Do boat STABILIZERS actually work? Watch our test WITH & WITHOUT them to find out! [MV FREEDOM]
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- Опубликовано: 11 окт 2024
- Welcome aboard Freedom, our 43' floating dream home! Join us this week as we head back out on the water and finally get around to showing what cruising life is like WITH and WITHOUT the use of our stabilizers. Do they actually prevent yachts from rolling around at sea? Watch this video to find out!
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Thanks for the stabilizer demonstration, they obviously make the ride more comfortable. Great job on lining up the camera and railings with the horizon to show the stabilizers effect on the boat.
The side-by-side GoPro footage really showcases the difference perfectly - thank you!
It was a great idea placing the camera where the horizon meets the rails. Great demonstration!
WOW that stabilization test was awesome. Such a clear difference.
Rail on the horizon showed the difference well. Nice job.
Yep just line
up the rail with the horizon
We don’t have stabilizers on our trawler - we use “sea legs”
The demonstration of the stabilisers was great.
Lining up the camera and top rail on the horizon made for a really nice demonstration. Good show.
Stabilizers, best thing ever. Wouldn't get a cruising boat without them
I saw the difference RIGHT AWAY…I had to look at the railing towards the horizon. They really work !
You could see the difference in the video right away. As soon as you turned them on and off you could see the rolling begin. Thank you for your videos. It's fun to live the boat life vicariously.
Excellent video and stabilizers demo!
The video with and without looked very good, the horizon change showed a dip of 12 to 15 degrees so with the other side a similar amount means overall of 24 to 30 degrees, so yes a great demo👍
What a great example of just how hard those stabilizers work to keep you more even! Must be a lot of pressure in those lines. Every had one blow out? Finally, Elizabeth, your make up always looks perfect!
Something about the princess and the pea comes to mind. I took my 32' sailboat from the Oak Bay Marina in Victoria up to Wrangell, AK, in the summer of '70, as well as many shorter trips --- down to Pt. Townsend, Olympia, Poulsbo and several of the other places your vessel has seen fit to visit. I very much enjoy the scenery; it brings back many pleasant memories, but I have about as much in common with how you travel as someone in coach does with those who fly in a Gulfstream.
Party on!
65’ Fleming here. Never never without stabilizing.
One of your best videos...only second to your cribs shoot.
20v Black & Decker leaf blower. Worth its weight in gold.
I so agree you have to have them. My 43 Pace Maker has them and it keeps her level in the rough water and winds.
We went all the way from Grenada to Florida without our stabilizers! They were pretty messed up but I'm happy to report that they are operational now! We rolled like crazy and we were very sick. Got used to it, but never again, thank you very much! The skipper has it under control. The boat was a real fixer-upper at first. Now we have so many conveniences!
Nice demonstration, your camera placement showed the full extent of the difference with the stabilizers on vs off. Shawn’s video of the stabilizer hydraulics at work helped to illustrate how they are moving back and forth to counter the roll. Thanks
You do the best videos, a great deal of my questions about owning a bigger yacht have been covered. You are helping me a great deal!!
Awesome, glad to hear it!
A picture tell you more that a 1000 words and this is an excellent example. End of discussion for me!
This is one of my favorite videos you have presented. Amazing!
Very informative! I hear one of the worst motions is corkscrewing; those stabilizes look like they will take a lot of that out.
I'll have to remember the 'that thing I need to do' line! 😄
There is a excellent short video of a Nordhavn 76 ( Spirit of Ulysses ) crossing the Atlantic. They turned the stabilizers off in big seas. Best example I have ever seen to explain to people about stabilizers. Another great video , thank you
Your GoPro was perfectly set to show the bow rail against the horizon for the stabilizer test. It really showed the row without the stabilizers on!
You two are great sports- dealing with the snow on the boat (but toasty warm inside). PS: I have relatives in Campbell River.
It's very cool to see the difference the stabilizers make !
You know it's cold out when you guys aren't going around the deck in bare feet!
What a simple test that gives pretty dramatic results.
Man i was drinking coffee watching that and Wow those stabilizers do their thing. I had to put it down till you turned them back on. Great Vid Guys.
Haven’t seen anything from you two in awhile. Miss the interesting and beautiful content that you provide. I hope all is well and I hope to see something from you two soon.
Pretty cool! I spent about 20 years commercial fishing and never heard of such a thing as your stabilizers until I saw you servicing them while hauled out (hope that bump on Shawn's head didn't leave a mark). Your demonstration was great - thank you. Those stabilizers seem like a good addition on the right scale of boat ($$).
Very interesting and illustrative demonstration of the stabilizers. Educational. The question I would have is how much energy do they use? I would think it is not without a significant energy cost.
Makes a big difference for sure
That’s a must for a comfortable navigation. I think there are different types of stabilizers. Maybe in the future all boats will be sold with this feature.
Amazing and that was a slight sea state. Worth having those bad boys available. Came back across the Atlantic from the Caribbean on P&O Arcadia and even with stabilisers you had to be down on deck 5. Big Atlantic rollers coming South and we were rolling up and over them. Not good.
Nice demo. Thanks! I am curious about what senses the position of the boat that then drives the actuator and moves the stabilizer to compensate for the roll?
Bow rail PERFECT roll gauge... Wow those are happy little units you placed ( in Bob Ross voice). Thanks for sharing
Thanks for the video! The stabilizer demo was very interesting. Sure makes for a more smooth ride.🤙
It was nice to see the stabilizers work. For me, that was a pretty minor roll. We do not have stabilizers on 900ft containerships. We just go with the roll. After a while we do not even notice it. However yachts are all about comfort, and I would like to have stabilizers on any yacht I own.
For God's sake turn em back on!! I'm gonna hurl!!
That shot of the bow really shows the roll with the railings against the horizon.
Very effective demonstration. Any way to see them working? Love the channel, recent sub.
Those stabilizers are very effective. Wow. Sorry we missed you on your visit to Comox. We would have dropped down to say HI. Hope you enjoyed your visit here.
Omg, I was actually getting nausea watching that 😂, great example!. I focused on the bow rail, big mistake. Great video… thoroughly enjoying your BC experiences 👍🏾 … Lady Daldom
I kind of like the rolling without the stabilizers. After you get back to the dock at the end of the day you still feel like you're pitching and rocking.
Thanks for the tutorial it was sea-worthy.
Awesome video, thank you. My wife and are in the midst of a transformation of our 40' Tollycraft, I am curious to know more about your stabilization equipment please. 🙂
Should have put a glass of water half full on the counter and video that. But even this does show how much difference they make. Pretty Awesome!
It's nice to have those on a million dollar boat that weights a lot. Most cruisers don't have the luxury. We ride the seas and really pick our weather windows as you do. Without makes for a truly attention watching cruise. Loved the camera placement.
easy to see the difference if you compare the rail with the horizon, quite a difference. very useful video!
Wow! Huge difference! Thank you for the demonstration. Another great video! Ps. You guys ever here of fluid film? They sell it at Home Depot, it comes in a spray canister and protects all metal. I use it for the chassis of my Jeep’s in the Northern salt states and the underneath looks like they are new. You can actually spray it over rust and stop the spreading. Great product!
Heckova tip thanks from AB Canada
You can really see the effectiveness of the stabilisers with the view out of the windscreen of the top railing on the bow of your boat and the horizon line.
Blake and Barclay (not sure on spelling) have paravanes or stabilizers onboard Sea Venture.They are cruising off Mexico with Jim and Rosie about this time and post to YT CHEERS from Sunny Sooke
Excellent easy-to-follow demonstration of the value and benefits of stabilizers. What is the increase in cost when buying a boat? Have you spoken with any Nordhavn owner who purchased the gyro stabilizer? They are very expensive. Thank you for your wonderful informative and fun videos. Great camera work and editing. Subscribed viewer.
I think we could see it well enough. And knowing the the GoPro was taking SOME of the effect out and we could still feel it - I wouldn’t want to travel for hours like that either.
Good vid. I liked that we got to see it in action down below as well - very cool. 👍
Nice. What a smart system, AND a wise choice on your part..
Interesting stabilizer test.....thx.
Unfortunately Lady Liselot has no stabilizers and I have a quote for after market stabs and it ‘ll cost me €75k. Before I have spend that amount on new glasses and anti-seasickness pills… and it gave me some nice 18 degrees angle-footage for my channel. But, but, I must confess, would love to have them since the dancing of the boat also gets you tired.
Very interesting and I was happy to see on the stabilizer there is a pin location to lock the fin in what I assume is a neutral position should the need arise.
It was easy to see the difference and I know what I could see from the top rail/lifeline on the bow compared to the horizon was not even close to what it must have felt like onboard.
Fair winds, following seas, safe travels and God Bless...
You can see the difference immediately if you follow the horizon and look at your stainless safety rails you can see the roll
An incredible immediate difference - sorry for the discomfort while proving the value of stabilizers 👏👍😵💫
Latches, neat idea lol. I recal gillnetting with my dad as a kid. I had to sit in front of the cupboards to contain the kitchen. Stabalizers are fantastic.
Another fine video, really good production. Thanks for sharing, from the Comox Valley.
The dinosaur! 🤣🤣 And that snow is something else - wild! You're definitely in the right boat for it though.
Great video, thanks for the demonstration and was surprised they did not make an additional loud noise. One fun thing though, you stated you go for quiet seas and not a lot of wind, but what we saw was a pretty heavy sea. Guess the stabilizers gave you a different perspective of 'light' 😀
Yeah midway across the Strait the ride got lumpy but not too horrible, it’s when wind gusts over 20 knots that things can get uncomfortable.
Split screen showed it best
Pretty obvious difference. Cool demonstration.
The first example I've seen of the effectiveness of stabilizers. Are there different types?
You guys are clean freaks just like me. MY wife and I motorhomed around the US for 45 years. IN our homes and our RVs, cleaning our showers of soap scum was a DREADED job I did a few times a month. I hated it. (we always squeegee our doors after every shower) . About 10 years ago, we accidentally discovered that when we used Pantene Shampoo that we buy from Costco as our body soap and hair shampoo, there was almost no soap scum on our fiberglass showers. I don't know if it's any liquid soap or just Pantene Shampoo that works. I now clean our showers maybe twice a year. NO MORE BARS of SOAP ALLOWED!!! Try it, you'll like it! This comment is because you mentioned soap scum when you went into your bathroom.
More fun on a sailboat heeling 5-20 degrees. Or working on the flight desk of an aircraft carrier in a strong gale doing flight ops.
Nice job of showing the importance of stabilizers to a smooth ride, is there a difference between fin stabilization and the other stabilizers that are in the engine room usually? I just found your channel and enjoy it very much please keep British Columbia beautiful 😄
We only have fin stabilizers. Are you referring to the engine mounts?
great demonstration ,, it would nice to see the difference between Sea Ventures vanes and yours.
I'm volunteering to polish your entire boat... but I have this thing I have to do :)
Guys you missed the memo... You are supposed to be in Mexico in the winter and Canada in the summer! 😁🤦♂🤷♂
Un grand merci pour cet vidéo très technique et qui réponds parfaitement à mes questions sur l'utilisation des stabilisateurs
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A bientôt 👋
Cruising Sea Venture has a similar boat with the outrigger stabilizers as its an older boat and the bulbous nose on the front low tech but like yours works well even when moored great video
Wow, stabilisers had a moerse impact! Nice video, thanks, so whenever you shop for a boat make sure it has stabilisers
The Georgia Strait can get a bit rough. Once crossed in an old wooden 85 foot power boat in 6-8 footers with no stabilizers. Was more than a bit interesting.
Lovely rip tide off Pender Harbour. Remember it well.
There is no being cold on the water, you just are not dressed warm enough. Winter is something best embraced, it always wins fights. I would recommend rubber boots and a thick wool sock. I also use a shell that covers your butt. Mine is a Northface City Slicker.
Stabilizers work, your video shows their effect perfectly, the railing vs the horizon, no side to side roll. When you turn it off the roll is obvious though not alarming in that pond like sea state, boats do roll. I have done a number of trips in a friends OA 52 in BC waters with them. Only one drawback, we dragged anchor one dark October evening and ended up on a shoal and the port side stabilizer got stuck between two rocks. It locked us in position. We could not back out. There was a rock ahead. There was 17 ft of water under our transom. We were helped off the rock 45 minutes later by two brothers from Lasquiti Island. It took a sideways pull into the wind to pop us free. An adventure. Of course our anchor hooked just before touching bottom and we had to drop the chain. That lead us to having a 3 day visit with our rescuers waiting on weather to recover our chain. On the necessity of stabilizers, they are fine but remember in some sea states they won't work. If you really don't want a rough passage then don't head out into predicted snarly conditions. You can get used to the roll and you should explore that and try Sea Bands or better still Electronic Sea Bands. Even this old fart can get seasick and if you must make that rough passage to shelter you need a backup to your stabilizer either chemical, electronic or acupressure .
Impressive with the stabilisation! Would be cool to see a wire frame animation of how it works with water current's included wonder if that is available online, will have to look!
well - might go for stabilizers next time :) (pretty obviously a good idea)
Do stabilizers consume measurable power, or cause less efficient cruising (mpg) of the hull?
You Guys are awesome! 🥰
Thx for the great info
Good show today guys... you are getting close to my daughters house on the island ;)
The translation of the roll worked great, just watching the horizon as compared to the top railing on your bow, in your split screen, showed amply how well they work. If you can fit em - get em. They are so worth every penny.
Great video, we really enjoyed it. Now i gotta google the bar outside Comox, curious to see if there's a different way to get around it if it's so shallow, even at high tide. I think you said you had 5 feet clearance under your keel?
Yes I believe the most shallow at low tide is about 5’.
Another fun video, super demo
Sitting on my sailboat in the Bahamas currently next to a NH43 wondering why you guys are still that far north ? In winter ?
We plan to go south in a year or 2 but for now work is keeping us tied to the convenience of a permanent liveaboard slip in what is still an amazing place for boating!
@@mvfreedom I get it and me and my wife still work full time remotely for a few months of the year.. and where you guys are is beautiful,just maybe in summer
If you're staying in Comox, I'll take you skiing this week. 45 min drive to the base of the mountain. Did you bring your gear?
No gear and sadly we’re already gone.
Great video! It came across on my phone just fine. Having the camera lined up with the rails worked well. Thank you for posting.
Hi Guys, as always another great video. I love stabilization also, but mine is the Seakeeper. There are pros and cons to each type of system, but the important thing is to have a system on board. I'm curious to how your system works at anchor. The Seakeeper is awesome even when the boat is stationary. Almost no wake effect from other boats or choppy anchorages.
Fin stabilisers only work when making way
Love watching your videos. (One of your fans from Bellevue)
Love this my Dad lived in Madera Park for many years.
Word to the stabilizer.
You did a great job showing the difference, well done to you👍
my first time going to sea on a fishing trawler, I made a hot drink for the crew of 3.... by the time I got to them there was maybe half a cup left, medium swells and a 40ish foot trawler, pitching and yawing like crazy!
Nice video explanation of stabilization.
Your video is better than aquatic world Championship tournament smooth and no shocked 😂
Not sure the gyro stabilizers work as advertised. When we were looking at boats to buy, I saw one advertised that had one which was said to be nonfunctional in the listing but the hydraulic ones were working. They do take up a lot of room and work best in the center of motion on the boat which is where the engine is on a single engine boat. On the other hand they work when the boat is not moving and Olaf reduce pitching up and down. No idea about the cost.
For me, the only really nasty thing you did in this video was get up before sunrise. Comox is my home port, I am in the smaller of the two marinas there. My boat is quite close to the tie up area for Harbour Air float planes. When leaving and arriving, you have to be conscious of aircraft landing and taking off on the water.
Stabalization…..don’t forget one of the biggest benefits, way less fuel sloshing in your tanks. Wheh that happens often times it stirs up the crud at the bottom leading to fuel filter clogging. Big problem in sailboats….especially when the engine quits when you need it most. Maybe with all that racor polishing you don’t see much in the way of fuel contamination?
Thanks so much. That was a great visual. They are worth the money I’m sure.