Yep! Exciting to watch - and beautiful, in their own way.
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There’s a few fugly ones
Yes, there are some very ugly ones out there… you won’t be winning any races with that hull either. Still… oddly appealing from within the yacht itself. I wonder how close to shore you can park this when you just want to really annoy someone.
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It may be sold by a firm with the word ‘Yacht’ in its name, but that thing is a houseboat.
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Huh. Dad had a 29’ deep-v hull with a 350 Mercury back in the 80s. I took it out in waves a bit more vigorous than those in the video a couple of times, usually to pull in some lobster pots before the professional lobstermen beat me to them, just hit them head-on and keep your jaw clenched so you don’t crack your teeth. I always wore a PFD (Personal Flotation Device) and hooked myself up to the kill-switch on the throttle first, but otherwise found that sort of surf more fun than threatening. I’d say the biggest issue most of those examples in the video was a) not wearing a vest and b) not using enough power to keep on-plane.
That said, there’s a fine line between going out knowing what conditions are like and acting accordingly and taking friends out who may not know what to expect and who don’t have their sea legs. I’m guilty of the later, when I took a couple of friends out on a mostly calm but occasionally wavey day, one of who lost his balance and broke a canopy support, an incident my dad held against me for years. Last time I took the boat out on my own, given his reaction.
Still, when it comes to going through a region of rough water, you can either take it very, very slow so your boat can just move with the waves, or pegging the throttle and trying to keep on top of them. Looks like most of these, especially the 3-4 outboard models, just failed to choose wisely and went too fast to adjust to the waves, and too slow to keep on top of them. Of course, a lot of that depends on the natural resonance of the craft in question vs the frequency of waves, but that’s part of what being a pilot/captain entails.
Monastery Beach near Carmel is known as Mortuary Beach by the locals because there’s pretty much a death a year there. The beach slopes sharply, the surface is pea-sized gravel that is ridiculously difficult to walk on, and there’s a gigantic undertow and extremely strong riptide.
It’s absolutely beautiful, and possibly the most dangerous beach in California.
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That all looks very intimidating to me. I grew up boating on a small river, where the two main dangers were water moccasins and whatever Dow was dumping that week.
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None of the children were wearing life preservers. NONE.
In any case, there are 3 times when you are happy in life:
- When you buy a boat.
- When you sell a boat.
- When you watch a boat entering/leaving the Boca Raton inlet.
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