- Messages
- 13,377
- Reaction score
- 13,500
- Points
- 857
- Location
- Royal, AR
- Boat Make
- Yamaha
- Year
- 2007
- Boat Model
- SX
- Boat Length
- 23
True...our boats won't sink within 48 hours....but that doesn't mean it won't fill with water completely and in wavy situations allow waves to wash your stuff out of it...including those not holding on. A self bailing deck isn't going to do a thing once your engine is swamped. But those who plan to do this for the first time would be well advised to watch videos of some of the serious sub-moves people have done, and how keeping forward momentum can clear water from your boat-and why keeping your deck drain clear is important.
The 212 with the tall flag in these pictures has taken on water up to knee level, has engines that are full of water, the bilge pump that is circulating water inside the boat instead of pumping it out and most of the cargo has made it into the ocean. Despite this situation she still has quite a bit of freeboard remaining and together in the boat is a much safer place for the crew to be than in the ocean. I would only ever abandon our boat unless there was an immediate plan for transfer to another vessel and would rope the crew together at that point.
These clips are from @robert843's footage of the first crossing attempt in 2015.
Robert do you happen to have similar footage from the second attempt? It looks so much more dramatic from your elevation. If @DieselCamel had had a camera attached to his head all we would see is clouds (sorry I had to).