First thanks for sharing your experience, And you guys did a great job 👍🏼 Well done all. As an ex-mariner of VLCC’s and been in typhoons, I would say that your precaution measures were of a high standard taking into account the tonnage of your vessel and the preparations you took, and the monitoring of the anchor drag status, and dealing with the snapped snubber in a prompt professional manner. May you all have pleasant and safe future passages. Keep the good work God Bless
To prevent chafing, we got an old fire hose and cut sections to thread the lines through. Works GREAT, and cheap too. We threw a BBQ for the local fire department to thank them for the old hoses which they gave to us for free. We shared them with other boats.
Might consider old/spent firehose for chafe protection, captain. heavy rubber inside; bonded to woven cotton duck outside. Wears like a goat's gullet. It's also strong enough that you can pierce it and add a leash to the inboard end to keep it from walking down the line. You can get 50' for $20 on eBay, or just stop by the firehouse and inquire. That's likely enough to last a lifetime.
Super good video, one of the best I watched. When you were not outside doing maintenance I can imagine it must of been cozy while the wind blew and the rain poured down. Beautiful Yacht. Thanks for braving the weather to post this video and may i say, good choice to be in the anchorage.
Mostly it was a lot of time spent waiting! The actual storm was interesting, but very manageable. The scary part is just the not knowing what will happen.
Yes, I can understand how scary it is waiting to see how big the storm will be. The weather is still not as accurate as we would like in situations such as that. I was glad to see that you did not suffer any damage. Your good decision paid off for sure. I think your boat could have withstood double that intensity and still been safe where you anchored. Thank you for your reply.
I know its been some years after you posted this video but I want to thank you. I'm starting to learn boating and I've always wondered about what to do to prepare for a storm.
WindSolarHydroHuman Read , read, read . Talk to every boater that you can .a lot of times the sailors can give you more information then the power boaters can or will. Good luck it's so much fun , happiest years of my life.
Thanks for sharing. You may want to rethink how you attach your shubber lines to the cleats. The way you have it, not wrapped around the cleat horns is putting massive strain on the knot. I'm glads it all work out for you.
You did it the right way. Boats get damaged at docks during storms. One person should always be on watch while the other sleeps. Good call on keeping the engines warm in case you need to maneuver suddenly.
Great video i was actually on the payroll at the time and worked on a number of those boat. The water was in the mechanic and fabrication shops. We had almost everyone stop working to start hauling and blocking up boats. In all we hauled around 130-140 boats in 5 days.
Nice video and boat too! My 40 Ocean SS was damaged during Sandy, broken outrigger, medium fiberglass damage. I was almost thinking of doing what you guys did!
Good job. Most would have left it in the slip wondering what they would come back to. There were a few moments that you were wondering if you had made the right decision. That decision worked out well for you. Good luck in the future.
Hey, Kathy, this was the perfect time for your other half to push you over the side and sequester the proceeds of the both for himself. Like they do in the movies. But good seamanship is good commonsense. Good decision to head out into more roomy waters and anchor. Being at the dock was never a good idea.
I still remember Sandy. For the longest time I never even gave it a second thought of a hurricane being big enough to reach Chicago but Sandy did. Boy it was freaky seeing how Sandy affected Lake Michigan and seeing the idiots being outside right next to the lakefront and the waves. I'm weather savvy so even I know that it's dangerous to be near the lake during a storm like that.
Excellent video and Oh the luxury of your beautiful yacht! I'm green with envy ;-) My old Bristol 30 sailboat and I were in Utches Marina, Cape May at the same time. They had no keel boat cradles so we stayed in the marina. The predicted storm surge of 9 to 10 ft. was correct and we had over a foot left to the top of the piles so the marina stayed in place. I stop the anti-chafe plasic tube from riding up/down as the boat bounces about, by drilling a little hole each end of the tube and attaching a light line which is rolling hitched to the warp. To those who said 'why not get out of the way when you know Sandy is coming' - it was a huge hurricane; over a thousand miles across as a tropical storm with winds up to a steady 60kn. gusting more. Sandy moved at 28mph - I move at 6mph - QED
Our 47' meridian was at a marina in Brick New Jersey and the marina could not get out boat hauled out because they didn't have any space to put it . We kept the boat tied up at the marina as out only choice. We expected out boat not to survive because it wasn't hauled out. While we were pulling into the lot to access our slip, after the hurricane, we noticed all of the boats that were hauled out of the water were all on their sides blown off of their chalks. We went looking at the marina for our boat and for our surprise, out boat was one of 3 boats that survived the hurricane. Over 70 other boats at that marina got completely destroyed.
We've anchored right where you were anchored. Glad you made it thru okay. By the way my Father was a Machinist Mate on the USS Shenandoah ZR-1 Airship.
Given the projected path of the storm we didn't think there was significant danger to us or to the boat. We were in a very protected bay with plenty of options - two good anchors, engines, bow/stern thrusters, etc. A lot of it was just waiting...........checking for leaks, checking anchor, etc. Not something we'd like to do again, but would if we had to.
You guys did a dinomite job prepping for the storm , you were thorough in every foreseable situation (hope I said that right) any-whosssss I think you know what I mean.One of the biggest things that impressed me was the thorough knowledge you have of your vessels quirks as far as leaky areas and trouble spots beyond thye obvious good job
just fyi it's a davet not a crane and pretty work using nobelteck or globeltech for your anchor alarm. you can also use your radar for the same deal. I know your pain my bosses have made me blue fin in 40 to 60 knt winds no fun. calm seas and tight lines guys!!
57.3 knot gust is 66 mph for those who don't know how to convert. Pretty good breeze! You have a great video and it was even educational to see your snubber set up. It is always a good choice to anchor off beach and away from a marina. It keeps flying debris to a minimum and less chance for your boat to be damaged from someone's boat that didn't bother to take the precautions that you did. I would sail,cruise with you folks anytime, but you are on the wrong coast. Try Alaska's inside Passage sometime.
Like I said thank God you made it through. I live on Staten Island and we got hit hard. Me my wife and two children cooked every night and headed down to South Beach where we could feed as many people as possible. People had lost there houses on that side of the island.
Thanks so much for sharing. My wife and I are Florida residents and down here we are under the gun fairly regularly. I know down here the largest commercial boats would anchor in the canal between the Indian and Banana rivers where they were mostly protected from wind. Without sounding obnoxious, were you concerned about the need to set out multiple anchors? I don't remember what the path prediction was for Sandy anymore. I think that Chapmans recommends several in a star shape under these circumstances. Thanks again for sharing your adventure and glad that things came out ok....!
She was a sailboat but also had engines. The point is not to put yourself or your boat in harm's way if it can be avoided. Being out there with an impending hurricane is more dangerous that being in a safe anchorage. We did not use flopper stoppers at anchor - we wanted to be able to pick up and leave quickly if we had to. It was not at all unfomfortable.
This is great, especially for a wana be Nordhavn lover like myself who is land bound...Excellent detail of what you did and why you did it? Just curious, when you knew where the Hurricane track was, why not move south to avoid it all together?
Like the HMS Bounty tried to do? No way were we going out to sea with a hurricane on the horizon. We really can;t go down the ICW because of our draft and we never considered going outside to go south.Hurricane tracks are not completely predictable, so even though you have some notice they are coming, you want to be sure not to make your situaion worse. We felt pretty safe with our strategy.
Great video, Kathy! I have a question for you. On your instrumentation panel there is a display that looks like AWA. During the video it was either P or S with a number after along with a degree symbol in parenthesis. Can you explain what that setting is. Thanks again for sharing with those like me who are boating dreamers.
Hi Larry. That is the Apparent Wind Angle relative to the bow. P means the wind is on the port side and S is starboard. It is more meaningful (accurate) when the boat is moving as otherwise its hard for the algorithm to determine where the bow is. But lets say the boat is traveling due north and the wind is coming from due west. The AWA would be P90, that is 90 degrees to the port side of the boat. A much more important piece of info for sailors than for motor yachties!
Mom Mom is trumped up pardon the expression . I'm familiar with that an entire area Deltaville is a good place to be with a boat but not so good if you're looking for a great meal.
Great video, thanks very much, I don't know many people in this position that would be calm enough to actually video it. I presume that you are both retired and that it takes a lot of your time in upkeep to maintain such a large boat?
+Daren Brayson Yes, we are retired and live aboard. We were lucky that we were not directly in the path of Sandy. Actually, the waiting is a bit boring - you know it's coming, but all you can do is sit and wait. So filming was a good way to pass the time!
Thanks Kathy. I did not realize that the Bounty was a power vessel; I have only seen her using sails. In any event, while at anchorage, did you deploy flopper stoppers or use stabilizers, et al?
This is awesome! I assume you just ran the gen the whole time? Why not just take the boat out of the storms path since you had several days beforehand?
+KMT15 Just curious where you would have gone? Paths are just models - we weren't going to head south into the storm, like the Bounty. North wasn't a good option either as the brunt of the storm hit up there. There was nowhere locally that could haul our boat. Really, we spent a LOT of time Looking at options and determined that where we were was about the best option. Turned out to be a pretty good choice.
Luckily, we sold our boat about a month before Sandy hit. We were docked in Highlands NJ which is a small fishing town on the Raritan by Sandy Hook. The whole town was under 10 feet of water and was lucky that most of the swells were broken up by the Sandy Hook peninsula. Unfortunately, most boats we're destroyed and nearly every building in town had to be completely gutted or torn down
Snubber line tip.! Make your self a good snubber bridle. Use fray protection al the time .. the rope must non move true the tube . So lock those to the rope, maybe a knot will do that trick. The tube must move not the rope. Also use long snubber lines .. this was to short for the big ship you have. And with Gail force wind accept that the chain does some pulling too..
Strange your snubber failed. Flaw in the boats design. Don't really need one, especially with that much chain out. You can just run a line straight over your anchor mount to the cleat.
@@nordhavn72 oh i thought it said furuno? I am using a garmin wind sensor i thinks its the gd10 that connects to my 7610 unit wondering how good it compared to the one your using?
@@peterc504 the sensor was Airmar - the data displayed on various instruments, including Furuno. I don't know how to compare it - it seemed to do the job and was accurate based on the few times we compared it to readings on friends boats.
@@nordhavn72 We moved to S Florida 2015, West Palm Beach, 7 miles inland. We Survived Irma, Dorian wasn't so terrible where we live, rain and a little windy for a couple of days. The Bahamas sadly took Dorians wrath Cat 5 Hurricane.
with windlass gear such as that (and chain locks), snubbers are so pointless. Those cleats are not fastened as well to the deck as the windlass.. and when you need to get out in a hurry, the snubbers just cause problems and delays, or they snap.
Most Nordhavns use snubbers. Ours is threaded through an eye near the waterline, so it changes the point of pressure as our bow is so high up from the water. It also makes for a much quieter night. We now have a "regular" snubber and a "heavy weather" one designed for those situations.
your Nordhavn could have been out to sea and held her own as well. I would have made the same decision. When on a dock you are helpless when things go bad. At anchor you have way more options if you need to make decisions about your situation. My favorite boats on the planet. Have I seen you in the Abacos? Elbow Cay, Hopetown by chance?
Nice. I saw you there and took photos of your boat. My recently deceased father absolutely loved those boats. Have been going to Abacos for last 20+ years. Parents used to have a 50' sailboat we would sail over and hit many of the islands down the chain. Marina at Man-O-War Cay sunk it when we were in Brazil on vaca, after having it hauled for bottom paint. They forgot to put plug in it before floating it. They denied everything of course. Can't wait to get back down there for a visit. tx and enjoy.
We were in the Chesapeake Bay. Storm was coming from the south and heading north. Not sure where we could have gone - north turned out to be far worse and we weren't about to go south INTO the storm!
Question: would it have been better to sail south a bit to move away from where the hurricane was going to hit? It looked like from the map you showed that it was further offshore to the south.
No way would we sail south towards the storm. That's what the Bounty did! Remember, the models are just predictions and hurricanes don't always follow the projected tracks!
I wish I hadn't seen the title of this video. I'll have nightmares again of the royal screwing I got at another yard in Velcrovile. That place and those people are the reason I'm cured of owning a boat.
This was a very impressive video, glad to see people are confident enough to film exciting moments like this, thanks!!
Thanks for sharing your experiences under these conditions. Very glad your predations worked out well.
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First thanks for sharing your experience,
And you guys did a great job 👍🏼
Well done all.
As an ex-mariner of VLCC’s and been in typhoons, I would say that your precaution measures were of a high standard taking into account the tonnage of your vessel and the preparations you took, and the monitoring of the anchor drag status, and dealing with the snapped snubber in a prompt professional manner.
May you all have pleasant and safe future passages.
Keep the good work
God Bless
Thank you for taking the time and effort to record what you did and how you did it. Very informative and interesting video.
this is one of my very favorites video on youtube !!! I learn a lot from many small details I see in here .... thks !
Thanks for the comment!
To prevent chafing, we got an old fire hose and cut sections to thread the lines through.
Works GREAT, and cheap too.
We threw a BBQ for the local fire department to thank them for the old hoses which they gave to us for free.
We shared them with other boats.
Yes, we did that later on. Great idea!
Just came across this video. I am so impressed that you know so much to do for a massive storm. Very high tech equipment.
Might consider old/spent firehose for chafe protection, captain. heavy rubber inside; bonded to woven cotton duck outside. Wears like a goat's gullet. It's also strong enough that you can pierce it and add a leash to the inboard end to keep it from walking down the line. You can get 50' for $20 on eBay, or just stop by the firehouse and inquire. That's likely enough to last a lifetime.
Super good video, one of the best I watched. When you were not outside doing maintenance I can imagine it must of been cozy while the wind blew and the rain poured down. Beautiful Yacht. Thanks for braving the weather to post this video and may i say, good choice to be in the anchorage.
Mostly it was a lot of time spent waiting! The actual storm was interesting, but very manageable. The scary part is just the not knowing what will happen.
Yes, I can understand how scary it is waiting to see how big the storm will be. The weather is still not as accurate as we would like in situations such as that. I was glad to see that you did not suffer any damage. Your good decision paid off for sure. I think your boat could have withstood double that intensity and still been safe where you anchored. Thank you for your reply.
Awesome, thanks for sharing your experience)
Well even newer plastic boats have leaks in the cabin hey...got one on the old 1946 to and it’s driving me nuts.Good job on riding the storm.
very nice ..!! very educative ... love the boat and your readiness ... !
now i now more about this procedure than yesterday !!
keep posting ..........
Great job and you certainly had the right boat for it.
Very well done Kathy! Thanks for sharing this with us dreamers.
I know its been some years after you posted this video but I want to thank you. I'm starting to learn boating and I've always wondered about what to do to prepare for a storm.
Thanks - and good luck with your boating! It's a great way to see the world.
WindSolarHydroHuman Read , read, read . Talk to every boater that you can .a lot of times the sailors can give you more information then the power boaters can or will. Good luck it's so much fun , happiest years of my life.
Thanks for sharing. You may want to rethink how you attach your shubber lines to the cleats. The way you have it, not wrapped around the cleat horns is putting massive strain on the knot. I'm glads it all work out for you.
We did modify how we attached the snubber and did some redesign over the years.
You did it the right way. Boats get damaged at docks during storms. One person should always be on watch while the other sleeps. Good call on keeping the engines warm in case you need to maneuver suddenly.
+scdevon Right, we seldom need to stand anchor watches but there have been a few occasions other than this where we did.
Great video i was actually on the payroll at the time and worked on a number of those boat. The water was in the mechanic and fabrication shops. We had almost everyone stop working to start hauling and blocking up boats. In all we hauled around 130-140 boats in 5 days.
It was an interesting time! That lift was going non-stop. Fortunate that the storm wasn't worse in that area.
Nice video and boat too! My 40 Ocean SS was damaged during Sandy, broken outrigger, medium fiberglass damage. I was almost thinking of doing what you guys did!
mosipd Sorry to hear that. We were lucky that the storm didn't hit us directly, but it was sure an interesting experience.
Good job guys.
well done guys, your good people and good values
Nice video and great job at anchor. You made it look so easy.
Good job. Most would have left it in the slip wondering what they would come back to. There were a few moments that you were wondering if you had made the right decision. That decision worked out well for you. Good luck in the future.
Hey, Kathy, this was the perfect time for your other half to push you over the side and sequester the proceeds of the both for himself. Like they do in the movies.
But good seamanship is good commonsense. Good decision to head out into more roomy waters and anchor. Being at the dock was never a good idea.
Awesome video, thanks for sharing! I can't wait for one day to be retired and live salt life full time, but thats quite a few years away for me.
Never too soon to start planning!
Great Video and insane beautiful boat!
I still remember Sandy. For the longest time I never even gave it a second thought of a hurricane being big enough to reach Chicago but Sandy did. Boy it was freaky seeing how Sandy affected Lake Michigan and seeing the idiots being outside right next to the lakefront and the waves. I'm weather savvy so even I know that it's dangerous to be near the lake during a storm like that.
Excellent video and Oh the luxury of your beautiful yacht! I'm green with envy ;-)
My old Bristol 30 sailboat and I were in Utches Marina, Cape May at the same time. They had no keel boat cradles so we stayed in the marina. The predicted storm surge of 9 to 10 ft. was correct and we had over a foot left to the top of the piles so the marina stayed in place. I stop the anti-chafe plasic tube from riding up/down as the boat bounces about, by drilling a little hole each end of the tube and attaching a light line which is rolling hitched to the warp.
To those who said 'why not get out of the way when you know Sandy is coming' - it was a huge hurricane; over a thousand miles across as a tropical storm with winds up to a steady 60kn. gusting more. Sandy moved at 28mph - I move at 6mph - QED
smacksman1 Yep, she would have been hard to miss! Look at the Bounty - would have been nuts to try to go out in it. Glad you were safe.
smacksman1 &
I know its an old video but just had to say you guys did a Great Job.
Thanks!
Our 47' meridian was at a marina in Brick New Jersey and the marina could not get out boat hauled out because they didn't have any space to put it . We kept the boat tied up at the marina as out only choice. We expected out boat not to survive because it wasn't hauled out. While we were pulling into the lot to access our slip, after the hurricane, we noticed all of the boats that were hauled out of the water were all on their sides blown off of their chalks. We went looking at the marina for our boat and for our surprise, out boat was one of 3 boats that survived the hurricane. Over 70 other boats at that marina got completely destroyed.
Wow, lucky for you! Thanks for sharing
Loved this video. You did a fine job explaining the preparations. And a fine boat as well. I'm a TH-cam boater, if you know what I mean. Great vid!
Thanks!
Wow an amazing story! Well done!
Very Gutsy decision made and it clearly paid off! Well done!! Great Video, thanks for sharing!
Thanks!
Ninja level right there. Ive done a few with winds at that level, kinda fun when nothing goes too badly wrong... Well handled..
Yeah, it could have been a lot worse. We were lucky.
We've anchored right where you were anchored. Glad you made it thru okay. By the way my Father was a Machinist Mate on the USS Shenandoah ZR-1 Airship.
It was a great spot to ride it out. And we enjoyed our time in that area.
Given the projected path of the storm we didn't think there was significant danger to us or to the boat. We were in a very protected bay with plenty of options - two good anchors, engines, bow/stern thrusters, etc. A lot of it was just waiting...........checking for leaks, checking anchor, etc. Not something we'd like to do again, but would if we had to.
You guys did a dinomite job prepping for the storm , you were thorough in every foreseable situation (hope I said that right) any-whosssss I think you know what I mean.One of the biggest things that impressed me was the thorough knowledge you have of your vessels quirks as far as leaky areas and trouble spots beyond thye obvious good job
just fyi it's a davet not a crane and pretty work using nobelteck or globeltech for your anchor alarm. you can also use your radar for the same deal. I know your pain my bosses have made me blue fin in 40 to 60 knt winds no fun. calm seas and tight lines guys!!
Thanks for the awesome video!! It looks like a blast! I can't wait to be in your guys' shoes one day.
wow, great video Kathy. you guys did a great job. great lessons on securing for sea, and seamanship @ anchor! now, about that leak......lol
Ah. Nice boat, good video.
57.3 knot gust is 66 mph for those who don't know how to convert. Pretty good breeze! You have a great video and it was even educational to see your snubber set up. It is always a good choice to anchor off beach and away from a marina. It keeps flying debris to a minimum and less chance for your boat to be damaged from someone's boat that didn't bother to take the precautions that you did. I would sail,cruise with you folks anytime, but you are on the wrong coast. Try Alaska's inside Passage sometime.
+Offgrid Cabin It's on our list! Maybe the Northwest Passage someday, but there's still a lot to see and do on this coast.
Good example of why properly sized real stud-link gound-tackle is essential.
I would be so happy to have that boat!
Like I said thank God you made it through. I live on Staten Island and we got hit hard. Me my wife and two children cooked every night and headed down to South Beach where we could feed as many people as possible. People had lost there houses on that side of the island.
Thanks so much for sharing. My wife and I are Florida residents and down here we are under the gun fairly regularly. I know down here the largest commercial boats would anchor in the canal between the Indian and Banana rivers where they were mostly protected from wind. Without sounding obnoxious, were you concerned about the need to set out multiple anchors? I don't remember what the path prediction was for Sandy anymore. I think that Chapmans recommends several in a star shape under these circumstances. Thanks again for sharing your adventure and glad that things came out ok....!
No, we went with one anchor. Less chance of them getting tangled and it worked well for this situation.
You have an awesome channel!
nice video, i was with you watching your blog. thanks!
very nice video ... i come here from time to time to refresh the ideas .......
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Nice tying of a bowline under stress !!!
She was a sailboat but also had engines. The point is not to put yourself or your boat in harm's way if it can be avoided. Being out there with an impending hurricane is more dangerous that being in a safe anchorage. We did not use flopper stoppers at anchor - we wanted to be able to pick up and leave quickly if we had to. It was not at all unfomfortable.
You two were brave. Thank God everything is O.K.
tell me at 11:39 what display you are using to show the wind data and what sind sensor you have attached.
+Ron Malinowski, Jr. (Ron Malinowski) It's an Airmar wind sensor and an RD33 display.
You were obviously very well sheltered, judging by the video the seas were relatively calm, even if the wind was howling.
Yes, we picked a good spot and were lucky!
Nice Job.
Thanks!
Great job folks. Well done.
This is great, especially for a wana be Nordhavn lover like myself who is land bound...Excellent detail of what you did and why you did it? Just curious, when you knew where the Hurricane track was, why not move south to avoid it all together?
I have anchored there many many times
Like the HMS Bounty tried to do? No way were we going out to sea with a hurricane on the horizon. We really can;t go down the ICW because of our draft and we never considered going outside to go south.Hurricane tracks are not completely predictable, so even though you have some notice they are coming, you want to be sure not to make your situaion worse. We felt pretty safe with our strategy.
Well done!
Great video, Kathy! I have a question for you. On your instrumentation panel there is a display that looks like AWA. During the video it was either P or S with a number after along with a degree symbol in parenthesis. Can you explain what that setting is.
Thanks again for sharing with those like me who are boating dreamers.
Hi Larry. That is the Apparent Wind Angle relative to the bow. P means the wind is on the port side and S is starboard. It is more meaningful (accurate) when the boat is moving as otherwise its hard for the algorithm to determine where the bow is. But lets say the boat is traveling due north and the wind is coming from due west. The AWA would be P90, that is 90 degrees to the port side of the boat. A much more important piece of info for sailors than for motor yachties!
Thanks so much! That makes perfect sense. I appreciate your quick reply.
Tons of better hurricane holes just a bit north!!! You were lucky, Fishing Bay notoriously bad holding!!!
Great video
Mom Mom is trumped up pardon the expression . I'm familiar with that an entire area Deltaville is a good place to be with a boat but not so good if you're looking for a great meal.
Great video, thanks very much, I don't know many people in this position that would be calm enough to actually video it. I presume that you are both retired and that it takes a lot of your time in upkeep to maintain such a large boat?
+Daren Brayson Yes, we are retired and live aboard. We were lucky that we were not directly in the path of Sandy. Actually, the waiting is a bit boring - you know it's coming, but all you can do is sit and wait. So filming was a good way to pass the time!
Thanks Kathy. I did not realize that the Bounty was a power vessel; I have only seen her using sails. In any event, while at anchorage, did you deploy flopper stoppers or use stabilizers, et al?
Note your reply regarding the draft. I thought the ICW had sufficient depth for a boat of reasonable size?
What is the range of your boat? I think it would be so cool to tag along and learn what it's like to cruise on one of your trips.
+Arkansas Journal We can go about 4000 miles at roughly 7.5 knots. We burn about 8 gallons per hour and carry 4600 gallons of fuel.
What was with the leak?
This is awesome! I assume you just ran the gen the whole time? Why not just take the boat out of the storms path since you had several days beforehand?
+KMT15 Just curious where you would have gone? Paths are just models - we weren't going to head south into the storm, like the Bounty. North wasn't a good option either as the brunt of the storm hit up there. There was nowhere locally that could haul our boat. Really, we spent a LOT of time Looking at options and determined that where we were was about the best option. Turned out to be a pretty good choice.
Luckily, we sold our boat about a month before Sandy hit. We were docked in Highlands NJ which is a small fishing town on the Raritan by Sandy Hook. The whole town was under 10 feet of water and was lucky that most of the swells were broken up by the Sandy Hook peninsula. Unfortunately, most boats we're destroyed and nearly every building in town had to be completely gutted or torn down
So no actual video of riding out hurricane sandy?
Nice boat!! I'm guess you run off of battery power when the engines are off? So you can surf the web and make popcorn. Storms are fun.
Generators and large house battery bank. Microwave for popcorn and DirecTV for movies and TV
Whenever I check MY snubber for chaffing, I get odd stares.
Very odd knots securing the snubbers.
Snubber line tip.! Make your self a good snubber bridle. Use fray protection al the time .. the rope must non move true the tube .
So lock those to the rope, maybe a knot will do that trick. The tube must move not the rope. Also use long snubber lines .. this was to short for the big ship you have. And with Gail force wind accept that the chain does some pulling too..
You made it look easy riding out a hurricane. What type of anchor were you using and was the bottom mud?. Just curious
Yes, it was mud and the anchor is a 300-pound CQR
Thanks for sharing! Scary adventure!
What does a snubber line do?
joe woodchuck takes the pressure off of the windlass
Great video. What kind of boat is that? It's awesome.
Nordhavn 72
Thank you for sharing this! Personally, taking videos in this kind of weather would have been the last thing on my mind.
We did a lot of waiting around and I thought it would be interesting. Thanks for the comment
Would have been nice to have captions when you were out in the wind and nothing but wind could be heard.
Yeah, my video production skills were even worse back then!
If one must ride out a storm doing so in a Nordhavn is preferable to many other alternatives...
Strange your snubber failed. Flaw in the boats design. Don't really need one, especially with that much chain out. You can just run a line straight over your anchor mount to the cleat.
What wind sensor is that you are using?
It an Airmar
@@nordhavn72 oh i thought it said furuno? I am using a garmin wind sensor i thinks its the gd10 that connects to my 7610 unit wondering how good it compared to the one your using?
@@peterc504 the sensor was Airmar - the data displayed on various instruments, including Furuno. I don't know how to compare it - it seemed to do the job and was accurate based on the few times we compared it to readings on friends boats.
We survived Hurricane Sandy on the S Shore of Long Island. 9 Days on a whole house generator.
Glad you survived! It was a bad one. So sad to see what Dorian did to Abaco - we spent some good times there.
@@nordhavn72 We moved to S Florida 2015, West Palm Beach, 7 miles inland. We Survived Irma, Dorian wasn't so terrible where we live, rain and a little windy for a couple of days. The Bahamas sadly took Dorians wrath Cat 5 Hurricane.
Storm it is when 70 or over knots wind speed.
did your insurance company pay your premium for the next year?
Haha, no. But they took good care of us in 2010 when we were hit by lightning.
It was cool seeing the SU flag, I live in Winchester, drive past there all the time!
How is that “boat savy people” don’t understand He effect of wind in audio??
Boat savvy doesn't equate to professional photographer.
Audio, not photography. Do you not listen to your own you tube videos? If not, you should.
with windlass gear such as that (and chain locks), snubbers are so pointless. Those cleats are not fastened as well to the deck as the windlass.. and when you need to get out in a hurry, the snubbers just cause problems and delays, or they snap.
Most Nordhavns use snubbers. Ours is threaded through an eye near the waterline, so it changes the point of pressure as our bow is so high up from the water. It also makes for a much quieter night. We now have a "regular" snubber and a "heavy weather" one designed for those situations.
your Nordhavn could have been out to sea and held her own as well. I would have made the same decision. When on a dock you are helpless when things go bad. At anchor you have way more options if you need to make decisions about your situation.
My favorite boats on the planet. Have I seen you in the Abacos? Elbow Cay, Hopetown by chance?
Yes, we were at Elbow Cay and Marsh Harbour,,,,,
Nice. I saw you there and took photos of your boat. My recently deceased father absolutely loved those boats. Have been going to Abacos for last 20+ years. Parents used to have a 50' sailboat we would sail over and hit many of the islands down the chain. Marina at Man-O-War Cay sunk it when we were in Brazil on vaca, after having it hauled for bottom paint. They forgot to put plug in it before floating it. They denied everything of course. Can't wait to get back down there for a visit. tx and enjoy.
why wouldn't u just move south beings you had several days warning?
We were in the Chesapeake Bay. Storm was coming from the south and heading north. Not sure where we could have gone - north turned out to be far worse and we weren't about to go south INTO the storm!
Why was not the camera running when Sandy come through 👎
Question: would it have been better to sail south a bit to move away from where the hurricane was going to hit? It looked like from the map you showed that it was further offshore to the south.
No way would we sail south towards the storm. That's what the Bounty did! Remember, the models are just predictions and hurricanes don't always follow the projected tracks!
I wish I hadn't seen the title of this video. I'll have nightmares again of the royal screwing I got at another yard in Velcrovile. That place and those people are the reason I'm cured of owning a boat.
Sorry to hear you had a bad experience
On deck No Life Jackets in a storm !!!
There’s always one of you in the comments, lol. Good advice though.
57 knots, it's fine weather for sailing :)
That was ruff water???
ruff in the jungle bizness ruff!
Which Nordhavn?
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great documentary, but max 57 k is a walk in the park. no danger seen what so ever
Yeah, that was kind of the whole point of going to Fishing Bay where we would have protection and be safe.