SSL 359 ~ A Boat on the Rocks... NEVER FUN!!
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- Опубликовано: 25 авг 2024
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Kudos for the quick response in ensuring that your neighbours were safe. When my parents had their boat they frequently used two anchors, particularly when heavy weather was expected, because they wanted to be sure that their boat was secure.
Yes, I agree with your comments Rick - in regards to anchors and I would go as far as to say that your anchor is one of the most important pieces of hardware onboard and the ability to deploy it successfully the most critical skill to develop! Your anchor is both your first and last line of defence. It’s what prevents you from your boat becoming a total and unrecoverable loss when all else has failed!
Loved our stay at the San Blas Islands onboard Sophisticated Lady with you and Alsino. The Islands were absolute chill.
Your episodes really do portray the cruisers life. Great story line with an exciting finish that can show you just how fast things can go really bad in a moments notice. Nice save Captain Rick. You and Alsino saved the day!
Rick, your naritives are always very informative and interesting, thanks for that, safe sailing..!!
love how he is running the dinghy with a drink in his hand, well played!
P L U S Alcinho is tugging that Moondancer Yacht pretty perfectly with that small Dinghy from my point of view !
Wow, what an amazing update filled with adventure and excitement. Thank you for being an important part of my day with every update.! Thumbs Up to you all.
Hey Rick. Your sailing expertise is inspirational. Together with the delivery is ultra cool. Your editing is second to none. Looking forward already to SSL 360. Will keep you posted with my exploits soon
Just LOVED Tiki drinkin a smoothie with your morning wake up group! Yeah, I like your bird quite a bit, the pretty girls are just fluff, but nice fluff.
Yes, a bit of fluff once in a while is good.. :)
@@SailingSophisticatedLady Thee spake the true gospel in thou words. Go forth and fluff.
Yikes .....more excitement than needed. Your expertise was essential in this chapter of the voyage....averted catastrophe. Thank God for.that. Can't wait to see what's onshore. Beautiful at sea footage. Stay safe Rick ⚓ ⛵ 🐟 🌞
Glad you enjoyed Christine! :)
We learn until the day we die, like you said the system is not always right, eye sight is the best, be careful in those unknown waters, Rick
Looks like all the right help in all the right places. No sweat
we got lucky that time, everyone was right there! :)
Another cool episode, with your always cool head, rick you always seem to be in the right place, right time for these yachties,
they truely would be up s..t creek without you there.. yes big anchors in deed, we replaced ours as we were tired of dragging, best thing we did, especially when wind & tide have there way!
I think it's just that it happens more often and in more areas than people think, so always pays to be at the ready to jump to action if/when something happens. :)
Yep, I have a Rockner anchor for a 50er on my 40er. It's so big I have to help it on and off the deck but guess what? Never dragged even in 60 knot gusts.
I love those 2 dollar lunches, Bandeja paisa, or San Cocho is delicious also. Another awesome video.
I would too, but those $2 lunches were $8, Lol
@@SailingSophisticatedLady Anything cheap discovered in your many travels? Not a sailor but always being in a foreign land seems to make a sailor a premium price target?
@@SailingSophisticatedLadyThat must be Panama pricing then. The same as Miami.
Sure hate to see a fellow Hylas owner on the rocks like that! I like the way the entire team jumped into action though and crisis averted. Great job!
Guess you'd need four keel drive to follow that chart. Thanks again for the video Rick.
Funny
Alsino whit a beer in his hand rooling the show.... Love it ;-)
You may have to consider your own online sailing school Capt. Rick. Nice work, as always.
More Tiki! I love saving missions! Everyone should save each other everywhere!)
yes, you are missing out on your element Shascha! :)
@@SailingSophisticatedLady Do you remember how we came to one boat with a machete?
do you mean the sinking boat in Prickly Bay, Grenada, or ...?
@@SailingSophisticatedLady I wrote: machete. It was another boat.
which boat?
I am using Navionics also and have also found areas that are way off. Entire islands that do not exist on chart could be disaster if you are traveling overnight. Once some birds saved me by standing on unmarked rocks just below the water surface. I just happened to notice their legs above water so they were not swimming. Its impossible to see everything from helm at different times of the day.
Sweet outtro
Thanks! :)
GAWD Rick, just the intro is worthy of about 20 screen shots.. I love making them for the computers I own. To remind us, where we are going very soon! ...and ditto Christine Stange's comment!
and thats when a good sized dinghy motor really comes in handy. Good on you guys for helping out~
Interesting you're the only boat in the group leaving the port under sail!?? Why??.. I'm playing catch up... Thanks as always Cap'tn Rick! Cheers/Salute!!🥂🍻
Captain Rick to the rescue. :)
Good to see everyone in the video! Fast Manicou!
never ceases to amaze me that folk deploy an anchor using the electric motor of the windlass and not the taper clutch. Its my posting "pet hate" far too many videoed yacht people do it. Its laborious, noisy, slow and very hit and miss. The winch handle fitting is to release the cable to totally free fall all the way to a controlled slow delivery and gradual tighten when pulling up on the cable to set the anchor. I'm sure you'll agree
sweet adventures with other sailors. thx
Glad everyone is safe! Thumbed
Good ethics. Like clean as you go.
Here ended this lesson! Amen!
Looks like there is an air strip on Joroncito El Porvenir, due west, almost to the long Panamanian penisula @ Torbuala.
Somebody broke the rule # 3!
Rule 1 - pick your spot carefully, think about bottom type and wind shifts.
Rule 2 - more scope is better than counting on chain catenary.
Rule 3 - once the anchor is down, stay in the cockpit and watch while the anchor settles in and chain straightens out as you sail back and forth, stay there until you have had a couple of the inevitable gusts pass thru.
Or to shorten it the way one of my educator said:
"A Sailboat is n o friggin camper, You can slam on ground to ancor!"
Wise guy!
Love your videos as always !!! If I may ask what group plays that awesome Rhythm and drum music you were playing at the beginning of the video?
No substitute for good equipment! Safety first!
You know that bird is going to outlive you.
4:45 very appealing. Nice boat too. Is that a Stainless Challis? Hope Moondancer wasn't damaged. She is a beautiful boat.
Those San Blas islands seems stressful like hell for shoals. That would be enough for me to ruined my mood... Take good care Rick.
Was in the same area 4 yrs ago and hunter 42 lost its keel and sunk on rocks. Real dangerous area
Is it just me or does the hammock in the beginning of the video make you look like you have wings of a sailing super hero? LOL
I like the radar overlap with the navionics for a solid confirmation. I've been through a channel and had the navionics showing me 4X4ing through the bush with my boat.....not good, especially in a thick fog.
nope, not at all!
Always good to see adventure in the life of the mighty captain Rick
a little more than we need sometimes, Lol
probably part of a 200 yr old Spanish galleon minus the gold at 17:26 its amazing who is in the vicinity or may be. one group of ladies vloggers mostly (chuffed, white pirates, and Joanna) , calling themseves the gypsy fleet, and I had just found a guy (who had lost his cat out near ausie uncharted island) there with his beauty wife on his mono en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aqualung_(Jethro_Tull_album) .and the only vlogger guy (with the gypsy fleet has left, adventures of an old sea dog, ventured west, took 60 days! now in Polynesia ! Wow, moondancer is a beautiful boat. Paint job at least ! The winds can be crazy unpredictable around there !
Never a bad thing traveling In groups
Learning how to use your anchors is "Not a DRAG"
Great video Captain Rick!!! You never disappoint!
Thanks Rick & Nissa! :)
Hey Rick. Your sailing expertise is inspirational. It’s for me your best asset together with the delivery! Cool.
could not be a better lesson
i didn't see the link to the cruising guide you mentioned.
thanks for yet another good video
it's at the top of the text description for the video
what some people will do to clean the bottom of the keel, great vid/ Do you carry paper charts ?
Fast fowards the first 15mins crickey
Nice to see the San Blas again. I spent 3 weeks there a few years ago and it was the best place in 45 years of sailing. Is Lisa, the transvestite, still selling molas??? She was up near Provenir Island (where there is an airstrip and it is a good place to check in and out of Yala). On anchoring: my view is you need a good anchor, but I have rescued more folks from lousy technique and lack of skill than the size of their anchor--folks think if they buy the most expensive one it will make up for experience and judgement. In your friend’s case, anchoring in a garbage bag--well no technique or anchor (except diving on it) will ensure that won’t drag. The windward side of those islands is a huge plastic reef from all the crap from Colombia and Venezuela that comes with the trades. The Cunha caretakers collect and burn it, but they can never keep up. On the charts, you have an issue with Navionics--I used a raster based program (I think it was from Admiralty charts) which was good, but the depths were off a bit and much was not marked-but the datums were good. Enjoy yourself. You can take the inside passage back to Colon or Bocas Del Toro and save the big seas if you are going that way. Don’t miss Guanaja Island if you get up to Honduras.
No need to put the beer down, can use it as a fender...
Sorry i ment PLUKKY from SAILING INTO FREEDOM is there somewere
that's pretty good....give me a coozie for my beer while I rescue buddy on the rocks.....fun video. Thanks, Andrew. (where to after the western Caribbean?)
Rick Tiki needs his own channel.
oh sure, just what I need... more editing, Lol
@@SailingSophisticatedLady lol
Did his hull get damaged?
This island doesn't look like it has much. But we'll have to wait until the next episode. Do you send the drone in first to get the lay of the land before the landing parties make it to shore?🤔😋
Safe travels from your friend in Syracuse NY
no hull damage luckily, just scraped some barnacles off the bottom of the keel.. :)
Did I miss something regarding no internet? What happened to the awesome iridium device that gave you internet no matter where you are?
Morning Rick OL boy
Afternoon! ;)
O its 7am here in Australia
I just woke up and watching your boat on rocks vid
Greetings! How's the world down under mate? :)
My wife is from Samoa so we look up when walking under a coconut tree. lol
me too usually, Lol
Bahamas also! It's self preservation.
Chill out🏖️
Great vid Cap Rick as always. Amazing that millions dollars in Yatchs sailing by brail? Murky water, so side front radar is no good? Isnt there something better than hoping for the best? But you guys did everything right. Scary stuff.
So in good weather why did the anchor drag?
Catch you on the flip side, looking fowrd to new crew. Must be hard managing such a big boat singlehanded. She sure looks beautiful, rare to see pics of her. No drone shots this time. Always love your drone work.
Stay safe in those uncharted murky waters! How weel does insureance cover boats in that curcumstance?😵
craig me , would also like to know
Being a new comer to all this is dragging a big problem to boat life or just a once in a while problem? Like is it a not paying attention type of problem or a not knowing whats needed and how to do it type?
yes and yes, Lol
Hey Rick nice video. Dragging anchor is never a good thing. Hopefully the owners of Moondancer will buy a mantus anchor like you have. Just curious Rick in one of your real time update videos I saw that you had a cat on board. Is the cat temporarily on board or do you officially have a pet cat on board the lady?
no idea, it's my new crews cat, :)
Ok. I was just curious
Nice video Rick. What kind of boat is Moondancer? She's got pretty good looking lines.
I think it’s a Morris yacht
Glad to see you collecting trash.✌🏽😎
any time we see it! :)
That's a Hylas 46, isn't it???? They've been having problems with water infiltration into rudders and skegs. Wasn't too impressed by a brand new one nearly sinking on delivery in the Bahamas because the factory screwed up a thru hull installation, along with a bad float switch :-(
What model boat is moondancer? Do they have a channel?
hey cap,,, new sailer on a c&c 30 ,,, how much tight should mast rigging be??? went on a sail today in Georgian Bay and wind side was tight but the other side was very loose and swinging around like they had no pressure on the mast,, got to my marina and all was tight again???
the leeward side will always slack when the lots of pressure on the windward side, but they should never be fully sagging or swinging.. that is asking for a potential mast failure, you need to have a qualified individual check your rig and tension according to manufacturer spec
@@SailingSophisticatedLady thanks for the speedy reply I will get some one to look cause the lines were saggy for sure
I haven't worked with chart plotters, but I have worked with GPS and was wondering if you are able to change to (or download) a different datum that is more accurate for that area.
Yeah was my thought, too!
Wasn't there shortly a 20Year GPS-date circle just flipping over on the US-satellites!?
Still got issues with that crap even on my cars GPS showing wrong dates, and from time to time wrong NE position on map.
Does every video have to have music noise?
Rick are you still with The Armada?
Interesting news on CNBC stock news that DJI has been collecting data with their drones.
Hi Rick, ok you got me very confused, you have new crew arriving but it sounds like you don't know who or when or kinda where. What are the arrangements for crewing on this trip ??
As always stay safe and have fun - and especially look after Tiki
This was the challenges of receiving any crew or guests in the San Blas.. the Kuna's had restricted access to anyone coming on or off boats, so that complicates things immensely
other than say, a depth alarm, is there something you can set for movement past a set range? edit: i.e. when sleeping
Rob _ , you can set up your GPS and your radar and also you can get a anchor drag app on your phone and one that is used every where,that is do an anchor watch 24 hrs
I'm not quite sure how much the skipper of moondancer is to blame on that one?
Looks like he ancored into a pile of trash or an wooden wreck or smth!?
Well nobody was on the watch until depthalarm for shallow went off I guess!?
definitely fouled his anchor on bottom debris, only thing would have helped would have been to bear down on the anchor more which would have revealed the problem earlier and then just reset.
What was the brand of those charts? I sure don’t want one of those!!! Yikes
Looked like he dropped anchor right on top of a heap of trash. Thats just bad luck but he must not have reversed enough to see if it was set.
J B , looks like you are right. And no matter what anchor you have very big or small and not matter what design,if you don’t set it right then this may happen
Photo tip.... (free, so maybe what' it's worth?) pan as little as possible. That said, appreciate your efforts.
so don't look sideways? Lol ;)
@@SailingSophisticatedLady, your drone footage and editing is among the best in the world. Please let me know when you have some time to spend in the "Isles of Perpetual June", the Bahamas.
I pulled up a gigantic Mantis anchor on a friends boat today. Sweet ass anchor. Bigger is better. (That's what she said).
Wouldn't a drone help in going thru the channel?
Take all you got and bury it deep, that’s what dad said to do.
Hahaha.................
Music too loud dear friends... WAY
Boaters love to booze & if you weren't booze up no rocks
Plastic pollution a big problem there
Everywhere
yes, more than you know... Panama is becoming a waste land for plastic piling up on its windward shores that's been washing up from the 'civilized' side of the Atlantic and Caribbean Sea... not good.
put depth sounder on dinghy and go explore first.
hand held depth sounder
I wonder if the gps system is telling you the correct position.
It’s not the map that fails but most likely the GPS position.
no, it's the charts that are all off in that particular area
@@SailingSophisticatedLady Landscapes change, the map/gps may have been accurate for it's time.
Typical sailboat mentality. Couldn't be more wrong!
Just an FYI Captain Rick - it drives me nuts when I see single use plastic water bottles on a cruisers boat. As a Canadian - you know these have no recyclable value and end up floating in the water and a danger to the oceans and their inhabitants. Rant over....
if you're talking about any plastic bottles in use on my boat, we reuse them all at least 60-100 times by refilling from our water purifier onboard until they are cracked or leaking before we discard them
Greetings my Brother! Where is this spot, just 7 seconds into your intro? I look forward to meeting you, buying you a drink and Tiki some nuts and fruit. "Tiki LOVES smoothies!" Have an email for the Bagga Dub store at 3:57? I offer a great variety or Ethiopia, Haile Selassie I, Reggae, Rastafari, DUB, Jamaica and Africa related items and would be glad to offer some to them or others at wholesale rates. RASpect! I was surprisingly relieved when you finally were shown by instruments to have stopped sailing ACROSS the island! Also, what was up with that swastica on the flag at the 12 minute mark?
How did you meet your beautiful russian lady
Looked like a Nazi flag at 12:03! What's that all about?
The swastica is an ancient symbol of the culture of the Kuna (Tule) people of Panama.
S.S.L. = S.U.B,...(instead of S.U.V.) 😜
Your videos are beautiful man, even without the bikini's, (well ok, they're better with but...)
You got your chart datum set wrong in your chart plotter dummy! This why amateurs should stay home! 👎
One word “ Rocna”.
Never start a video with slurping your tea loudly, thats just a turnoff. Bye
it's not tea.. :)