EXTREME SEAS! Past the point of no return at Oregon Inlet, pucker factor = 10
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- Matador Charters transiting Oregon Inlet, N.C. on an especially rough winter day with big breaking waves on board the 42' Ray Davis Charter boat "Matador". There's no turning back as huge seas show us why Oregon Inlet is a very dangerous place to boaters. Capt. Jake Hiles and Capt. Robert Mudgett are professionals. Like several other dangerous and rough inlets in the United States, (Haulover Inlet, Florida and Columbia River, Washington come to mind) Oregon Inlet can be a VERY ROUGH INLET to boaters! The Outer Banks of North Carolina are known as "The Graveyard of the Atlantic" because of these dangerous seas! DONT TRY THIS AT HOME!
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Horrific, we had a similar passage last year. My mouth went bone dry. I just focused on each wave at a time. Never ever again. Go ahead and call me a coward but I love my boat, and my life. Not to mention my girlfriend and our pets. Respect to you guys. Well done.
I've got a couple thousand hours on the ocean. Waves always look smaller on video then they do when you are there. That looks pretty damn rough to me.
Freaking scary
Considering the boat is 42'.. yea wouldn't want to try that in a 20'
Yea I live here on hatteras island or the outer banks where this video is filmed oregon inlet and hatteras inlet are the toughest inlets on east coast for sure even on calm day it's pumpin
@@darrenhooper2207 damn , that’s a 42’? Yeah that’s some large water for sure.
Ain’t that the truth! Video doesn’t do it justice!!
My buddy and I just came in the OI two days ago at 5am from heavy seas after sailing from Yorktown VA thru the night on a Beneteau Evasion 32 with a 4.7 draft. It was hairy as hell. Seasoned captians at the fishermans center called us stupid straight to our faces multiple times, not "be careful doing that" or "wow, you guys are lucky"....just "you guys are stupid" and we are not little wimpy guys... my buddy goes 325 6'4 and I'm 6'1 220 and kinda mean look'in. These guys were just being sincere and apparently that's was the most appropriate way to address what we did. We really didn't get offended either. Nobody sails through the OI with a draft like that. Apparetly noone sails through the OI at all. Never again.
Old timers and grizzled vets don't mince words lol yall handled it like grown men !! And ya made it to hear em !!
There's good reason its known as the Graveyard of the Atlantic.
th-cam.com/video/otoVcwgN0u0/w-d-xo.html the Manukau harbor bar crossing by coast guard in new Zealand
Been there, done that. Don't ever want to do it again.
That is crazy watching a 42' boat get tossed like that, unreal!
Cool video! Always rougher than a video shows. I would love to see the video of the return trip...Nothing scares me more than a bar crossing with a big following sea!
Back in 82 to 85 while I was in the Coast Guard I was at the old CG station on the Pea Island side. The channel was always constantly changing. Had a permanent Army Corp dredge there to clear out channel.Was there for the F/V Lois Joyce. Some pretty hectic cases at that inlet.
You handled that perfectly! Your speed was spot on! Stayed squared up. Well Done Captain!
I have to swim worse than this just to check my mail every day!. Lol. I'm messing around, but this is a great video of a shitty day. Almost makes you wish you'd gone to the outlet mall with the wife! Almost...
Two minutes, fifty-one seconds is theeeee longest I've ever held my breath. Damn boys, gettin' her done!
Fairly normal day for botany bay to head north to sydney harbour or south to port hacking, Sydney Harbour entrance with a south easterly following sea , always "fun"
Not smart trying to punch out of that inlet when it’s breaking all the way across. You said it best “this ain’t good “. Glad you made it. Plenty have not
And this was a fairly calm day? Yep. People who are dumb enough to go out of this inlet when it's really rough usually end up as fish food.
man I bet that bit of water is nasty on the wrong weather conditions, our local harbor bar crossing is different, the waves come at you faster and from all directions they leap up into out of nowhere and when the tides going out to Australia the waves on the bar sit in one spot rolling shaped like a triangle dragging you into them to roll you over and they can be 15 foot or more, rows and rows of them, it's a notorious bar that's killed loads of people , the Oregon inlet looks like longer waves that are surf waves that come at you in a line and they big, nobody ever crosse's the Manuka harbor bar until the weather is perfect to cross because you won't make it,
th-cam.com/video/pZRXj9cWj1U/w-d-xo.html this is the Manukau harbor bar on the perfect conditions to cross notice the change in the water when they're on the bar
Looks shallow too, that's rough, steady and slow you did good.
Most spots along the way out is only 5’ - 6’! I’ve fished out of there before. They don’t call it the grave yard of Atlantic for nothing!!!
alright i get it those seas are nothing to that thing but i wouldent be having a tea party. i even cringed a little when he didnt head straight into the wave and it pushed the bow to the side and im sitting in bed. im just saying.
I live in grey mouth I love fishing but I’m to scared to go out of the bar
Lol. Those waves are so small you couldn't even surf them.
Well done. I spent a month on the Oregon coast. I don't remember a single day of calm seas.
I hope the fishing is good because it's a naugctical nightmare. I've wave jumped Jetskis in several inlets and that's a sketchy one.
Oregon Inlet is in North Carolina.
You did good, Captain! I’d be giggling, too!
Great job of crossing that bar sir with skill, care and thought for the comfort and safety of your crew and the integrity of your boat. Plenty of keyboard "experts" on here as usual who clearly don't understand why standing waves occur and have clearly never bottomed their boat out in the shallows beneath them. I'd go to sea with you over them any day.
Danny Boy thanks. Yeah they just don't get it
Agreed 💯%.... Keyboard warriors, LoL.. but true.. be well.
I'm not a water person that would scare the shit out of me ...well done hoss
What really scares me is taking on those seas on the BEAM, or worse, at NIGHT!
The blokes having a crack at this video prob sit in the bath tub with plastic boats
I would go out on this person's boat. It is hairy, where they are going but the guy is throttled way back, keeping steerage & bow into the waves one by one by one, watching each one for additional dangerous crests etc. They sound weirded- out ( which I would be) but they sound SOBER.
Well done.
The varied angles of the waves in the inlet were the major problem, not wave height. You see the boat get pushed a bit to the port side by one angled wave, where it meets the next wave at an angle and rolls a bit. This is the action that is so problematic at places like this.
I sailed this stoned on mushrooms
Got plenty of that around Tasmania 👍
coming back in is the hard part.
I went out of new river inlet in my 20 ft sea ox cc. I say 4-6 ft breakers, It wasn't my brightest day, I was betting it flatten out or roll and that wasn't the case. Plained up stayed back side of the crest and surfed in. Quick boat trip could been my last. Glad I had experience that could been bad, loss power, submarined rolled. Who knows. Last time been out in that bs
Good job!
Better into than with those breakers
Got a place in Nags Head, I remember the first time I took my 25' Grady white through OI. Video doesn't do this much justice.
The negative commenting couch captains have probably never been in anything other than bumper boats in their local Park pond.
That's mild compared to what I have seen crossing there!
The real guys who've been on boats realize that the camera cuts the wave size in half....
Travis B its laughable the guys that say this is nothing.
I've been in some big seas and took videos and when I went back and watched them I was like WTF these look small as hell.
Travis B yep the bow of this boat is moving 15 20 feet here.
Definitely agree
If you haven't ever been out Oregon Inlet NC, I would wager that the ones claiming this isn't anything special would retract their statements if they got to experience it. Is there rougher water?...sure, but they don't call it the graveyard of the Atlantic and Caper Fear for nothing.
X Crow Thank You🍺
Actually, Cape Fear is about 250 miles southwest. Oregon Inlet is where Bodie Island and Hatteras Island meet. Cape Hatteras (the true Graveyard of the Atlantic) is about 60 miles south. Wimble Shoals lie just offshore of Oregon Inlet.
Powder Mathews I’ll never forget standing on the dock and the captain telling us that it was rough out there today. He offered to give us our money back right there. None of us wanted to whimp out so we cast off. By the time I got back I had made all sorts of promises to Jesus if he would just get my feet on dry land. Anyone who thinks it don’t get rough there hadn’t been there in rough water. I haven’t been back since. Smelled enough vomit that day to last me a lifetime.
Wayne Swicegood been there, done that lol!
Been there done that trying to cut the Knuckle buoy around Cape Lookout.
all these professionals at their keyboard talking about how this is nothing and easy. I'm sure the video is pretty easy to watch, but I don't see any of yall posting videos showing any worse.
Hello. I have never experienced a bar crossing such as this, and I would appreciate an quick explanation on just what is occurring. I believe at one post your said DEPTH range is 12=18 feet. Do we have an OUTgoing tide, probably in combination with an OUTgoing current, over a SHALLOW bottom to all interact and cause this BAR CROSSING phenomenom ?? If that theory
is accurate, could we change our conditions by using a different time of TIDE or CURRENT. === If conditions are similar, can this same BAD CROSSING effect treat you the same, whether you were HEADING INTO PORT OR HEADING OFFSHORE ? Did I miss something, or was there really ONLY ONE RED MARKER, which you took on your port side, which leads to my confusion with the RED, RIGHT, RETURN rule. I do believe this inlet is on the US East Coast, in the Carollina's, so you would be following the Red, Right Returning FROM SEA. .....so that RED on Port would tell me you were heading OUT to OFFSHORE Atlantic waters. Thanks !! from SW FL in the Gulf of Mexico.
+Bruce Malo hi Bruce. yes. we have a strong outgoing tide and outgoing current colliding with a large Ocean swell. all the more fun when the water is 45 degrees.
I hated these waters in ruff seas. You are right.
Matador Sportfishing the way you took that was good most people would go wide open through there
Ha, that's how it always is!
WOW! You guys have stainless steel balls!
One day my dream is to buy a big Interceptor from SAFE HAVEN marine and cross all these bars at full throttle while listening to sea shanties and smoking a cigar. Look those boats up. They could make this bar crossing in reveerse. Nothing ahainst the bar. It's just the boats are THAT good.
Is a following sea of that nature even scarier? Coming back in? No joke!
TG Shaeffer the following sea is actually more dangerous.
I think so . . . a following sea always presents a challenge to helmsmanship.
When the boat gets to the whitewater @ 1:26, how deep is the white water there compared to the darker water before it, and after it?
At no point in this video is the water deeper than 15 feet. This is a very shallow area and it's made even more dangerous because of the shallowness.
@@CharterFishing it looks shallow and im sure its the reason for the waves and currents also. So the deeper water is around 15’ or so. Then how deep is it at the whitewater there? It looks even shallower! Its gotta be intense when it is windy!
"dont try this at home" well obviously, nobody lives on an inlet
Countryboy2206 you obviously have never been to OBX...
ive been there and i dont recal seeing homes on the inlet
Couldn't imagine running over that bar...my sailboat draws 5'...ain't going there! BTW folks the camera ALWAYS shrinks the size of those waves...good job capt'n!
Haulover inlet is rougher than this.
As I said in the Video description... yes. Haul over is rougher. For like a few hundred feet Haulover is really nasty. Oregon inlet is nasty for miles and half the year water temps are in the 40s
GREAT job. In those conditions, I don't see a 42' boat doing it any 'gentler'. Had just the right speed. Perhaps, Captain, you should tell the skeptics here that Oregon Inlet ALSO has notoriously fickle and ever-changing shoals. Which a LOT of boats.....even driven by experienced skippers........manage to 'snag' in rougher conditions. That's, perhaps the most dangerous part of Oregon Inlet. Kudos, sir. (p.s. I'm just an amateur driving a 21' Carolina Skiff. No old sea-dog tales to tell.......lol).
Nope..
Dude, I shit my pants at my desk watching that. Now how the hell do you come back in?
That has got to be hard on shit. Great vid!
Yes it is. Both the boat and the body
Looked like way past 12 foot , that was smoking silly whooeee.
Yeah. These people who are saying that it doesn't look that big... have no idea what they are talking about. When you bury the bow up to the flybridge on a 45 foot Carolina sportfisher... she's BIG out
@@CharterFishing yessir
Give me my meds and life preserver. 😬
Lol sometimes you need it!
Can we see the trip back in?
Didn't film it lol
When they call for marine forecast to be around 2ft and turns out to be 25 knt and kicks it up to 4 to 6 thru the inlet, with seas following then from port rear quarter. Throttle behind a breaking swell and throttle back or have even backed down to miss the breaking wave, be blown to the beach lose sight of the channel markers in a 20 ft cc was at or past my peak of years of experience in the marine industry. Can’t imagine being in a deeper draft snaking the bottom in a trough and lose power steering or knock the shaft out the hull and sink. Beautiful day fishing can be scary 20 min getting back in
well if you've been through worse, let's see the video....
Y’all must be tuna fishing. It gets rougher in the sound than any of the jettied inlets these dingbatters in the NE or Florida ride.
Amazing how it smooths out like that.
Can't Catch'um from the sofa Captain...!!! well done Sir.....* thumbs up from
1FM
Lake George, NY
Better check for stress cracks after this one lol
Not sure why all the thumbs down. That was some scary stuff right there. My guess is a bunch of land lovers clueless about what they're seeing. 42' boost getting slapped around like that is no joke.
Good job running that boat, no waves over the bow.Looks like they crossed a sandbar.Nasty place.
Hah what's the point of stating...
DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME
Surely no one actually LIVES (at home) in the inlet at Oregon Inlet - & so no - !!!
Of course - no one will be able to try that "at home" .. as no one has that inlet at their home (or visa versa).
Gary Thomason you know that is bullshit and we do not do that in 18 ft tinnies , the ones that do usually die and that is why we have an appalling drowning rate here.A complete lack of respect for sea conditions and a pitiful "GUNG HO" attitude to the sea and a She'll be right mate ,attitude . How many people are pulled from the water here every year , small boats , bad weather , NO LIFE JACKETS!!!!!!!!! say no more . But we do cross bars and most do it properly.
Skipper did a good job and camera did not do justice to size of water me thinks. Cheers
Doesn't seem bad to some folks here BUT when a 42 footer is tossed around like a 21 foot Boston Whaler you got some serious seas under you.
no extreme seas . come raglan new zealand do bar crossing 6meter waves from time to time thats extreme
This reminds me of my first marriage...
A lot of us have skippered through those rough seas..
i came here to see this inlet in action. sadly the captain from wicked tuna charlie griffin just passed away coming into this same area. be safe out there.
Pucker factor 2 tops. You made it sound like the fucking wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
Most dangerous my butt. Try the columbia river bar or Tillamook or newport when there's 18 to 22 foot swell
Blue skies, not much wind, power boat going straight into the waves, almost nothing on the beam. Just point and go..... Though someone not knowing what they're doing could have made a mess of it.
Pucker factor zero. It's choppy and sloppy but it's tiny. Checkout getting through Kalbarri river mouth west Australia with a 5 m swell pumping through. coltrump🇳🇿
If that scares you boys, don't go any crazier. Your boat can handle allot more
True
volvocare I sunk it last year in similar conditions at Hatteras. split the hull right down the middle.
Was the one you spit in half a Sea Ray too? My guess would be, the boat in the video isn't your own boat. Most people with any time offshore, would never buy a Sea Ray.
Ays Kofi I have never driven a sea ray in my life.
Very well done. Sure would hate to loose power at a time like that cause some idiot smoked his lunch. and forgot to tighten something critical. Much respect always to the ocean She bites. And half of you keyboard warriors would be sniveling to turn back. Ive seen it a time or two. Nice video. Doesn't begin to portray the true nature of What your dealing with. You just gotta be there....And I have only seen similar a couple times in about 45 years on the water. And I remember going over in my mind every thing that was done recently to my boat by me. And only me.
robbiehobbs2009 the camera ages it look a lot less than what it is. if these guys only knew. thanks
Is it worth putting the boat through that?
Nothing happens to the boat...
Watch videos on Greymouth bar. Little fishing boats navigating through that shit.
boat handled it very well. As did the captain. Getting back in over that bar is when it will get hairy. Would not want to lose steerage or power in that situation for sure. Similar to Jupiter inlet in FL. Gets nasty as fuck.
i have watched quite a few of theese videos and have to say just because somebody can do something doesnt mean they should . i have my own boat just a 22 ft with a big 4 stroke and i kind of know its limits but that doesnt mean i need to push it that far . theese guys and there boat did well ............ boats are made not to sink , and i realise bad stuff happens but i would bet most boating accidents are not from waves .
Whole crap that would’ve been nerve racking. The rise and fall between the sets was up there. The skip knew exactly what he was doing by taking it easy and pointing straight at the waves as that’s the safest way. If he went to fast it’d be a serious calculated danger and that is not water I’d want to try & stay afloat in for longer than 1 minute.
Closest to this I’ve witnessed is going out of hateras and that is scary shit especially at close to low tide I saw those big ass breakers crossing the bridge
This makes my knees and spine hurt just watching it.
Boat handled it nicely, smooth. Good vid.
Add two to three knots to boat speed and add some tab would have been a lot more comfortable allow the boat to punch through the waves easier kinda like a speed bump in a car fun ride ! Yes I own a sporty
+Brian Coleman Exactly, get up to about 12-15kts, bit of a bow high attitude and she'll sail through those little waves.
As soon as I saw those larger waves, I was thinking, why don't they mash the throttles???
You don't putter through the wash zone at 4 knots and just sit there, waiting for shit to happen....
Yes Brian, you're absolutely correct. A little more power and trim the nose up a bit. That will keep you from falling off the wave each time. Of course you have to keep in mind it's a Sea Ray, which are better known for being inland and bay boats anyway.
Ays Kofi rough seas tabs down heading into it. Putting the bow up takes the cutting ability away and it falls off the other side of the wave harder. More speed will make it worse
@ays kofi - "42' Ray Davis" does not equal "Sea Ray".
lol@@acarr83
I got sick just watching....when we were kids, my folks and us would take out our boat from Morehead City out to the ocean....i would get sick every time!!!
Melody Patterson can't imagine you puking melody your wayyyy to cute
I live on coast in SC and been in similar conditions and it’s no joke. Video doesn’t do justice! Good video fellas!!
I would have shit my pants - good job Capt. You should show some video of coming back in!
A million dollar boat. Records video with a flip phone.
We’re going to need a bigger boat. Mayday mayday chief Brody
Got tossed around like it was a 26 ft.!
perfect handling ..... not too much power not to shot ....... the right balance ...........
Been there done that . WA coast too plus it jars your backbone.
Check out the columbia River bar, take lots of to!
Strong work Skipper. Steady as she goes.
Your boat handled it extremely wellwhat is it and what type of power better than most at haulover especially the submarine bowriders i see well done greetings from australia 😊😊😊😊😊
Thanks Lee!
Now you have to go back through it to get home?! Yikes
For sure that’s a tough navigation task. Been through a few times and I am NOT a professional. Scared the crap outta me. I wouldn’t have tried it with that combo of wind/tide. Butt pucker for sure. Well done
Thank you.
Oregon Inlet will make you seek God!
Lol! Don’t try this at home he says... lol!!!
nasty, nasty ride!!
The helmsman did a good job. A lot of people panic and put too much power or steerage into play during these situations. It was a bit of a pucker for sure, but that boat could certainly have taken on more head seas. You get really concerned when the water coming over the bow or hitting the forward windows is green, white foam is not bad. Not trying to minimize the experience, I'm sure it was an ass clencher and I would have been there tensed up like anyone else. I've spent a lot of time in the Gulf of Alaska in rough weather and I can tell you that when you film waves you can look at them later and feel like the camera shrunk them to 10% of their size, so these waves looked a lot bigger to the guys on the helm. One of the hardest things to do when at the helm during rough weather is try to keep a calm head and see the waves like the camera would.
Wow that's a crazy set of waves to take on!! Nice work keeping the boat head on for all them
Screw that inlet. I would never try it.
Yupp that's a nasty inlet!!
Smoothed it... Nice read
Pucker factor 0.25 maybe
The best part of your video was you at the end. That smile you had on your face and your laugh. You made me feel it. Thanks!
mrdave2112 that's what it's all about man!