i was there that day when the corsair nearly run into the blaketown side, Mike Smith and his crew are very lucky, i have lost a few friends from the Greymouth bar crossing
@Josiebenn what do you mean with "professional"? I'm a commercial fisherman, a charter boat operator and a boat & yacht broker. Following seas are very difficult to manage with a boat with deep and log keel as these have What could help is enough engine power to not be slower than the following sea and enter the inlet before the waves break.
WOW !! - I D - its vont know ... be these mates right or wrong on doing things - its way to easy to monday morning quarterback things. - (( Did any one else see what looks like a very large "fin" at time 3:27 thru 3:31 on the video time clock ?? ))
I have been in a situation just like the one in this footage @2.44 going through the bishops heading back too Bluff and when it happened I had already accepted that we would turn over and getting out the wheelhouse was the first thing on my mind...I am no hero but too be honest we had no time to shit ourselves survival mode kicks in...when we came out of it the right way up we all laughed about it after wards..our boat wasn't small either 68ft alloy cray-boat.
i was there that day when the corsair nearly run into the blaketown side, Mike Smith and his crew are very lucky, i have lost a few friends from the Greymouth bar crossing
Great Video, thanks for sharing
great vid
dig a new outlet for the river. use the old as harbour without the river force
@Josiebenn
what do you mean with "professional"?
I'm a commercial fisherman, a charter boat operator and a boat & yacht broker.
Following seas are very difficult to manage with a boat with deep and log keel as these have
What could help is enough engine power to not be slower than the following sea and enter the inlet before the waves break.
scurpenin he means making proper choices nothing about handling or being able to control the sea.
@Josiebenn
I think not
WOW !! - I D - its vont know ... be these mates right or wrong on doing things - its way to easy to monday morning quarterback things. - (( Did any one else see what looks like a very large "fin" at time 3:27 thru 3:31 on the video time clock ?? ))
I'm a sea dweller I love the sea but I will not work under this condition NFW
Demand that your government dredge a new outlet for the river. The old outlet is a now a lower risk harbour. Or dredge a new harbour. Easy.
I have been in a situation just like the one in this footage @2.44 going through the bishops heading back too Bluff and when it happened I had already accepted that we would turn over and getting out the wheelhouse was the first thing on my mind...I am no hero but too be honest we had no time to shit ourselves survival mode kicks in...when we came out of it the right way up we all laughed about it after wards..our boat wasn't small either 68ft alloy cray-boat.
Used to work that region as well many years ago on the Leander a stern trawler 55ft,Foveaux Strait is unforgiving at the best of times
Terrible language !