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Nomad57 · 21-03-2021, 10:09

While these videos don't specifically relate to cruising, as most of the stuff happens in smaller boats, there are some relatively large boats, (even ships), and sailboats that get into trouble.

Until I started watching these videos, I hadn't realized how easy it was to lose control of/swamp/flip/pitch-pole/sink a boat, since during several decades of boating, (eight years with a single-screw power boat) I had never even come close to experiencing such calamity.

As I watch these videos, I can't help but ponder the following questions...

Who ARE these people?
Where did they learn their "Seamanship"?
Who thought it was a good idea to invent the bow-rider, and then compound the felony by making one with extreme reverse sheer?

And what's with these people who deliberately engage in Jackass-style high jinks, laughing all the while?

Nomad

**Lepke** · 21-03-2021, 21:46

One of my favorites:
I don't remember where I found it, but the guy had to be moving.

**StuM** · 21-03-2021, 22:05

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Originally Posted by Lepke

One of my favorites:
I don't remember where I found it, but the guy had to be moving.

"Temporary Insanity II" ?

I wonder what happened to the original "Temporary Insanity"

chrisr · 21-03-2021, 22:33

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Originally Posted by Lepke

One of my favorites:
I don't remember where I found it, but the guy had to be moving.

yep...oldie but a goodie. no seat belts so wonder how the driver fared ??

cheers,

**StuM** · 21-03-2021, 22:42

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Originally Posted by chrisr

yep...oldie but a goodie. no seat belts so wonder how the driver fared ??

cheers,

"Temporary Insanity II Impaled on Channel Marker
Near Bay Bridge Marina on Kent Island: Just before 2 a.m., a 1992, 38-ft. Fountain power boat slammed into a fixed, channel marker, ripping a 17-ft. gash in the forward hull & becoming impaled on the steel piling holding the channel marker. A passenger suffered a broken arm & lacerations; a passing boater rescued the two men. DNR police cited the skipper, who "claimed to have been blinded by the lights of a sailboat", for negligence, traveling at an unsafe speed, & failure to maintain a proper lookout."

Another report:
Department of Natural Resources police identified the man at the helm as David Ventresca, 37, and his passenger as Brandon Ginesi, 26, both of Annapolis. Injuries were limited to Ginesi's broken arm and some lacerations.

chrisr · 21-03-2021, 22:57

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Originally Posted by StuM

"Temporary Insanity II Impaled on Channel Marker
Near Bay Bridge Marina on Kent Island: Just before 2 a.m., a 1992, 38-ft. Fountain power boat slammed into a fixed, channel marker, ripping a 17-ft. gash in the forward hull & becoming impaled on the steel piling holding the channel marker. A passenger suffered a broken arm & lacerations; a passing boater rescued the two men. DNR police cited the skipper, who "claimed to have been blinded by the lights of a sailboat", for negligence, traveling at an unsafe speed, & failure to maintain a proper lookout."

Another report:
Department of Natural Resources police identified the man at the helm as David Ventresca, 37, and his passenger as Brandon Ginesi, 26, both of Annapolis. Injuries were limited to Ginesi's broken arm and some lacerations.

bloody lucky i think...although maybe the bow acted like a crumple zone ?

cheers,

PLANET EXPRESS · 22-03-2021, 03:42

I read this hoping for some links to the videos you speak of.

Nomad57 · 22-03-2021, 08:26

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Originally Posted by PLANET EXPRESS

I read this hoping for some links to the videos you speak of.

My bad... there were just so many.

Go to YouTube, search "epic boat fails". You'll have a few days of amusement/astonishment/disbelief.

Something I forgot to mention in my OP: power boats seem to be getting more and more "stylish" (freakish) and less and less safe with the passing years. I started boating in 1975, and I don't recall seeing boats turning into submarines, for no apparent reason.

More's the pity. When I realized in 2011 that sailing was no longer an option for us due to health reasons, we started looking at power boats again. We were dismayed.

Nomad

clakiep · 22-03-2021, 09:04

These are just learning events, and the cost of the damages are learning expences - sometimes at the cost of others also. There are many different ways to achieve knowledge, experience and seamanship.

Capt. Claus Kiep - ocean tramp of the eighties

mariner-dovb · 22-03-2021, 09:26

In Germany there is a Government - Organisation issuing Reports on Accidents at Sea ( https://www.bsu-bund.de/SharedDocs/p...cationFile&v=1)
Reading these is much more efficient than watching boatfails on Youtube.
I am shure there is also something Like that in USA.
Greetings

jim King · 22-03-2021, 09:33

I think in most case it's a total lack of seamanship

Nomad57 · 22-03-2021, 10:43

There are books for that. I read Boating In Canada (the book used by the Canadian Power Squadron) and Chapman Piloting and Seamanship, both available free, from my local library.

Also, I guess the gods of the sea looked after me.

Nomad

Goodall_M1 · 22-03-2021, 12:46

Are they boat fails or skipper fails?

One incident in the UK that I often refer to when trying to get new skippers to understand that they need to respect the sea is covered in a UK Marine Accident Investigation Branch report.

Taking a 25ft motor cruiser out into 20ft seas is definitely not advisable.

And certainly not when you have named your boat "Last Call".

The crew of 3 all died within minutes of leaving the harbour entrance.

May they rest in peace, knowing that they have probably saved many other sailors.

https://assets.publishing.service.go...CallReport.pdf