Reading Wind Speed At Sea Without Equipment
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- Опубликовано: 10 сен 2024
- How to tell what wind speed it is without any equipment whatsoever? It's not super hard to get a decent estimate if you look for a couple of signs. Are the waves breaking? Do you see white horses? Is there a lot of foam? Answer these questions and you have a reliable wind speed estimate.
As a young sailor in the US Navy, the aircraft carrier I was serving on put to sea to ride out Hurricane David in 1979. The sea state reached Beaufort 12, and the ship made way directly into the waves, which crashed onto the flight deck more than 30 feet high. The scene was surreal, as every massive wave broke, and between the crests the sea was completely white with foam. Blobs of seafoam about the size of grapefruit blew, seeming endlessly in the wind. However, at that point, the ship had settled a bit. The worst weather ocurred at night, while I was on watch in the engineroom, so what that looked like, Ill never know. After witnessing force 12, its impossible that a small yacht could survive such a storm, as each and every wave would result in a capsize and rollover.
Thanks for the video, Shawn! I'm learning something new every time!
Looks like you know your way around a sailboat pretty well already! Quite the passage you're planning for.
Well thanks for saying so and certainly I know a whole more than I did a year ago.... but so much more knowledge and skill to acquire. Your wind force scale is helpful . Thanks
@@ImproveSailing Thanks for the videos, its good to find English words for this stuff - also because I am a Finn none of us speaks about winds in knots - in our weather reports at coastal areas it is always in meters per second. So while I am very much so coastal dweller, main home in the town on mainland and summerhouse at an island at the outer sea areas. Sure I also live currently in another country, but my family still is there - and I myself grew up on the water so to speak. It's not like one does not know, or that some words are just 'turned into Finn-like' but then the spelling may be really different. Who ever even uses a C when it is a K? (lol) But never mind how good one's English gets there are always those specialist words that just are not the same, or need to even be 'transferred to different units' just to write something lol. And I hate to use dictionaries for that, because they don't come with varieties explained. Anyhow. Nice content.
Some fun facts. I seen some bit of old text from Germany commenting about us Finns in medieval day - saying that we are 'wizards' because we were able to sail against the wind. Well tacking obviously is about sails - and it was not always a thing in the history. Secondly another a story from here in Finland is that we used to sell knots on bits of rope to foreign sea captains in medieval day - for wind magic - to open how many knots from it - would be to determine how much wind they were supposed to get. And obviously opening too many would make too much of a wind - while not opening enough would make it not enough. I suppose - well if one is to be so very superstitious... lol. Even in later days some ship crews just did not want a Finn in the crew because they felt worried about their strange weather magic abilities. Idk how long that lasted, but it was a thing.
Wind speed 0: row row row your boat gently in the sea
Wind speed 12: abandoned ship!!!!.....
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better video tho: ruclips.net/video/OXjGsbVk4f8/видео.html
Excellent info! Thanks for uploading!
thanks
Can you do a review at the end of each video to help remember it with out having to scan each video
can you make a video on how to find land if lost at sea?
Hi, do you know if 17 knots wind is a risk beacuse I am supposed to be with my car on the ferry? I am afraid the cars will collide in the garage🙈
Would you say that sailing would be a lot like flying I found when I was learning to fly they always said that it was best to steer around the storms, I would say that it would be the same for boating in sailing steer around the storms if possible and from what I seen in your video here anything up over I don't want to get past the adventurous stage what do you think?
Yes, the best captains are great weathermen first and foremost
I went for a Jetski riding with 5-6 beaufort...lack of knowledge