BARCRUSHER heading home in ROUGH SEAS!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ก.พ. 2022
- The plan was to head out wide and give the skirted lures a swim for a Marlin, but the seas had other ideas!
So we batten down the hatches and slow the boat down as we punch 20km home to safety in sloppy seas. The boat does it easily and is now much easier to control in super rough water thanks to the new 4 blade Solas propeller.
We take on water and will show you exactly how much.
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Really appreciated the fact you put out a video showing it’s not always a good idea to just stay out in poor conditions. As a skipper we’re responsible for our mates and our boats, disappointing to call it but sometimes you just plain have to. Great video
Yeah thanks man, that's what I thought also. Too many lives are lost by people taking chances when they know they probably shouldn't be there.
Good stuff mate, great footage again, awesome seeing the BC in those conditions!!
No worries, yeah it was basically horrible. We felt safe and secure, had to hold our nerve of course.
This film shows something boat advertisers don't like to show. All they show is flat calm, babe in bikini, "the good life"--and that is irresponsible. IF they are selling a great boat--and they are, sometimes, they still avoid showing you reality. THIS is more like it--it isn't always so nice out there.
Hey man that's right. Infact it's like this way more often than people think. I.e may start off calm but often ends up nasty.
Tired of seeing manufacturers marketing their boats based on calm waters. These are the type of conditions Barcrusher should advertise. Videos never show the conditions to their full extent, this would have been on shit ride back. Good to see the Barcrusher handled it well.
Yeah totally agree mate, I basically can't even handle reading or watching boat reviews anymore. All on miracle calm days and never tell the truth warts and all of the boats
Great work mate
Hard call to make and we did fish, but it didn't feel safe. So can always fish another day
Great video. Miss your Bar Crusher videos. Quick question. Can you remember if you used trim tabs in those conditions? 👍
Hey man, who knows what I might buy next ; ) yeah in slow heavy seas almost always used the trim tabs. Just to keep the boat more controlled. Only exception was at speed in following sea
good day to test the new prop, no better feeling then getting back into the harbour after going through shit for 45min+
Yeah it's funny the camera never truly shows how rough it is hey! Yeah I've made some bad calls in the past risking it. 50km plus offshore and shocking weather. Now I don't risk it so much
It’s really difficult to capture the size of the sea on a camera, tried many times without much luck. We can see small whitecaps so the chop is breaking … what size would you estimate 1.5m ? We can’t appreciate any swell rolling through
Yeah it's funny some times it's rough without white caps. Yeah a nice 1.5m chop with a 2m or so swell. It wasnt huge, just very very sloppy with no consistency, and powerful swell....
It just shows why you wouldn't want to be in one of those hardtops where it stops short of the driver/passenger seat. They would take on so much water. The 670 has a good hardtop design.
Yes totally!!!! The short HARDTOPS are junk. Not sure why people buy them....
Can you explain in laymans terms? Thanks
@@NpgSymboL You will find viewing other boats the side glass window/hardtop stops ahead or along side the drivers seat. In conditions of strong wind or sloppy wind spray conditions the driver is exposed to these elements. The 670HT and larger boats have the hardtop finishing behind the drivers seat. This provides full protection.
Though you'd have your bilge pump set up so it pumps on auto?
Good vid👍
Nah it's not set up that way but yeah more important for moored boats etc to sue float switch
I wouldn't have gone out on that day. A trip to the shelf in those conditions in your boat IS dangerous. It might be ok but if your motor failed and you were side onto the slop 30kms off shore for hours I wonder...
Self draining decks can shift catastrophic water ingress from the boat via its scuppers very quickly, where as a bilge pump is only as good as its pump. If the conditions are serious having the boat partially submerged awaiting the bilge pump to catch up can mean capsize game over. Also the captured air pocket in a self draining deck ie below the deck keeps the boat buoyant after flooding, allowing water to flow out of the boat via the scuppers. The air pocket below deck is the safety element to a self draining deck that a bilge pump setup can never provide. Just saying.
Yeah I can see how a draining deck could definitely be a big advantage if you do lose power, or are unable to control your boat etc.
Forecast wasn't supposed to be bad and the camera never quite shows how rough it really is / was.
Self draining all the way ask any ab diver or serious offshore fisherman
Any water leak around the windscreen area and the front cab ?
No water leaks at all.... I did actually check because I was curious myself!
If in doubt don’t go out. If out and in doubt go home!.
Yep exactly. Sea scouts motto
Looks really rough, is that jervis bay?
North out of Batemans bay
I had a boat with self draining deck and 2 scuppers what a pain in the arse it was at drift half the boat would fill up with water tried everything to try and stop water coming in beside sealing them up completely.
Yep many brands with self draining decks have absolutely flawed systems and have non stop dramas! Very very common.
@@BaitBallinwhat do you think of the Quintrex 610 Trident, would it have fared well in this situation? It has a self draining deck.
I have a self draining deck in my boat and it is brilliant wouldn't have it any other way and have been through much worse than those conditions
I'm sure it was worse actually being there.
Yeah the videos always make it look calm unfortunately 😂
The best time to fish is when it's raining and when it's not.
Yep so all times? Agree
Sounds good to me mr Dickson
Boaters, what do you do if--right now, he loses his engine? It is easy to do, even if it is new. What is the first move?
Crack a vb and have a smoke whilst ya mate fixes it.
My first move would be to press the electric start on my auxiliary and keep going 😁
@@johnboy5167 Good to hear someone with a PLAN. Many have never thought to that point. A few years back, I heard a grown man SCREAMING into the radio mic--out of his mind, then a casual voice came back "drop your anchor", but it seems he either did not have one, or know where it was. A Coast Guard cutter--luckily was just behind him, who came up to his rail, lashed him on, and brought him on in, I too have a small back-up engine, the issue for me is to start it, each time before I head out, so that I know it most likely will start. You are a step ahead of me, with a button on the dash, I need to go to the stern and hand crank, still effective though in keeping her to the swell. Good boating.
Good boats but you’d be a lot more comfortable in a fibreglass boat the same size and more comfortable again in a cat or HYDROFIELD
That aluminum is slapping loudly
Not saying aluminium boats ride better then fibreglass boats but just because aluminium is louder doesn’t mean they are riding any harder then a fibreglass boats
That's exactly right! The truth is we often have 6-7m glass boats tucking in behind us, after they try to keep up with us....all isn't what it seems. People get too concerned with spec sheets over real world performance
Absolutely no slap at all...don't let the different noise fool you.
No good for the sternum
Would you have kept going in the caribbean?
Well it was a terrible day regardless, but yes it would have been substantially more comfortable put it that way..... Not sure about safer as it's bloody old! Hahaha
@@BaitBallin I’d much prefer the old glass girls any day of the week. They just don’t build them like they used to unfortunately. Plus the motor you have in yours is a weapon. Loving the vids mate 👍
Yeah same! Thanks mate. Lots of work to do, but ultimately it will be worth it. It's improving every day
I wouldn't even consider heading offshore in an old fibreglass boat they fall apart 😂
If barcrusher made a 7.5m I’d be very interested.. but unfortunately they’re just a bit small for this kind of weather. Also you need a better camera man - spent 5 minutes filming the drivers face and then the rest of the video thru a wet window you couldn’t see anything out of..
Well, BC really needs to start making 6mm hulls. I never ONCE felt unsafe in the 670. But it tends to ride over the waves and not plow through...
Noisy
Yep. Part of the reason I don't own it anymore....