stelican
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Two Anchors on board?
American style boat recovery
- Thread starter Mr Googler
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Time Out
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https://www.boatinternational.com/y..._medium=Social&utm_campaign=viking_news_nov22
My understanding was a complete electrical failure (not just from the story in the link) which meant they could not deploy either on this occasion. I prefer the non 'open' 92 but either way, they are quite some machines!
stelican
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They could have let the clutches off putting anchors into free fall (provided they were fitted)
Chiara’s slave
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What I was thinking. Surely you can release anchors without electrical power, for precisely this kind of emergency.
I don’t have to deal with that on a daily basis, as our anchors are not electrically powered in the first place!
Bouba
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By the time they realised they were in trouble…it’s possible they were already in the surf and it might have been too dangerous to send someone up front…especially if they were the second shift of the delivery crew and asleep in their cabin
There are lots of scenarios including being on autopilot
Chiara’s slave
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A.I. gone all skynet on their asses and taken over?
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DavidJ
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Yes, There don’t seem to be any side rails which I guess is a fashion thing but at the expense of safely in this sort of situation.
I‘m not sure if European manufacturers would be this foolhardy.
Bouba
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Don’t mention Itama
Bajansailor
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The 'Full Story" here :
Bouba
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That’s two hours !!! I got fed up with that bloke in under two minutes....you are going to have to watch it for us and summarize
Bajansailor
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I have not watched it, just saw by chance this link to the incident.
I was hoping that you would do summarize it for us.....
You could fast forward to the interesting bits later on.....
Mr Googler
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It get pulled off the beach when the tide was high………..
Bouba
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Certainly a lot calmer
Time Out
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It’s a sports fishing boat. They don’t have bow rails ! Assuming you were being sarcastic
I’ve deliberately not entered into too much dialogue as there is plenty out there on what happened.
MapisM
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Actually, most of them do, even in the US.
Even if it's true that over there a relevant number of buyers of these things rate form over function.
Then again, they haven't been able to elect a half decent President for ages...
Portofino
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They would have had plenty of time off shore well before any surf to manually deploy the anchor(s)
The lack of bow rails is cul d sac , irrelevant .They could have easily tied a line to a guy from a H+S pov .Bare in mind the all the ICEs had stopped so zero prop hazards .
We are all assuming the windlass has a clutch and crew familiar.
I mean did someone go Fwds and was unable ( in a only ever happens in America way ? ) to deploy manually?
This hasn’t anything to do with loverly uncluttered design of the bow
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Preposterous to infer bow rails would have saved the boat as it’s is to say Aliens escaped from Area 51 returning the abducted boat in the wrong place after shutting down all power . The lack of bow rails is in that silo of ideas .
Keep them coming though
The lack of bow rails is cul d sac , irrelevant .They could have easily tied a line to a guy from a H+S pov .Bare in mind the all the ICEs had stopped so zero prop hazards .
We are all assuming the windlass has a clutch and crew familiar.
I mean did someone go Fwds and was unable ( in a only ever happens in America way ? ) to deploy manually?
This hasn’t anything to do with loverly uncluttered design of the bow
.Preposterous to infer bow rails would have saved the boat as it’s is to say Aliens escaped from Area 51 returning the abducted boat in the wrong place after shutting down all power . The lack of bow rails is in that silo of ideas .
Keep them coming though
davidej
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A friend and I borrowed a yacht in Miami and sailed down the Florida Keys. We anchored off Key West and went ashore. While we were ashore there was the mother and father of a thunderstorm and when we got back to the boat, the anchor had dragged and it was on the beach ( lifting keel, so upright). Lucky as a hundred yards either way were rocks.
Something like that vessel but with three ginormous outboards was patrolling the area looking for casualties and had us off in seconds.
Something like that vessel but with three ginormous outboards was patrolling the area looking for casualties and had us off in seconds.
Bouba
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What did you pay them?
Momac
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According to google images some do and some do not
davidej
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From memory 400 dollars. about 100 dollars a minute but we didn’t have many alternatives. Especially with someone else’s boat
