Near miss heeling

[limecc]

Nearly crashed. Aside from going a bit slow and imo needing some trim up, what went wrong starting at 4.45?

 

[SC35]

What went wrong: going over the top of the wave into foamy unstable water, which allows the stern to be pushed around.

 

[Farmer Piles]

And without enough speed to give him way when the wave broke. I little faster and he would have run over the top and onward.

 

[harvey38]

Two things baffle me on these YT channels -

A/ The amount of single handed boats and the skipper doesn't wear a life jacket.

B/ The amount of boats returning that still have their VHF antenna laid flat.

 

[Bouba]

C/ where is the pleasure in that kind of boating ?

 

[DAW]

C/ where is the pleasure in that kind of boating ?

These videos are from Florida and are always taken at the inlets between the ocean and the intercostal waterways. They're quite narrow and you can get significant currents and big swells based on tide and wind even when conditions outside are relatively benign. Many of the boats are going out for the day fishing and have to go through the inlets to get there and back. The VHF aerials are laid flat on the coachroof to avoid fouling the fishing lines when using multiple rods, or when a fish on the line swims around the boat.

The key is usually to have enough speed to maintain control, but not too much. The boats that get into trouble are almost always going too slow and lose control over direction, or are heavily overloaded. Sometimes, they are just too small or underpowered to be out in those type of waves