Bobc
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I'll have to get her on board and then fake and engine failure so I can send her head first into the engine bay while I film it from behind 
Video of an actual dismasting at sea
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Tamar
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Can I hold the camera pleaseI'll have to get her on board and then fake and engine failure so I can send her head first into the engine bay while I film it from behind
JumbleDuck
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I'm perhaps just old and cynical, but I assumed that the whole thing was staged. Set up cameras, knock out a cap shroud clevis pin, film legs, profit.I'm impressed by their quick reactions. . .
. . . in getting the cameras set up to film themselves dealing with the problem.
Biggles Wader
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Your cynicism knows no bounds. I bet you think all those heroic animal rescue vids on Faceache are staged too!
PaulRainbow
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I'll have to get her on board and then fake and engine failure so I can send her head first into the engine bay while I film it from behind
If you slip her a few quid i'm sure you won't even need to fake the engine failure. She was obviously prepared to pull her shorts to one side in front of the old fella in the engine video, for a few more subscriptions.
Tamar
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She's got mine ?
PaulRainbow
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Did anyone see the video she did of her getting back the drone she crashed ?
She thought the drone app' and GPS mapping were accurate to within inches.
She couldn't understand why she couldn't hear the locator from the drone, until she Googled it, after she'd climbed to the top of the island, Doh!!
She didn't even think to take any water with her to the island. FFS i don't even go out in the van without something to drink in this weather.
She's a disaster waiting to happen.
She thought the drone app' and GPS mapping were accurate to within inches.
She couldn't understand why she couldn't hear the locator from the drone, until she Googled it, after she'd climbed to the top of the island, Doh!!
She didn't even think to take any water with her to the island. FFS i don't even go out in the van without something to drink in this weather.
She's a disaster waiting to happen.
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PaulRainbow
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r_h
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It's not waterproofed, which wasn't an issue even though there was a big sea running. The rig in the water seemed to act a bit like a sea anchor and we weren't getting much spray over the deck.
Had it been an issue, the boat also has a cordless dremel with metal cutting disks. If that doesn't work the back up plan is a hack saw with a carbide blade - they are surprisingly good at cutting stainless.
Tamar
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I can dreamPerhaps she pulled her shorts to one side just for you
Graham376
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These are similar to the ones I have on board, handles maybe around 18" long, cut through 10mm OK, which is what my rigging is. Wire Rope Cutter 12mm (Stainless Steel Cable Aircraft Cutters) | eBay
LittleSister
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I am old and cynical - (no perhaps about it!) - but I don't think it was staged, if only because they would then have had better footage of it coming down and their immediate reaction.
LittleSister
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Do any of the bolt cutters have ratchets (like ratchet loppers)? That would make a great difference to the effort that could be applied, especially to the final parts of the cut.
I have attempted to solve the rig cutting problem by having a small boat with very modest sized rigging. I've been carrying round the same bolt cutters since the early 1990s, but have yet to put them to the cutting test. (I have no complaints about their ballast function.
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I have attempted to solve the rig cutting problem by having a small boat with very modest sized rigging. I've been carrying round the same bolt cutters since the early 1990s, but have yet to put them to the cutting test. (I have no complaints about their ballast function.
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Do you not check the chainplates?
lustyd
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I’m not a rigger, so no. As with any survey though it would generally be non destructive unless you explicitly ask so they wouldn’t remove all the sealant or remove the chainplates anyway
Sandro
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I did not understand who was operating the camera. It did not look like being hanging in a fixed position. If there was a cameraman I wonder if at that time he/she had not something better to do than filming.
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lustyd
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It was attached to the broken Bimini frame so was moving with the waves
Tranona
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The boat is a Tayana 37 and such failures are not unknown. Poor design and common with other boats of the same era with the plate going through the deck then to a ply pad which is glassed into the hull. You can see in the shot of where the chain plate was the sealant had failed and result is crevice corrosion where the plate passes through the GRP deck. Almost impossible to check. A Tayana starring in yet another Youtube (forget the name, but they originally sailed from UK in a Heavenly Twins cat) had a failure of the same plate but it pulled the whole plate and pad out through the deck. converted to external plates through bolted to the hull sides.
Those boats look all rufty tufty, but they have many examples of poor design which show up after 30 or 40 years of hard use and often neglect.
XDC
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Sailing Kittiwake
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This is a phenomon I have studied extensively (having an eye for detail, I would have gone for 0:32) but it's largely just a Youtube algorithm thing. I've lot count of how many video where I've searched for something utterly tedious & quite technical, only for it to feature the only single frame with a cleavage in. It's deeply frustrating.
It's deeply frustrating because it's generally impossible to find it again once you actually watch the thing.
At least we know now where Santa goes for his Summer holidays.
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