Submarine In a following sea ,(open bow )

The boat looks pretty low in the water on the approach,the bow is barely above the water even before it gets pushed into the wave that finishes it off, but still its surprising how quickly it goes over.

Wonder what make of boat it was,hard to tell from the video
 
julians said:
The boat looks pretty low in the water on the approach,the bow is barely above the water even before it gets pushed into the wave that finishes it off, but still its surprising how quickly it goes over.
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Either it was a really lousy hull with woefully inadequate buoyancy at the bow or it was overloaded at the bow. Having said that there are plenty of videos on YouTube of boats entering/leaving that inlet and it looks a bit naughty
 
Stapleton 26 an early seventies boat .
It might be low in the water ( bilge pump issue) but I think it’s just slowed down to soon below wave speed - and the following wave has lifted the stern as the bow has dropped into the next wave .
If it was low then any water must have somehow got fwd to sink the bow more ? As it the stern was lifted ? Poss ??
But then presume some internal baffle s to slow the rush of water ? Dunno .

Or it’s just a risk what happens in a following sea in a small open bow .
I think modern Boston Whalers are double skinned with loadsa built in buoyancy, but nether the less it’s then got to get out as the waves continue to follow — best not to let it happen .

Guessing the knack is staying on the crest ( keep throttles on ) kinda surfing in until the height calms down further in then drop it down .
 
Looks to me like a lake boat with little free board being used in a following sea with insufficient power being deployed to get ahead of the wave. Low power boats designed for use in following seas have canoe sterns with high free board. This looks like wrong boat in wrong location with wrong power.
 
Portofino said:
Guessing the knack is staying on the crest
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An even better knack would have been to stay in the marina, I reckon.
Hindsight is a great thing of course, but that boat in those conditions stroke me as a disaster waiting to happen from the very first second of the video.
Either the helmsman had no previous experience with her, or he was very optimistic to say the least... :ambivalence:
 
dash300 said:
Looks to me like a lake boat with little free board being used in a following sea with insufficient power being deployed to get ahead of the wave. Low power boats designed for use in following seas have canoe sterns with high free board. This looks like wrong boat in wrong location with wrong power.
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+100% :encouragement:
 
That's either an overloaded boat or has insufficient freeboard for the sea. I should not have happened even if the helmsman screwed up his throttles.
 
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That looks like quite a big open bow boat.
I don’t think that would have happened in a closed bow boat of similar size, although there would have been a wall of green water over the screens.

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I've read a couple of posts elsewhere that state the boat was taking on water and that explains why the bow dropped so low when the stern started to rise. Apparently a very experienced captain at the helm. Scary to watch!
 
I’ve looked at the video a few time and read the comments on Fox News. My first thought is that it’s an inboard and from that I’m going to deduce that it’s not self bailing. I’m also going to suggest that his problem started before the video and his boat had been swamped. There is no water obvious on deck but the under deck lockers could be full, as could the engine bay which could be why an experienced skipper came off power.
 
There are regular incidents in that inlet which is 50m wide, Apparently it is not a marked channel of which there is a bit further down the coast.
some scary info on internet Jupiter channel inlet
 
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