Sailing is highly overrated. It's just living in a damp uncomfortable often very dangerous floating caravan, which is either freezing cold or unbearably hot while being bored out of your mind on watch for hours and hours at a time.
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Forty years ago this month, I was Navigator and Operations Officer on my submarine, USS City of Corpus Christi, SSN-705. She was sailing on the surface eastward from Gatun Lake after passing through the Panama Canal. After exiting the lake, we sailed northeastward towards our dive point in the same area as your storm. I was in the control room manning the #2 periscope. The Captain and Officer of the Deck were on the Bridge preparing to rig for Dive. I sighted two waterspouts to our northeast. I alerted the CO and OOD and recommended a course correction to the east to avoid them. Ten seconds later, the OOD ordered an alternate course to split the two waterspouts’ bearings. By the time we arrived abeam their position, the spouts had dissipated and we dove. Three weeks later we surfaced ten miles south of Montauk Point. We tied alongside our pier in Groton, Connecticut, a couple hours later. My CO reminded me that a prudent naval officer doesn’t share far fetched sea stories with senior squadron staff officers. I kept the twin waterspout story to myself for twenty-five years. My CO eventually became a four-star admiral, running the Navy’s nuclear propulsion program. I retired as a Captain- a prudent Captain. :-)
@ Both. Every officer assigned to a US nuclear submarine is nuclear-trained and must maintain watch proficiency as an Engineering Officer of the Watch and Engineering Duty Officer. Further, before an officer is assigned to his second boat, he must study for and complete a comprehensive, two-day, oral and written Engineer exam at Naval Reactors in Washington. No matter his follow-on assignments (I was Nav/Ops on both my second and third boats as my primary assignment), an Engineer-qualified officer must continue to maintain proficiency as an engineering watchstander. Also, when the boat’s Engineering Department head went on leave, I would be assigned as the acting Engineering Department head until the Eng returned from leave. During those periods, I was Department head of both Engineering Department and Operations Department. So I was a qualified Engineer and the Nav/Ops Department head at the same time. By education I held a BS in Aerospace Engineering and an MS in Mechanical Engineering. Postgraduate training included a year of nuclear propulsion training, and nine months of submarine basic and department head schools.
Panama 🇵🇦 is a paradise! I was raised there from 10-17yrs old. During the time before the Panama Canal Treaty ,we as kids never knew what we had until it was too late. ❤❤
Wow...lucky , Max..... was able to get you both quickly to safety....have fun with , Max....go easy on him, ladies....he doesn't always have all the answers...and none of you were wearing life vests....anytime theres a storm a brewing, conditions can get rough, quick....
I didn't read all the comments. But, we used jumper cables. One end connected to the stanchion and the other in the water. We were hit and it worked perfectly. It grounded out in the water.
Yours is an interesting solution. Is your system only worthwhile if the lighting hits the stanchion or steel safety lines? Would it be more effective to connect the mast and stanchion to the ocean as I would imagine the mast being the most obvious point of contact with the lightning?
200 years ago wooden homes routinely burned to the ground after lightning strikes. Crafty engineers and craftier salesmen developed and sold “Lightning rods”. These were a combination of a metal spike perched atop the roofline and a connecting piece of metal wire that ran from the spike to another metal rod that was sunk into the “ground” next to the house. Any extreme voltage caused by lightning hitting the upper spike had a “choice” of which path to relieve that voltage. It could choose the wooden structure of the house (and cause a fire), or it could choose the path down the cable to the grounding rod stuck in the earth. Physics won - always. The charge buildup passed to the earth through the grounded metal (so no fire). The frequency of house fires caused by lightning strikes plummeted as a result. Every boat at sea is “ungrounded” because, well, the “ground” or earth is several thousands of feet beneath the boat and there is no metal cable that long to connect the boat to earth. As a result, any object (paper, wood, metal, humans, etc) that touches the electrical power busses (wiring) aboard the boat has the (literal) potential to conduct electricity from the buss to whatever else that object is touching. There is no safe alternate grounding path to the sea. Lots of design dollars are spent ensuring the electric power busses on boats are completely isolated from the sea. To allow a separate grounding path on the boat by putting a cable overboard to conduct Lightning on the off-chance that a lightning strike would preferentially pass its energy to the ocean is EXTREMELY unsafe, risking electrocution, fire or severe damage to all of the boat’s electrical components. While it doesn’t seem obvious, the best course of action at-sea when Lightning is a threat is to go belowdecks and avoid a direct strike. Fiddling with a jury-rigged Lightning rod aboard a boat at-sea is asking for millions of volts of trouble. -Engineering Officer for thirteen years aboard three nuclear-powered submarines.
I sailed my boat through there on my way through the Canal to the Caribbean and as far south as Columbia and I had some very scary lightning encounters off the Osa peninsula in CR, down in the Perlas and in the San Blas Islands. One morning at anchor the boat next to me was hit by lightning and I spent hours helping them assess and repair their electrical system. It was very random what electronics got damaged.The masthead light got destroyed along with a solar panel and radar. A friend in Maryland got hit and the bolt exited through the depth sounder transducer and shattered it but he held the pieces into the thru hull until they got to the dock and jammed a bung in to the hole. Best to have a metal plate attached to keel and bonded to mast as a ground point for the bolt to exit through to the water. One boat I heard of had the bolt split into a million micro bolts that perforated the hull, making a ton of little pin holes that sank the boat. Sailing is not for the faint of heart. Hours of boredom punctuated by moments of total terror!
@@carl1095 Panama to Columbia in the middle of a storm, lightning everywhere and a sudden gust broke my boom so I had to motorsail to Cartagena. There were parts of the trip I'd rather forget
My cousin bought a beautiful trimaran and was going to sail around the world, he sailed from San Diego to Hawaii and thought he was going to die a couple of times, when he wasn't terrified he was bored he sailed home and sold the boat
@@timd729 his name was Bob and he WAS a very talented man that's why he had the money to buy a trimaran, but he has since died of cancer. He did not sail alone to Hawaii he went with several other men They hit a bad storm on the way and thought their ship was going to sink, they all had to come to Jesus moment, and sailed back to San Diego
Ever seen what happens when lightening hits a fibreglass boat?? They don't start fires or fry electronics. The boat blows up. Like into splinters. Steel your electronics cop it. Timber not much happens. But GRP, fibreglass, plastic, whatever U want to call it goes bang
One of my bucket list items is to swim with the dolphins! When I lived in Florida and went kayaking we were within 10 feet of a pod of dolphins. Truly amazing!
@ ha ha - they actually have larger cerebrums percentage wise than us humans! I’m sure you’re joking about them being mammals like us - possibly better than a lot of humans!
I was in a 16' motor boat with a 90 hp when lightning struck an old tree on the other side of the bayou. My cousin and I were leaning on the metal steering wheel. Believe or not the electricity got us. Incredible moment.
I'm not sure I would trust just circuit breakers to protect against lightning hit (arching). Unplug as you indicated seems safest. Might also consider a Starlink to keep in a water tight case with computer and battery. At least you would have comms if all else failed.
Ahoy Lydia !Sailing memories last a lifetime! All senses are alive. Sailed on the Fantome in 1987 through the tail-end of a hurricane out of Antigua. The movie "the Perfect Storm" captures the whole experience Grey sea and sky become one. Hugged the second mast on deck yelled couldn't hear my voice halyard were all shrieking like screaming demons and the high winds were 3-dimensional. Brasso was at the wheel steering into the wind. Captain Guyam March was below in his cabin in touch with Miami Meteorlogiical HQ. Be careful you three mind the changing weather patterns. Good Luck. GOD Bless GOD Speed. Enjoy.
It's hard to dry stuff, so you will see many sailors strip off in the rain. Or just go completely naked. It's also a chance for us to get a freshwater shower, because our boat water is for drinking
👊 LPS - lightning protection system, we do this for buildings, SPD. Should be a boat version out there. To attach to the highest point. Hahaha electricity⚡️ ⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Strike prevention systems can be affordable and definitely reduce risks of fire and electronic damage. There are also ways of isolating grounding legs and adding voltage protection that will, at the very least, keep your radio operable. So much can go wrong at sea. Your safety should always take priority. We live in an age of information, and technical articles/videos can give much needed know-how on risk mitigation and prevention. Adventure, by definition, carries risk, ignorance of that risk, and ways to prevent it, is a choice.
Thank you for this. Not even a life jacket on during the heavy weather is the absolute worst thing one can do. No lifelines attached, just chilling in their swimming suits. Probably completely fake or they really have no freakin clue what they are doing.
But “strange clouds” just appeared “out of nowhere” - what sorcery could’ve predicted such a development? You mean to suggest there are technologies that can aid with such witchcraft? Oh, is that a barometer, anemometer, hygrometer, and thermometer? Now wait, all of those devices are combined into one weather station unit‽ And there’s such a thing as radar to aid in even more precise weather assessments and simply recognizing developing cloud systems with the eyes you were born with‽ Wild 🤯
@@lydiapaleschi oh come on now, you have to atleast accept the fact that the optics of " One man, two women and a boat " does raise an eyebrow or two... I'm not saying that it should be said or even that these comments should be said but you have to atleast acknowledge that even if nothing was ever said, almost EVERY ADULT will have a raised suspension by this situation
@tacitusmastadon1086 Your boat likely has an electrical power generator. If so, you are courting an electrical disaster by doing what you’re doing. There is a very low probability that even when you’re in a lightning storm the lightning will hit you or the boat. To guard against the impact of a lightning strike to you, go belowdecks and stay away from metal objects until the lightning dissipates. If lightning hits the boat it will do damage to the boat but won’t harm you. On the other hand, if you jury rig a kite that is connected to the boat and the water, there is a very real danger of electrocution from the electrical power buss on your boat. That electrical power buss is designed to be “ungrounded”. If you fly your kite and you come in contact with both the power buss (maybe you grasp the coffeemaker at the same time as you touch the metal faucet on the sink), a 120 volt alternating current source from the power buss attempts to find a preferential path to ground. It finds that path from the coffeemaker through your hand, through the faucet, through the metal plumbing fixtures, through metal railings on your boat, along the soaking wet line you connect the kite to the sea/lake with. Your hand (or your life) will be damaged. Only 100 milliamperes (0.1 Amps) of current is enough to kill you. An electrical power buss on a boat has enough continuously generated electrical charge to pump ten to a hundred times that amperage through your body. Please disconnect your kite. Not doing so could kill you.
Wouldn't just grounding the main pole to water be a good start ? I. E clip some starter cable from them into water? I was out once in water when thunder close buy gpt electric spark from my fishing pole and hair started stand up, scary 😮
Hallo Ramon, mein 4 jähriges Enkelkind schlug ständig mit der Eingangstür auf den Vorzimmerkasten. Ich sagte ca. 8mal nein, der Kasten wird kaputt! Nahm ihm natürlich die Tür aus der Hand. Als ich die Tür wieder frei gab wurde sie erneut zugeknallt, trotz aufgezählter Konsequenz( Verletzungsgefahr, Beschädigung der Tür, Lärmentwicklung Richtung Nachbarschaft-rücksichtsloses Verhalten etc.) Das einzige was funktionierte war ein lautes Nein( durch Steigerung der Lautstärke) das dann zum Schluss der Handlung führte. Leider mit Tränen( ihrerseits )und „gemischten Gefühlen( meinerseits). Schwierig 🙋♂️Lg,Grandpa😊
I've sailed with my father,in these same waters in the late 80s there pretty common tropical depressions, they come in about the same time everyday, certain seasons you can literally smell the lightning in the air, we would always disconnect our electronics, when we seen this weather coming. I sometimes actually miss those adventures.
Good thing you had a good crew of "seaman" to get out of sticky situations Max. Next time you should erect your lightening rod when things get wet windy and wild.😂😂😂
@@lydiapaleschiI love how you talk, not just you're accent but you're vocabulary! Youre so proper and classy, just from yout response here to this guy I could tell you're not American. He is typical Americanus Dumbassus. Wish I could travel and meet foreign women they seem much classier than your typical American girl
@@lydiapaleschiplease just ignore him and others like it. Such a douche bag comment. I promise not all of us men are degenerate like this fine example here. Amazing following you on your journey. My daughter just came back from her first solo trip to India. Aloha from the Big Island of Hawaii 🤙🏽🤙🏽
If you are in a sailboat in a lightning storm you can use some jumper cables attach it to the mast and throw the other end of it in the water. You just made yourself a lightning rod.
This is a fascinating window into sailing. Thank you so much for posting it! I admire all of you, but I don’t think it’s the adventure for me. Stay safe!
Guess we'd have to subscribe to get the full story, which I just did. I've been there on the Pacific side, Mexico to Panama with a full week in Gulfito (Costa Rica) for repairs, as we were like limping in like Gilligan without an Island (or Ginger). There aren't many islands on the Pacific side, not that we saw. But we were. a bit off-shore too, there are some banditos here or there in smaller craft.
@@lydiapaleschi Thank you, both of you. As softgood says, there aren't many islands there. But I didn't know there were baddies in the Costa Rica coast!
Welcome to Panama 🇵🇦! I don’t know what month your friends and you decided to or found yourselves on Panama water but in my country one minute is sunshine the next it turn dark and ugly. You guys got lucky because the ocean a lot of times during those storms it can get nasty. Sorry you had that in expecting experience. 👋👋👋 God bless you and Bon Voyage 👋👋👋
I wish I could enjoy sailing and camping. Cause I think they‘re sort of in the same vein. I mean the analogy are hotels and cruise ships / the ocean liner.
@@lydiapaleschiyou're missing the fact that everyone in the comments think you both are with Max and that this video is clickbait as it doesn't show the lightning.
Sailing admiralty inlet in massive lighting was excruciatingly beautiful, my girlfriend was asleep and I didn't wake her because it was very beautiful and also semi spooky I wrapped anchor chain around shrouds and let it drag along as a ground. Not sure if it was practical but it made me feel a little better
Sailboat masts, if properly installed, are grounded to the keel. So while the electronics might get taken out, the crew should be safe. That said - I've been on a boat that was struck by lightening. It was pretty exciting :-P
“Grounded to the keel…” I don’t think you know understand what electrically “grounded” means. The idea behind “grounding” any system is to connect it to a thing that can preferentially and quickly absorb a LOT of electrical charge. The absolute best thing that can absorb electrical charge quickly and preferentially is Mother Earth. Because Mother Earth lies perhaps hundreds or thousands of feet below the boat, “connecting” the mast to the keel can work to provide an electrical path from the object that is most likely going to get hit by lightning through the mast, through the keel, to the lake/sea. Yes, it will protect you and your boat against lightning strikes. But if it’s installed or maintained improperly (the mast or keel are connected to other metal things on your boat), you could be electrocuted under clear skies. All boats have electrical power busses that are purposefully “ungrounded”. This is to protect person and property from fire or electrocution if the buss is inadvertently connected through the person or the property. If you grab the frayed power cord of your boat’s coffeemaker, you’ll get a shock, but it won’t kill you…. unless. If for any reason, you touch that frayed cord and touch some metal that is connected with other metal that is connected to the sea/lake, it may electrocute you. What can you do to protect yourself from electrocution? Have a pro electrician check your boat’s wiring as well as the wiring on appliances in your boat. Also any good sailor will store their boat for rough weather. A metal pole that breaks free during a storm could be the conductor that connects you from that frayed coffeemaker power cord to the mast. Electrocution on a boat is a much more common occurrence than electrocution at home.
Max is either in heaven or in hell.
Most likely, hell!
heaven for about 5 minutes per day..
bit of both..
Gaaaaa
This depends if he's middle leg is in them.😂
There is a man out there living the dream…and also sailing and stuff.
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Guessing he’s gay.
Even.. Exaggerated
Sailing is highly overrated. It's just living in a damp uncomfortable often very dangerous floating caravan, which is either freezing cold or unbearably hot while being bored out of your mind on watch for hours and hours at a time.
Looks damp and boring...paid for by daddy?
One dude and two babes on a boat....man is my hero.
Very Healthy proportions.
Two babes with hairy armpits like the dude, eh
Boats have that effect 😂
You may be surprised how easily that can turn to shit....................captive audience, no where to escape.
Stranded at sea with two hotties. It's brutal.😮
“We started shitting ourselves…” Most honest thing I’ve heard on the Web in quite a while.😂
Spout
We really did!
@@lydiapaleschi 😳😜😁
2 girls 1 cup max
@ 😂
Where's the lighting hitting the water? That's what we all came for (see, I'm saying what everyone is thinking)
Baited
I clicked on because of the thumbnail.
Exactly my thought. Additionally, must be rough for these guys.
This is when you give it a thumbs down and report it for "spam or misleading" information. Hit the 3 little dots in the top right hand corner and click on "report" then pick your selection.
Came for lightening.
Got clout instead.
Forty years ago this month, I was Navigator and Operations Officer on my submarine, USS City of Corpus Christi, SSN-705. She was sailing on the surface eastward from Gatun Lake after passing through the Panama Canal. After exiting the lake, we sailed northeastward towards our dive point in the same area as your storm.
I was in the control room manning the #2 periscope. The Captain and Officer of the Deck were on the Bridge preparing to rig for Dive. I sighted two waterspouts to our northeast. I alerted the CO and OOD and recommended a course correction to the east to avoid them. Ten seconds later, the OOD ordered an alternate course to split the two waterspouts’ bearings. By the time we arrived abeam their position, the spouts had dissipated and we dove. Three weeks later we surfaced ten miles south of Montauk Point. We tied alongside our pier in Groton, Connecticut, a couple hours later.
My CO reminded me that a prudent naval officer doesn’t share far fetched sea stories with senior squadron staff officers. I kept the twin waterspout story to myself for twenty-five years. My CO eventually became a four-star admiral, running the Navy’s nuclear propulsion program. I retired as a Captain- a prudent Captain. :-)
I thought you were an engineering officer,now you're a navigation officer,which one is it.
@ Both. Every officer assigned to a US nuclear submarine is nuclear-trained and must maintain watch proficiency as an Engineering Officer of the Watch and Engineering Duty Officer. Further, before an officer is assigned to his second boat, he must study for and complete a comprehensive, two-day, oral and written Engineer exam at Naval Reactors in Washington. No matter his follow-on assignments (I was Nav/Ops on both my second and third boats as my primary assignment), an Engineer-qualified officer must continue to maintain proficiency as an engineering watchstander. Also, when the boat’s Engineering Department head went on leave, I would be assigned as the acting Engineering Department head until the Eng returned from leave. During those periods, I was Department head of both Engineering Department and Operations Department.
So I was a qualified Engineer and the Nav/Ops Department head at the same time. By education I held a BS in Aerospace Engineering and an MS in Mechanical Engineering. Postgraduate training included a year of nuclear propulsion training, and nine months of submarine basic and department head schools.
@@jimduffy1967why you trying to sharpshoot the guy...?
LOVE the dolphins!!!😊❤
The Dolphins 🐬 love ❤️ Janice.
They probably knew the humans were in trouble! ❤
Sure just a friend 😅
🤔🧐
And obviously just some random girl they knew... I hope no one of them was jealous... 😅😝
🦬
we know what happens
@@dockilat5576 Because of the implication...
Nice captain, he showers in the rain instead of looking at the weather maps. Congratulations, keep up the good work 👏
Panama 🇵🇦 is a paradise! I was raised there from 10-17yrs old. During the time before the Panama Canal Treaty ,we as kids never knew what we had until it was too late. ❤❤
Wow...lucky , Max..... was able to get you both quickly to safety....have fun with , Max....go easy on him, ladies....he doesn't always have all the answers...and none of you were wearing life vests....anytime theres a storm a brewing, conditions can get rough, quick....
I didn't read all the comments. But, we used jumper cables. One end connected to the stanchion and the other in the water. We were hit and it worked perfectly. It grounded out in the water.
I don't think most of the commenters were worrying about the lightning...
😂
Yours is an interesting solution. Is your system only worthwhile if the lighting hits the stanchion or steel safety lines? Would it be more effective to connect the mast and stanchion to the ocean as I would imagine the mast being the most obvious point of contact with the lightning?
200 years ago wooden homes routinely burned to the ground after lightning strikes. Crafty engineers and craftier salesmen developed and sold “Lightning rods”. These were a combination of a metal spike perched atop the roofline and a connecting piece of metal wire that ran from the spike to another metal rod that was sunk into the “ground” next to the house. Any extreme voltage caused by lightning hitting the upper spike had a “choice” of which path to relieve that voltage. It could choose the wooden structure of the house (and cause a fire), or it could choose the path down the cable to the grounding rod stuck in the earth. Physics won - always. The charge buildup passed to the earth through the grounded metal (so no fire). The frequency of house fires caused by lightning strikes plummeted as a result.
Every boat at sea is “ungrounded” because, well, the “ground” or earth is several thousands of feet beneath the boat and there is no metal cable that long to connect the boat to earth.
As a result, any object (paper, wood, metal, humans, etc) that touches the electrical power busses (wiring) aboard the boat has the (literal) potential to conduct electricity from the buss to whatever else that object is touching.
There is no safe alternate grounding path to the sea. Lots of design dollars are spent ensuring the electric power busses on boats are completely isolated from the sea. To allow a separate grounding path on the boat by putting a cable overboard to conduct Lightning on the off-chance that a lightning strike would preferentially pass its energy to the ocean is EXTREMELY unsafe, risking electrocution, fire or severe damage to all of the boat’s electrical components.
While it doesn’t seem obvious, the best course of action at-sea when Lightning is a threat is to go belowdecks and avoid a direct strike. Fiddling with a jury-rigged Lightning rod aboard a boat at-sea is asking for millions of volts of trouble.
-Engineering Officer for thirteen years aboard three nuclear-powered submarines.
What an informative and helpful comment! Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge. Truly fascinating!@@davecorley5514
@davecorley5514
..Extremely knowledgeable... Can't thank you enough for sharing this with all of us ! 💚🙏🏼
Max, you lucky bastard . Good for you buddy 👏.
Max was a great skipper!
@lydiapaleschi, what can one say? Maybe Max has now been to heaven@
😂😂😂
@@simplesimon4717
Or in the friend zone.
@@lydiapaleschibet you polished his pole a bit too.
I sailed my boat through there on my way through the Canal to the Caribbean and as far south as Columbia and I had some very scary lightning encounters off the Osa peninsula in CR, down in the Perlas and in the San Blas Islands. One morning at anchor the boat next to me was hit by lightning and I spent hours helping them assess and repair their electrical system. It was very random what electronics got damaged.The masthead light got destroyed along with a solar panel and radar.
A friend in Maryland got hit and the bolt exited through the depth sounder transducer and shattered it but he held the pieces into the thru hull until they got to the dock and jammed a bung in to the hole. Best to have a metal plate attached to keel and bonded to mast as a ground point for the bolt to exit through to the water. One boat I heard of had the bolt split into a million micro bolts that perforated the hull, making a ton of little pin holes that sank the boat. Sailing is not for the faint of heart. Hours of boredom punctuated by moments of total terror!
Those are crazy stories!
*C O L O M B I A
@@carl1095 Panama to Columbia in the middle of a storm, lightning everywhere and a sudden gust broke my boom so I had to motorsail to Cartagena. There were parts of the trip I'd rather forget
@@landandsea333
C O L O M B I A.
There is no “ u” in the name of the country.
He meant the country's name is Colombia. Still, terrifying stuff 😮
Max, you are damn lucky..... whatever happens. Teaching Sophia to make coffee on camera. The rest of the teaching is offline. Hahahaha.
Buddy got me over here thinking I should get a sail boat 😂
But it’s actually the lady narrating boat 🙄 he is the hired help and so is the other girl 🤭
My cousin bought a beautiful trimaran and was going to sail around the world, he sailed from San Diego to Hawaii and thought he was going to die a couple of times, when he wasn't terrified he was bored he sailed home and sold the boat
It's definitely not an easy thing to do. Respect to your cousin
Idk why but last sentence made me laugh 😂 😂😂😂
Hours of boredom, interrupted by moments of sheer terror.
Not all are made to sail the world
@@timd729 his name was Bob and he WAS a very talented man that's why he had the money to buy a trimaran, but he has since died of cancer. He did not sail alone to Hawaii he went with several other men They hit a bad storm on the way and thought their ship was going to sink, they all had to come to Jesus moment, and sailed back to San Diego
Ever seen what happens when lightening hits a fibreglass boat?? They don't start fires or fry electronics. The boat blows up. Like into splinters. Steel your electronics cop it. Timber not much happens. But GRP, fibreglass, plastic, whatever U want to call it goes bang
Yep, lightening at sea ain’t funny. Tends to hit the first thing it comes to… which is often you! 😮
Yes - that's what we were scared of!
Sounds like you all had a good time, together
You can bet Max never wanted that trip to end.
How do you know? Maybe it’s the other way around…
@avigator You're right maybe he got worn out.
Oh gosh! Lucky they didnt have to call mummsy or daddy dearest to rescue them.........
A new "crewmember" 😂
you forgot the hyphens ;-))))
Yeah, I didn't see her doing too much..
One of my bucket list items is to swim with the dolphins! When I lived in Florida and went kayaking we were within 10 feet of a pod of dolphins. Truly amazing!
The last thing on my bucket list is to swim with the fishes.
@ ha ha - they actually have larger cerebrums percentage wise than us humans! I’m sure you’re joking about them being mammals like us - possibly better than a lot of humans!
I was in a 16' motor boat with a 90 hp when lightning struck an old tree on the other side of the bayou. My cousin and I were leaning on the metal steering wheel. Believe or not the electricity got us.
Incredible moment.
Zeus moment
good luck so nice video beautiful girl 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🍃✔️👑👑thanks for sharing
Great Adventure ®️💙
I love that there's people out here living life like this!
It's very beautiful and romantic
If you're worried about the electronics either unplug them or trip the circuit breakers.
I'm not sure I would trust just circuit breakers to protect against lightning hit (arching). Unplug as you indicated seems safest. Might also consider a Starlink to keep in a water tight case with computer and battery. At least you would have comms if all else failed.
Have you guys navigated Panamanian waters before? This is quite standard apart from the much calmer months of January-April
The dolphins gave the all clear glad everyone is okay
Haha yeah they know
Was that the Mogos in Gulfo Dulce? I know the area well and have had the funnest experiences of my life interacting with the Dolphins there.
Ahoy Lydia !Sailing memories last a lifetime! All senses are alive. Sailed on the Fantome in 1987 through the tail-end of a hurricane out of Antigua. The movie "the Perfect Storm" captures the whole experience Grey sea and sky become one. Hugged the second mast on deck yelled couldn't hear my voice halyard were all shrieking like screaming demons and the high winds were 3-dimensional. Brasso was at the wheel steering into the wind. Captain Guyam March was below in his cabin in touch with Miami Meteorlogiical HQ. Be careful you three mind the changing weather patterns. Good Luck. GOD Bless GOD Speed. Enjoy.
All senses are alive to anyone who chooses to be mindful in daily life.
Wow. That sounds like a crazy experience. Max has grown up around boats, so we have a very knowledgable captain onboard thankfully!
Some guys of culture have all the luck in the world❤...spread your luck to others my friend😊
He’s too busy spreading something with those ladies.
Barely a storm, I’ve seen more water during a sun shower
Do you have to travel naked/half naked. Are clothes not allowed during travel
It's hard to dry stuff, so you will see many sailors strip off in the rain. Or just go completely naked. It's also a chance for us to get a freshwater shower, because our boat water is for drinking
Yes, please be atleast decently dressed when you shoot videos that will be made public
Nah, we deserve the goods. And they need the clicks. Keep the women's attire at a minimum.
Glad you guys didn’t get struck! Lightning can also sink a boat!
Thankfully not this time! :)
Wow. Thats incredible. How brave.
Thanks!
You guys need a lightning rod system for your ⛵ sailboat.
We've made it so far without one! :)
@@lydiapaleschiyeah, keep gambling with your lives. Brilliant!
there is one rod already
And a Stewart behind that.
👊 LPS - lightning protection system, we do this for buildings, SPD. Should be a boat version out there. To attach to the highest point. Hahaha electricity⚡️ ⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️
Adventurous 😊
You can protect a sailboat from lightning strikes and you probably should.
We're on a super tight budget, but it's something we could look into for sure!
@@lydiapaleschihow much have you spent on your trip? Just curious :)
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Strike prevention systems can be affordable and definitely reduce risks of fire and electronic damage. There are also ways of isolating grounding legs and adding voltage protection that will, at the very least, keep your radio operable. So much can go wrong at sea. Your safety should always take priority. We live in an age of information, and technical articles/videos can give much needed know-how on risk mitigation and prevention. Adventure, by definition, carries risk, ignorance of that risk, and ways to prevent it, is a choice.
Nice and informative vedio ❤
Thank you
All ends well with your amazing smiles and wave the happy cup a brew a magical adventure 🥰🥰❤️
😊 thank you
Peter North is proud of this guy.
We have fantastic luck with lightning diffuser on The masthead. We were around so much lightning in Mexico and never once had a problem.
that's awesome! glad you've stayed safe
Threeways on a sailboat must get pretty nice.
Max is 1 lucky guy sailing with u 2
We all know what they did there😂
If he lives, maybe
@@dom2661🙂↕️🙂↕️
Settle down simp
Lifejackets? Do you have flares and radio GPS working etc. What yacht is that? 38ft?
Thank you for this. Not even a life jacket on during the heavy weather is the absolute worst thing one can do. No lifelines attached, just chilling in their swimming suits. Probably completely fake or they really have no freakin clue what they are doing.
This is why sailors need to get accustomed to meteorology. Those stages you experienced are clear signs of an approaching low pressure system.
It was like this everyday. We needed to keep moving to haul out in Mexico in time
How is "accustomed to meteorology" going to help you if lightning decides you're it?
But “strange clouds” just appeared “out of nowhere” - what sorcery could’ve predicted such a development? You mean to suggest there are technologies that can aid with such witchcraft? Oh, is that a barometer, anemometer, hygrometer, and thermometer? Now wait, all of those devices are combined into one weather station unit‽ And there’s such a thing as radar to aid in even more precise weather assessments and simply recognizing developing cloud systems with the eyes you were born with‽ Wild 🤯
@@tompem I think they mean that you learn to avoid the approaching storm front by not sailing into it.... Thereby avoiding the dangerous area...
I agree that sailor should know meteorology, but this is nit a fast boat that cam outrun weather systems
Was only thinking the other day I wonder if you had a RUclips channel! Nice one Lydia 👏👏
So instead of going inside, you decide to stay outside hoping not to get struck??? 🙄🤦♂️
The lightning would strike the mast so made no difference if we were inside our outside
I'm always amazed with anyone who sails such as your self. . . also wonder, as I'm sure others do, how do you deal with Pirates?
Exciting trip, glad you made it safe
Thanks!
I speak for all men when I say we salute you as one. Max, top work lad 🫡
No you don't. Try growing up and realizing how lame comments like yours actually are.
Thanks for this. The amount of disgusting comments on here from men is shocking.
@@lydiapaleschi oh come on now, you have to atleast accept the fact that the optics of " One man, two women and a boat " does raise an eyebrow or two... I'm not saying that it should be said or even that these comments should be said but you have to atleast acknowledge that even if nothing was ever said, almost EVERY ADULT will have a raised suspension by this situation
Max the man who didn't prepare his crew for a potentially serious situation. Makes him look stupid not a top lad.
@@user-fg3fv9hl3bI said men. Not wet wipes like you.
All of a sudden I’m fantasizing about being on “Gilligan’s Island” with Ginger and Maryann.😮
I keep a kite with an attached copper wire on my boat. Whenever there is lightning I launch the kite and let the wire drag in the water.
Interesting solution! Thanks for sharing
I read that too quickly and thought you wrote "let the wife drag in the water."
@tacitusmastadon1086
Your boat likely has an electrical power generator. If so, you are courting an electrical disaster by doing what you’re doing.
There is a very low probability that even when you’re in a lightning storm the lightning will hit you or the boat. To guard against the impact of a lightning strike to you, go belowdecks and stay away from metal objects until the lightning dissipates. If lightning hits the boat it will do damage to the boat but won’t harm you.
On the other hand, if you jury rig a kite that is connected to the boat and the water, there is a very real danger of electrocution from the electrical power buss on your boat. That electrical power buss is designed to be “ungrounded”. If you fly your kite and you come in contact with both the power buss (maybe you grasp the coffeemaker at the same time as you touch the metal faucet on the sink), a 120 volt alternating current source from the power buss attempts to find a preferential path to ground. It finds that path from the coffeemaker through your hand, through the faucet, through the metal plumbing fixtures, through metal railings on your boat, along the soaking wet line you connect the kite to the sea/lake with. Your hand (or your life) will be damaged. Only 100 milliamperes (0.1 Amps) of current is enough to kill you. An electrical power buss on a boat has enough continuously generated electrical charge to pump ten to a hundred times that amperage through your body.
Please disconnect your kite. Not doing so could kill you.
Where is the lightning 🌩️⚡? I want to see 😮😮😮
Imagine how hard Max has to work, during the day with the boat and every night double shift…
Wouldn't just grounding the main pole to water be a good start ? I. E clip some starter cable from them into water? I was out once in water when thunder close buy gpt electric spark from my fishing pole and hair started stand up, scary 😮
Wow that sounds scary!
@@AA-iq6ev exactly. This smart bunch is busy taking videos.
She’s so beautiful ❤
Gorgeous boat!!!
Good and lovely time... and life❤❤❤❤❤
Thanks :)
Will Max publish his log-book?
La vacanza perfetta solo cin due fighe 😊❤
Hallo Ramon, mein 4 jähriges Enkelkind schlug ständig mit der Eingangstür auf den Vorzimmerkasten. Ich sagte ca. 8mal nein, der Kasten wird kaputt! Nahm ihm natürlich die Tür aus der Hand. Als ich die Tür wieder frei gab wurde sie erneut zugeknallt, trotz aufgezählter Konsequenz( Verletzungsgefahr, Beschädigung der Tür, Lärmentwicklung Richtung Nachbarschaft-rücksichtsloses Verhalten etc.) Das einzige was funktionierte war ein lautes Nein( durch Steigerung der Lautstärke) das dann zum Schluss der Handlung führte. Leider mit Tränen( ihrerseits )und „gemischten Gefühlen( meinerseits). Schwierig 🙋♂️Lg,Grandpa😊
There is nothing about being out in the middle of the ocean on a floating mobile home that sounds lovely 😂😂 not even the British accent helps!
For every scary moment there are ten magical ones :)
sounds like a tedious annoying trap to me as well😭😭😭😂😂😂
Stay on the land. This life isn't for land lubbers. Its for people that want to travel.
Amazing, I always dream about sailing around the world.
Heated exchange??…. Bruh. You are becoming the clickbait king.
I've sailed with my father,in these same waters in the late 80s there pretty common tropical depressions, they come in about the same time everyday, certain seasons you can literally smell the lightning in the air, we would always disconnect our electronics, when we seen this weather coming. I sometimes actually miss those adventures.
So cool. A great brief video. I so enjoyed.
😂
😍Sophia😍
Good thing you had a good crew of "seaman" to get out of sticky situations Max. Next time you should erect your lightening rod when things get wet windy and wild.😂😂😂
that's not a normal comment to make
@@lydiapaleschiI love how you talk, not just you're accent but you're vocabulary! Youre so proper and classy, just from yout response here to this guy I could tell you're not American. He is typical Americanus Dumbassus. Wish I could travel and meet foreign women they seem much classier than your typical American girl
@@lydiapaleschiWhat ever do you mean?
@@lydiapaleschiplease just ignore him and others like it. Such a douche bag comment. I promise not all of us men are degenerate like this fine example here. Amazing following you on your journey. My daughter just came back from her first solo trip to India. Aloha from the Big Island of Hawaii 🤙🏽🤙🏽
@@lydiapaleschiyou so serious, have some humour
If you are in a sailboat in a lightning storm you can use some jumper cables attach it to the mast and throw the other end of it in the water. You just made yourself a lightning rod.
Do yachts not have lightning conductors ?
Friend with benefits 😅
Good to see Max killing it.
I remember those days...
Lame. Both middle school boys and middle age men look at women and think of them in the same immature way.
This is a fascinating window into sailing. Thank you so much for posting it! I admire all of you, but I don’t think it’s the adventure for me. Stay safe!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Green with envy. Enjoy the trip! Do you know the name of the small island? Atlantic or Pacific?
Guess we'd have to subscribe to get the full story, which I just did. I've been there on the Pacific side, Mexico to Panama with a full week in Gulfito (Costa Rica) for repairs, as we were like limping in like Gilligan without an Island (or Ginger). There aren't many islands on the Pacific side, not that we saw. But we were. a bit off-shore too, there are some banditos here or there in smaller craft.
Pacific side, but I can't remember the name now! You will be able to find it with a Pacific cruising guidebook :)
@@lydiapaleschi Thank you, both of you. As softgood says, there aren't many islands there. But I didn't know there were baddies in the Costa Rica coast!
Welcome to Panama 🇵🇦! I don’t know what month your friends and you decided to or found yourselves on Panama water but in my country one minute is sunshine the next it turn dark and ugly. You guys got lucky because the ocean a lot of times during those storms it can get nasty. Sorry you had that in expecting experience. 👋👋👋 God bless you and Bon Voyage 👋👋👋
I wish I could enjoy sailing and camping. Cause I think they‘re sort of in the same vein. I mean the analogy are hotels and cruise ships / the ocean liner.
Posh lady saying "sh1tting ourselves " was rather disconcerting 😊
Been there. Lightning, waterspouts, rouge waves. All kinds of fun less than 6 miles from shore.
It's crazy how much adventure you can have just a few miles from land
@lydiapaleschi Aye.
I thought the waves looked more a shade of blue-grey.
Beautiful! Thank you 🇬🇧 ♥️
Thanks for watching!
Did u find any velociraptors in the island!!!
They spared no expense
Big fan of Max! Happy, safe travels!
He's awesome!
@@lydiapaleschi Can I introduce myself ;-)
@@lydiapaleschiyou're missing the fact that everyone in the comments think you both are with Max and that this video is clickbait as it doesn't show the lightning.
You three are so good looking lucky friends
Sailing admiralty inlet in massive lighting was excruciatingly beautiful, my girlfriend was asleep and I didn't wake her because it was very beautiful and also semi spooky
I wrapped anchor chain around shrouds and let it drag along as a ground.
Not sure if it was practical but it made me feel a little better
Sounds like a crazy experience!
Sailboat masts, if properly installed, are grounded to the keel. So while the electronics might get taken out, the crew should be safe.
That said - I've been on a boat that was struck by lightening. It was pretty exciting :-P
“Grounded to the keel…”
I don’t think you know understand what electrically “grounded” means. The idea behind “grounding” any system is to connect it to a thing that can preferentially and quickly absorb a LOT of electrical charge. The absolute best thing that can absorb electrical charge quickly and preferentially is Mother Earth.
Because Mother Earth lies perhaps hundreds or thousands of feet below the boat, “connecting” the mast to the keel can work to provide an electrical path from the object that is most likely going to get hit by lightning through the mast, through the keel, to the lake/sea. Yes, it will protect you and your boat against lightning strikes.
But if it’s installed or maintained improperly (the mast or keel are connected to other metal things on your boat), you could be electrocuted under clear skies.
All boats have electrical power busses that are purposefully “ungrounded”. This is to protect person and property from fire or electrocution if the buss is inadvertently connected through the person or the property.
If you grab the frayed power cord of your boat’s coffeemaker, you’ll get a shock, but it won’t kill you…. unless.
If for any reason, you touch that frayed cord and touch some metal that is connected with other metal that is connected to the sea/lake, it may electrocute you.
What can you do to protect yourself from electrocution? Have a pro electrician check your boat’s wiring as well as the wiring on appliances in your boat. Also any good sailor will store their boat for rough weather. A metal pole that breaks free during a storm could be the conductor that connects you from that frayed coffeemaker power cord to the mast. Electrocution on a boat is a much more common occurrence than electrocution at home.
What about the island where is the rest
Yes the northern Equatorial dulldromes or the ITCZ sailing there has been long quite periods of time.
Could you not fit a shaving razor on the boat
no. the smell keeps the pirates away
Superb video
Enjoy your trips.Rosy from Ireland💚🇮🇪
👍💚❤️🧑🎄🫂
Thanks for watching Rosy!
Max what happened in the night 🌙?
Nights interesting probably raw dog
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Omg! Lol!
I think there's something wrong with you
@@lydiapaleschi would be something wrong if that wasn't happening tbh
Max got some
Lovely ❤
Come on... what you 3 young guys R E A L L Y did on board...?😏
Ikr. They making OF content or something?
Loving the dolphins coming to say hi 😊❤
Wow! What a thrilling and adventurous sea journey it is!!! 😮
You guys and gals are very brave!!! 🎉🎉🎉
Take care.
Thanks so much! 😊
Which model of boat is it, please?@@lydiapaleschi
@@lydiapaleschi I appreciate it much!!!
@@Mme.Swisstella 😊 😊
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