- Quick Menu
-
|
07-11-2008
|
 |
Member
|
|
Join Date: May 2007
Posts: 84
Rep Power: 6
|
|
|
Video Found from Shipwreck
This is amazing footage of a guy trapped in his 14 foot boat.
Video Found From Shipwreck*Video
After doing some research, he made it ok and was reunited with the boat.
|
07-11-2008
|
 |
Cruiser/Lats and Atts TV
|
|
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Friday Harbor, WA
Posts: 372
Rep Power: 10
|
|
|
WOW... Very glad to know he made it.
__________________
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
"Always approach the dock at the speed you wish to hit it."
s/v VENUS
1978 North Sea 33 Pilothouse Cutter (Ta Chiao)
|
07-11-2008
|
 |
Telstar 28
|
|
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: New England
Posts: 43,315
Rep Power: 11
|
|
|
Dom Mee, the guy featured in this video, is the idiot who decided it was a bright idea to try and cross the North Atlantic in a KITE-POWERED 14' boat during hurricane season and got the living snot beaten out of him and his boat by the remnants of FIVE DIFFERENT HURRICANES: Katrina, Maria, Natal, Ophelia & Rita. Got rescued by the Canadian Coast Guard IIRC.
__________________
Sailingdog
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
Telstar 28
New England
You know what the first rule of sailing is? ...Love. You can learn all the math in the 'verse, but you take
a boat to the sea you don't love, she'll shake you off just as sure as the turning of the worlds. Love keeps
her going when she oughta fall down, tells you she's hurting 'fore she keens. Makes her a home.
—Cpt. Mal Reynolds, Serenity (edited)
If you're new to the Sailnet Forums... please read this To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts..
Still—DON'T READ THAT POST AGAIN.
Last edited by sailingdog; 07-11-2008 at 03:45 PM.
|
07-11-2008
|
 |
Best Looking Moderator
|
|
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: SW Florida
Posts: 8,447
Rep Power: 8
|
|
|
Ok, I am not doubting his video. I saw the swells outside. But when I have been in storms and recorded them, including Gabrielle, my boat is a freaking disaster. In our two worst storms, we have had stuff flying all over the place including the tv which decided it wanted to abandom ship about 300 am and 120 km offshore. Can't say that I blamed it, really. But I reassured it that it could not swim and lashed it down. We would roll from rail to rail, depending on the swells and EVERYTHING hanging was swinging madly in circles. Stuff that you think there is no way it is going airborne goes airborne and you are slipping on all kinds of crap down below.
I know I have promised you guys some of my video from Gabrielle. I will see what I can dig up. But you cannot even hear the talk hardly because the wind is HOWLING and the rigging is howling. It litterally vibrates down below.
I just did not see that in his video. Not discounting it... just making an observation. Probably means I am a crappier sailor!!!! I will admit it!!
Maybe all storms are a little different.
I would be interested in other sailors opinions on what they have witnessed offshore in a storm. Is it more like his video, or more like my description???
- CD
__________________
Sailnet Adminstrator & Moderator
Catalina 400 Technical Editor
Catalina 400, HN#289
Com-Pac 16
Are you trying to talk your spouse or family into cruising or sailing? Want to know what it is like, every day? Click here and enjoy:
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
|
07-11-2008
|
|
Junior Member
|
|
Join Date: Jun 2000
Posts: 21
Rep Power: 0
|
|
|
If you aren't doubting his video, I am. Whatever is hanging from the hatch above and behind him is hardly oscillating. I'd say that during the time that portion was shot, it was fairly calm. The swells outside are large, but they don't look like the fifty-footers reported at the time. And finally, reading Dom Mees' own account of that incident, he goes into fair detail about what he did but never mentions shooting a video. The video isn't consistent with his description of getting rolled every ten minutes. From the way he describes the violence of the interior of his life boat, I doubt he could have stayed in frame the way he did in the video. I have no doubt that he experienced an horrendous, life-threatening storm, I just don't think this video is a recording of it.
|
07-11-2008
|
|
Senior Member
|
|
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Melbourne, Florida
Posts: 418
Rep Power: 5
|
|
Geez, crossing the N. Atlantic in a 14' boat sounds more like a stunt than an adventure. And kite driven to boot? He should have wrapped himself up in a red cape and jumped the fence into a heard of horny bulls. Same results ......Ya mess with the BULL, ya get the HORN! 
|
07-11-2008
|
 |
Senior Member
|
|
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: San Diego
Posts: 4,087
Rep Power: 7
|
|
|
I got the impression the video was after the height of the storm, the skys looked pretty good, as though the storm had passed and he was dealing with a batterd boat in high seas
__________________
1978 Tayana 37
Freedom comes when you’re ready to sail away. True freedom comes when you don’t have to return
Cut off from the land that bore us, betrayed by the land we find, where the brightest have gone before us and the dullest remain behind, .......but stand to your glasses, steady,.......tis all we have left to prize, raise a cup to the dead already, hurrah for the next that dies
|
07-11-2008
|
|
Telstar 28
|
|
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: New England
Posts: 43,315
Rep Power: 11
|
|
How badly battered could the boat be, considering that the boat managed to float all the way to Ireland. 
__________________
Sailingdog
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
Telstar 28
New England
You know what the first rule of sailing is? ...Love. You can learn all the math in the 'verse, but you take
a boat to the sea you don't love, she'll shake you off just as sure as the turning of the worlds. Love keeps
her going when she oughta fall down, tells you she's hurting 'fore she keens. Makes her a home.
—Cpt. Mal Reynolds, Serenity (edited)
If you're new to the Sailnet Forums... please read this To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts..
Still—DON'T READ THAT POST AGAIN.
|
07-12-2008
|
|
Owner, Green Bay Packers
|
|
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: SW Michigan
Posts: 10,322
Rep Power: 9
|
|
|
Force 6 wind and a confused sea. Most of what I saw showed a decent swell running, probably 10-15'. All in all, a fairly normal day in the North Atlantic for any time of year.
The video appears to me to possibly have been shot after a storm and just as the next one was coming in. That's the kindest explanation of it I can see.
CD's description is probably more accurate. And I'd add, if you're not prepared to deal with the conditions seen in the video you'd be well advised to not go offshore. I would describe them as hardly remarkable.
__________________
“Scientists are people who build the Brooklyn Bridge and then buy it.”
Wm. F. Buckley, Jr.
|
07-12-2008
|
|
Senior Member
|
|
Join Date: Sep 2006
Posts: 2,112
Rep Power: 6
|
|
|
He has under-estimated the forces he has taken on in such a small ship.
It must be a very lonely place indeed.
The sea that is running is not giant, and a heavier boat coud run before it with a storm sail.
I think his spirit has broken and he wants out.
|
|
Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests)
|
|
|
| Thread Tools |
Search this Thread |
|
|
|
Posting Rules
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
HTML code is On
|
|
|
All times are GMT -4. The time now is 05:10 PM.
|
Connect with Facebook
