Why you should not take a small boat into big surf - Pictures

[RPC]

There is an amazing set of 113 good quality photos of a small keelboat being overcome by surf. The boat is rolled and completley submerged, the crew are rescued by surfers.

It is a good reminder of why crossing shallows or bars in rough conditions is not a good idea.

We have posted this in our news items on www.onpassage.com
Just go to our website and click on the yellow "News" button, click on the relevant link and look for the photo sequence.

 

[kingfisher]

This is the direct link

http://www.sfsurvey.com/photos/sailH/index.htm

 

[GazzaUK]

Oh dear, oh dear................

 

[Norman_E]

That's what happens if you try to escape from Alcatraz (photo37) in a small boat!

 

[FWB]

Needed antifouling anyway.

 

[capricorn]

Yeah I thought that too, at least if someone takes an amazing series of photos of my boat getting wrecked on a lee shore I won't be embarrassed by my bottom !

 

[michael_99]

That SMALL boat looks bigger then my small boat, I feel better already. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Pierrot]

That's rather like your mother telling you to put on clean underwear in case you get knocked down by a bus