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Use the jib better

...sailing only requires common sense---no less then 1 out of 5 humans have enough as proven from this video and the fact that people let themselves get conned into taking a "vaccination" while a blood thirsty parasite(Bill Gates) drools over his profit margins...

I know a Yacht Master who can set sail with a completely novice crew and demands action when he yell " let off the kicking strap". Blank stares all around 《••》

did they lose the engine? why didn't the skipper luff up to the safety of deep water while they still had the genova? i guess they had multiple problems at once.

My take-away on this scenario not a expert but 20 year sailing exp. Great Lakes/Florida/Bahamas in <25’ boats with 5HP outboards. Always know your Lee-shore (where you drift if you can’t make way) and except for going in and out of harbor stay at least a hour drift away @5 miles. But more is better! That should give you time to come up with a plan. When entering or exiting a harbor assuming you checked tides/wind always have your sails ready to be deployed if motoring and engine quits. I try to plan for sailing NOT motoring. I see many boats motoring in and out with sails neatly furled still in sail covers don’t do that. In this scenario after the poor planning got them in a pickle and it was apparent they were in serious trouble a sea anchor deployed 200 yards from shore would have at least kept them bow to waves and slowly drifted to the beach backwards. Armchair quarterbacking here!

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that was cool. glad they were okay and im glad the boat was destroyed. people with money is VERY dangerous, they can buy almost anything and people get killed from it

The name of this boat was Bad Wolf. It's now a popular spot for scuba divers to explore and provides a home for lots of marine life. The boat has broken up into several pieces and rests at about 83 ft. I don't think it had a motor because nobody has ever seen one. I guess it's possible the motor sank in a different spot from the boat.

No, these guys definitely had no clue. No motor apparently, and no sail power. They could have had that jib sorted a lot quicker. If they were having trouble with it, then they should have thrown the anchor to keep them out of the waves and off the beach. Though probably no anchor either. I was skippering a friend's catamaran decades ago on Sydney Harbour. Moderately strong winds. I didn't realize but the lines controlling the retractable rudders had snapped and the rudders were not fully down. I could not steer it effectively and the wind pushed us back towards a restaurant on pylons. We banged into the pylons a few times before I finally worked out the rudder lines were the issue. Once I got a quick knot in the two loose ends of the line, we got away from the pylons quickly. The rigging would have been destroyed otherwise.

The swiss cheese effect, numerous errors allowed all the holes to line up ending in disaster! If they had of done one thing different would have ended with a different outcome.

Great video, hope everyone is okay.

This accident happened after one of our regular races outside King Harbor. The wind increased as the fleet was returning to harbor; it also changed direction to blow straight down our entrance channel. These buoy races have mostly been easy, light-wind days, suitable for training new crew, and for skippers of all experience levels. This particular boat had no motor, and had to enter the harbor under sail with a strong headwind. Many of our local sailors have little practice reefing mainsails, or sailing in winds above 17 knots. Thus, this skipper and crew took the main down instead of reefing, leaving the rig unbalanced. Most sloops are difficult to sail upwind with just a small jib (I've tried it in 30 knots wind...it was barely manageable.). A double-reefed mainsail would have balanced the boat and allowed tacking upwind into the harbor. Anchoring could have helped if done early, but local habits around So California leave the ground tackle inside a locker unless the owner wants to anchor at Catalina; anchoring for emergency isn't in the usual vocabulary around here (but should be...). I'm glad nobody was injured.

The person on the tiller needs to know how a rudder works. It’s not like a car steering wheel.

Sometimes I miss things or was this video posted and titled by the dumbest, most cum-drunk, misleading cretin of a sub-moron who has ever walked the planet. Not a question.

Very lucky that no one was dashed against the jetty pylons and lucky everyone was thrown out. Literally a life and death and terrifying few minutes there for everyone involved. Glad everyone made it

Jib and main sheet attached to rudder and propeller. You've got one minute and thirty seconds to sort it out. What what you going to do?

so viel Segel-Dummheit habe ich noch nicht gesehen !

I always thought only us surfers knows what it's like to shoot a pier. Guess I was wrong. 😆 They did pick the best wave of the set. Lol. Its hard to believe nobody hit a piling.

This video drives me crazy with that foresail not sheeted in properly and no main!

Clueless

"Never did like that boat".

Looks like the jib sheets caught and wrapped around the shaft underneath disabling the engine and causing great difficultly in trying to get some power out of the jib minus the jib sheet which is wrapped below he is holding it by hand.. Everyone has bad days and sometimes more people just means more people in your way. Could have done this, could have done that...who cares...they all lived to teach others how not to repeat their mistakes

They weren't really rescued. They swam to shore.

Wow! That guy was LAUNCHED! Glad all are ok!!

Looks to me like prior to the start of the video they took the main down to sail under jib only, but then the jib sheet failed, and the guy is trying to rig another one but is running out of sea room. And the boat has no auxillary power. And the driver isn't helping. Bad day.

Fly the halyard, f-ing idiots!

Bet their eyes were open pretty wide at the moment it capsized, and the people on the pier weren't very interested theyd rather watch the sea gulls, oh and everyone survived

Bet their eyes opened fairly wide when it capsized, and the people on the peer weren't even interested they were too busy looking at the sea gulls

Aaah, that’ll buff out.

Put the jib down. Try with reefed mainsail.

I'm sure that'll buff right out...

Crew: Sailing takes me away 🎶.. Pier: nope

Captain should have went down with the ship.

The captain turned his back on the approaching waves, if he would have saw he should have said to abandon the ship.

This video is: "Hey honey, let's get a sailboat." "Babe, you've never even been on a sailboat!!" "I know, we can start with a small daysailer like a Capri or something, they are easy to sail. Oh, Jen and Dave can come with us, there is room for 4." .............. 2 weeks later on the first trip out.....

yeah, some oceans are not so forgiving..... it just rip that boat in a thousend pieces.

I don't know when this was filmed but I saw an almost identical accident many years ago in the same place, possibly in the 1980's? In the case I saw the boat was also parallel to the pier, hit it almost the same way but the mast hit the top of the pier and broke. Wind and surf conditions were about the same, not unusual for King Harbor. I remember two crewmen, though I could easily be wrong. Nobody drowned that day either. Several surfers went in and pulled them to shore. I first saw the boat in trouble from the pier, then went and saw the rest from the rocks in front of the parking lot. I learned to sail at 9 or 10 in King Harbor in a Lido 14 , no motor of course. I sailed in similar weather and waves to this when I was that age. We were taught the right way to enter and exit the harbor mouth. In the case I saw the sailboat made its approach far to close to the shore and the pier, as I suspect also happened here, but didn't lose its mainsail. Both of these were cases of incompetent sailors with no local knowledge of the harbor. Unfortunately, these were not the first or last cases of this kind. I don't recall any cases of human fatalities, though I once saw one of the local porpoise pod misjudge the tide and waves to run headfirst into the jetty rocks and kill itself. This is why you should know how to float, basic ocean swim and always wear a life vest when sailing.

Furling genoas are the work of the devil. It looks like the mainsail had already blown out of its track. The genoa furling gear then wasnt fit to haul the genny in, bearing the boat downwind quickly onto that shore. I doubt very much the skipper had been intending to sail using genoa alone (hes getting flak for that in the comments)... just trying his best to get that menace genoa stacked.

It's a miracle no one got killed in this situation. This is beyond unacceptable regarding seamanship! The sea is not a joke people. He will punish you and penetrate all mistakes you make! This is obvious, but many situations aren't as obvious as this. If you do not know what you're doing, never tempt destiny!

kook slams. they are beyond lucky

The weather started getting ruff The tiny ship was tossed If not for the courage of the fearless crew The Minow would be lost, The Minow would be lost.

do these boats not have engines ,see so many in trouble where an engine would have saved the day.

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When did this happen ? I saw the exact same thing happen there back in the early 1970's. same place on pier, small sailboat etc... is this an old video ?

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Any one of these crewmen could have been sent head-first into a pier piling, and that to me is the most amazing result of this debacle is that none of these souls got launched into a pier piling or they wouldn't be alive to tell the story.

Other boats sailing no problem. This guy had no idea what he was doing

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I'm guessing that was their last sail. It was for certain their last sail on that boat which was in pieces.

Are there a lot of accidents and drownings there, or was the surf just unusually rough that day?