Take it from someone who's been boating in coastal water for 3 decades, running surf zones is VERY difficult and hazardous. Especially those inlet bars. As if understanding the conditions of the inlet, the hydrography, wave dynamics, and wave intervals isn't bad enough, add to the mix the variable if you get in the trough of a wave, there is less depth over the bar, and you run the risk of grounding the outdrive, and even having the engine stall from the prop hitting hard sand, then losing control and being broached by the oncoming wave. Returning to port isn't any easier than going seaward, either, because then you have to contend with not outrunning the wave and pitch-poling, but at the same time, maintaining enough throttle to keep the wave behind you from swallowing your transom.
The same phenomenon happens quite often at the entrance to the Cape Cod Canal on the western end into Buzzards Bay. Tide rushes out in One Direction, wind is blowing it in the other, causes the waves to stand on end at about 6 feet high. Happens occasionally on the East End as well, but much more common in the West End
In my teens I raced Rubber Duckies for a Surf Club in Australia. Something I've noticed with people negotiating the surf is a lack of aggression, no use of Parallel runs between waves and just really no idea. turn the thing around and chase the last wave, then use a parallel run to create space and give you time, wait for a lul in the sets and go. Until you can put your Vessel where ever you want whenever you want, at speed, do not cross the Bar.
Was this video taken the same year? I remember surfing the last three weekends of November 09 in Ocean Ridge. Some of the most fun waves we've had down here.
They could have just make one small turn around right before the waves and waited for the last wave. There's a break right after that last wave that certainly would give them a lot of time to go out smoothly...
I drive by here everyday on my way home, sometimes stopping to kayak. I've kayaked through most inlets here but I wouldn't dare take my kayak through that one. We hit those swells in a 20 foot bayliner and it shattered the windshield and knocked us on the floor when the boat hit the seabed just to the right of where they went out. The cassette tape that was IN the radio flew out of the boat!
I promise you most of the people commenting have never tried to take a boat that size out an inlet that rough. I guarantee the person driving that boat was crapping there pants and wishing they’d stayed at the dock! 😂 one wrong move and that boat was flipped. A captain with experience would never have done that in that boat.
then an experience captain would of never made it out that day while an amateur did :) and if you think that is rough then you never been on a crab boat in the bering
I tend to agree. He was pushing the limits off the chart. I have run some rough bars here in Oregon- Tillamook, Columbia, Nehalem and that's bigger water than I would get into. Nehalem is my home port and we get 2-3 killed a year doing exactly what this guy did, take too small a boat into too big a breaker and make a mistake. He could've dragged his prop, had an engine hiccup, slipped his footing or a lot of other mishaps. Turned the boat just a bit and been dead.
Once again running a boat is not driving a car. It's about seamanship and a floatplan that takes into consideration the tides, winds and so forth. I see to many people who get injured because they simply couldn't plan their trip for four hours (or so) later or four earlier! I's amazing!
this is the nastiest inlet I've ever been out of. So many close calls it makes my heart pound just thinking of it. But totally worth the cooler full of dolphin or the double digit sail releases during winter.
Hell yea, ive never been out of Boynton but people always cry about haulover and Jupiter till i tell them to take a look at how nasty Boynton gets. The ocean can be flat calm like glass and the inlet has some monster swells
I know this is old,but no way in hell did you make it through 20 footers at Boynton. They look a lot bigger than they are. 20 foot is going to destroy just about any boat at Boynton. I go out of Boynton nearly everyday.
Is this inlet ever calm? Jeeze what an annoying place. Depoe Bay, Or. is probably worse than this. One wrong move at Depoe Bay inlet and you're up on the bricks. LOL.
How do so many ppl dislike this? At first I was like whatever but then I saw those breakers. A camera on that boat would make people watching piss their panties. Dislikers have never been on a boat... That shiz was sketchy!!!
WTF that is insane thats the scariest sh!t ive ever seen if i had a 50 ft boat i think id think twice about doing that ..ive gone out my inlet in my 40 footer in 12ft swells and i was scared..these waves are breakers they are crashing through
A cat hull would’ve been smoother. Waves come in sets, some bigger, some smaller. All you have to do is wait for a big set, a smaller set usually follows.
Jeez! Is it possible for me to use and share this footage on my youtube page? I share footage from all kind of activities on our ocean. Cargo ships in the 1960s till now, oil rigs, fishing vessels, etc. Of course full credit will be given to the owner of the footage. Looking forward to your reply. Kind regards. Cheers.
Yeah, a zodiac is inflatable, rubber, and relatively light and flexible. It's not going to break up in the surf, have a motor bracket bust off, etc. You're also not doing that through that inlet. You couldn't paddle fast enough to not end up on the rocks.
UM no this is south florida we run inlets to go fishing all the time sometimes its lumpy sometimes its flat sometimes you gotta take some water over the bow nothing to write home about
You only have so much time between breaking waves so as soon as they got through that first one they should have quickly speeded up to avoid the breaking ones. Obviously lacking experience.
@TurboGSR96 I get annoyed when people refer to something that belongs to there parents as "mine" or "my" also. Then again maybe they gave him a 60 footer for Christmas. Damn it took me till I was 24 to buy my first boat this year. lol
I didn't see him get vertical one time? Seems to me he handled it pretty well. So would that have not produced enough views to just say, "decent skipper leaving the harbor in moderate weather and not having any big problems" ? The truth is a beautiful thing.
Peter Z This is pretty much average for winter at this inlet. summers are perfect but winter and early spring are nastier than most people are willing to risk.
Almost a perfect break from the surf line. Good skippering. B+. Good job. Take the seas on your quarter, not on your bow. Slice the waves, don't pound them. Good skippering.
Not really. Could have hit the throttle much harder between waves and wouldn't have needed to take so many impacts. May have been able to avoid being directly in that last curling wave.
Reality is that this inlet wasn't designed for boat traffic. What this guy did in those conditions was he almost lost his boat and possibly more than that.
lol i was just sitting here screaming, "frickin get on the throttle!!"
Take it from someone who's been boating in coastal water for 3 decades, running surf zones is VERY difficult and hazardous. Especially those inlet bars. As if understanding the conditions of the inlet, the hydrography, wave dynamics, and wave intervals isn't bad enough, add to the mix the variable if you get in the trough of a wave, there is less depth over the bar, and you run the risk of grounding the outdrive, and even having the engine stall from the prop hitting hard sand, then losing control and being broached by the oncoming wave. Returning to port isn't any easier than going seaward, either, because then you have to contend with not outrunning the wave and pitch-poling, but at the same time, maintaining enough throttle to keep the wave behind you from swallowing your transom.
You must be so cool
Spot on
Great information, thank you.
Time to stop playing ship sim.
This inlet in particular is extremely nasty.
Later that day he came back with 50 dolphin lol
The same phenomenon happens quite often at the entrance to the Cape Cod Canal on the western end into Buzzards Bay. Tide rushes out in One Direction, wind is blowing it in the other, causes the waves to stand on end at about 6 feet high. Happens occasionally on the East End as well, but much more common in the West End
That's what ocean boats were made for, lake boats would sink.
The mate was a mighty sailin' man,
the Skipper brave and sure,
They left in a light blue boat that day,
for a three hour tour,
a three hour tour.....
Sebastian inlet with a decent swell, outgoing tide with an east wind is pure hell
I’ve only ever taken boats out of the Mississippi. There can be large swells at the mount but no bars and no breaking waves thankfully.
In my teens I raced Rubber Duckies for a Surf Club in Australia. Something I've noticed with people negotiating the surf is a lack of aggression, no use of Parallel runs between waves and just really no idea. turn the thing around and chase the last wave, then use a parallel run to create space and give you time, wait for a lul in the sets and go. Until you can put your Vessel where ever you want whenever you want, at speed, do not cross the Bar.
Was this video taken the same year? I remember surfing the last three weekends of November 09 in Ocean Ridge. Some of the most fun waves we've had down here.
At least someone caught that wave!
They could have just make one small turn around right before the waves and waited for the last wave. There's a break right after that last wave that certainly would give them a lot of time to go out smoothly...
Reading waves is a skill that takes years ... and I don't think your average boater is in touch enough to notice
Pretty damn scary - thanks for posting.
Captain handled that boat like a BOSS...!!!!
Great video, brother-
I drive by here everyday on my way home, sometimes stopping to kayak. I've kayaked through most inlets here but I wouldn't dare take my kayak through that one. We hit those swells in a 20 foot bayliner and it shattered the windshield and knocked us on the floor when the boat hit the seabed just to the right of where they went out. The cassette tape that was IN the radio flew out of the boat!
wait, you have a cassette tape player ?
I go through here in my kayak after fishing for tuna all morning. Has to be incoming tide and no breakers!
The surfers were jamming out there ready to catch some of that surf.
Seems like the water would be too shallow for large boats like that. How deep is it?
I promise you most of the people commenting have never tried to take a boat that size out an inlet that rough. I guarantee the person driving that boat was crapping there pants and wishing they’d stayed at the dock! 😂 one wrong move and that boat was flipped. A captain with experience would never have done that in that boat.
then an experience captain would of never made it out that day while an amateur did :) and if you think that is rough then you never been on a crab boat in the bering
I tend to agree. He was pushing the limits off the chart. I have run some rough bars here in Oregon- Tillamook, Columbia, Nehalem and that's bigger water than I would get into. Nehalem is my home port and we get 2-3 killed a year doing exactly what this guy did, take too small a boat into too big a breaker and make a mistake. He could've dragged his prop, had an engine hiccup, slipped his footing or a lot of other mishaps. Turned the boat just a bit and been dead.
Once again running a boat is not driving a car. It's about seamanship and a floatplan that takes into consideration the tides, winds and so forth. I see to many people who get injured because they simply couldn't plan their trip for four hours (or so) later or four earlier! I's amazing!
The dive boat I learned on pitch-poled coming in there a few years ago and sunk! RIP Loggerhead.
Lehmann Peters they're still kicking I believe. might be a new boat tho.
Make sure you watch next vid... it didn't end so good.
Coming back in is the fun part.
Looks flat out too, thats one rough ass inlet
Nice video! Subbed.
Now that is one brave and soiled boater.
only had to hit one of those, should have just powered straight out after the first one lol
No sweat! Must be a local
Did you see the boat from 9-20-20?
Gettin' it done ✅
I just liked and subscribed.
"got another brave soul goin through" lmao
this is the nastiest inlet I've ever been out of. So many close calls it makes my heart pound just thinking of it. But totally worth the cooler full of dolphin or the double digit sail releases during winter.
Hell yea, ive never been out of Boynton but people always cry about haulover and Jupiter till i tell them to take a look at how nasty Boynton gets. The ocean can be flat calm like glass and the inlet has some monster swells
I've actually been through Boynton inlet and have that happento me. 20 foot wave vs. 30 ft. Contender
I know this is old,but no way in hell did you make it through 20 footers at Boynton. They look a lot bigger than they are. 20 foot is going to destroy just about any boat at Boynton. I go out of Boynton nearly everyday.
That is a calm day at bointon
Did he dieded??
Been there done that at least 100 times with my dad. I hate that inlet
24v Dually I live not to far lmao do it all the time
Logan Miller Youre a bit late. This was 2 years ago lol
Who would save you if the boat capsized?
The lifeguards on the beach.
Is this inlet ever calm?
Jeeze what an annoying place.
Depoe Bay, Or. is probably worse than this. One wrong move at Depoe Bay inlet and you're up on the bricks. LOL.
The inlet was not designed with boating in mind. It was made to flush more water through the lake.
a typical day at boynton inlet
How do so many ppl dislike this? At first I was like whatever but then I saw those breakers. A camera on that boat would make people watching piss their panties. Dislikers have never been on a boat... That shiz was sketchy!!!
waves look good
WTF that is insane thats the scariest sh!t ive ever seen if i had a 50 ft boat i think id think twice about doing that ..ive gone out my inlet in my 40 footer in 12ft swells and i was scared..these waves are breakers they are crashing through
near the end if yuo look closely you can see tow guys jumping off one of the sea walls with surf bourds
bruh you think thats bad, i went on 12 foot swells through that inlet on a 30 foot boat
Kevin ONeill i saved this dude drowning at the white house . Trying surf north side on an 8 ft swell back in 1980's. He got pounded by the wall .
A cat hull would’ve been smoother. Waves come in sets, some bigger, some smaller. All you have to do is wait for a big set, a smaller set usually follows.
"Everybody who sees that turns around..."
(Ummm, they didn't turn around.)
Thomas you can't fix stupid
Yeah, turn around and you're going to get stuck in a trough, broach, and end up at the bottom of the wine dark sea.
I've gone out of Boynton inlet many times over the years. It can be a bitch. Seen a few unlucky souls capsize going out.
Jeez! Is it possible for me to use and share this footage on my youtube page? I share footage from all kind of activities on our ocean. Cargo ships in the 1960s till now, oil rigs, fishing vessels, etc. Of course full credit will be given to the owner of the footage. Looking forward to your reply. Kind regards. Cheers.
WWWhhhhhoooaaaa beer?
WOW!
some one needs a contender
In basic recon. course we had to do this in a zodiac with no motor, only paddles
Nekson smith oh crap!!!!
If you tip over in a zodiac you just swimm to the beach and wait for the zodiac to come in. With a boat like that you lost a lot of money
Yeah, a zodiac is inflatable, rubber, and relatively light and flexible. It's not going to break up in the surf, have a motor bracket bust off, etc. You're also not doing that through that inlet. You couldn't paddle fast enough to not end up on the rocks.
don't you have zoom on that camera
Surfers running like...HURRY!!!! They’re breaking off something fierce right now bruh!
hmmm, well....he made it.
HOOPA FULL THROTTLE!!
doesnt look like they "think they can go through the ground swell" looks more like the WENT THROUGH the ground swell
Or... this guy does it every day and has been doing it for 30 years. Experience maybe? It didn’t look to me like he was ever in trouble.
UM no this is south florida we run inlets to go fishing all the time sometimes its lumpy sometimes its flat sometimes you gotta take some water over the bow nothing to write home about
he probably dropped $200 worth the gas in the tank and said fuck it
Plenty dangerous bars in nz
Yeehaw!
You only have so much time between breaking waves so as soon as they got through that first one they should have quickly speeded up to avoid the breaking ones. Obviously lacking experience.
I've been through this inlet.... between the wave action and the currents it can be really tricky... sadly, people have died here.
Faith Rada every year somebody dies at this inlet. Usually people that don't know what they are doing.
@blackfishblackfish
The hell you say...
@TurboGSR96 I get annoyed when people refer to something that belongs to there parents as "mine" or "my" also. Then again maybe they gave him a 60 footer for Christmas. Damn it took me till I was 24 to buy my first boat this year. lol
@DG121480 hey man i live around there and besides we take a 40 foot cabo through there it's not that bad
I didn't see him get vertical one time? Seems to me he handled it pretty well. So would that have not produced enough views to just say, "decent skipper leaving the harbor in moderate weather and not having any big problems" ?
The truth is a beautiful thing.
When someone wants to go fishing surf doesn't even faze them.
only at boynton inlet do we have such dedicated sob fishermen like these guys
What kind of fucked up inlet is that!? Ponce inlet, FL Nuff said.
dude was desperate to go kill fish.
You have a problem with fishing?
no fish is worth that risk.
Of waves are breaking over the bar stay in not worth it
@theU880 He isn't rich. His family may be, but unless he's been working most of his life he is not rich. lol
is the norm at jupiter inlet?
opps i was watching videos of jupiter inlet disnt notice this was boyton.
Peter Z This is pretty much average for winter at this inlet. summers are perfect but winter and early spring are nastier than most people are willing to risk.
My Baja would eat that shit up!!!
Go
HAHA!
I shitmyself
Jose Corujo and you wern't even on the boat
So whats the big deal ? who ever took a boat out thinking they might not see sum waves
Omg what is wrong with people not worth it to risk your life or boat
Almost a perfect break from the surf line. Good skippering. B+. Good job. Take the seas on your quarter, not on your bow. Slice the waves, don't pound them. Good skippering.
Not really. Could have hit the throttle much harder between waves and wouldn't have needed to take so many impacts. May have been able to avoid being directly in that last curling wave.
Not that bad ?
dangerous? looks like fun. Being out in the open ocean is simply dangerous no matter where you are. Life life or sit on the couch.
Reality is that this inlet wasn't designed for boat traffic. What this guy did in those conditions was he almost lost his boat and possibly more than that.
No one goes beyond the reef...
Too timid.
That's a perfect example of when someone let's there want take over there better judgment.
That's not bad
Clear case of testosterone poisoning.
Vertical?? You are out of focus.
LOL....Rental boat 100%
Doubt it