves during Wilma when it hit in Vero beach. Wild ride, but I didn't drag. I was the ONLY boat that didn't. Spent the next two months helping to clear the other boats outta there just so I could get a rum runner in Key West.
Very nice explained!
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thank you for all your videos love them all
nice docu-vid it was educational and entertaining.
That looks so peaceful when there parked up
Why is it always so beautiful the night before major storms? Did everything get sucked into them? I've never looked to see why but I've been thru a dozen or so hurricanes and everyone the night before was beautiful.
Wonderful video of anchoring in the mangroves, had previously read about this type of setup but first to see actually how its done, very informative and very useful for the south pacific and Asia locations on how to ride out a large storm, just subscribed +1
great info and well documented for others to know how to do it properly. Cheers from PEI Canada, Bryan.
Glad you found it useful Bryan 😊
You guys are by far the best UA-cam cruisers specifically in the how to videos. Please keep up the good videos it would be such a pleasure to bump into you guys somewhere.
Thanks R1 - we're working on more "how-to" and will look out for you on the water 😊
Try that in northern Australia. Croc figures it out by the third rope.
and you get a nice big fine if the croc doesn't issue it first
Stu Rocks THATS WHY i stay the hell away from Australia... Big Bugs and shit
Have you ever seen who runs Canada? Canada is a SJW heaven, so its hell for any decent person! Thank god the UK and Australia are nothing like that beta country called Canada
Luke Free fall ...ever been to aus or uk...?
jasper asis yes lived in both also been to America many times and Canada couple times.
Thank you very much for this instructive vidéo !
Nice work. Looks cosy too
I've missed you two. Our cable provider quit providing AWE-tv (Formerly Wealth Television.). Great to see you're still enjoying your sailing and travels. Cheers from Seattle
awesome video!
Thanks for sharing. I had never heard that method of riding out a storm before. To Cpt. Chef Mark, my wifes name is Alcena, who was named after her great, great , grandmother, that was French.
Excellent detailed video and glad you and your boat are safe.
Great video, and very useful! Thanks!
Excellent Video! Thank you.
Glad you liked it Mike!
Very well done. Thank you.
Very nice video. You are a very good boats man.
been doing it in North Queensland for 25 years, yeah STU , the crocs make it fun. but I go well ashore with much heavier ropes and tie off to the biggest trees I can find . 2 heavy CQR anchors off the bow, I usually find the smallest deep creek to do it, branches brushing both sides of the boat.
mikey e Crocs? Fun? Lol
Tying between trees and boulders is a good general practice, not just for storms. There are lots of nooks that are perfectly sheltered but too deep for anchoring. With good enough ropes, it's no different from being tied securely to a dock.
Nice video very interesting.
Great great video !! Congrats boys !!
This was absolutely brilliant!! From start to finish I was loving it! And great job keeping your yacht safe!!
Thanks Chris...
Well done skipper!
This was possibly the coolest and most informative video I’ve watched. Well done!
Glad you liked it!
thanks Guys for all that info and to see it happen on vlog could not ask for any more.
You're welcome Mark :)
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Wow! That's a reality check! Glad you made it safe.
that was fun! i like storms!
Very good information, thank you very much!
great episode, I learned a lot.
Awesome video... Make More like this please....
Thanks Mike :-)
Great video. Thanks for sharing.
good captain.
it works ! was on a 32 foot trawler during hurricane hugo in a mangrove on viequez island off puerto rico ! we lost windshield ,antenna , it pulled cleats off the deck an pulled three anchors so deep we had to cut them loose ! but we made it back to st thomas two days later !!!
WOW thats amazing and good news! What an experience. When Hugo hit Charleston was the day we first set sail on our first cruise :-)
Thank you guys so much for documenting this! Great JOB! Glad you are alright. I Look forward to more videos.
Hey guys. What a great video. Well done.
Well done video!! Thanks.
Great video. Thank you
Nice boat!
Really like that dark wood on the exterior.
Great video. I don't have a boat, but I have some experience and recently have taken an interest in it again after many many years. I'll be delving into your videos for sure. I did once save a larger sailboat with the help of the deck crew ( I was giving the orders ) , that had run aground onto some mud flats near where I was fishing in a rowboat once, with some very creative ingenuity and some good timing when I saw a container ship coming up the channel.
Glad you liked it! Sounds like you had some adventure!
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, it was, first time I ever handled a sailboat other than book study. I took an interest in boating at a young age and was working from memory when that happened. The Boat owner was so happy I got them free they took me on board, into port, and treated me to a lobster and steak dinner on deck. Thanks for the Reply ^_^
AThanks for sharing... Ive learnt alot!
great information. you have a beautiful sailboat. thank you for sharing and very detailed how to information.
Glad you found the info useful Rich!
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Very well documented as usual, really appreciated the time outside seeing/feeling the wind. I agree with your comments, would not want to face a hurricane. I know you left the genoa as you ran out of time. What about the dodger? Guess not as big a deal if it goes.
Thanks Watrworld :-) Re Dodger... yes its probably on the edge at 60 knots... We take it down so rarely I think ideally we would have a tougher hard dodger. We'll plan that for Distant Shores III :-)
Interesting video, well put together.
Super video! Thank you
Very cool .. great tips.
great knowledge to know how to tie your sailing boat in mangrove with bow tied nearest to mangrove and 2 x side anchors at left and right prevent boat moving side to side.
great video....
what a great video. thank you. You are so smart.
I can’t believe you don’t have more subscribers your videos are amazing !so much so I don’t think I’ll ever buy a boat I just watch your videos from my comfy couch andI feel like I’m right there .Without spending a dime on boating life.PS your videos are so good I will tell everybody I know to subscribe and you’ll always get a thumbs up from me! Thanks
Thanks very much for the kind words Rich :-) Glad you're enjoying our vids...
Very nice. Thank you for all the outdoor work for us. Well done :-)
You're Welcome Jay 😊
someday I'd like to own a catamaran for sailing around on. This is truly a helpful video because my wife is from Caramoan, Philippines which is continuously slammed by typhoons. Luckily we have shallows with a lot of Mangroves. When the need should arrive I hope that I remember this video.
Glad you enjoyed our Mangrove hints! Good luck with your plans to get a boat David.
Thanks
Good preparation. We were in the mangroves in Marigot St. Lucia for Mathew.
Glad you are ok!
Of course, we were in Vancouver. Hope to meet you on the water. Times Two
Looks like you did a great job
You guys have a nice boat
Great job!!
Great Job man!! Thanks for sharing. Very well documented and very helpfull.
great video. Always learning something from you. keep up the great videos.
Great job great video
This was really quite instructional, and a unique kind of teaching. I've subscribed and will view all your work. Godspeed!
Awsome video well done
great video....thanks.
Good stuff! Thanks!
Brilliant!
That gives us a good idea even though it wasn't a hurricane. Thanks for sharing
thanks for sharing , stay safe.
I love the informational style! Reminds me of The Life Aquatic, with less Bill Murray.
Insightful. Thanks.
Great video, well thought out and produced. My only observation is that it's best to cross over the anchors you had on the stern. That is, take the anchor tied to the port cleat over to the starboard and take the anchor tied to the starboard cleat out to the port side.
You were fine in this storm but in a hurricane the crossed lines act very similar to spring lines used when docked.
Interesting thought... I would worry about chafe in that case though since the line couldn't lead directly overboard...
lugar ideal para observar los huracanes. Tenga cuidado en algunos lugares hay cocodrilos de agua salada.
Nice video. Thanks.
Interesting! Have to keep that in mind :D
Great information you share tanks.,,!!!
Thanks Ramces!
Much respect!
if I am ever caut in a tropical storm , I will apply the mangrove idea as it makes sence the more you distribute the stress weight throughout an broader area the safer.
Glad we could help James 😊
I love this video
I’ve never immobilized the boat in a storm. Usually one anchor under tension with a second slack in case first drags but never dragged in 15 years. 65 pound CQR. Not highly thought of today but worked for us with a 46 foot Beneteau.
That is intense.
This is very good. In Biscayne Bay (Miami), they tell you that you can't actually tie anything to the mangroves, as they are a protected species in Florida. You can, however, place an anchor among the roots.
The same applies here in the Florida Keys.
Is there a reason why you guys tie the boat bow to mangrove? Why not stern to, so you can use your main bow anchor which would offer much better hold than any one of the reserve anchors without chain?
Good question Sergei. I was worried if our anchor dragged our rudders would go into the mangroves with possible damage. But even though we went bow-to, we actually dropped the main bow anchor and set it first, then spun around and went bow in to the mangrove. We used a chain hook to pick up the main chain and put it on our stern. It was not too much fuss and worked fine since we have 80m chain :-)
I see, the rudder argument makes sense. Thank you.