The true hero of this effort was the dude in the orange construction vehicle who was an ARTIST at removing sand and then pushing the boat so gently. Terrific job!
And notice he only pushed when the waves came to lift the boat even though the men aboard were waving him forward. Very strategic and ultimately prevented any more damage to the keel and rudder!
No matter what negative comments people write here i just wanted to tell you that i think you did everything right by the video to judge and also a hell of a good job rescuing it. Cheers from Sweden
It was good to see the boat sailing again. But the guy who was the real hero of the day was the guy driving the excavator. He used it like a knife and fork. Absolutely brilliant display of workmanship.
Indians ?? I see way too many fat white guys. What were they for Miriam ? Did you suggest they would be a good photo opportunity ? Not much of a racist are you ? it must be your boat. They were the ones that got the ship back into the water, and were probably paid nothing. at least by you.
Goed gedaan...... met teamwork, inventiviteit, lokale mankracht en eenvoudige graaf en hijswerktuigen en niet te vergeten... zonder haast en brut geweld . Een happy end, vanuit een ogenschijnlijk hopeloze positie en een behoorlijk eind verwijderd van Scheveningen.
You are lucky!......it was in poor country......and have help ..because here... in EUROPE ...you can sell your house and you have not enough money to pay this work.
So there is no rocks and no crash. A yacht was beached then lifted back toward the water and refloated. Why didn't you call it "Speeding boat smashes into island and explodes"?
Best+most instructive video i've seen in a very long time, must see for any skipper/sail yacht owner: i'd love to see the damage and expense report. i imagine u had quite some hull damage, scratched gel coat, hope the rudder didn't take any bigger damages. shity area but lucky that there wasn't any rocks whatsoever otherwise...
Thanks a whole truckload, Ronald Wigman. By sharing with us this lil' artwork of a filmlet...! You know how to keep ppl in awe, how to explain things thru your technical skills. You'd shoulda ashame more than one of 'em called "Holewood gurus". Thanks again, maestro!
What a well made video. From the music, to the visuals. It started out so mysterious, and you wondered what happened, and what may happen next. Then, the music picked up, and the action started. I like how your shown what is going on pretty much in a 360 degree fashion. Your never left wondering what is happening in all perimeters. The bucket operator is to be congratulated on a job 'Very Well Done' He def. knew what he was doing,
Kolibrie is alive and well... just had a total refit in Langkawi and is like brand new again..... Kolibrie is a Standfast 40 Custom built in Holland.... in September 2012 she left Bali after 12 years and sailed to Rebak Langkawi where she resides to date....
hi, good to see this, was just looking for it and found this. i sailed it with Ton... from Cairns to Darwin and after that to Bali, from where i returned to Australia to continue my trip around it. We had a beautiful trip.
Next time, get it as far in the water as you can with the machines and pull it over on its side with the spinnaker halyard.. and drag it to deeper water sideways.. Pulling the mast over will get the keel up and the buoyancy will carry it to deeper water.. I'd have anchors set way out and people pulling, or a car pulling keeping tension on the line and/or a big sport fish dragging it to deeper water sideways.. Every time a swell comes in it gets a bit of lift and inches its way out.. Of course, use the tides to best advantage.. Hey quarterbacking years later is easy! Might be a Baltic 46 or so.. anybody know what it is? PS That plow (CQR) daisy-chained with another big anchor (Bruce, CQR, etc.) should be way out in front of the boat with a lot of tension on it from a car, etc.. music is horrible..
+Jim Hamilton "Every time a swell comes in it gets a bit of lift " and the lift could be ever so slightly more effective if all "dead" weight had been removed from the hull which begs the question: Were five people needed on board before the hull was refloated? Only a crew of two seemed to have been needed. Additional crew members could have boarded via the transom ladder if needed. Once in deep water, a dingy could have delivered the other three crew members. Just saying.
Its obvious that you have read a book or seen a tv show but never done this in person. There is a reason that towing and salvage Captains have years of experience and are licensed by the Coast Guard. You seem to have missed that it is beached and not simply grounded. The "drag it" comment made me laugh.
It appears thy had a line to the top of the mast, I don't know why they didn't do it that way. That is how I hauled my boats for bottom jobs for 30 years including a 27 footer I hauled by myself.
They tried this and it did not work, by the time the sun came up the boat was too deep in the sand and only by digging it out could they move it at all....
The backhoe operator was awesome... though I would hate to have something like that against my transom. I was aground at high tide in the Fla Keys in about 1984 (Pearson 39 centerboard yawl) and after missing at least one high tide (the only time to try to get off), a large powerboat pulled me off by my spinnaker halyard.. Laid me over, got the keel off the bottom a bit and dragged me off more sideways than anything.. No damage.. For this to have helped with these guys would have required something larger than the zodiac or whatever it was, The boat might have been a Swan.. I'd say about 46' or so..
As long as you don't pull or tow on the mast line when heeling a grounded sail boat there is vey little chance of damage. Masts and rigging is built to withstand substantial wind loads, so with the leverage advantage of the length of the mast very little weight is required to counteract the weight of the keel. Only apply enough force to keep the keel from contact on the bottom and your free
Kolibrie completed a 2000 mile journey to Thailand recently... the hull and keel were rock solid after this incident... a testament to the Standfast design....
This is the best video I've ever watched. I know its been years but I'm still going to comment. What a great group of people (all of them) getting this done, amazing work!! this is 2021, I'm struggling with a terminal illness, I watch a shitload of videos that suck, this one makes me feel really good. I've always loved sailing, but also block & tackle stuff, and then the backhoe/crane stuff was amazing, whew..left me on the edge of me chair 😎 Cheers ya'll
Gotta agree with the others- absolutely amazing excavator skills, and also somebody definitely did their planning with this one, as scary as it seemed...
The film making here, especially the editing, should be used in film-making courses as examples of everything not to do. Sure glad you showed the airplane three timed. Nice shot of the guy picking his nose. Nice to tell us where you are or how the boat got there. I want my half hour back.
Always such a sad sight to see a beeched ship, especially if it is as beautiful as this one. Great to see her go free again. May she have many safe long voyages.
Lovely Standfast, I am glad you could refloat her with such minor damage. You were lucky to have local assistance, but then sailors are known to help sailors. I haven't been high and dry (yet), thus I have always been able to resort to kedging when aground. I wish someone had mentioned where this occurred...
Looked like a really nice boat. Couldn't stop thinking that the keel joint was doomed to crack under all of that boats weight, but it seemed seaworthy once it was in deep water. Anyone know what make and model she was?
Quite a few heart in mouth moments in this film! Well done and thanks for sharing. What kind of condition was the Kolibri in after she was floated and moved??
Excelente maniobra de rescate, a resaltar... la ayuda de los lugareños, la efectividad de los maquinistas, los botes en el mar, perfecta la Planeación en general, también el estrés presente, y por supuesto la compensación luego de tene la embarcación nuevamente a la mar..felicitaciones a todos! Buen viento y mar en lo sucesivo..⚓️👊
Excellent work by the excavator tech... I still don't understand how the rudder held up to all that pressure. I thought they would pull the mast down from abeam take pressure off the Keel and Rudder as it was pulled then pushed forward. Great video.
it looks like a Samson ferro-cement sloop if i do not mistake. I don't think there's another type of hull construction that could possibly take such a beating and sail away like nothing ever happened. Great vid, thanks.
Great video, enjoyed. Dou you think that keeping the boat tilted to starboard by pulling the spinnaker guy from a boat, or even from the beach, could have released the keel easily? Congratulations. Is the hull made of steel?
There are many people enjoying life as cruisers. I salute their freedom and life choice. Most of them don't have the mythical deep pockets !! The captain was obviously making do in tent while gaurding his home. Maybe a lesson learned ! Bravo to the sailor and boat, many happy and safe journies to them. PS- I too had to take dump half way through.
While sailing a Morgan 42 Ketch, up from Key West to Miami, around midnight, I checked a buoy that was not on the correct path by my view of the compass. I yelled down to the wife, "Hey, what is the location of that horn Buoy? Wham, we went hard aground,! in sand, at around 10 knots! Not fun, spilled my drink, went head over tea kettle. Tide was on its way out. So there we sat. I had a couple of Boat Hickhickers on from Key Largo. The girl had never sailed and was screaming at the top of her lungs, "WE ARE SINKING!!" I casually made another cocktail and said, "We are already on the bottom, ma'am." Tide came back over night and by sunrise we were in Bisquane Bay. Always nice to get a little water under the keel....
What a shame! The video is great, but the music is sickening!!!! I had to mute it, and still my stomach is tight bc of the meaningless unbearable beat!!!
+Jorge Lavorerio Made me think of those movie scenes with dark, blue lit night clubs where pills are being popped left, right and center. This music didn't evoke any kind of feeling to do with what happened on that day; it was simply inappropriate.
I hope to have a nice boat like that some day, though I might be happier tooling around the Chesapeake with something perhaps 10 ft. or so smaller, so I'm left wondering how I too could run mine way the hell up on the beach like that. This does not seem to be explained in the video. How'd she get up there? Storm? Weird tide? Mischievous mermen?
I just mentioned that. It would of course be the refined fat guys that kept the boat grounded. I still think one is a Hollywood director, of small budget films
Fantastic video. It must have cost a pretty penny to refloat. Not to mention the shipyard cost to repair. I presume the captain thought it was worth it.
It is a magic moment when you push your keel 4 feet into the beach, and you realise, quite amazingly, you have not wrecked your 3 million dollar yacht. Getting salvaged is the boring result of your weird navigation. There is a great marina or a great bay just around the corner!
Vielen Dank fuer video und ideen. Es kann allem von uns passieren. Eignetlich denke ich alle haben gluck gehabt. Mich interesierest ob boat wircklich keine Schaden hat ?!
This was an awesome video..Here in the USA after storms, boats end up in this position. People have no idea how much work goes into moving these vessels ...NICE WORK :) P.S. whats up with the guy with the limp..
April 2018: Kolibrie is abandoned in Rebak Marina Langkawi after a complete refit. The latest owner has disappeared and she is now rotting away at the dock with 4 years of unpaid mooring fees.
Good job I guess, but an extra 30 mins wait might have helped get more depth under the boat. I'm guessing that the keel and rudder will need inspection after dragging through the sand, as it will have removed quite a lot of the gel coat from the surface, and the rudder shaft may well be bent.
Great experience I'm sure. I would have liked to have been there. how many days did it sit on the beach? What was the cost of getting it back in the water? How did it happen in the first place? Were the kardashians involved?
Really nice team work. The skill of the Doosan Excavator was incredible. Especially when he timed the push to the wave coming in. Loved it.
The true hero of this effort was the dude in the orange construction vehicle who was an ARTIST at removing sand and then pushing the boat so gently. Terrific job!
And notice he only pushed when the waves came to lift the boat even though the men aboard were waving him forward. Very strategic and ultimately prevented any more damage to the keel and rudder!
young bloke on the escavator did a bloody good i reckon ever so gentle near the end ..well done mate
No matter what negative comments people write here i just wanted to tell you that i think you did everything right by the video to judge and also a hell of a good job rescuing it.
Cheers from Sweden
The guy on the excavator has a great touch. Very fine control. The boat captain might take lessons.
Operator can be the difference between a good or bad day
you don't know why the boat was aground. They are lucky to find a good excavator whith a good guy..
@John Durham After 40+ years of excafation, have you left any part of the earth untouched? Or have you dug yourself a 40 year old crater?
I am enjoying this video, all of it. Turned a rather mundane returning a yacht to the sea into a minor work of art.
It was good to see the boat sailing again.
But the guy who was the real hero of the day was the guy driving the excavator. He used it like a knife and fork.
Absolutely brilliant display of workmanship.
Not at all....to many Indians on deck doing NADA !!
Indians ?? I see way too many fat white guys. What were they for Miriam ? Did you suggest they would be a good photo opportunity ? Not much of a racist are you ? it must be your boat. They were the ones that got the ship back into the water, and were probably paid nothing. at least by you.
Teamwork at its best!
Desregarding I can't hear that music, the pictures speak for themselves. Good job! Thanks for video.
damn that excavator/operator are worth their weight in gold. good job.
I was exactly thinking the same. He was THE man!
Goed gedaan...... met teamwork, inventiviteit, lokale mankracht en eenvoudige graaf en hijswerktuigen en niet te vergeten... zonder haast en brut geweld .
Een happy end, vanuit een ogenschijnlijk hopeloze positie en een behoorlijk eind verwijderd van Scheveningen.
You are lucky!......it was in poor country......and have help ..because here... in EUROPE ...you can sell your house and you have not enough money to pay this work.
Bernard Schirmeyer America too brother lmao
Dutch sailboat and you just can't relaunch without some dramatic house music! Heel goed gedaan!
So there is no rocks and no crash.
A yacht was beached then lifted back toward the water and refloated.
Why didn't you call it "Speeding boat smashes into island and explodes"?
Best+most instructive video i've seen in a very long time, must see for any skipper/sail yacht owner: i'd love to see the damage and expense report. i imagine u had quite some hull damage, scratched gel coat, hope the rudder didn't take any bigger damages. shity area but lucky that there wasn't any rocks whatsoever otherwise...
I didnt realize music could really make you sick !
Steve Lamperta Wear earplugs u stooge
Their only goal in life is to complain about You Tube music, it is beyond them that it's possible to shut off
He probably put this music to the video because it was the same music he playing on board and iced out too when he ran aground.
Who calls that s**t music
That's not music, its a crime.
Thanks a whole truckload, Ronald Wigman. By sharing with us this lil' artwork of a filmlet...! You know how to keep ppl in awe, how to explain things thru your technical skills. You'd shoulda ashame more than one of 'em called "Holewood gurus". Thanks again, maestro!
A group of drunk Dutchmen decided to put a young kid on the helm, at night who ran her aground... idiots
The fellow driving the excavator was the most impressive of the lot!
What a well made video. From the music, to the visuals. It started out so mysterious, and you wondered what happened, and what may happen next. Then, the music picked up, and the action started.
I like how your shown what is going on pretty much in a 360 degree fashion. Your never left wondering what is happening in all perimeters.
The bucket operator is to be congratulated on a job 'Very Well Done' He def. knew what he was doing,
The excavator operator is GODLIKE!!
he certainly knew how to drive that thing! pretty impressive.
excavator
This is a wicked video, great job! It is so dramatic. I don't like dance music but it is perfect for this. Real time tide. Fantastic!
The person on that excavator was brilliant at his/her job. Good job everyone involved!
Nice Job..and a strong boat
Greetings from the UK.
Now how in the heck did they get up there in the first place?
I'm not sure if it was repeated enough times for me, was one guy limping?
Kolibrie is alive and well... just had a total refit in Langkawi and is like brand new again..... Kolibrie is a Standfast 40 Custom built in Holland.... in September 2012 she left Bali after 12 years and sailed to Rebak Langkawi where she resides to date....
Shivan Skipper Glad to hear it wasn't a wash. I was great to see the boat make it off the beach. It must have been scary.
hi, good to see this, was just looking for it and found this. i sailed it with Ton... from Cairns to Darwin and after that to Bali, from where i returned to Australia to continue my trip around it. We had a beautiful trip.
Very interesting and fun to watch. Congrats on the save.
the same people that crashed that boat selected the background sound-
haha looks like
darrell phelps Dont like it...... Move on muppet
yes, they were dancing to trance music and suddenly lost all sails and were parked high up on the beach.
@@jbholmes09 Tweekerz at a EuroTrash 70ts Discotyke!
Disco sucks
SUPER ! Gratulacje z Polski !!! Good job ! Greatings from Poland !
Next time, get it as far in the water as you can with the machines and pull it over on its side with the spinnaker halyard.. and drag it to deeper water sideways.. Pulling the mast over will get the keel up and the buoyancy will carry it to deeper water.. I'd have anchors set way out and people pulling, or a car pulling keeping tension on the line and/or a big sport fish dragging it to deeper water sideways.. Every time a swell comes in it gets a bit of lift and inches its way out.. Of course, use the tides to best advantage.. Hey quarterbacking years later is easy! Might be a Baltic 46 or so.. anybody know what it is? PS That plow (CQR) daisy-chained with another big anchor (Bruce, CQR, etc.) should be way out in front of the boat with a lot of tension on it from a car, etc.. music is horrible..
+Jim Hamilton "Every time a swell comes in it gets a bit of lift " and the lift could be ever so slightly more effective if all "dead" weight had been removed from the hull which begs the question: Were five people needed on board before the hull was refloated? Only a crew of two seemed to have been needed. Additional crew members could have boarded via the transom ladder if needed. Once in deep water, a dingy could have delivered the other three crew members. Just saying.
+Jim Hamilton ....they are knowable as you for sure........but most people out there are not
Its obvious that you have read a book or seen a tv show but never done this in person. There is a reason that towing and salvage Captains have years of experience and are licensed by the Coast Guard. You seem to have missed that it is beached and not simply grounded. The "drag it" comment made me laugh.
It appears thy had a line to the top of the mast, I don't know why they didn't do it that way.
That is how I hauled my boats for bottom jobs for 30 years including a 27 footer I hauled by myself.
They tried this and it did not work, by the time the sun came up the boat was too deep in the sand and only by digging it out could they move it at all....
Wow. The coordination of the Crain and excavator was amazing. Very very very fortunate boat and crew.
The backhoe operator was awesome... though I would hate to have something like that against my transom. I was aground at high tide in the Fla Keys in about 1984 (Pearson 39 centerboard yawl) and after missing at least one high tide (the only time to try to get off), a large powerboat pulled me off by my spinnaker halyard.. Laid me over, got the keel off the bottom a bit and dragged me off more sideways than anything.. No damage.. For this to have helped with these guys would have required something larger than the zodiac or whatever it was, The boat might have been a Swan.. I'd say about 46' or so..
Should have used a helicopter!
As long as you don't pull or tow on the mast line when heeling a grounded sail boat there is vey little chance of damage. Masts and rigging is built to withstand substantial wind loads, so with the leverage advantage of the length of the mast very little weight is required to counteract the weight of the keel.
Only apply enough force to keep the keel from contact on the bottom and your free
Well done I enjoyed the whole 26 min of that.
Kolibrie completed a 2000 mile journey to Thailand recently... the hull and keel were rock solid after this incident... a testament to the Standfast design....
Great video, annoying music!
Absolutely awesome how they worked together. Great crew running those rigs.
This is the best video I've ever watched. I know its been years but I'm still going to comment. What a great group of people (all of them) getting this done, amazing work!! this is 2021, I'm struggling with a terminal illness, I watch a shitload of videos that suck, this one makes me feel really good. I've always loved sailing, but also block & tackle stuff, and then the backhoe/crane stuff was amazing, whew..left me on the edge of me chair 😎 Cheers ya'll
excelente trabajo de equipo, buen trabajo de edicion y musica, buen viento y buena a mar a todos
She's very lucky she went ashore on sand and missed those rocks.
I just would have removed all the rigging, had it leveled up, and lived in it as is.
Looked good to me , nice to see her going back to sea . Where and boat type ?
This video would have benefited greatly from time lapse photography/editing.
outstanding operation! and so begins the next salvage of my ears and the rest of my day...
Gotta agree with the others- absolutely amazing excavator skills, and also somebody definitely did their planning with this one, as scary as it seemed...
The film making here, especially the editing, should be used in film-making courses as examples of everything not to do. Sure glad you showed the airplane three timed. Nice shot of the guy picking his nose. Nice to tell us where you are or how the boat got there. I want my half hour back.
could easily live without the music
Great ad for the many uses of a Kubota in the hands of an expert! A happy ending for the skipper, who was no doubt fired.
It's so nice to see at the end the boat sailing again :-)
Awesome video!! The links to the sound track don't seem to point to the same tune on iTunes. Anyone knows what track this is?
Always such a sad sight to see a beeched ship, especially if it is as beautiful as this one. Great to see her go free again. May she have many safe long voyages.
Lovely Standfast, I am glad you could refloat her with such minor damage. You were lucky to have local assistance, but then sailors are known to help sailors. I haven't been high and dry (yet), thus I have always been able to resort to kedging when aground. I wish someone had mentioned where this occurred...
That's got to be the strongest rudder assembly on the sea! :-)
RUclips is full of clips on lost rudder ;-)) This one will stay!!!
Looked like a really nice boat. Couldn't stop thinking that the keel joint was doomed to crack under all of that boats weight, but it seemed seaworthy once it was in deep water. Anyone know what make and model she was?
Quite a few heart in mouth moments in this film! Well done and thanks for sharing.
What kind of condition was the Kolibri in after she was floated and moved??
It reads Kolibrie. Not Kolibri. Try to pronounce Scheveningen. Don't skip any E next time. Don't you car for dtail?
Excelente maniobra de rescate, a resaltar... la ayuda de los lugareños, la efectividad de los maquinistas, los botes en el mar, perfecta la Planeación en general, también el estrés presente, y por supuesto la compensación luego de tene la embarcación nuevamente a la mar..felicitaciones a todos! Buen viento y mar en lo sucesivo..⚓️👊
Great adventure, would love to hear the Captains story of how it ended up aground.
Excellent work by the excavator tech... I still don't understand how the rudder held up to all that pressure. I thought they would pull the mast down from abeam take pressure off the Keel and Rudder as it was pulled then pushed forward. Great video.
very bad editing. i was really curious about the rescue but the music, the planes... (!) why?
it looks like a Samson ferro-cement sloop if i do not mistake. I don't think there's another type of hull construction that could possibly take such a beating and sail away like nothing ever happened. Great vid, thanks.
Hope the guy with the excavator got a good payday.. without him putting his machine in the salt water, she still would be there...
Surprised he actually did it. I wouldn't put my excavator in salt water unless it's really worth it. $$$
That must have cost a pretty penny!
Who is the boat manufactured by, and what is it called?
"So you did have the depth sounder and radar fixed before we left right dear ?"
Great video, enjoyed. Dou you think that keeping the boat tilted to starboard by pulling the spinnaker guy from a boat, or even from the beach, could have released the keel easily? Congratulations. Is the hull made of steel?
Hope someone bought the digger driver a beer.
Burlats de Montaigne أفلام جميله
A bear? In Done Sia? Telor besar! Can you believe it? Really?
There are many people enjoying life as cruisers. I salute their freedom and life choice. Most of them don't have the mythical deep pockets !! The captain was obviously making do in tent while gaurding his home. Maybe a lesson learned ! Bravo to the sailor and boat, many happy and safe journies to them. PS- I too had to take dump half way through.
Rich fools: it's a miracle they didn't brake off the rudder.
Break - F.
I have to agree. The first scene invokes great sadness as a former sailor, but fortunately, she was set free of her beached mooring
Turning the sound off improves the video substantially..
Cool video....wonder how much that cost....
Am I the only one that caught one guy picking his nose ???? It was at 18:40 he had his finger buried up to the third knuckle...
i saw it too....why they put that in I will never know
It is a way to check up availability of a brain (finger).
I saw him too........... all the way in...haha.....Nose...scuba diving....
toneroable he's looking for gold to pay the recovery bill with
eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeew
While sailing a Morgan 42 Ketch, up from Key West to Miami, around midnight, I checked a buoy that was not on the correct path by my view of the compass. I yelled down to the wife, "Hey, what is the location of that horn Buoy? Wham, we went hard aground,! in sand, at around 10 knots! Not fun, spilled my drink, went head over tea kettle. Tide was on its way out. So there we sat. I had a couple of Boat Hickhickers on from Key Largo. The girl had never sailed and was screaming at the top of her lungs, "WE ARE SINKING!!" I casually made another cocktail and said, "We are already on the bottom, ma'am." Tide came back over night and by sunrise we were in Bisquane Bay. Always nice to get a little water under the keel....
10 out of 10 for the digger driver, zero out of 10 for the nauseating music.
It would be nice to know how it got where it got. It moored to close to shore, a little weather, and then the tide went out?
What a shame! The video is great, but the music is sickening!!!! I had to mute it, and still my stomach is tight bc of the meaningless unbearable beat!!!
Yeah, me too !
+Jorge Lavorerio Made me think of those movie scenes with dark, blue lit night clubs where pills are being popped left, right and center. This music didn't evoke any kind of feeling to do with what happened on that day; it was simply inappropriate.
Often the same. Nice video then sh.t music. If one can name that awful noise a music.
I hope to have a nice boat like that some day, though I might be happier tooling around the Chesapeake with something perhaps 10 ft. or so smaller, so I'm left wondering how I too could run mine way the hell up on the beach like that. This does not seem to be explained in the video. How'd she get up there? Storm? Weird tide? Mischievous mermen?
Nose pick was awesome
Mjl4237 xxxxx Why Did he not eat hos crispy snot?
Mjl4237
At 26.00
I just mentioned that. It would of course be the refined fat guys that kept the boat grounded. I still think one is a Hollywood director, of small budget films
Fantastic video. It must have cost a pretty penny to refloat. Not to mention the shipyard cost to repair. I presume the captain thought it was worth it.
It is a magic moment when a sailor feels it is finally afloat
It is a magic moment when you push your keel 4 feet into the beach, and you realise, quite amazingly, you have not wrecked your 3 million dollar yacht. Getting salvaged is the boring result of your weird navigation. There is a great marina or a great bay just around the corner!
I think they all worked together wonderfully and got the job done . ❤
Where is rock of title? I would change title to:
Brave Backhoe Saves Stupid Sailboat
Yes, Stupid Sailboat that runs Aground Not Crash!
I hope this video made it for whoever payed for this refloat. Awesome work. Cheers!!!
I gave up when I saw the same shot 20 times.
Vielen Dank fuer video und ideen. Es kann allem von uns passieren.
Eignetlich denke ich alle haben gluck gehabt. Mich interesierest ob boat wircklich keine Schaden hat ?!
The excavator driver deserves a medal.
Flyby Wire xxxxxx..... He is the hero!
He probably has a lot of experience digging rich guys' toys off the beach.
This was an awesome video..Here in the USA after storms, boats end up in this position. People have no idea how much work goes into moving these vessels ...NICE WORK :) P.S. whats up with the guy with the limp..
April 2018: Kolibrie is abandoned in Rebak Marina Langkawi after a complete refit. The latest owner has disappeared and she is now rotting away at the dock with 4 years of unpaid mooring fees.
That's too bad, she looks to be a beautiful cruising boat.
What a waste 😩
Nice organization of the effort. First time is always the hardest. Congrats on saving the ship.
what was with the deep house trance techno?
Prachtig. Is dit via een 'aannemer' gegaan of alles lokaal geregeld?
Crash?? Please don't post incorrect or misleading titles.
Great team work, I like the happy ending!
Looks like the owner's yachting knowledge is on par as his taste in music. Probably out of it on e when he ran aground.
its 2021 where is the sail boat now is it still sailing and any new sails done
I don't understand how the boat arrived there with no damage.
Poor boat. It looks like a Swan , with the teak decks.
Thanks for sharing. very instructive !
I was waiting for a techno-beach party to break out.
Comment s'échouer de la sorte ? Quel travail pour le sortir, bravo !
What a gorgeous boat!
Nice Video!! The rudder and propeller were ok after refloating?
The lift starts at 12:00
Good job I guess, but an extra 30 mins wait might have helped get more depth under the boat. I'm guessing that the keel and rudder will need inspection after dragging through the sand, as it will have removed quite a lot of the gel coat from the surface, and the rudder shaft may well be bent.
wordreet Yeah I'm sure those keels are'nt meant to withstand the force that must have gone through them when the digger shoved it.
Great experience I'm sure. I would have liked to have been there. how many days did it sit on the beach? What was the cost of getting it back in the water? How did it happen in the first place? Were the kardashians involved?