S1E04 - Huge Waves - little Ship Mastering hard weather
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- Опубликовано: 26 фев 2024
- This is the 2nd part of the story of our journey to the island Ouessant in western France. Large waves hit our small ship and we had to fight against the sea to reach our unexpected shelter marina at Camaret-Sur-Mer.
This is an episode of my series Adventures with my Trawler Yacht Whitehorse, a Grand Banks 36.
The footage from behind the helm really gives us a perspective of being at the wheel.
I own a 1969 GB 36, i was in worse conditions off new jersey coast last November, they are like a tank just plows thru anything, just make sure wiper blades are good
We got into very worse sea conditions later on this journey in North Scotland. Unfortunately, I was so busy keeping the boat afloat, that I forgot to start recording on the camera :-(, but we and our boat survived. My dear partner chose to take the plane home to Norway after that day ...
Excellent video! Thank you
thank you for your encourragement :-)
I (and I think others) would be interested in more detail, such as RPM, hull speed, speed over ground etc. Particulars on the actual sea state would be good. It is hard to tell in any video just what the sea state really is. Still an interesting video. Thanks.
Thanks for this remark. We were traveling mostly with both engines at 1600 RPM. I have 2 Perkins 2012 (nonturbo) engines. Travel speed was around 8 knots, which is also a our the hull speed. The waves were probably around up to 1.5 meters of hight. From top camera they look much smaller than when you are in the boat. Later, on 24th May, we came into a really bad sea with crossing waves of probably over 2 meters. But that will be another story to tell.
I hope you keep on watching and subscribe to the channel and wish you all the best.
Regards Dieter
I enjoy watching your steaming through hard weather, as much as doing it myself in my 1978 36’ Classic, but I would like more context: what RPM you are running the engines, speed over ground, wave height and wind speed. Perhaps you could show your display occasionally or describe conditions as you encounter them. In those terms, what do you consider unsafe conditions?
The voyage to Norway was back in 2022, after I had bought the GB in France. But I will take your advice and show some more times the instruments when I make new videos from my Norwegian tours. To the context: Engines are 2 Perkins Sabre M135 from 2012, they have now ca. 1800 hrs. During my voyage to Norway I run them usually with around 1600 RPM giving mit a speed o.g. of 7 - 9 kt. The waves in western France were probably around 1.5 meters at highest. We encountered some of about 2 meters in Scotland :-( , but I do not have a video of that, I was too occupied to keep the boat on course. It is difficult to say generally, what I consider as unsafe conditions, but with my boat it would probably be waves of more than 3 meters. But crossing waves (as we had in Scotland) are very dangerous even if smaller as the boat rocks to all directions. Hope I got some of your questions answered, but you are welcome to ask more. Kind regards Dieter
Often wonder what size waves the Andrea Gail saw??
Warum jagst Du da so durch? Ich hätte es mit 2 -3 Knoten langsamer probiert
Danke für die Frage. Wir hatten die Geschwindigkeit etwas reduziert, wollten aber noch bei Tageslicht den Hafen von Camaret-Sur-Mer erreichen. Dies war der nächste Hafen, der uns adäquaten Schutz geben konnte. Bei ca. 7 kt Geschwindigkeit hätten 3 kt weniger gleich doppelt so lange Fahrtzeit bedeutet.
Must be a wondertful journey! (Tell me if you want help with the editing :)
Tusen takk. Editing går bra, eg har tid og det er interessant å lære nye teknikker :-)
It looks like the waves are coming from two different directions
Yes this was partly the case as we had wind from north / north east, but the swell came more from north west.Thanks for watching and subscribing.
Tja, das Meer ist nicht immer eine Freude!
Ja, manchmal muss man mit grösseren Wellen rechnen, aber meist kann das ja vermieden werden, wenn man gar nicht erst rausfährt. In diesem Fall waren die Wellen zwar unerwartet, aber immer noch innerhalb der Toleranzgrenze.
the music does not add to the great visuals and the sound of wind and the ocean
Thanks for this hint. I try to underlie the videos with some music, but sometimes, less could be more :-) Still have to learn a lot producing videos. It's much more time consuming, than I had anticipated, but interesting to do. Thanks for watching and subscribing.
huge waves?????????????
:-) If you stand in this boat and watch waves coming that hit hard on your bow, they appear quite huge. According to info on the net, a boat with 36 feet length can handle waves of up to ca. 12 feet. The biggest waves here were probable about 5 - 6 feet, so already good enough for this boat. When looking down from the top (where the upper camera was fastened) they did not look as large though.