EP. 24 Abandoned Boat DRAGGING ANCHOR RIGHT at US in a STORM
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ก.ย. 2024
- Delray had become home for us and is easily one of our favorite spots on the Florida East Coast. It was time though, to head off into the horizon. First was a list of maintenance items for Seawind and after they were done, we shoved off in the early morning hours for Miami. A long day in the ICW and an anchorage we hadn't ever been to before, with storms in the forecast. Our next day we have an abandoned boat drag anchor right at our bow!
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1978 Allied Seawind II
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Displacement - 15,000 pounds
Ballast - 5,800 pounds of lead (encapsulated keel not bolted on)
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Florida weather. Changes by the minute. Always interesting when you’re on the water and it blows up. The silver lining is you always learn something from it and get more confident being in it. Managing the boat and stressful situations makes you a better boater.
Couldn't agree more about Florida weather! We will always remember this moment thats for sure and it really has helped us in other situations since then
Both of you need to get control of your thoughts. Do not linger in NEGATIVE thoughts, be positive. A smile will always change your feeling to a positive one and lift your spirits. Understand LUCK never happens, what happens is meant to happen. Keep your thoughts positive and all will be well. Happy sails to you both
Positive thinking is always a good thing and something we try and maintain! Thanks Gary!
Hi, enjoy your channel!!! I would encourage you to train for some specific emergencies, such as what to do when something happens while under sail, damage control, sail recovery, fire, water intrusion, MOB, etc. As you have experienced, minutes make a difference!
Have a great day!
Another great video guys! You guys did great handling that sticky situation and definitely grew from that experience. I like Katy’s last take that the video was sponsored by cortisol and adrenaline 🤣
Thanks so much, Chris!! If only we could make some income off of that sponsorship! 😂🤪
I’ve actually been at anchor and had a boat drag down on us and had that boat’s owner tell us that we were dragging even though we were upwind. We got lucky, he barely missed us. Turns out he was new to sailing and had only put out a 3-1 scope. I hate Crowded anchorages especially during a wind or tide shift. Good job except for lack of life vests.
Holy Heck That squall sequence had my heart thumping too, so relieved you made it through in good shape. God Speed on your journeys and thanks for thanking us along! Miss and love you both :-)
It still gets my heart going when I watch it! Making these videos is always a "re-living" of these moments. Being able to reflect on memories like this is something I love doing. Even the scary ones! Miss and love you, Ron!!! And everyone back at home! ❤️
I was very happy to see your hull, full length keel , that's a real sail boat heehehe, She is seaworthy and each time you sail or anchor you will gain more faith in what you have built.
Yes we love our Seawind!
Katy's a real trooper. You would fit right in in New Zealand with that can do attitude. Interesting episode .. You two look like your going to have some great adventures. Thinking it was a real shame you didn't start your YT when you first bought your boat. People love refits ..especially epic ones like your. The yacht looks great ...a real testament to tenacity.
Have other boats drag or have 2 km of chain out when the wind shifts is all part of the adventure. Good job guys.
Hey Alistair! Yes I do wish often that I would have started the videos from day 1. I have the entire thing documented though! The first couple years were mainly photos (thousands of photos) and then I slowly started taking more videos. That being said, I have a ton of footage of many major refit projects. I am going to work in some "how we got here" videos in the near future telling the story of how Seawind came to be the boat she is! Stay tuned 😊
Why did we not see any fenders/bumpers being used?
It was a very chaotic and fast event and honestly I never thought of fenders during it. Great idea, and something I will keep in mind for next time (hopefully not anytime soon!)
Good to see maintenance, lets all the others know what they need to know.
Thanks!
Another excellent, excellent video. Excellent story telling and excellent photography!
Thank you so much, Captain Ron!! That really means SO much to us! Cheers 🍻
Have you considered also putting your fenders out on that side and keep a couple of them in hand? If the other boat comes at you a bit quicker pushed by a wind gust it will be hard to do anything useful with the boat hook in my experience.
I didn't think about using fenders while it was happening. Someone else suggested it as well and is a really great idea. They would be very helpful in a situation like that!
Be careful about picking up an aluminum pole during a lightning storm. I’m sure y’all are tired of hearing suggestions so all in all everything turned out fine! ✌️
If you'd tangled anchors, it would have been much worse. I would drive up over your anchor, haul it up and move locations. Definitely get a remote capable windless, so you can haul up the anchor in any conditions while single handed.
We would love an electric windlass but our manual does the job! Electric is definitely safer in some conditions but we like our more simple electrical system! We were very lucky in this scenario!
Hi nice guys, thank u very much sharing the nice video. I'm glad to see that you dealt with the stressful sitiutaion at the end. 👏👏👏
What I believe that lessons of learnt from ours and others' experiences are very important. If u don't mind may I share some of my suggestions :
* Preparing for bad weather conditions should cover not only the boat, but also the crew (even comes as the first priority according to the SOLAS - Safety of Life At Sea rules. Your first goal should be crew safety first, next the boat then the others.
* Wearing of life jackets, which you already mentioned in the video👍 (you were expecting 40 knots storm and could get safety steps beforehand)
* Life jackets are not enough in such stormy weather even you are in anchored position. I suggest to wear harness and use a safety rope esp while you are on fore castle deck.
* Getting away a dragging boat from yours via a boat hook and using your both hands might be very dangerous and risky. You might loose your balance and Man over Board by the huge force impact of the heavy wind, waves and the weight of the boat; fatal and vital risk of crushing or trapping between two boats. If it is necessary u should use it by your one hand, getting safety yourself holding a safe place with your other hand and standing on by your two legs. ( 3 point holding rule in climbing).
* You should use fenders (fixed or mobile in hand) not only in bad weather conditions but also while you anchored position as a mitigation of an another boat crushing accident possibility, against yours.
I wish you the best and good luck for your next adventures. I hope that you will have a lot of sailing experiences, gathering nice memories by visiting wonderful places& beaches all around the world.
Looking forward to watch your following nice and exciting videos. Take care yourselves...👍👌⛵️⚓️🧿😀🙋♂️
Thank you so much for all of the great suggestions! Ive had a lot of people suggest the use of fenders during a situation like that. Great idea and something we have decided to start doing. I also am going to design a tethering system that allows us to quickly and easily clip in all around the boat even at anchor for situations like this! These experiences are all wonderful, even the stressful ones 😃
So glad that you are enjoying our adventure. Take care 😊⛵️ 🌎
eggs and hot sauce on sourdough bread is one of my favorite things
Delicious!
From the looks of the other guys paint job he hits things all the time! Glad you avoided him.
Thank you Dorian! Were glad you have you along for the journey :)
Well done, congrats from the Nederlands
Thank you, Thomas!
Guys stay away from the rigging in lightening. Stay safe.
Earl, great suggestion and honestly, that wasn't even a thought while it was going on. After watching the footage to make the video I realized there was quite a bit of lightning...
When birds visit your little island they are usually exhausted - please provide fresh water for them. I know that Corvid was in sight of land, but it's good to practice for the real thing.
I wandered around Fort Lauderdale at night when I couldn't sleep due to the heat many decades ago. Remember seeing the bridge guard night shift in the little booth with a tiny TV and thinking it was a kind of odd, lonely existence. Some months later I motored out under a bridge where a lady stepped out of the booth and called out in admiration of the yacht I was on - heading out for Belize - felt sorry for her and a little guilty for being so free.
Thanks for the trip down Amnesia Lane!
I've seen other people provide water for birds. I will most definitely do the same and would have, but that bird flew off a few seconds after I stopped recording. Thank you, Dan, for sharing that story! We have talked about experiencing similar thoughts/emotions about our free existence. I've felt guilty at times because of it as well. Heading for Belize sounds wonderful! I bet that was a really great adventure! Cheers!
@@SailingSeawind Ha ha - like ALL the greatest adventures it was a mixture of boredom and terror with a constant background of uncertainty and a strong desire to make it all stop. Would gladly trade a few organs and a limb to be back at it now!
Fair winds.
Ya'll did great. Your anchor set was fine, the other boat had issues He may have had too much scope out or not enough. Just add it to your knowledge base. Always learning.
Thanks, John! Yes we are continually learning through our experiences.
First time visitor to your channel, and have now subscribed. Well done in handling the problem caused by the other vessel dragging it's anchor. One quick suggestion - if there is any type of weather event bearing down on you, get into appropriate wet weather gear and warm clothes, and your life jackets (inflatable preferred), so that you are fully protected when the weather hits.
Would it have been proper to board and reset their anchor ??
Proper? Or Considerate?
When the black boat's anchor re-set, it stayed put. The squall passed over quickly (about 30 minutes total) and as the wind was starting to die down, we re-anchored Seawind. Resetting their anchor wasn't something we had thought about doing in that situation because it didn't continue to drag. It would most definitely be something that I would consider proper/considerate and I'll be able to pull on this learning experience for future situations 😊
Most definitely!!
@@SailingSeawind If things went wrong could you be held responsible ??
U both were amazing, Katy u are a special Woman, unreal really well done, but please warm coats and life jackets ok, when it happens again. Love ur Channel have subscribed and really look forward to ur adventures. 🇦🇺😍⚓⛵💙❤💚💛💜
Thank you so much for your kind words!! Yes warm coats and life jackets are a must, next time! We're so glad you are enjoying our videos 😊⛵️❤️
@@SailingSeawind ur both very welcome🌈
Trying to fend off a boat with hands or boat hook is in that much wind dangerous and ineffective. Did you get on VHF and warn other boats there was a boat dragging ?
Agreed that it is dangerous and ineffective! We had the radio on and channel 16 was so busy with other people radioing about emergencies during the squall. We ended up not reporting it because of how our situation played out and the fact that the squall did not last very long
Crazy. I would like too know, if cutting the derelict boats anchor line is what you do? I'm in coconut Grove. I been hit
I wonder if rafting up....
Interesting idea! Hadn't thought of that. It would prevent the boat from wreaking havoc for other boats if it would have broken free again. Fenders would be a must for that!
@@SailingSeawind So many considerations. I found your channel after searching for these boats. Very nice vessel indeed. Watched your mechanic skills...very impressive.
Make it a great adventure!
Was the other boat really dragging? When a large scope of anchor chain has sett itself on the bottom this can hold the boat in an unnatural position in relation to it's anchor. When gusts from a new direction hits, the chain wil now let the boat drift down wind from it's anchor, this can look like dragging. Glad you are all ok. Best regards from Jarle
Hey Jarle! Yes the other boat was definitely dragging. You can see how far ahead of us it was in some of the clips before the front came through. Id say about 300 feet in front of us when we first noticed the wind had picked up into the 30 knot range. When we noticed the boat coming at us when the stronger gusts hit, it was less than 100 feet from us and moving very fast broadside at our bow. We both saw the boat re catch. The stern then swung violently around and just missed our boat as it continued to drag and slow to a halt right next to us. I thought it would have snagged our anchor chain as it passed by our bow but somehow it did not. When I hauled in our chain it brought our boat almost 100' in front of the other boat. We had 140 feet of chain out
If someone’s unoccupied boat was dragging in the anchorage into other boats someone would cut it loose
Boat maintenance question for you. I saw you putting TefGel on the threads for the zinc. I'm assuming you do that as an anti-seize, but doesn't TefGel also act like an isolator increasing the resistance between the zinc and the cap but for a zinc to work optimally you want the electrical connection to the engine or more noble metal to have as little resistance as possible?
You are 100% right . shouldn’t use tefgel or grease , now the anode won’t be in contact with the engine . The same for the underwater anodes , no grease or paint on the anode or bolts
Before using it on the threads of the zinc, I read on the data sheet that tegfel is inert when it comes to conductivity. I may be wrong though! I think next time I'll forego the tefgel. It is probably not needed, and Id rather risk a bit of corrosion between the dissimilar metals than risk the zinc not working properly!
See my comment above! Next time I service the engine zinc I will forgo the tefgel although it says on the data sheet that it doesn't affect conductivity. Better safe than sorry!
what did you put on the screws of the zinc?
I put a very small amount of Tefgel on the threads because of the dissimilar metals of the threads and the brass fitting that gets screwed into the engine block. I was lucky with the zinc unthreading easily this time and figured it wouldn't hurt for future disassembly.
Being prepared averts fear and anxiety. Sailing is not for the meek. The ocean is a wicked mistress and holds many whos fear overcame actions. You worked well through this lityle squall. Recognize your mistakes and add them to your preparadness plan.
The music is distracting, unnecessary, and inappropriate. Boat maintenance is a serious subject matter. Good video once you hit the mute button.
Thx for posting. Just curious, did u consider popping out of waterway in order to avoid bridges? Ty.
Yes we were continually looking for weather windows! We prefer sailing and love ocean sailing! We were so late in the season that the winter storms marched in one right after another and with our work days on the computer, the Atlantic was not playing easy to get! Another aspect was that Katy and I haven't been to much of the east coast, even by car! So this was also an opportunity to experience the ICW for the first time and to take in all of the beautiful places along the way! Now that we've done it, we will make finding weather windows for sailing a much higher priority :)
Squall sequence, what get music you played during it,,,, had me intense the whole time,
and I became 9-11 sub
Thank you, Jim!! We're glad you enjoyed the video! Thanks for the subscribe 😃⛵️
Throw out your fenders.
Yes, from other peoples suggestions and our experience, that is part of what we learned for next time!
Why didn’t you use your RADIO? The name of the boat was plain to see & someone might have been inside asleep with “ear pods”just like you two, not paying attention. Their boat likely sustained great damage & maybe other boats and people too.
Hey, Christi! We had our radio on, monitoring channel 16. People were radioing on that channel every few seconds with a new emergency! I'm sure a lot of other people and boats had close calls or maybe even worse that day. I never went to see for myself if someone was aboard, but from our observations before, during, and after the event, it was pretty clear that nobody was onboard. When that boats anchor re-set, it stayed there, and the squall passed. No collisions happened. From the appearance of that boat though, it has sustained damage from collisions in the past!
It would be nice when there’s wind and we can’t hear what you’re saying that you would put the word so we could read it! Just saying. Otherwise, I enjoyed your video keep up the great work.
Thank you for your feedback!! I've added captions where the wind or other noise makes it hard to hear what we are saying. Are the captions showing up alright in the video? After watching it again, there are a couple of spots I missed putting captions. I'm striving to make every word heard (or read) loud and clear :)
Curious about your online job and how much WiFi you need an how you get it? Starlink?
The sound track makes this to obnoxious to watch...
interesting but hard to watch with this horrible music
I contemplated using the music while editing this video and although it may be a bit dramatic I think it is useful in portraying some of the emotions we experienced during that situation.
So sick of the clickbait tittles.
Technically it was a line squall, not a storm!
worst music ever lol
I contemplated adding the music for a while as I was editing the video. I think music is a really great way to express emotion and although it may have been a bit dramatic, it sure adds to the experience. And it truly helps portray some of the adrenaline fueled energy we experienced.
I agree. Hit the mute button before watching.