Capsize -the full video!

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Yachting Monthly and Yachting TV have put together the full video from the capsize in the July 2011 issue of Yachting Monthly

It's 17 mins long, so make a bit of time to watch it.



Enjoy

Sorry for the broken link the first time around
 
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so, in event of capsize, open box of daz and chuck in bunk cushions.

In all seriousness, it's interesting and not nice to see.

Thank you for that!
 
Really interesting stuff, never mind the flying Reeds what about the way the cabin sole board came down like a guillotine was quite scary. The prospect of having your head near that as it drops makes me shudder.

Makes you think about what to secure if you know you are heading into an unavoidable storm.

Good stuff YM.
 
Well worth waiting for. Good work YM team.
Although I haven't been offshore in my small boat this has made me realise the work necessary before I do.
 
Little Five said:
Well worth waiting for. Good work YM team.
Although I haven't been offshore in my small boat this has made me realise the work necessary before I do.
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If there is a chance you'll be caught out in a storm in open water, then yes finding ways of securing things would be a good thing to think about.

If you're coastal cruising or spend a night or two at sea picking your weather then IMO there is no need to go to these lengths to secure items.

Btw one of the easiest way I saw of securing the sole boards was a rope run from for to aft under the sole with hen little SS eyes screwed under the boards. The rope is secured at the forward end by one hammers, and is thread under all the boars and though eyes on the stringers to another jammed aft. In the event of bad weather the owner just pulled the cord tight at one end or the other and the boards were held in place.
 
A bit of a mess

Good vid - thanks.

For those who hasn't seen this photo of the interior of Jean Socrates' yacht Nereida after it was knocked down in January this year near Cape Horn.

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Imagine that happening to you miles from nowhere - & you're on your own (& a pensioner) :eek:

Now safely arrived in Cape Town after a stop in S.America & the Falklands she suffered further problems on the way - mostly all salt water related.
 
An excellent example of parbuckling.

Comforting that the boat righted itself quickly.
Would it if the rig was intact and main still sheeted, provided the mainsheet didn't tear off? Or would that have slowed the roll in the first place?
 
Lakesailor said:
An excellent example of parbuckling.

Comforting that the boat righted itself quickly.
Would it if the rig was intact and main still sheeted, provided the mainsheet didn't tear off? Or would that have slowed the roll in the first place?
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I think in the conditions likely to cause a knockdown (big waves and strong winds) that you wouldn't have a great deal of sail up to begin with. If a boat is knocked down, it's usually by the wind. If it capsizes it's likely to be down to wave action. So would the rig survive?

I don't honestly know the answer. At what force of wind strength does air have the same pressure of static water? And at what speed does a rig need to be pushed through the water before a deck fitting/swage/wire break?
 
It was quite surprising how damaging some seemingly innocuous equipment is, when involved in a knock down. I thought that it brought home the need to secure everything below decks when not in use.

There were however, a number of issues that I thought were not addressed and to be honest, a bit daft.

The first thing were the lanterns hanging in the saloon. Surely if you thought you were heading for heavy weather, those things would be stowed? The other disappointment was the missed opportunity to include proper 'crash test dummies' that could be medically evaluated to properly assess the injuries that could be sustained.

A good test nevertheless...it sickened me to see a lovely boat being treated in such a manner though! :(
 
I'd have expected a LOT more water through ventilators & main hatch, & wasn't the crane used to aid righting ? It looked as if it was.

Horrible though it may be, with stuff flying around - frankly even the odd broken bone would be acceptable, if the thing's still floating; compared to a raft one still has more options, and is more easily spotted.

This is of course the view from sitting in a comfy chair with 20/20 hindsight, not frightened out of my wits and possibly having seen crew mates die...

'Left For Dead' should be mandatory reading, not for any blame aspect, but to read of the conditions, I've never read a better description.

No connection, I'm not a publisher !
 
skodster said:
The first thing were the lanterns hanging in the saloon.
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They were there to show the angle of dangle, otherwise there would have been nothing in the shot to give you any idea of the angle of the boat, only the fire blanket on the aft cabin door

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The other disappointment was the missed opportunity to include proper 'crash test dummies' that could be medically evaluated to properly assess the injuries that could be sustained.
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Crash test dummies are incredibly expensive, prices start at £80,000 each IIRC, even if we could have found a place that would hire crash test dummies to us to be dunked in salt water, they would probably have been written off (due to corrosion) so to hire and ruin them in a day was prohibitively expensive.

The mannequins were £60-80 each I think.....yes it's a cheaper alternative, but I think you can see why we chose them:)
 
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