@BoatZone could you answer a question I have, (also Thankyou for the amazing amount of one of a kind content!) could you link a video or explain briefly why haulover can be SO rough? What makes inlets SO dangerous ? If fresh water flows out into the ocean and sea water looks to flow inward how does that work? Is that why waves get so big? I can’t find any vidoes explaining inlets but am very curious , would like to understand more of what I’m watching. Sure you’re the expert with the years of experince filming. I’ve never been to an inlet, or on the ocean for thst mater, just a single dad of awesome daughters that had one of your vidoes pop up in my feed and I think I’ve watched them all a few times. Ontop of being amazing and exciting, I find the sound of waves and water relaxing , I often turn one of your videos on when I Can’t sleep and it puts me to sleep after a bit so Thankyou. As a dad I can’t understand how #1 anyone chooses to go through here with no life vests on (ESPECIALLY children!) my heart races every time I see a kid in a bow with no jacket or a parents holding a baby or toddler with no jacket in the bow!?? Not sure why anyone ever tries to ride in the bow in these conditions, seems to often make a stuffing much worse! Just my concerned dad brain haha. Regardless it makes for great content that you’ve been able to show to the world. I’m very ill at the moment so jsut watching your videos to get thru each day while missing my daughters terribly so thanks for you efforts and time & congrats on the deserved channel growth!! There’s a lot of crap on RUclips but there’s also some golden content like your channel & im greatful to see it growing so much, hope it continues to grow for ya! I’m seeing other new channels trying to do the same but mOst miss the mark of your channel, adding unwanted narration , adding annoying music over the beautiful waves and sounds of the boats, not adding boat info below the boats,..your model is perfect 👍 👍 keep it up! Thanks in advance if you can point me to an explanation video of why haulovers so dangerous or even jsut explain briefly why. (Thanks to anyone who sees this that might be able to offer any info,..it’s appreciated.)
For the Dad that was curious about what causes these conditions at Haulover Inlet (and almost all “inlets”),the rough water, with steep, often breaking waves closely spaced…simply put, its caused by “wind and current in opposition.” The typically prevailing easterly or south-easterly wind along the southeast Florida coast causes fairly moderate well space wind waves on the surface of the open deep water ocean (a mile deep) that begins several miles offshore. When those wind wave approach and begin to traverse the shallower waters of the submerged continental shelf, they become more closely spaced, as they begin “to feel” the drag of the bottom, some 30’ to 40’ below the surface. As they approach the even shallower waters close to the beach, those wind driven swell steepen further. Now, add a strong current moving in the opposite direction to the waves through a narrow opening in the barrier island. This is the ebb tide, in an “inlet,” when inshore bay waters are pulled out into the ocean by the gravitational forces of the moon and the sun through a relatively narrow opening. To recap: surface waves moving in a westerly direction, current flow, of water just below the surface, moving in an easterly direction. Wind and current in opposition. This is the recipe for the kind of sea state that you see in these videos. You’ll find some degree of this hazard at every inlet that cuts through a barrier island or barrier reef, and at every river mouth where a river flows directly into the ocean. The key to making a safer passage is to await the slack tide, the few minutes each day when the tidal flow if close to nonexistent.
1:15 Oh my God! That was so shocking! Please don´t ever show such shocking moments again on your channel. That´s just too much for the viewers. I´ve never seen anything so shocking in the history of Haulover Inlet. That was so shocking that you could have done a video only of that shocking moment.
I live at a port my whole life in alaska. I now see the attitude of boat people in Florida is wide open, everyone sit in front. I haven’t laughed this Hardin along time. Thank you for posting
As someone who is currently traveling around the world on a sailboat, we take these bar entrances extremely seriously. Most people like us do. I've seen a large yacht smashed into little pieces and the owners left with nothing but the shorts they were wearing at the time. And another with the mast torn off and the entire back quarter of the boat removed. We watch the weather carefully and time it for the last hour of the rising tide when conditions will be as safe as possible. Even if we have to slow the boat down and wait off-shore for hours first. It is also a legal requirement where I come from that everyone aboard must be wearing a lifejacket. Also the boat is completely sealed with all hatches etc sealed up and all crew in the cockpit. We often also tether ourselves to the boat. These places are not to be messed with. And our boat is 18 tons of solid steel! I'm absolutely amazed at this mayhem. There must be a lot of injuries and damaged boats.
This inlet is apparently always like this because the ocean is going in and the river is going out. Probably how it got its name. You'd be waiting for something that'd never come, while a few jet skis putt by the seemingly quarter mile to the smooth stuff that's waiting to be got to.
This HAULOVER INLET does have “SLACK” tide, like most inlets, which is the best way to enter or exit, but most of these MORONS don’t know the tide schedule and have FENDERS AND LINES hanging over the side! I’ve been in and out of that inlet hundreds of times in my 40’ SAILBOAT, so it’s waaay different in a sailboat.
The problem here is monetary success in Miami immediately elevates egotistical men to offshore skippers overnight without the need for any study of even the most basics of seamanship.
These videos prove to me that modern boat designs are for looks and not to be seaworthy. Who thought that curving the bow down so the boat spears the waves instead of going up and over them was a good idea?
These are planing hulls, which are meant to quickly skip across the surface of the water. I think what you're asking for are displacement hulls, which are much slower, more stable craft and very seaworthy.
Haulover has probably been many many peoples first and last boat ride . It would be so great to have so much money you no longer need to fear for your life or anyone else’s who takes a trip on your boat.
I live here in South Florida, and have gone through that cut countless times! And when the tide is either going out or in, you have to respect the cut ! 😉👍
For All boat owners who don’t already know….. (I Have had boats now for 56 yrs and navigated the world’s most treacherous waters) in a following sea (stuffing sea conditions) to prevent stuffing and possibly sinking pay Attention to the following. Please note this is Not a 100% in depth look at stuffing but enough to reduce your chances by 90%. 1. Adjust trim tabs all the way up… to give bow lift. 2. If you have outboards trim them right out (not so much to make it Cavitate). This will lighten the bow by up to 50%. 3. If it’s smaller boat put all passengers or weight into the middle & back of the boat. 4. Keeping the bow up and light will eliminate 90% of all stuffing. 5. If you have dual engines use the left of right engine to correct the “ swerve “ when coming down or surfing a wave as the steering won’t do it properly or quickly enough if rocks or jetties are nearby. 6. Keep eye on wave behind coming up and use power going forward to keep wash from coming over the back of the boat and sinking it. 7. Remain vigilant to in front and behind the boat firstly then sides. 8. Never turn so as to put the boat in a position to be hit from the side by a wave, look and time your turn right and quickly as safe to do so. 9. Other than ships etc always hit waves dead on straight and with firm constant power to help avoid being flipped over on your back. This is not just my opinion, it’s fact. Happy Boating. Dave.
The absolute sheer hubris of someone to take a small boat into rough seas on the open ocean which has killed literally millions of people will never cease to amaze me.
I mean, I grew up on 14 foot fishing boats in the open ocean. It has nothing to do with the boat, its inexperienced operators, period. I could safely take any of thise boats out of Haulover, and I have, from 20’ Boston Whaler to my 41’ quad engine Regulator
I know what you mean, when I see a yacht, jumping out, and in the water, I think the same thing, however, I’ve been out on a smaller boat, myself with my husband, scary, absolutely, but we’re OK, FYI, I would not go here though, it’s bananas
Always amazes me to see the open front deck with a whole heap of people ( weight) and NO life jackets even in full on stuffing conditions and of course the hot shots who go from hero to zero the first time they launch it and slam down in a vertebrae crusher.
IGree. I posted this a while and was told to chill out. It's social: Taking a bathtub with loaded with people out into ANY waves id STUPID. Here, the WEAKEST is to have (several ) very capable de-watering pumps is essential. They are cheap
If your going to buy a luxury boat like these shown here this is the only channel you need to watch. Haulover handling and durability in rough seas Fyeah
The small open boats with bows dropped down to barely above water level with hardly any freeboard are the strangest things to go out to sea in. Especially as the tradition is to pack the family and youngsters sans lifebelts in the front to be potentially washed out as it scoops up the ocean with any wave action. Watching these videos it is difficult to fathom what thought beyond the purely artistic goes in to the design of these boats or the decisions to purchase them.
@@michaeld5888 As far as I know the point to this design is that it is specifically for towing a water-ski on inland lakes. The drop bow design intended to give you better forward vision while up on plane and towing, especially on potentially crowded lakes. Taking something like this out to sea is just bloody stupid imo.
Agreed. Seems the Sea Ray has the best design for taking in water. Every one of these I have watched, the Sea Ray takes the cake. I hope they at least have a very good bilge pump. lol
I swear some of these boats look more like river boats than anything meant to take on the actual ocean. I'd personally want something a bit larger to take on the type of waves this inlet can produce!
The galeon at 15:20 - finally a boat with a windscreen that makes sense so that if water comes up and hits it it’s redirected back out not over the top
Well, it's redirected out and upwards (and then backwards onto the captain because the boat continues moving forward). It's not better; it's just different. Keeping a more laminar flow over the top can, in some cases, be the less traumatic answer. If it's not flown high enough, it could be more traumatic.
@@walmars3curity well probably mainly because the Midwest doesn't have an ocean but the fact that you're too stupid to realize that explains the midwest perfectly
I am absolutely astonished at how these boaters risk danger by navigating a horrible inlet. I had a boat and when the area was getting rough I turned around. I would be dammed if I would risk my family’s safety
well its very normal for bigger well equip boats to get through this inlet in rough conditions its just the idiots who don't know a thing about boating safety and try gun it out in a overloaded lake boat.
@@nuntius1933 absolutely!!! As a dad of awesome baby daughters this continues to shock me seeing some parent no life jacket sitting in the bow holding a baby or toddler with no life vest as they enter haulover!??? I think that it should be a requirement for parents to have children in vests for sure! If a child falls into haulover little children have no buoyancy in their little bodies, not enough mass and fat to help them be able to stay afloat and most can’t swim and wouldn’t be able to in these conditions anyway. Not having them in vests assures their drowning if they go in and ANY parent will 100% punish themselves the rest of their lives if they lose a child this way when they could have prevented it with a free vest. Requiring parents to wear vests too when minors and kids are in the boat also assures a parents ability to rescue a child and be of aid in an overboard situation. I was watching a video last week on one of these channels of a very experienced surfer paddling through the inlet during a recent hurricane , he paddled out with no vest which I understand for surfing vests keep u from duck diving waves , but on the return he was stuck making to progress in the inlet, paddling like crazy just to keep from going out to sea and it was so violent he couldn’t even safely get to the edge finally falling off his board and desprately trying to swim to people on the walkway trying to reach for him, he started bobbing underwater after a short time and started screaming for his life . A lucky wave pushed him to a civilian who grabbed him and pulled him out and he jsut lay there unable to even sit up he was so exhausted . That’s an experinced surfer in a wet suit , so your average person that could go overboard I just can’t understand why u wouldn’t want to wear a zip up life vest that ensures you will float head up without any effort needed to stay afloat? My toddler daughters I bought an offshore toddler vest for her which fit like a tank top tight , zip up, then triple strap , bright fluorescent color to be seen easier, have reflective material that artificial light reflects off of light ambulance graphics, they also have twice the buoyancy of an average child’s vest and a neck pad that keeps the child’s head out of water and face up with extra material placed strategically in areas of the vest designed to keep the child floating leaning backward to keep the front of their bodies/face up and out of the water so less water is near their mouths. Engineered to keep a baby/toddler /little child who doesn’t understand the concept of swimming or survival , alive and in the safest body position until they can be rescued. It has zipping dry pockets for transmitters or even just cell phones so you can use location apps etc. it’s a no brainer to me , I want to give my baby girl THE best possible scenario if for some reason we were temporarily seperated or God forbid something happened to me in the water. It’s also why even though I’m a great swimmer & in excellent shape , I ALWAYS wear a zipping offshore life vest even at lakes,..solely so I can focus on rescuing my child & KNOW I can help others and not worry about drowning myself. The number of clips of openbows gettting full of water and the people yelling they can’t swim but not wearing a life vest in this wild inlet!?? I understand “it’s a free country” but like it’s a law in the US to wear your seatbelts when driving for your own safety, even though it’s protested with people arguing it should be their right to drive without one and risk their own life, I feel like it should be ok for the goverment to require something simple that massively saves lives like seatbelts or in this case life vests,..you can get them free, so there doesn’t need to be a cost to the user, it doesn’t create any danger or actual discomfort, the percentage of people saved wearing them verses not is astronomical and if at the least the wearer doesn’t care about their own life , at least their loved ones have a better chance of having that person alive in the event of an accident and it saves those loved ones, parents, children, spouses and friends from having to deal with the total devastation of losing a loved one to drowning. Also if someone goes overboard without a vest in these conditions and drowns, often the bodies never found or found much later , the $$$resources spent searching for remains /a lost civilian can be extremely expensive , at least with a vest , you’re found much faster.
My latest foray into the boating world was a 1965 Trojan 36' Sea Breeze. Mahogany boat, powered by twin 427 Ford FE engines, producing 375 hp per copy, with trim tabs. That boat, unladen, tips the scales at just a tic under 20K lbs. I'm a pretty good lake driver and have been on the ocean a couple times. There is no way in the world I'd subject my boat, passengers or family to the kind of reckless abandon I see in many of your videos. Certainly wouldn't go out into unknown waters w/o life preservers in place on every soul. I am amazed with the ignorance of many of these boat operators! I'm not patting myself on the back or blowing my own horn - just saying if those conditions prevail, I don't go. Not worth the risks to life and limb, to say nothing of hurting the boat.
lots of people have getting drunk on their minds and not being safe on their minds... I worked on lobster fishing boats and it taught me some very important lessons.
Those modern boats "Say 42" and "Waterdream" look like they were cut from solid blocks of wood. Not attractive to look at and they don't seem to deflect water very well, judging by the heavy showers the passengers were getting with each wave.
Not to mention the beating that boats take in the process. If you do that often, it can take years off your boat's life. Many years ago, I participated in the Catalina Water Ski Race. My boat was a custom built 18' with a big block built up Ford V-8. We finished the race, but my boat had some serious cracks around the 2 main stringers, especially around the engine and transom joints.
Always enlightening to see how fast a "fun" day of boating can become a "not fun" day...Definitely a lot of questionable judgment and experience on display here. And educational for those who may want to try Haulover!
21:24 Two windshields. 21:27 No windshields. At 7:29 Thank you for joining us today, it's a beautiful day for fishing... 7:43 Might be a little bumpy at Haulover.
If that was a test ride in the orange “Say42” I’m pretty sure that wasn’t a sale! If the manufacturer seen your video, I’m pretty sure they would make some revisions to the design. It soaked them coming and going!
@@BoatZone Good on ya for helping them out. It looked like it may have been a test ride; the two near the helm seemed to be in matching shirts. And while it was rough, it didn't look like they were handling the boat stupidly. Especially on the way back in, didn't look like anything wrong with their driving there.
They only got wet because of the morons driving the boat. If they would have done it correctly nothing would have happened. Especially on the way in they just should have ridden the back side of the wave, instead they went faster and buried the bow in a wave. Same for the way out. Kind of dumb.
The bow of that boat does have a decent flare but it starts too high up the stem. IMO the bow would not get stuffed as it did if the flare started ~2ft lower.
Nothing like a short little "inlet" to produce nightmares.....some of these folks just don't seen to know to stay home? Great Video shows you do & when these boats turn around while still within the inlet, you can see the rip tides going out with the winds coming in = makes for some killer waves. peace
Sorry, mate, this captain aren't clueless. Excuse my French, but they are stupid 🙄 😒. Seriously, only stupid people buy boats, which should be on lakes and use them on the sea. What a bunch of puff as captain.
Gesh, looks like many are not having that joy ride on the boats but a boxing match against the pounding waves....best to stay on land and enjoy from the distance...
If you can't reduce your speed, you must adjust the trim to prevent this porpoising effect from occurring. Access the trim controls and gradually lower it until the boat is no longer bouncing out of the water - lowering your trim too much will result in a loss of speed, which is another problem; therefore, lower it slightly until you find a happy medium in which you maintain your speed but no longer hurt your family and friends with the porpoising effect.
New boater here. I appreciate it. Still trying to figure out trim settings in different situations. Have been out 5 times in the last year. Experience is key, I’m sure.
It’s crazy how expensive some of these boats are and their captains have no idea what they are doing. I have a 94 four winns 195 sundowner that I treasure and treat so good. A fraction of the cost of some of these boats that are just getting destroyed. Smh
I can’t imagine heading out towards haulover and like so many of these pilots have no idea what to do in the haulover situation ,..I’d definitely spend some serious time researching, talking to experinced people , maybe even the local coast guard who can be very helpful in safe navigation tips through these areas they patrol ,..sure there are even plenty of knowledgeable and experienced pilots that would be willing to go out with beginners and show them how to get through this. I live in the ski resort mountains of Utah and with the massive influx of people moving here for cost of living, very low crime rate, endless beauty and activities,..there are Facebook pages where locals like me offer to new residents or anyone , snow driving instruction /tips & many offer to meet up at the base of ski resort roads and drive the new residents vehicles up the snow covered resort canyon roads and back , give them instruction in what settings to have the vehicle in, how to handle loss of traction, what to do when hitting the brakes and not stopping & lists for winter emergency crates (blankets , food, water, flare gun, road flares, dry firewood, charger/radio unit , shovel, traction ramps or mats, smal hand saw, coats, socks, gloves, hats, recovery strap, small harbor freight cigarette lighter air compressor , proper snow Jack, LED emergency multi-tool flashlight, basic auto repair kit, ice scraper, D-Rings, jumper cables, everything you could possibly need to survive sliding off the road in a blizzard for days or to be able to self recover or help another vehicle, all in a single Tupperware container in the back of a vehicle. These groups do it because lives are lost every year from someone or a family getting over their heads in a storm , or lost and not having the proper supplies to make it once fuel runs out and no automotive heaters available. We’ll get them a list of the kit supplies with prices & where to buy (Amazon nowadays) & they can have an entire complete kit for $100 that could save their lives one day & at the very least gives them a peace of mind when heading out in a storm. Then we offer to drive ya up to a resort and down, show them about their vehicle & how to use recovery gear, take them to a parking lot and show how to correctly regain control, stop, accelerate , safely continue momentum in a slide and then have them practice the same. It’s all free & I’ve been told by a number that they feel night and day better about driving in the snow. There are SO many simple things so many down know about driving in the snow and ice, like if they’re sliding and can’t turn , let off the brakes so u can make the turn or pump them,..in some cases turning off traction control , especially if stuck etc. loading a couple 80 lb bags of concrete mix ($4 a bag and they’re small and dense) in the trunk of rear wheel drive cars and 4x4 /all wheel drive cars helps immensely. Lastly many Facebook pages where you can if u have service post that you’re stuck & need help & sections you can post your location and destination with emergency contacts heading into a storm where you delete the post when arriving safely , so that locals can see when someone doesn’t remove a travel post after x amount of times passed to get through a bad spot , then page watchers can repost the post , make contact with emergency contact to see if they got home & worst case organize a few 4x4 recovery vehicles to go drive the route & search/recover the poster. It’s all free , no recovery fees or anything , just locals that want to make sure that whether your new, a local, a college student traveling home, passing thru the state or experinced , that you get where you’re going safely & if bad luck hits ya, which happens to thousands of winter drivers, it’ll all be ok. I have a Toyota 4Runner Expedition-Recovery Vehicle I’ve built for off-road and winter vehicle recovery that I truly enjoy rescuing and recovering people in trouble or jsut stuck vehicles. My dad took me all growing up in his 1960 Chevy stepside recovery truck helping people for free and now I take my daughters doing the same . Our first trip with my girls was when a massive blizzard hit on Christmas Eve-Day & my girls on Christmas Day were so excited to go help people trying to get somewhere for Christmas , we towed out and pulled 4x4 SUV’s and diesel trucks all day , was SO rewarding seeing the relief on these families faces when in a blizzard and stuck here comes a built recovery vehicle to help, and seeing my girls smiles when we’d get them on their way is priceless. I’m sure groups like this exist all over the world but we encourage ANYONE in an area that could use a group like this, anyone with experience, to create a Facebook page and group and hep others! So I hope there’s a group or page like this for Haulover and other dangerous inlets. Seeing some of these boats that take on water and the screaming of “I can’t swim” while not having a life jacket on makes me think people aren’t doing any research before heading into these potentially dangerous inlets. I’m sure SO many in the comments here would be happy to help & could use their great experience to help others. If there’s no Facebook pages or IG pages like that, someone local should create one & share it around , locals can post current haulover conditions , video of the swells real-time , warnings etc, ask for advice or help etc. it’s extremely rewarding! 🙂👍👍 Sorry for the long post but as a dad, I worry a lot about the kids especially being taken thru here by people not prepared or experienced, we can always do more to help. I’ve seen a few haulover channels using their drones to help search for people in the water & man that amazing and infinitely helpful to rescue services! Good on you guys
I've done haulover a goodly few times on a Catalina30, turns out if you time it for either slack tides or an incoming tide, it's no muss no fuss, no water all over us! Weird that....
1964-1980 my teen years on that beach at this inlet, Haulover. 76-78 last 2 years Coast Guard base miami. By 1980 i left south FL for good. Sometimes i drive down to the keys to charter a fishing boat, October best time.
2:39 the Apache was built as a race boat, not a mule. She was a cat killer in the early 90’s when the race courses where out in the big waters. The 46 Cigarette is a twin stepped bottom boat built in 2007 and rerigged in 2020 by Tres Martin with 1100s.
Great footage, it’s amazing that there’s this many people out here with very expensive boats and they don’t know how to drive them. Actually it’s not that amazing I believe at 100%
I love watching the different hulls handle the walls of water. This is like boat porn. Thank you for the great content. I wish I could see more large catamaran motoryachts taking on the inlet to see how they do.
I do agree that no one would want to see it done the right way. Not at all exciting. But is there a way to tackle the inlet waves without betting the boat or sinking the boat.
@@johnwidgery7189 I know there is but they want viewers and subscribers to watch people mess things up , try to save their phones while they get drenched with thousands of gallons of water , no life jackets , ect, more fun to watch :)
@@johnwidgery7189 There are videos of how to cross a bar/ inlet safely if you're interested....most of the best ones come from Australia/ New Zealand though....some of those bars are scary as hell, and if you tried to cross them like the guys in these videos do, well natural selection is a thing. On some of them (I forget the name unfortunately) you have to radio the local coastguard before attempting to cross, and then radio them again once you make it. If the coastguard don't get the second call within a certain timeframe, they send out the rescue boats/ helicopters.....like I said, scary as hell.
It's important to read the rollers as we say. Feel the throttles and maintain firm headway, with extra bow ballast to counteract the 'rodeo' created by the mounting of the rear outboards. Increasing negative downthrust, with the hull spoilers is vital, when you're applying full collective in the Haulover. Like we used to do in the Navy with the big boys!
I’m observing that the Nord Techs, Midnight Express, Smith 42 and some of the other boats with a downward sloping bow all took water over the top when coming in through the cut…. Give me some “Carolina Flare” for that chop.😎
@@ToddtheLoneDroner allot of ego behind the wheel - one way to avoid it is to slow down, trim the boat a bit bow high and plow through at a manageable speed ( even then you're going get some what over here and there)- going into those conditions at high speed with people riding up front is lunacy
Amazing what experince alone can do, watching those bluetop teenage girls in that tiny bluetop whaler boat with a single little engine they go full throttle up and down the inlet and never have trouble , then u see groups of adults in $2M center consoles with 5- 450R’s that get beat to hell, stuffing their massive boat and Turning tail giving up halfway thru the inlet, a bit of experience goes a very long way
Those first few boats are definitely my style, clean looking and not too big and not too small. And they had the passengers in the right spot instead of loading everyone in the frontso they sink it 😂😂😂
I was working in Boca and the receptionist was all excited that they had bought a 19 ft BOWRIDER. I asked what inlet are you going to use ( she lived a few miles North) and she said Boynton. I said spend a day watching the inlet from the jetty. You go out when the tide is running you aren't going to make it. She did and motored down to the Boxa inlet after.
looks like some of those Townies don't understand that you need a boat to match local conditions .... its a great laugh watching them fumble with how to put on a Life Jacket ... CRAZY!
Tough call for me between the Yellow Apache and the Orange mega $$ boat. The Apache turned into an instant convertible submarine while the Orange Money boat got clobbered again and again and even as the guy driving it turned around to run back to port it got even worse for him
I enjoy seeing all the action and various boat designs etc, but are there no matritime regulations there that stop absolute stupidity by boat drivers ? Speed limits, staying to starboard, giving way to smaller craft, life jackets, overloading and so on, accidents just waiting to happen. BUT, keep them coming, cheers from NZ
I got this... The following is a comprehensive list of "regulations to prevent stupidity" at Haulover inlet. 1) Thank you for reading. That is not to say there are no rules. If stopped by any of the 5+ entity's with authority all the industry standards apply. No license required (small craft). No age restriction. Does this help?
There are risks involved in living in a free country (I know that 'free' is debatable now). People learn that way. A few pay a price. If there was heavy regulation, people would complain about that. I'll take the free.
I’ve wondered the same as a dad of child daughters , every time I see a parent with no life jacket in the bow holding a baby or a toddler on their lap with no life vest going thru haulover it makes my heart race! You couldn’t pay me any amount to let my daughters go thru there in a bow and without a jacket! I see some other US and even Florida Inlets have police and coast guard that yell on speakers at people to get off closed bows and even open, put on life jackets, keeps speeds down, no overtaking etc but seems haulover has no rules? Seems like life jackets should be a bare minimum in such rough waters? There’s no swimming out of that current your going out to sea and rougher waters. Bytheway, I watch some videos on some of your inlets in NZ and WOW!!!???? Some of them make haulovers swells look little! Terrifying! Do u know what the worst inlet is in NZ? I’d love to look it up. Thanks from this American. 🙂👍👍
Yes there are regulations, but most american people are too blinded by the whole "freedom" concept that they just turned into not thinking dumbass knowitalls.
Captains going too slow, poorly designed hulls and people sitting in the bows = every occurrence I’ve seen where captains swamped their boats, risked their passengers lives and needed professional rescuers. Education and training would go a long, long way to making things safer out there. Speed limits? Not necessary. Never saw one rescue in Haulover related to a lack of speed limits.
Wishing YOU a very Happy Thanksgiving!! Thanks for being part of our journey. Enjoy this boat “stuffing”compilation
Because stuffing just isnt for Christmas and Thanksgiving. :@) Happy Turkey from the Great White North!
@BoatZone could you answer a question I have, (also Thankyou for the amazing amount of one of a kind content!) could you link a video or explain briefly why haulover can be SO rough? What makes inlets SO dangerous ? If fresh water flows out into the ocean and sea water looks to flow inward how does that work? Is that why waves get so big? I can’t find any vidoes explaining inlets but am very curious , would like to understand more of what I’m watching. Sure you’re the expert with the years of experince filming. I’ve never been to an inlet, or on the ocean for thst mater, just a single dad of awesome daughters that had one of your vidoes pop up in my feed and I think I’ve watched them all a few times. Ontop of being amazing and exciting, I find the sound of waves and water relaxing , I often turn one of your videos on when I Can’t sleep and it puts me to sleep after a bit so Thankyou.
As a dad I can’t understand how #1 anyone chooses to go through here with no life vests on (ESPECIALLY children!) my heart races every time I see a kid in a bow with no jacket or a parents holding a baby or toddler with no jacket in the bow!?? Not sure why anyone ever tries to ride in the bow in these conditions, seems to often make a stuffing much worse! Just my concerned dad brain haha. Regardless it makes for great content that you’ve been able to show to the world.
I’m very ill at the moment so jsut watching your videos to get thru each day while missing my daughters terribly so thanks for you efforts and time & congrats on the deserved channel growth!! There’s a lot of crap on RUclips but there’s also some golden content like your channel & im greatful to see it growing so much, hope it continues to grow for ya! I’m seeing other new channels trying to do the same but mOst miss the mark of your channel, adding unwanted narration , adding annoying music over the beautiful waves and sounds of the boats, not adding boat info below the boats,..your model is perfect 👍 👍 keep it up!
Thanks in advance if you can point me to an explanation video of why haulovers so dangerous or even jsut explain briefly why. (Thanks to anyone who sees this that might be able to offer any info,..it’s appreciated.)
For the Dad that was curious about what causes these conditions at Haulover Inlet (and almost all “inlets”),the rough water, with steep, often breaking waves closely spaced…simply put, its caused by “wind and current in opposition.”
The typically prevailing easterly or south-easterly wind along the southeast Florida coast causes fairly moderate well space wind waves on the surface of the open deep water ocean (a mile deep) that begins several miles offshore. When those wind wave approach and begin to traverse the shallower waters of the submerged continental shelf, they become more closely spaced, as they begin “to feel” the drag of the bottom, some 30’ to 40’ below the surface. As they approach the even shallower waters close to the beach, those wind driven swell steepen further.
Now, add a strong current moving in the opposite direction to the waves through a narrow opening in the barrier island. This is the ebb tide, in an “inlet,” when inshore bay waters are pulled out into the ocean by the gravitational forces of the moon and the sun through a relatively narrow opening.
To recap: surface waves moving in a westerly direction, current flow, of water just below the surface, moving in an easterly direction. Wind and current in opposition. This is the recipe for the kind of sea state that you see in these videos. You’ll find some degree of this hazard at every inlet that cuts through a barrier island or barrier reef, and at every river mouth where a river flows directly into the ocean. The key to making a safer passage is to await the slack tide, the few minutes each day when the tidal flow if close to nonexistent.
@@ursusthewhite9824😊😊
1:15 Oh my God! That was so shocking! Please don´t ever show such shocking moments again on your channel. That´s just too much for the viewers. I´ve never seen anything so shocking in the history of Haulover Inlet. That was so shocking that you could have done a video only of that shocking moment.
I live at a port my whole life in alaska. I now see the attitude of boat people in Florida is wide open, everyone sit in front. I haven’t laughed this Hardin along time. Thank you for posting
Most people in Florida are either from Latin America or New York/New Jersey so that kind of tells you a lot
Ron DeSatan has taught people in florida how to operate a boat. He was in the Navy you know. Yeah.
As someone who is currently traveling around the world on a sailboat, we take these bar entrances extremely seriously. Most people like us do. I've seen a large yacht smashed into little pieces and the owners left with nothing but the shorts they were wearing at the time. And another with the mast torn off and the entire back quarter of the boat removed. We watch the weather carefully and time it for the last hour of the rising tide when conditions will be as safe as possible. Even if we have to slow the boat down and wait off-shore for hours first. It is also a legal requirement where I come from that everyone aboard must be wearing a lifejacket. Also the boat is completely sealed with all hatches etc sealed up and all crew in the cockpit. We often also tether ourselves to the boat. These places are not to be messed with. And our boat is 18 tons of solid steel! I'm absolutely amazed at this mayhem. There must be a lot of injuries and damaged boats.
EXACTLY, I live across the road from the ocean in far Northern California and that's when it is the quietest and calmest.
This inlet is apparently always like this because the ocean is going in and the river is going out. Probably how it got its name. You'd be waiting for something that'd never come, while a few jet skis putt by the seemingly quarter mile to the smooth stuff that's waiting to be got to.
This HAULOVER INLET does have “SLACK” tide, like most inlets, which is the best way to enter or exit, but most of these MORONS don’t know the tide schedule and have FENDERS AND LINES hanging over the side! I’ve been in and out of that inlet hundreds of times in my 40’ SAILBOAT, so it’s waaay different in a sailboat.
The problem here is monetary success in Miami immediately elevates egotistical men to offshore skippers overnight without the need for any study of even the most basics of seamanship.
@@ItsDaJaxDo you have any evidence for that statement? Every bar I've ever seen is much worse on an ebb tide.
It amazes me that so many people have so much money but so little skill
Skills are usually accompanied by brains. Hence the "more money than brains" saying. :)
Degenerate dynastic products
It's surprising ( or not) how many people on board get to hang on for dear life, and the captain doesn't give a damn
These videos prove to me that modern boat designs are for looks and not to be seaworthy. Who thought that curving the bow down so the boat spears the waves instead of going up and over them was a good idea?
These are planing hulls, which are meant to quickly skip across the surface of the water. I think what you're asking for are displacement hulls, which are much slower, more stable craft and very seaworthy.
I can't believe more people don't go overboard in this channel.
Haulover has probably been many many peoples first and last boat ride . It would be so great to have so much money you no longer need to fear for your life or anyone else’s who takes a trip on your boat.
you got your by thinking that way. Sociopath
It's so stupid , you can't launch a boat from a safer place up the road????
I live here in South Florida, and have gone through that cut countless times!
And when the tide is either going out or in, you have to respect the cut ! 😉👍
For All boat owners who don’t already know….. (I Have had boats now for 56 yrs and navigated the world’s most treacherous waters) in a following sea (stuffing sea conditions) to prevent stuffing and possibly sinking pay Attention to the following. Please note this is Not a 100% in depth look at stuffing but enough to reduce your chances by 90%.
1. Adjust trim tabs all the way up… to give bow lift.
2. If you have outboards trim them right out (not so much to make it Cavitate). This will lighten the bow by up to 50%.
3. If it’s smaller boat put all passengers or weight into the middle & back of the boat.
4. Keeping the bow up and light will eliminate 90% of all stuffing.
5. If you have dual engines use the left of right engine to correct the “ swerve “ when coming down or surfing a wave as the steering won’t do it properly or quickly enough if rocks or jetties are nearby.
6. Keep eye on wave behind coming up and use power going forward to keep wash from coming over the back of the boat and sinking it.
7. Remain vigilant to in front and behind the boat firstly then sides.
8. Never turn so as to put the boat in a position to be hit from the side by a wave, look and time your turn right and quickly as safe to do so.
9. Other than ships etc always hit waves dead on straight and with firm constant power to help avoid being flipped over on your back.
This is not just my opinion, it’s fact. Happy Boating. Dave.
It is ironic to read your professional and helpful comments while watching the "how definitely not do it if you want keep boat and crew" clips 😢😅
Mention tides next time- right? This whole shit show is human stupidity X ego squared by tide = dangerous cluster fuck.
The absolute sheer hubris of someone to take a small boat into rough seas on the open ocean which has killed literally millions of people will never cease to amaze me.
People jump out of airplanes. It’s fun, fun is sometimes dangerous.
just like jumping in your car everyday, you don't know if you are coming home that day
I mean, I grew up on 14 foot fishing boats in the open ocean. It has nothing to do with the boat, its inexperienced operators, period. I could safely take any of thise boats out of Haulover, and I have, from 20’ Boston Whaler to my 41’ quad engine Regulator
I know what you mean, when I see a yacht, jumping out, and in the water, I think the same thing, however, I’ve been out on a smaller boat, myself with my husband, scary, absolutely, but we’re OK, FYI, I would not go here though, it’s bananas
@@bladeshred01false equivalence
Always amazes me to see the open front deck with a whole heap of people ( weight) and NO life jackets even in full on stuffing conditions and of course the hot shots who go from hero to zero the first time they launch it and slam down in a vertebrae crusher.
Maybe they're trying to bust a kidney stone loose.
Including young kids
Some of these boats are like the Titanic, they can never sink.
That's a rib jammer Baby!
IGree. I posted this a while and was told to chill out. It's social: Taking a bathtub with loaded with people out into ANY waves id STUPID. Here, the WEAKEST is to have (several ) very capable de-watering pumps is essential. They are cheap
If your going to buy a luxury boat like these shown here this is the only channel you need to watch. Haulover handling and durability in rough seas Fyeah
Apache captain knows what he's doing. Not too fast, not too slow and trimmed up the bow. Amazing the difference.
It amazes me how many people go through that inlet in little boats,even the big boats are having a rough time
The small open boats with bows dropped down to barely above water level with hardly any freeboard are the strangest things to go out to sea in. Especially as the tradition is to pack the family and youngsters sans lifebelts in the front to be potentially washed out as it scoops up the ocean with any wave action. Watching these videos it is difficult to fathom what thought beyond the purely artistic goes in to the design of these boats or the decisions to purchase them.
And not one wearing a life vest!!!😮
@@michaeld5888 I agree, they defy logic.
@@michaeld5888 As far as I know the point to this design is that it is specifically for towing a water-ski on inland lakes. The drop bow design intended to give you better forward vision while up on plane and towing, especially on potentially crowded lakes. Taking something like this out to sea is just bloody stupid imo.
@@jimmycricket5366It's florida. In one video I saw a dude standing on a paddle board out there.
real nasty waves sometimes, always cool to see how well designed hulls break those with ease
Agreed. Seems the Sea Ray has the best design for taking in water. Every one of these I have watched, the Sea Ray takes the cake. I hope they at least have a very good bilge pump. lol
Value of sufficient power and life jackets should always be considered important.
Watching Gilligan dipping the water out of the boat is hilarious.
I swear some of these boats look more like river boats than anything meant to take on the actual ocean. I'd personally want something a bit larger to take on the type of waves this inlet can produce!
or the same size and FAR better designed, not just a shallow boat
Whenever I feel regret for selling my boat I come visit here. 😂
I love cruising with MSC!!!! 😼 😎
I use this as a reminder to never buy one 😂
The boat ramp videos for extra motivation
"There are two days you love a boat; the day you buy it and the day you sell it."
The galeon at 15:20 - finally a boat with a windscreen that makes sense so that if water comes up and hits it it’s redirected back out not over the top
Well, it's redirected out and upwards (and then backwards onto the captain because the boat continues moving forward). It's not better; it's just different.
Keeping a more laminar flow over the top can, in some cases, be the less traumatic answer. If it's not flown high enough, it could be more traumatic.
this video explains America perfectly.
So tell us you can do it better?
@@Tarheel13 I can do it better.
This explains Florida perfectly… This shit doesn’t happen in the Midwest. I’ve lived in both places and they are completely different.
Yep. Watch this video and you will learn absolutely EVERYTHING you need to know about America.
EVERYTHING, says the jealous, douche, hater.
@@walmars3curity well probably mainly because the Midwest doesn't have an ocean but the fact that you're too stupid to realize that explains the midwest perfectly
That Axopar in the second clip has to be the most busy paint setup i've ever seen on a boat.
I had a seizure when I saw it.
I keep saying I’m not interested in this channel but it continues to pop up on my homepage. Nothing personal.
Those drone shots are incredible! Thanks!!
I am absolutely astonished at how these boaters risk danger by navigating a horrible inlet. I had a boat and when the area was getting rough I turned around. I would be dammed if I would risk my family’s safety
No lifejackets in sight. It's not just the water, but the powerboat behind which needs hi-vis warning you're there.
well its very normal for bigger well equip boats to get through this inlet in rough conditions its just the idiots who don't know a thing about boating safety and try gun it out in a overloaded lake boat.
You should move to, like, Kansas. There you can be SAFE.
@@totemthepole Depends on your definition of safe. The USA most certainly is not that.
Yeh, but you are obviously intelligent, it don’t come natural for the average person.
One thing great about your videos is it shows what boats handle the roughest water and bars.
and too many of those that do not
The Vikings had it right with the long boat designs. A huge sweeping bow that reached for the stars with a dragon head.
I am still amazed so many people just don't wear a life jacket, especially in these seas. Accidents waiting to happen.
why isn't is compulsory to wear life jackets..?
Don't tell me. it isn't in the constitution
To say nothing of carrying unjacketed children.
That’s what I was thinking, guess these people don’t value their lives
@@nuntius1933 absolutely!!! As a dad of awesome baby daughters this continues to shock me seeing some parent no life jacket sitting in the bow holding a baby or toddler with no life vest as they enter haulover!??? I think that it should be a requirement for parents to have children in vests for sure! If a child falls into haulover little children have no buoyancy in their little bodies, not enough mass and fat to help them be able to stay afloat and most can’t swim and wouldn’t be able to in these conditions anyway. Not having them in vests assures their drowning if they go in and ANY parent will 100% punish themselves the rest of their lives if they lose a child this way when they could have prevented it with a free vest. Requiring parents to wear vests too when minors and kids are in the boat also assures a parents ability to rescue a child and be of aid in an overboard situation. I was watching a video last week on one of these channels of a very experienced surfer paddling through the inlet during a recent hurricane , he paddled out with no vest which I understand for surfing vests keep u from duck diving waves , but on the return he was stuck making to progress in the inlet, paddling like crazy just to keep from going out to sea and it was so violent he couldn’t even safely get to the edge finally falling off his board and desprately trying to swim to people on the walkway trying to reach for him, he started bobbing underwater after a short time and started screaming for his life . A lucky wave pushed him to a civilian who grabbed him and pulled him out and he jsut lay there unable to even sit up he was so exhausted . That’s an experinced surfer in a wet suit , so your average person that could go overboard I just can’t understand why u wouldn’t want to wear a zip up life vest that ensures you will float head up without any effort needed to stay afloat? My toddler daughters I bought an offshore toddler vest for her which fit like a tank top tight , zip up, then triple strap , bright fluorescent color to be seen easier, have reflective material that artificial light reflects off of light ambulance graphics, they also have twice the buoyancy of an average child’s vest and a neck pad that keeps the child’s head out of water and face up with extra material placed strategically in areas of the vest designed to keep the child floating leaning backward to keep the front of their bodies/face up and out of the water so less water is near their mouths. Engineered to keep a baby/toddler /little child who doesn’t understand the concept of swimming or survival , alive and in the safest body position until they can be rescued. It has zipping dry pockets for transmitters or even just cell phones so you can use location apps etc. it’s a no brainer to me , I want to give my baby girl THE best possible scenario if for some reason we were temporarily seperated or God forbid something happened to me in the water. It’s also why even though I’m a great swimmer & in excellent shape , I ALWAYS wear a zipping offshore life vest even at lakes,..solely so I can focus on rescuing my child & KNOW I can help others and not worry about drowning myself.
The number of clips of openbows gettting full of water and the people yelling they can’t swim but not wearing a life vest in this wild inlet!?? I understand “it’s a free country” but like it’s a law in the US to wear your seatbelts when driving for your own safety, even though it’s protested with people arguing it should be their right to drive without one and risk their own life, I feel like it should be ok for the goverment to require something simple that massively saves lives like seatbelts or in this case life vests,..you can get them free, so there doesn’t need to be a cost to the user, it doesn’t create any danger or actual discomfort, the percentage of people saved wearing them verses not is astronomical and if at the least the wearer doesn’t care about their own life , at least their loved ones have a better chance of having that person alive in the event of an accident and it saves those loved ones, parents, children, spouses and friends from having to deal with the total devastation of losing a loved one to drowning. Also if someone goes overboard without a vest in these conditions and drowns, often the bodies never found or found much later , the $$$resources spent searching for remains /a lost civilian can be extremely expensive , at least with a vest , you’re found much faster.
Was suprised no one went in the sea without a life jacket.. 😱 Crazy shit!
The good concept of bailing .... throw it into the wind .... brilliant videos .... looks a real nice place to hang out.
Wow, instant deceleration on that Smith 42 and the pale yellow Midnight Express. Good video! Cheers
Brought to you by "Sea Tow Miami " should be all over this...these are the people that NEED to buy a membership!!
My latest foray into the boating world was a 1965 Trojan 36' Sea Breeze. Mahogany boat, powered by twin 427 Ford FE engines, producing 375 hp per copy, with trim tabs. That boat, unladen, tips the scales at just a tic under 20K lbs. I'm a pretty good lake driver and have been on the ocean a couple times. There is no way in the world I'd subject my boat, passengers or family to the kind of reckless abandon I see in many of your videos. Certainly wouldn't go out into unknown waters w/o life preservers in place on every soul. I am amazed with the ignorance of many of these boat operators! I'm not patting myself on the back or blowing my own horn - just saying if those conditions prevail, I don't go. Not worth the risks to life and limb, to say nothing of hurting the boat.
lots of people have getting drunk on their minds and not being safe on their minds... I worked on lobster fishing boats and it taught me some very important lessons.
My thoughts exactly…
For every black boat you see there’s an excellent salesman behind it!
This channel is great... it takes clips from 1-2 years ago and keeps remaking the same videos.
That big orange lemon (#47) was embarrassing. If I was the designer/builder I’d be cutting it up so it was never taken out again
A lot of the newer more architectural designed ones (vandutch, waterdream etc) seem terrible at deflecting water.
Oh, was that big orange thing, a boat. Thought it was a shovel.
Those modern boats "Say 42" and "Waterdream" look like they were cut from solid blocks of wood. Not attractive to look at and they don't seem to deflect water very well, judging by the heavy showers the passengers were getting with each wave.
@@BohoHobo948I for sure don't get them, big money for poor performance. The dorky look is free.
The level.of ineptitude is mind boggling
Not to mention the beating that boats take in the process. If you do that often, it can take years off your boat's life. Many years ago, I participated in the Catalina Water Ski Race. My boat was a custom built 18' with a big block built up Ford V-8. We finished the race, but my boat had some serious cracks around the 2 main stringers, especially around the engine and transom joints.
4:40 I love the mood in the back when they were turning around haha
Always enlightening to see how fast a "fun" day of boating can become a "not fun" day...Definitely a lot of questionable judgment and experience on display here. And educational for those who may want to try Haulover!
21:24 Two windshields. 21:27 No windshields.
At 7:29 Thank you for joining us today, it's a beautiful day for fishing... 7:43 Might be a little bumpy at Haulover.
and yet the rod holder mount grill survives ...
That was a big shudder at 7:43.
If you have nothing to hold on but your phone and your beer you're in for a wild ride.
Don't worry they have been trained to ask someone to "Here hold my beer" just in time! ;
Nothing like a Relaxing day out on the water ! 🚿☔
If that was a test ride in the orange “Say42” I’m pretty sure that wasn’t a sale! If the manufacturer seen your video, I’m pretty sure they would make some revisions to the design. It soaked them coming and going!
They saw it. We have been in communication
@@BoatZone Good on ya for helping them out. It looked like it may have been a test ride; the two near the helm seemed to be in matching shirts. And while it was rough, it didn't look like they were handling the boat stupidly.
Especially on the way back in, didn't look like anything wrong with their driving there.
naa, they only wanted to test the bilge-pumps ... and it was a great success :-)
They only got wet because of the morons driving the boat. If they would have done it correctly nothing would have happened. Especially on the way in they just should have ridden the back side of the wave, instead they went faster and buried the bow in a wave. Same for the way out. Kind of dumb.
The bow of that boat does have a decent flare but it starts too high up the stem. IMO the bow would not get stuffed as it did if the flare started ~2ft lower.
My buddy took his 1984 Uniflite 48 Convertible through Haulover several times in some pretty good rips...Handled it just fine...A very nice boat.
Nothing like a short little "inlet" to produce nightmares.....some of these folks just don't seen to know to stay home? Great Video shows you do & when these
boats turn around while still within the inlet, you can see the rip tides going out with the winds coming in = makes for some killer waves. peace
What is it about Miami? Most of these captains are clueless!
game as fuck thats what they are son no pussy footing all action
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No just mainly Trumpsters
@@gregorychurches5468 The captain in the white house is a real winner, too!! Except he’s using OUR credit cards 💳
Sorry, mate, this captain aren't clueless. Excuse my French, but they are stupid 🙄 😒. Seriously, only stupid people buy boats, which should be on lakes and use them on the sea. What a bunch of puff as captain.
Glad to see everyone weairing a PFD. Lunacy!
That's typical of these videos. What's unbelievable is the kids with no PFD's!
You saved the best for last, that was def a submarine in disguise
Yellow Submarine 😂
And immediately afterwards, the boat's pushing hard and going slow because of a half a boat of water in it.
Amazing to see several smaller type boats with multi engines plowing into the waves with adults and children on board and noone wearing lifejackets !
Gesh, looks like many are not having that joy ride on the boats but a boxing match against the pounding waves....best to stay on land and enjoy from the distance...
Just lovin' it ...especially anyone up front with a cell phone in their hand !
If you can't reduce your speed, you must adjust the trim to prevent this porpoising effect from occurring. Access the trim controls and gradually lower it until the boat is no longer bouncing out of the water - lowering your trim too much will result in a loss of speed, which is another problem; therefore, lower it slightly until you find a happy medium in which you maintain your speed but no longer hurt your family and friends with the porpoising effect.
New boater here. I appreciate it. Still trying to figure out trim settings in different situations. Have been out 5 times in the last year. Experience is key, I’m sure.
It’s crazy how expensive some of these boats are and their captains have no idea what they are doing. I have a 94 four winns 195 sundowner that I treasure and treat so good. A fraction of the cost of some of these boats that are just getting destroyed. Smh
Too many Idiots out there
I can’t imagine heading out towards haulover and like so many of these pilots have no idea what to do in the haulover situation ,..I’d definitely spend some serious time researching, talking to experinced people , maybe even the local coast guard who can be very helpful in safe navigation tips through these areas they patrol ,..sure there are even plenty of knowledgeable and experienced pilots that would be willing to go out with beginners and show them how to get through this. I live in the ski resort mountains of Utah and with the massive influx of people moving here for cost of living, very low crime rate, endless beauty and activities,..there are Facebook pages where locals like me offer to new residents or anyone , snow driving instruction /tips & many offer to meet up at the base of ski resort roads and drive the new residents vehicles up the snow covered resort canyon roads and back , give them instruction in what settings to have the vehicle in, how to handle loss of traction, what to do when hitting the brakes and not stopping & lists for winter emergency crates (blankets , food, water, flare gun, road flares, dry firewood, charger/radio unit , shovel, traction ramps or mats, smal hand saw, coats, socks, gloves, hats, recovery strap, small harbor freight cigarette lighter air compressor , proper snow Jack, LED emergency multi-tool flashlight, basic auto repair kit, ice scraper, D-Rings, jumper cables, everything you could possibly need to survive sliding off the road in a blizzard for days or to be able to self recover or help another vehicle, all in a single Tupperware container in the back of a vehicle. These groups do it because lives are lost every year from someone or a family getting over their heads in a storm , or lost and not having the proper supplies to make it once fuel runs out and no automotive heaters available. We’ll get them a list of the kit supplies with prices & where to buy (Amazon nowadays) & they can have an entire complete kit for $100 that could save their lives one day & at the very least gives them a peace of mind when heading out in a storm. Then we offer to drive ya up to a resort and down, show them about their vehicle & how to use recovery gear, take them to a parking lot and show how to correctly regain control, stop, accelerate , safely continue momentum in a slide and then have them practice the same. It’s all free & I’ve been told by a number that they feel night and day better about driving in the snow. There are SO many simple things so many down know about driving in the snow and ice, like if they’re sliding and can’t turn , let off the brakes so u can make the turn or pump them,..in some cases turning off traction control , especially if stuck etc. loading a couple 80 lb bags of concrete mix ($4 a bag and they’re small and dense) in the trunk of rear wheel drive cars and 4x4 /all wheel drive cars helps immensely. Lastly many Facebook pages where you can if u have service post that you’re stuck & need help & sections you can post your location and destination with emergency contacts heading into a storm where you delete the post when arriving safely , so that locals can see when someone doesn’t remove a travel post after x amount of times passed to get through a bad spot , then page watchers can repost the post , make contact with emergency contact to see if they got home & worst case organize a few 4x4 recovery vehicles to go drive the route & search/recover the poster. It’s all free , no recovery fees or anything , just locals that want to make sure that whether your new, a local, a college student traveling home, passing thru the state or experinced , that you get where you’re going safely & if bad luck hits ya, which happens to thousands of winter drivers, it’ll all be ok. I have a Toyota 4Runner Expedition-Recovery Vehicle I’ve built for off-road and winter vehicle recovery that I truly enjoy rescuing and recovering people in trouble or jsut stuck vehicles. My dad took me all growing up in his 1960 Chevy stepside recovery truck helping people for free and now I take my daughters doing the same . Our first trip with my girls was when a massive blizzard hit on Christmas Eve-Day & my girls on Christmas Day were so excited to go help people trying to get somewhere for Christmas , we towed out and pulled 4x4 SUV’s and diesel trucks all day , was SO rewarding seeing the relief on these families faces when in a blizzard and stuck here comes a built recovery vehicle to help, and seeing my girls smiles when we’d get them on their way is priceless.
I’m sure groups like this exist all over the world but we encourage ANYONE in an area that could use a group like this, anyone with experience, to create a Facebook page and group and hep others! So I hope there’s a group or page like this for Haulover and other dangerous inlets. Seeing some of these boats that take on water and the screaming of “I can’t swim” while not having a life jacket on makes me think people aren’t doing any research before heading into these potentially dangerous inlets. I’m sure SO many in the comments here would be happy to help & could use their great experience to help others.
If there’s no Facebook pages or IG pages like that, someone local should create one & share it around , locals can post current haulover conditions , video of the swells real-time , warnings etc, ask for advice or help etc. it’s extremely rewarding! 🙂👍👍
Sorry for the long post but as a dad, I worry a lot about the kids especially being taken thru here by people not prepared or experienced, we can always do more to help. I’ve seen a few haulover channels using their drones to help search for people in the water & man that amazing and infinitely helpful to rescue services! Good on you guys
@@TopNotchCav628 credit card Captain
2:56 Myth in this case, if they had much more weight in the bow, it would become the first Apache semi-submersible during the following 30 second clip
Kudos to the dad who throw his bottle overboard to get hold of his small baby kid..
1:54 now THAT'S boat! Finally, a worthy challenger!
Subscribed! Who would’ve thought watching an inlet be so interesting lol.
Bests of the bests. I've smiled all the time. Congratulations.
I've done haulover a goodly few times on a Catalina30, turns out if you time it for either slack tides or an incoming tide, it's no muss no fuss, no water all over us!
Weird that....
Not much shocking. Just the same as your normal videos-which I love
Extra stuffing for Thanksgiving!
Natural selection at its finest :DDD
Xopar was a nice boat, looked similar to our British lifeboats..Loving The Channel ❤
1964-1980 my teen years on that beach at this inlet, Haulover.
76-78 last 2 years Coast Guard base miami.
By 1980 i left south FL for good.
Sometimes i drive down to the keys to charter a fishing boat, October best time.
luv the drop nose boats , good work builders lol .
The right boat at the right speed, seems to work.
2:39 the Apache was built as a race boat, not a mule. She was a cat killer in the early 90’s when the race courses where out in the big waters. The 46 Cigarette is a twin stepped bottom boat built in 2007 and rerigged in 2020 by Tres Martin with 1100s.
Some of them have ballast tanks up the front which can be filled from an inlet that lowers at the transom and fills using the speed of the boat.
It was used as a mule
@@Tarheel13 Nope
Great footage, it’s amazing that there’s this many people out here with very expensive boats and they don’t know how to drive them. Actually it’s not that amazing I believe at 100%
That midnight express has shoulders flare and chine. Goes great.
Amazing the number of inland skiffs willing to attempt this run. At least 40' 600 horsepower and a lot of experience
My personal "ocean spec" is 50', steel hull, 2 diesel engines, and experience.
Lifeboats are a nice concept as well.
I love watching the different hulls handle the walls of water. This is like boat porn. Thank you for the great content. I wish I could see more large catamaran motoryachts taking on the inlet to see how they do.
constantly amazed that people crowd up the front and never a lifejacket in sight including children.
A chiropractors paradise!!!!!!!
That's one funky looking hull design on that Say 42. Thanks for sharing. 👉👊. G
Can you do a video on the people that know how to do the waves the right way
I’m sure they could make one , but unfortunately no one wants to see that :)
I do agree that no one would want to see it done the right way. Not at all exciting. But is there a way to tackle the inlet waves without betting the boat or sinking the boat.
@@johnwidgery7189 I know there is but they want viewers and subscribers to watch people mess things up , try to save their phones while they get drenched with thousands of gallons of water , no life jackets , ect, more fun to watch :)
@@johnwidgery7189 There are videos of how to cross a bar/ inlet safely if you're interested....most of the best ones come from Australia/ New Zealand though....some of those bars are scary as hell, and if you tried to cross them like the guys in these videos do, well natural selection is a thing. On some of them (I forget the name unfortunately) you have to radio the local coastguard before attempting to cross, and then radio them again once you make it. If the coastguard don't get the second call within a certain timeframe, they send out the rescue boats/ helicopters.....like I said, scary as hell.
37 was insane. Smashed the water so hard
You had me at 47' Apache
"Juuuust sit right back and you'll hear a tale, a tale of a fateful trip..." 🎶🎵😂
It's important to read the rollers as we say. Feel the throttles and maintain firm headway, with extra bow ballast to counteract the 'rodeo' created by the mounting of the rear outboards. Increasing negative downthrust, with the hull spoilers is vital, when you're applying full collective in the Haulover. Like we used to do in the Navy with the big boys!
Your video shots are extraordinary including drone shots❤You putting great effort in to it. Amazing
I’m observing that the Nord Techs, Midnight Express, Smith 42 and some of the other boats with a downward sloping bow all took water over the top when coming in through the cut….
Give me some “Carolina Flare” for that chop.😎
44 looked like the best ride.
19:34 The submarine captain had a sheepish glance over to the cameras just 6 seconds later.
The orange boat is my favorite. It like a bully getting punched in the mouth, then running home to momma. Poor baby
One has to wonder what some of these people are thinking when they decide to go out in rough waters in some of the boats they attempt to go out in!
And no one wears a life jacket….until the boat fills up with water 🤦🏻♂️
They aren’t thinking.
Chiropractor Porn
Apparently they're trying to get to the calm stuff not even a mile out of the inlet.
Some of these look like some cool action shots. You could tell some of them were running max trim to keep the bow down.
The Haulover Inlet really is the perfect modern day example of "Survival of the fittest" You've either got what it takes or you get stuffed.
But what if every single boat gets stuffed
But what if every single boat gets stuffed
@@ToddtheLoneDroner allot of ego behind the wheel - one way to avoid it is to slow down, trim the boat a bit bow high and plow through at a manageable speed ( even then you're going get some what over here and there)- going into those conditions at high speed with people riding up front is lunacy
@@rayo1371 "People riding up front is *LUNACY* "
Can we make that the quote of the day please.
Amazing what experince alone can do, watching those bluetop teenage girls in that tiny bluetop whaler boat with a single little engine they go full throttle up and down the inlet and never have trouble , then u see groups of adults in $2M center consoles with 5- 450R’s that get beat to hell, stuffing their massive boat and Turning tail giving up halfway thru the inlet, a bit of experience goes a very long way
9:02 search light breaks loose!
just snapped right off!
...TRUE on the Apache question...it is built for speed Yes but also for water like Haulover
Those first few boats are definitely my style, clean looking and not too big and not too small. And they had the passengers in the right spot instead of loading everyone in the frontso they sink it 😂😂😂
😂 agreed!
What I can't believe is how many idiots are out there in those conditions with out life jackets. Great program.
I was working in Boca and the receptionist was all excited that they had bought a 19 ft BOWRIDER. I asked what inlet are you going to use ( she lived a few miles North) and she said Boynton. I said spend a day watching the inlet from the jetty. You go out when the tide is running you aren't going to make it. She did and motored down to the Boxa inlet after.
Amazing to see how these boats can cut through those waves.
looks like some of those Townies don't understand that you need a boat to match local conditions .... its a great laugh watching them fumble with how to put on a Life Jacket ... CRAZY!
Some of these 'captains' are really irresponsible
Tough call for me between the Yellow Apache and the Orange mega $$ boat. The Apache turned into an instant convertible submarine while the Orange Money boat got clobbered again and again and even as the guy driving it turned around to run back to port it got even worse for him
don't put infants and children in bowriders
Hispanics
There is always stupid. It never goes away.
Only glass and lowspeed.
And/or without lifejackets! … insane…
Okay dad thanks
I thought I had figured out how to get away with murder. But this looks a lot easier!
If this is what they are like on the water imagine them on the roads 😮
come to new England you haven't seen anything yet
I always wonder if these folks ever check the weather forecast before deciding to go out.
I enjoy seeing all the action and various boat designs etc, but are there no matritime regulations there that stop absolute stupidity by boat drivers ? Speed limits, staying to starboard, giving way to smaller craft, life jackets, overloading and so on, accidents just waiting to happen. BUT, keep them coming, cheers from NZ
I got this...
The following is a comprehensive list of "regulations to prevent stupidity" at Haulover inlet.
1)
Thank you for reading.
That is not to say there are no rules. If stopped by any of the 5+ entity's with authority all the industry standards apply.
No license required (small craft).
No age restriction.
Does this help?
There are risks involved in living in a free country (I know that 'free' is debatable now). People learn that way. A few pay a price. If there was heavy regulation, people would complain about that. I'll take the free.
I’ve wondered the same as a dad of child daughters , every time I see a parent with no life jacket in the bow holding a baby or a toddler on their lap with no life vest going thru haulover it makes my heart race! You couldn’t pay me any amount to let my daughters go thru there in a bow and without a jacket!
I see some other US and even Florida Inlets have police and coast guard that yell on speakers at people to get off closed bows and even open, put on life jackets, keeps speeds down, no overtaking etc but seems haulover has no rules? Seems like life jackets should be a bare minimum in such rough waters? There’s no swimming out of that current your going out to sea and rougher waters.
Bytheway, I watch some videos on some of your inlets in NZ and WOW!!!???? Some of them make haulovers swells look little! Terrifying! Do u know what the worst inlet is in NZ? I’d love to look it up. Thanks from this American. 🙂👍👍
Yes there are regulations, but most american people are too blinded by the whole "freedom" concept that they just turned into not thinking dumbass knowitalls.
Captains going too slow, poorly designed hulls and people sitting in the bows = every occurrence I’ve seen where captains swamped their boats, risked their passengers lives and needed professional rescuers. Education and training would go a long, long way to making things safer out there. Speed limits? Not necessary. Never saw one rescue in Haulover related to a lack of speed limits.