More the size of it really, but yes, surfing a 14 meter yacht is like drifting a school bus - reckless, dangerous, (especially for the kids) and by the looks of it, a hell of a lot of fun. Kudos mad dog skipper, kudos.
Spoken by someone who hasn't owned a big cruising cat. This was absolutely safe but DONT try that in a Keelboat. Ive sailed tri cat high perf cat big comfy cruising cat. That cat is fine for that entry.
@@VanIsleNuckFan the crew? You mean him and maybe a wife or friend? Notice he said “we” decided it was worth the risk… he’s a good captain. Knows his boat, the waters, and made sure everyone else on the boat was (forgive me for this one) on board with his decision.
@@Tjspycorp Was a stupid decision, he got lucky. I would feel unsafe boating with you also. Not worth the risk. So they didn't have to "Inconvenience" themselves; the epitome of arrogance in the waters. Made for good tv though I guess. lol
@@ppapdddar6159 yeah he took a great risk and pulled it off not stupid, crazy maybe but not stupid and at the end of the day its his boat and his life maybe if he had a group of people on board or worse young children than yes very stupid but im unaware of those details.. but as for me as a surfer i ride waves twice the size of that so if i was onboard and we had capsized im confident in the water in those types of condtions and i would of been backing the captain all the way. And sometime in life you need to take risks to reep the rewarda or your life will become one boring shelted existence becouse of fear, you only live once so live life to the fullest and never look back.
@@ppapdddar6159 stupid, no.......risky, hell yes.............East coast Oz is mainly all Bar Crossings........ th-cam.com/video/n83xc0qx5J4/w-d-xo.html Coffs Harbour ...... trimaran
As a boater of 30 plus years I feel the captain showed exception driving skills...Those cats track hard and you can lose it quickly with a following sea... Good job skipper!!!!!!!!!!!
@@GLASS-DOOR-GARAGE No. The big balls joke is made a million times in every video that shows somebody doing something risky. It is played out and is no longer funny.
Sailing back for two days is not worth saving your life, yeaaa.. sure! He got lucky, promoting danger in return you will be sleeping in hospital bed for days, not just 2 days sail to Brisbane in your own private tent
@@TsarOfRuss agree with your comments BUT there are those who do and those who don't. I would buy him a beer! Just to add, 500 miles out to sea the ocean is not millpond smooth..in the right conditions he would be doing the same but with a drogue maybe... th-cam.com/video/hQ-svmgOxqw/w-d-xo.html to prove my point...........
@@epichourtime Yeah, it looked like it was going to nosedive. It's a big catamaran - 42' - and the wave he rode in on was huge! Pause the video at 0:47, and it looks like 12'-15' up the face. This could have ended very badly for all of them. I think he was damn lucky. Skillful steering, but damn lucky as well!!
It's his fuckin boat, if he wants to do it, it's his decision. I've done things with my boat that are risky, combination of skill and luck made it OK, maybe one day the luck will run out, but what fun is life if you never take a single risk.
***** Calculated risks yes, but this just shows very poor seamanship. Coming from seaward you can never accuratly judge the character of surf until it's too late.
remember that next time you cross a street, remember some poor **** might have to come save your body or worse tell your poor family you died, don;t take risks stay indoors
Timing was perfect to catch that wave. Respect. Could have easily gone differently with angles and waterline points, but he held it. Breakfast beers indeed.
Cats have that amazing stability & with the cabin hull as a brace from submerging the vessel in those conditions he just needed to get his timing, superbly executed!!! Cheers for him.
I kayak fish in the gulf of mexico, and coming back in from waves like that SUCKS!! that is HARD to do, trust me! Once your vessel starts going sideways and that wave gets underneath you, TOAST! What a great piece of maneuvering, well done sir!
Had a simaler incident but we were in a 23cole and it was portphilip heads, ruder broke, swell was so big in the troff all i could see was blue, sumhow my dad(best yatchsman ive even known did sydney to osaka in a 38 he was mad in a good way. Rip dad) got us out,scarrest but somthing ill never forget,
I'm amazed at the videos of bar crossings into Aus and NZ rivers and estuaries. In the UK, many of our harbours are deep water and so are quite tame to approach. There are a few bars that can be a little tricky but nothing on the scale of this.
A well made cat that isn't too heavy can surf big waves easy and are quite stable in the yaw direction, and with two rudders very maneuverable. They do not have the tendency to broach like monohulls do. As long as there is ample buoyancy in the bows, doing what this man did is well within the capabilities of the yacht.
It’s something a catamaran has a far better chance of getting away with. Many years ago I had a 30 ft cat that broke adrift from her mooring in a particularly vicious storm. According to eyewitnesses she rode the top of a surf straight over the top of a rocky half-tide reef and parked herself nose first up the beach. Her rudders were damaged in the subsequent pounding but otherwise she was fine. If she’d been a keeler she’d have been matchwood.
@ricdanger2 I do take exception to this type of uninformed comment. Certainly there was risk involved, however advice from coastguard indicated that the sea had settled significantly and as skipper it was my call to either abort or enter. This decision was taken after discussing the situation with the two VERY experienced sailors accompanying me. Both were keen to enter, ALL CREW were wearing P.F.D's however harnesses were elected to be dangerous for this situation and were not worn.
@riparianlife97701 Not so, rudders were never 'out of the water'. The Perry has very large rudders,thus giving them exceptional tracking ability. She does have keels as well. They are called mini keels and the vessel draws 1.3 metres....ian sloan Skipper.
"It was worth the risk." It wasn't like he was trying to escape from pirates or had a critically ill crew member onboard. I wonder if the captain would still be singing the same toon if that 1/2 million dollar catamaran had ended up capsized? Still..... It was impressive. Worth the risk....Naaa. That's called justifying a poor decision.
@@20the20 Yes, it was a cool video. A very cool video if you have nothing at risk setting comfortably in front of your computer. And if the skipper left it at that, then that's what we would have, just a cool video of a half million dollar Catamaran surfing. But, that's not what we were left with. We were left with a skipper claiming that "it was worth the risk", placing not only a 500k vessel at risk, but also the lives of his crew, and any first responders that would have to assist if things had gone horribly wrong. So nondescript account 20the20 there is your answer. As you have noticed and exercised your ability to use it, there is a comments section that allows people to throw in their 2 cents. By asking why I care, I can only assume you are a child with very few life experiences. I on the other hand, for many years, have taken friends and family on trips were I am responsible for their safety and wellbeing. I care, as I do not take the lives of my fellow adventurers so cavalier.
Catamarans seem to do much better than monohulls in a following sea. Once a monohull leans to one side they lose control because the front of the hull forces them to broach.
I rolled small 16 foot catamaran in the surf at Laguna Beach California in 1969. The cat had those banna bows and the forward third of the downwind float went under water. The boat just stopped and the wave pushed it compleatly over. The mast snapped off when it ihit the bottom and the cross beams just folded up. No one was hurt. The newer modern cats have bluff bows and big sholders providing lots of bouncy foward. Causing the boat bows to rise and not bury in the wave.
lots of experience, large cajones, and a bunch of luck/good fortune. could've gone awfully bad but luckily those rudders kept down in the water and he was able to keep it straight from rolling over. if there had been any more curl to the wave and the rudders came out he would've drifted sideways and flipped but he luckily caught just the perfect wave for that and kept it straight. I wonder if he used any motor power to help guide and propel it. he probably had to. turned out really cool
@pedruu if you watch the fllm you will see that the bows are well clear of the surface. I carry no weight up forward and the buoyancy of the Perry is exceptional. Carrying sail in would probably not have been wise as the sail pressure may tend to drive the bows deeper. I have surfed at sea with full sail and the bows under, Believe me crossing the bar looked spectacular, but was safer than doing bows under with sail.
studying to be a coxswain right now...my decision would have been to sail north and come back through the inland sheltered waters....but what would I know I'm just a deckie
@@huntfishexplore7636 You obviously are not a sailor. You cannot perfectly execute anything against the unpredictability and raw power of the sea. If that wave had been a half a meter higher, the starboard hull would have submerged and no skill on the rudder would’ve saved that boat from capsizing. He risked three human lives and $500,000 of luxury catamaran because he was impatient and foolish. He definitely was lucky. But keep thinking you’re in control of your destiny I’m sure it will serve you well.
@@hauntedyards Well, if you are someone with 500,000 disposable income, you would think it is "worth the risk" only if you make more than 500,000 every 2 days (that's the potential delay quoted on the video).. which means you would have to make 91,250,000 a year.. not talking about the net-worth, but actual income per year. Does he make that kind of money ?
@@pccalcio I'm not a rich or poor man but I'd do this just for the story. The sea and life are both unpredictable... Sailing 2 days extra could have sent them into a different harms way.... Sometimes you have to live life by your gut.
There is some equation you can apply regarding boat speed Vs wave speed but generally speaking your boat speed has to be less than a 10 ie if wave doing 10mph you do 1mph so as not to surf, than you can motor it sitting on the back of the wave, until a bigger faster one behind catches you up and....you do it all again- reverse to your boat is at least at a tenth of the wave speed,.
There was an instant when the rudders were out of the water where he almost lost it. A catamaran has no keel, so had he flipped, his mast would have dug in, and he would have gotten hammered.
How many of you have even stepped on a sailboat? A well designed and build sailboat can handle more than almost any skippers can handle. I've been at the helm through wide bay bar QLD in 4 meter swells in a 35ft boro steel ketch and Banyanda held up fine, admittedly I was pretty worried 3 quarters in because the sets were getting closer together but once you commit you can't turn around. Yes it's dangerous and I wouldn't advise anyone to try and go through a bar on a day like this bloke did, without spending the entire day studying it waiting for the right brake in the sets and timing them. If you know the bar, your boat and your limits it isn't luck, it's a calculated risk with good odds.
Rudders get lifted out of the water at :42 boat begins to round up, but one regrips at :45 and he can keep her straight. Nice combination of skill and luck.
So close to hooking around, but the bows of those narrow V hulls were perfect for the job they cut into the water like bow mounted rudders and keep it running straight
@Pigeon1888 I have to disagree. There was no guarentee he wasn`t going to nose dive. His rudders were almost out of the water at the back, and the boat did start to twist sideways at the beginning of the wave. I still believe there was a great chance that this could have gone horribly wrong.
He has done well and maybe with a bit of luck.I would not dare to surf it on those size waves,rather I would hold and full throttle on the back of the wave,but I take my hat off to you for your guts!
Many many have lost their lifes because of such a stupid and unnecessary try. It has nothing to do with skill that the wave was a few centimeters to short to put the rudder out of the water just luck and 5° degrees more in the wrong direction and they would be all dead too. No professional sailor would do something like this!
@@crone6616 of course it's skills. Like driving a car. A good boat operater can handle seas. It is not dangerous if the guy knows what he is doing. This clip shows total control of his vessel and when he did it perfectly , stayed right on top and then in front of the wave. This is all skill and those things can handle rough seas with even an incompetent captain . This is a great example of skill and experience. Wow your a Karen I see.
When you're drunk , you lose your fear of everything ! A good captain is one who knows how to hold a beer can well without spilling it with the rocking of the boat.
Ótimo, se você tiver coragem para realizar uma manobra dessas, eu te dou os parabéns, afinal voçê é o comandante e tem a responsabilidade sobre a embarcação, tripulantes e passageiros . Veja os comentários, se você souber ler inglês. São bem críticas. Se o acontecimento fosse algo corriqueiro, a notícia não teria saido na TV australiana. Não entendi algumas palavra do seu texto.
Surfing a catamaran is probably the equivalent of drifting a school bus
More the size of it really, but yes, surfing a 14 meter yacht is like drifting a school bus - reckless, dangerous, (especially for the kids) and by the looks of it, a hell of a lot of fun. Kudos mad dog skipper, kudos.
th-cam.com/video/WfuE61ZkuRo/w-d-xo.html in french but worth it
@@vava5543 Un Loulou !
It’s nothing for a 20ft beach cat. But a boat and surf of this size is not for me
Spoken by someone who hasn't owned a big cruising cat. This was absolutely safe but DONT try that in a Keelboat. Ive sailed tri cat high perf cat big comfy cruising cat. That cat is fine for that entry.
"That's gotta be the best pirate I've ever seen!"
so it would seem.
@@brandonshane8321 took the words right out of my mouth 😆
@@brandonshane8321 *”he’s a pirate” starts playing*
Da da da d d da dun... da da dun dun d d d dun... ☠ 🏴☠️
„That’s gotta be the best comment I’ve ever seen!“
11 years later and TH-cam finally recommends this and I don’t know why
So true
Haha , I know .. why ?? Funny
Yup
Do we have to wait just as long for the video of him skydiving into a volcano?
Vegemite
The most dangerous thing that you can have on a boat - is a schedule.
Should've been persecuted for endangering lives. Idiot news service isn't much better.
@@ThePaulv12 who’s lives exactly lol
@@mj6463 The crew
@@VanIsleNuckFan the crew? You mean him and maybe a wife or friend? Notice he said “we” decided it was worth the risk… he’s a good captain. Knows his boat, the waters, and made sure everyone else on the boat was (forgive me for this one) on board with his decision.
@@Tjspycorp Was a stupid decision, he got lucky. I would feel unsafe boating with you also. Not worth the risk. So they didn't have to "Inconvenience" themselves; the epitome of arrogance in the waters. Made for good tv though I guess. lol
The memory will be more valuable than the boat one day.
And the fact they filmed it, for everyone to see, until the end of time.
probably more than this boat in 7 years
Already is
"that's a good boat"
**gently strokes it**
We're outta beer fellas. It's now or never...
William Waite Hell yeah!
Really funny!
He obviously had at least one left
This is my favorite boat video of all time! I can only imagine looking back and seeing nothing but a wall of water! Total legends
Mother Nature: “Do you want to surf or sail?”
Skipper: “Yes.”
Wow ur funny
Well. That was certainly badass.
Nope, it was plain stupid. Disrespectfull to the forces of nature and the people that would have needed to rescue them when it would have gone wrong.
Disrespectful to the forces of nature haha you cant b serious?nature doesn't care allthough if it did it would give this dude mad props 😂👍
@@verofpv6152 What this dude did was pretty stupid.
@@ppapdddar6159 yeah he took a great risk and pulled it off not stupid, crazy maybe but not stupid and at the end of the day its his boat and his life maybe if he had a group of people on board or worse young children than yes very stupid but im unaware of those details.. but as for me as a surfer i ride waves twice the size of that so if i was onboard and we had capsized im confident in the water in those types of condtions and i would of been backing the captain all the way. And sometime in life you need to take risks to reep the rewarda or your life will become one boring shelted existence becouse of fear, you only live once so live life to the fullest and never look back.
@@ppapdddar6159 stupid, no.......risky, hell yes.............East coast Oz is mainly all Bar Crossings........
th-cam.com/video/n83xc0qx5J4/w-d-xo.html Coffs Harbour ...... trimaran
Surf's 5m wave🌊
Ian "That's a good boat" 🤣
Insurance company: “drinking beers before 9am huh?”
Lol, that was after he got into port.
As a boater of 30 plus years I feel the captain showed exception driving skills...Those cats track hard and you can lose it quickly with a following sea... Good job skipper!!!!!!!!!!!
Exceptions skills? HAHA, it was foolish, reckless and it was pure LUCK he isn't dead...
@@todddawes2759 you just replied to a *10 year old* comment...
@@spike4850 🤭
For sale: 14 meter catamaran, one careful owner.....
Ian : "hold my beer ..."
The reason he sail a catamaran is so he has a hull to float each one of his huge balls
😂
That joke is so shit.
@@sam_s_ jealous u didn’t come up with it?
Here’s your damn like, you earned it
@@GLASS-DOOR-GARAGE No. The big balls joke is made a million times in every video that shows somebody doing something risky. It is played out and is no longer funny.
That dude was about 5° away from disaster!
You got that right, his rudder was right out of the water at that point and all that saved him with the boats attitude when the wave first lifted it
@@darrengillesdarrengilles8336 His rudderS were not out of the water .
Arent we all?
Twin hulls only thing that saved it
Could've nose dived too ...
@@jdub7552 *FUNNIEST REPLY*
Hero! Only in Australia. Love it mate.
Sailing back for two days is not worth saving your life, yeaaa.. sure!
He got lucky, promoting danger in return
you will be sleeping in hospital bed for days, not just 2 days sail to Brisbane in your own private tent
@@TsarOfRuss agree with your comments BUT there are those who do and those who don't.
I would buy him a beer!
Just to add, 500 miles out to sea the ocean is not millpond smooth..in the right conditions he would be doing the same but with a drogue maybe...
th-cam.com/video/hQ-svmgOxqw/w-d-xo.html
to prove my point...........
@@pearlyshells2430 except out st sea the wave isn’t sucking up on a sandbar and no lea shore!!
No skipper who puts himself the crew or the boat in danger just to save time is a so called "hero"
@@epichourtime Yeah, it looked like it was going to nosedive. It's a big catamaran - 42' - and the wave he rode in on was huge! Pause the video at 0:47, and it looks like 12'-15' up the face.
This could have ended very badly for all of them. I think he was damn lucky. Skillful steering, but damn lucky as well!!
Who got this randomly recommended on 2020?
Recommended.. but then I will watch a sailing vid now and then :)
@@Clickumentary Same. To more hidden gems in the 2021 feed! Cheers!
Idiot.
2024 here.
Honestly this was really dangerous but … legends are the ones who take on the danger and succeed despite the odds and we have here a legend
They sea me roll'n, they hate'n...
Patrolling, tryin to catch me riding dirty!!
Jerry MegaMaxRuby Sailing dirty*
His name is Giovanni Giorgio but everybody call him Giorgio.
We’ll never make it through the waves.
Captain; Hold my beer.
It's a twin hull. One side for him and the other for his balls.
Lol
It call catamaran
Called a catamaran lol
Following seas: exist
This skipper: LETS SURFFFFF!!!
Coast Guard to Captain:What are you doing?
Captain to Coast Guard: Just waiting for my set!
It's his fuckin boat, if he wants to do it, it's his decision. I've done things with my boat that are risky, combination of skill and luck made it OK, maybe one day the luck will run out, but what fun is life if you never take a single risk.
Until some poor fucker has to come save him.
*****
Calculated risks yes, but this just shows very poor seamanship. Coming from seaward you can never accuratly judge the character of surf until it's too late.
remember that next time you cross a street, remember some poor **** might have to come save your body or worse tell your poor family you died, don;t take risks stay indoors
Most are hired captains, the boats are owned by rich people.
What poor fucker? don't sign up to be a lifeguard or coastguard if you are not willing to rescue people?
He almost sold his catamaran to his insurance company.
Nice ride.... like the cat surfing in Endless Summer, but he kept his boat perfectly straight.
Hold my beer, imma surf this wave with my half a million dollar boat
Timing was perfect to catch that wave. Respect. Could have easily gone differently with angles and waterline points, but he held it. Breakfast beers indeed.
Cats have that amazing stability & with the cabin hull as a brace from submerging the vessel in those conditions he just needed to get his timing, superbly executed!!! Cheers for him.
He was inches from broadsiding with rudders nearly out of the water. That is one lucky skipper.
Pure luck, or arse...
I kayak fish in the gulf of mexico, and coming back in from waves like that SUCKS!! that is HARD to do, trust me! Once your vessel starts going sideways and that wave gets underneath you, TOAST! What a great piece of maneuvering, well done sir!
This is the most Aussie thing I’ve ever seen in my life!
What a badass chad!!! 👨✈️
Had a simaler incident but we were in a 23cole and it was portphilip heads, ruder broke, swell was so big in the troff all i could see was blue, sumhow my dad(best yatchsman ive even known did sydney to osaka in a 38 he was mad in a good way. Rip dad) got us out,scarrest but somthing ill never forget,
Surfing a catamaran and drinking before 9am. This man is a legend
I'm amazed at the videos of bar crossings into Aus and NZ rivers and estuaries. In the UK, many of our harbours are deep water and so are quite tame to approach. There are a few bars that can be a little tricky but nothing on the scale of this.
❤❤❤❤❤😂🎉❤❤❤❤❤...loved it ❤❤❤❤❤...🎉❤
11 лет это видео ждало меня на ютубе. Ииии дождалось !!
"Thats gotta be the best sailor ive ever seen" The Wave: "So it would seem"
As an Aussie, the urge to cut right and try and make that barrel just for laughs would have been huge hahahahha
Yea mate! I'm no aussie but I am right there with you!
@Luiz Bastos ... Were you maybe on 1996 Cape to Rio?
A well made cat that isn't too heavy can surf big waves easy and are quite stable in the yaw direction, and with two rudders very maneuverable. They do not have the tendency to broach like monohulls do. As long as there is ample buoyancy in the bows, doing what this man did is well within the capabilities of the yacht.
Also, if you're looking to sell, and you have good insurance, this is an easy way to cash out if you fail.
It’s something a catamaran has a far better chance of getting away with. Many years ago I had a 30 ft cat that broke adrift from her mooring in a particularly vicious storm. According to eyewitnesses she rode the top of a surf straight over the top of a rocky half-tide reef and parked herself nose first up the beach. Her rudders were damaged in the subsequent pounding but otherwise she was fine. If she’d been a keeler she’d have been matchwood.
The best capitan I have ever seen...
@ricdanger2 I do take exception to this type of uninformed comment. Certainly there was risk involved, however advice from coastguard indicated that the sea had settled significantly and as skipper it was my call to either abort or enter. This decision was taken after discussing the situation with the two VERY experienced sailors accompanying me. Both were keen to enter, ALL CREW were wearing P.F.D's however harnesses were elected to be dangerous for this situation and were not worn.
You just started a new thing....
Everybody is going sail surfing now
i love the boat life, i routinely chug beers at the helm as i'm sailing past the water pigs
@riparianlife97701 Not so, rudders were never 'out of the water'. The Perry has very large rudders,thus giving them exceptional tracking ability. She does have keels as well. They are called mini keels and the vessel draws 1.3 metres....ian sloan Skipper.
"It was worth the risk." It wasn't like he was trying to escape from pirates or had a critically ill crew member onboard. I wonder if the captain would still be singing the same toon if that 1/2 million dollar catamaran had ended up capsized? Still..... It was impressive. Worth the risk....Naaa. That's called justifying a poor decision.
With a $500,000 catamaran at his disposal, I'd say he tends to make good decisions in life.
@@architectinth This wasnt one of them though. It seems he just got lucky.
Toon
why do you literally care at all? its a cool vid of some guy surfing his boat in on a wave
@@20the20 Yes, it was a cool video. A very cool video if you have nothing at risk setting comfortably in front of your computer. And if the skipper left it at that, then that's what we would have, just a cool video of a half million dollar Catamaran surfing. But, that's not what we were left with. We were left with a skipper claiming that "it was worth the risk", placing not only a 500k vessel at risk, but also the lives of his crew, and any first responders that would have to assist if things had gone horribly wrong. So nondescript account 20the20 there is your answer. As you have noticed and exercised your ability to use it, there is a comments section that allows people to throw in their 2 cents. By asking why I care, I can only assume you are a child with very few life experiences. I on the other hand, for many years, have taken friends and family on trips were I am responsible for their safety and wellbeing. I care, as I do not take the lives of my fellow adventurers so cavalier.
Out for a surf at dawn. Beer for breakfast at 9am. Welcome to Australia, nothing unusual to see here.
Good job
Okay, you made it, congratulations but I wouldn't do that in the future.
What a wild ride! We're glad that everyone was okay!
I'm picturing the skipper yelling "Cowabunga!" and holding his arms out to balance
I don't think that O'l Boy would have made that in a mono hull. That Cat saved his ass.
Stability of a cat saved him
Catamarans seem to do much better than monohulls in a following sea. Once a monohull leans to one side they lose control because the front of the hull forces them to broach.
I rolled small 16 foot catamaran in the surf at Laguna Beach California in 1969. The cat had those banna bows and the forward third of the downwind float went under water. The boat just stopped and the wave pushed it compleatly over. The mast snapped off when it ihit the bottom and the cross beams just folded up. No one was hurt. The newer modern cats have bluff bows and big sholders providing lots of bouncy foward. Causing the boat bows to rise and not bury in the wave.
Looks like a Seawind is it?
What catamaran is this?
Id keep it its a sturdy home... id like to know what brand of cat im in the market right now...
In a monohull we would of sailed down to Brisbane and back.... not trying that
lots of experience, large cajones, and a bunch of luck/good fortune. could've gone awfully bad but luckily those rudders kept down in the water and he was able to keep it straight from rolling over. if there had been any more curl to the wave and the rudders came out he would've drifted sideways and flipped but he luckily caught just the perfect wave for that and kept it straight. I wonder if he used any motor power to help guide and propel it. he probably had to. turned out really cool
Did he ever get out?
Done Well, luckily she tracked straight, Should have gone over the bar at High Tide with the tide starting to peak,
cheers Greg
When you want your 40’ boat to plane but only have a Yamaha 115hp! Jesus take the wheel 😆
THE MOST AMAZING CATAMARAN VIDEO ON TH-cam 💯‼️
There are old sailors and there are bold sailors, but there are no old bold sailors
@pedruu if you watch the fllm you will see that the bows are well clear of the surface. I carry no weight up forward and the buoyancy of the Perry is exceptional. Carrying sail in would probably not have been wise as the sail pressure may tend to drive the bows deeper. I have surfed at sea with full sail and the bows under, Believe me crossing the bar looked spectacular, but was safer than doing bows under with sail.
studying to be a coxswain right now...my decision would have been to sail north and come back through the inland sheltered waters....but what would I know I'm just a deckie
Seems like a poor decision that luckily turned out well.
I definitely agree... damn lucky.
Perfectly executed, must have been luck riiiight
@@huntfishexplore7636 You obviously are not a sailor. You cannot perfectly execute anything against the unpredictability and raw power of the sea. If that wave had been a half a meter higher, the starboard hull would have submerged and no skill on the rudder would’ve saved that boat from capsizing. He risked three human lives and $500,000 of luxury catamaran because he was impatient and foolish. He definitely was lucky. But keep thinking you’re in control of your destiny I’m sure it will serve you well.
@@johnoldman7598 guessing you don't sail a catamaran
As for the money's it's his, as for the lives, they belong to the passengers and captain, not you.
"it was worth the risk"
you're telling me a 2 days delay is worth more than a 500,000 dollars catamaran in your universe ?
That's not a question someone with $500,000 disposable income asks themselves...
@@hauntedyards Well, if you are someone with 500,000 disposable income, you would think it is "worth the risk" only if you make more than 500,000 every 2 days (that's the potential delay quoted on the video).. which means you would have to make 91,250,000 a year.. not talking about the net-worth, but actual income per year. Does he make that kind of money ?
@@pccalcio I'm not a rich or poor man but I'd do this just for the story.
The sea and life are both unpredictable... Sailing 2 days extra could have sent them into a different harms way.... Sometimes you have to live life by your gut.
@Viscous Shear do they cover even if they have video footage of you admitting of intentionally going for the riskier option ?
@Viscous Shear (X) doubt
There is some equation you can apply regarding boat speed Vs wave speed but generally speaking your boat speed has to be less than a 10 ie if wave doing 10mph you do 1mph so as not to surf, than you can motor it sitting on the back of the wave, until a bigger faster one behind catches you up and....you do it all again- reverse to your boat is at least at a tenth of the wave speed,.
There was an instant when the rudders were out of the water where he almost lost it. A catamaran has no keel, so had he flipped, his mast would have dug in, and he would have gotten hammered.
I never liked catamarans , but after seeing this I have more respect for them .
That's why I love to sail Catamarans!!
@vxip
Make of the boat? Looks to me like a Gemini 105 Mc
Good advertisement for the cats designer, is it a Grainger design?
Good captain and a little luck, he deserves a beer.
He needed a beer after doing this, I need one seeing this.
How many of you have even stepped on a sailboat? A well designed and build sailboat can handle more than almost any skippers can handle. I've been at the helm through wide bay bar QLD in 4 meter swells in a 35ft boro steel ketch and Banyanda held up fine, admittedly I was pretty worried 3 quarters in because the sets were getting closer together but once you commit you can't turn around. Yes it's dangerous and I wouldn't advise anyone to try and go through a bar on a day like this bloke did, without spending the entire day studying it waiting for the right brake in the sets and timing them. If you know the bar, your boat and your limits it isn't luck, it's a calculated risk with good odds.
Wow i work on boats and I know that takes a good amount of skill
Rudders get lifted out of the water at :42 boat begins to round up, but one regrips at :45 and he can keep her straight. Nice combination of skill and luck.
Great skills and boat.
So close to hooking around, but the bows of those narrow V hulls were perfect for the job they cut into the water like bow mounted rudders and keep it running straight
Wow like a master. Keep it. 🇦🇺🇬🇧
@Pigeon1888 I have to disagree. There was no guarentee he wasn`t going to nose dive. His rudders were almost out of the water at the back, and the boat did start to twist sideways at the beginning of the wave. I still believe there was a great chance that this could have gone horribly wrong.
theirs bold sailors and old sailor but no old bold sailors...
He has done well and maybe with a bit of luck.I would not dare to surf it on those size waves,rather I would hold and full throttle on the back of the wave,but I take my hat off to you for your guts!
Great skills. Professional and looked classy and sassy. Ya booy
Many many have lost their lifes because of such a stupid and unnecessary try. It has nothing to do with skill that the wave was a few centimeters to short to put the rudder out of the water just luck and 5° degrees more in the wrong direction and they would be all dead too. No professional sailor would do something like this!
@@crone6616 of course it's skills. Like driving a car. A good boat operater can handle seas. It is not dangerous if the guy knows what he is doing. This clip shows total control of his vessel and when he did it perfectly , stayed right on top and then in front of the wave. This is all skill and those things can handle rough seas with even an incompetent captain . This is a great example of skill and experience. Wow your a Karen I see.
I remember that. made me like sailing cats even more.
11 years later....here we are.
Don't let the following sea get under the transom or ya might swamp or pitch-pole. Good show!
what a legend
When you're drunk , you lose your fear of everything !
A good captain is one who knows how to hold a beer can well without spilling it with the rocking of the boat.
Ótimo, se você tiver coragem para realizar uma manobra dessas, eu te dou os parabéns, afinal voçê é o comandante e tem a responsabilidade sobre a embarcação, tripulantes e passageiros .
Veja os comentários, se você souber ler inglês. São bem críticas. Se o acontecimento fosse algo corriqueiro, a notícia não teria saido na TV australiana. Não entendi algumas palavra do seu texto.
What is a mater wave ?
I for one would like to know the top speed on that surf
Underwriters for the Hull & Machinery policy immediately reassess his risk after seeing this clip.