Horrific, we had a similar passage last year. My mouth went bone dry. I just focused on each wave at a time. Never ever again. Go ahead and call me a coward but I love my boat, and my life. Not to mention my girlfriend and our pets. Respect to you guys. Well done.

You handled that perfectly! Your speed was spot on! Stayed squared up. Well Done Captain!

Two minutes, fifty-one seconds is theeeee longest I've ever held my breath. Damn boys, gettin' her done!

The best part of your video was you at the end. That smile you had on your face and your laugh. You made me feel it. Thanks!

@CharterFishing

6 жыл бұрын

mrdave2112 that's what it's all about man!

Back in 82 to 85 while I was in the Coast Guard I was at the old CG station on the Pea Island side. The channel was always constantly changing. Had a permanent Army Corp dredge there to clear out channel.Was there for the F/V Lois Joyce. Some pretty hectic cases at that inlet.

My buddy and I just came in the OI two days ago at 5am from heavy seas after sailing from Yorktown VA thru the night on a Beneteau Evasion 32 with a 4.7 draft. It was hairy as hell. Seasoned captians at the fishermans center called us stupid straight to our faces multiple times, not "be careful doing that" or "wow, you guys are lucky"....just "you guys are stupid" and we are not little wimpy guys... my buddy goes 325 6'4 and I'm 6'1 220 and kinda mean look'in. These guys were just being sincere and apparently that's was the most appropriate way to address what we did. We really didn't get offended either. Nobody sails through the OI with a draft like that. Apparetly noone sails through the OI at all. Never again.

Cool video! Always rougher than a video shows. I would love to see the video of the return trip...Nothing scares me more than a bar crossing with a big following sea!

You did good, Captain! I’d be giggling, too!

That is crazy watching a 42' boat get tossed like that, unreal!

I'm from MD, and the Oregon Inlet is no joke, and isn't to be taken for granted...I've been on quite a few charters there, and it will make you religious real quick. This vid looks like it was on a good day. Thanks.

Damn son. Good driving. I know it's 10x rougher than it looks on the video

Strong work Skipper. Steady as she goes.

Been there, done that. Don't ever want to do it again.

Wow that's a crazy set of waves to take on!! Nice work keeping the boat head on for all them

Amazing how it smooths out like that.

Good job running that boat, no waves over the bow.Looks like they crossed a sandbar.Nasty place.

WOW! You guys have stainless steel balls!

Boat handled it nicely, smooth. Good vid.

That was awsome.. Good work guys

I live on coast in SC and been in similar conditions and it’s no joke. Video doesn’t do justice! Good video fellas!!

Great job of crossing that bar sir with skill, care and thought for the comfort and safety of your crew and the integrity of your boat. Plenty of keyboard "experts" on here as usual who clearly don't understand why standing waves occur and have clearly never bottomed their boat out in the shallows beneath them. I'd go to sea with you over them any day.

@CharterFishing

6 жыл бұрын

Danny Boy thanks. Yeah they just don't get it

@MegaBait1616

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed 💯%.... Keyboard warriors, LoL.. but true.. be well.

@bidenisatraitor7633

5 ай бұрын

I'm not a water person that would scare the shit out of me ...well done hoss

@ThomasKuhar

2 ай бұрын

What really scares me is taking on those seas on the BEAM, or worse, at NIGHT!

Looks shallow too, that's rough, steady and slow you did good.

@blackamericanoutdoorsmanll9179

4 жыл бұрын

Most spots along the way out is only 5’ - 6’! I’ve fished out of there before. They don’t call it the grave yard of Atlantic for nothing!!!

Can't Catch'um from the sofa Captain...!!! well done Sir.....* thumbs up from 1FM Lake George, NY

GREAT job. In those conditions, I don't see a 42' boat doing it any 'gentler'. Had just the right speed. Perhaps, Captain, you should tell the skeptics here that Oregon Inlet ALSO has notoriously fickle and ever-changing shoals. Which a LOT of boats.....even driven by experienced skippers........manage to 'snag' in rougher conditions. That's, perhaps the most dangerous part of Oregon Inlet. Kudos, sir. (p.s. I'm just an amateur driving a 21' Carolina Skiff. No old sea-dog tales to tell.......lol).

Wow that was an amazing video. You guys got some spray on the foredeck! OMG

Awesomeness! Well done guys

I have to swim worse than this just to check my mail every day!. Lol. I'm messing around, but this is a great video of a shitty day. Almost makes you wish you'd gone to the outlet mall with the wife! Almost...

I would have shit my pants - good job Capt. You should show some video of coming back in!

Well done. I spent a month on the Oregon coast. I don't remember a single day of calm seas. I hope the fishing is good because it's a naugctical nightmare. I've wave jumped Jetskis in several inlets and that's a sketchy one.

@jimmykipper3985

2 жыл бұрын

Oregon Inlet is in North Carolina.

Well handled, committed and controlled the boat nicely. Text book crossing rough bar.

@CharterFishing

6 жыл бұрын

Axeman thank you

great video, looks like a rough ride. i love all the people who commented how thats nothing and they been through worse but none responded to lets see the video. so many people have to one up everyone instead of just enjoying the video. STAY SAFE!!!! I was shocked that it was only 8ft to 12ft i think i saw on one of your posts. how far out till it starts getting ocean deep. i have only been out in the ocean once we went 9 miles out leaving San Diego on a whale watching boat. that was a rough ride. so i dont know anything about what you were in but it looked and sounded like u guys were taking a pretty good beating to your boat. STAY SAFE!!!!

Well done navigating those swells!

coming back in is the hard part.

Good job Capt.

That was pretty awesome

This makes my knees and spine hurt just watching it.

AWESOME video. You guys have BALLS. Damn.

Be through that inlet many of times and it's never a dull moment. That inlet is no joke, I have watched a 30 some ft boat get completely swamped as they where following us out. That place can get balls deep in a matter of seconds. This video really does not give the real feel of actually crossing that bar!! 😥😥😲😲

There's good reason its known as the Graveyard of the Atlantic.

Go get em boys. I’ve never been in rough waters like that but it looked pretty fun

@dawolyan13

3 жыл бұрын

It’s fun until it ain’t…then it’s fun again in the telling!!

Threading the needle! Nice work.

When they call for marine forecast to be around 2ft and turns out to be 25 knt and kicks it up to 4 to 6 thru the inlet, with seas following then from port rear quarter. Throttle behind a breaking swell and throttle back or have even backed down to miss the breaking wave, be blown to the beach lose sight of the channel markers in a 20 ft cc was at or past my peak of years of experience in the marine industry. Can’t imagine being in a deeper draft snaking the bottom in a trough and lose power steering or knock the shaft out the hull and sink. Beautiful day fishing can be scary 20 min getting back in

I would go out on this person's boat. It is hairy, where they are going but the guy is throttled way back, keeping steerage & bow into the waves one by one by one, watching each one for additional dangerous crests etc. They sound weirded- out ( which I would be) but they sound SOBER. Well done.

@daveinindy

6 жыл бұрын

The varied angles of the waves in the inlet were the major problem, not wave height. You see the boat get pushed a bit to the port side by one angled wave, where it meets the next wave at an angle and rolls a bit. This is the action that is so problematic at places like this.

@suleepornpromphach9839

5 жыл бұрын

I sailed this stoned on mushrooms

Got plenty of that around Tasmania 👍

Nice job!!!

I've got a couple thousand hours on the ocean. Waves always look smaller on video then they do when you are there. That looks pretty damn rough to me.

@th3smurf692

5 жыл бұрын

Freaking scary

@zakattack467

4 жыл бұрын

Considering the boat is 42'.. yea wouldn't want to try that in a 20'

@darrenhooper2207

3 жыл бұрын

Yea I live here on hatteras island or the outer banks where this video is filmed oregon inlet and hatteras inlet are the toughest inlets on east coast for sure even on calm day it's pumpin

@guaporeturns9472

3 жыл бұрын

@@darrenhooper2207 damn , that’s a 42’? Yeah that’s some large water for sure.

@dawolyan13

3 жыл бұрын

Ain’t that the truth! Video doesn’t do it justice!!

Good job. Looks like good fun :)

Couldn't imagine running over that bar...my sailboat draws 5'...ain't going there! BTW folks the camera ALWAYS shrinks the size of those waves...good job capt'n!

I know about Oregon Inlet. That stretch of water is no joke. You better be on the job running through there!

Not smart trying to punch out of that inlet when it’s breaking all the way across. You said it best “this ain’t good “. Glad you made it. Plenty have not

that's crazy! I'm glad I fish socal area that one goes to a pucker value of 11!

One badass boat, and a good captain and crew!

@CharterFishing

8 жыл бұрын

thanks

@krampp24

8 жыл бұрын

+Matador Sportfishing "oh fuck... this is not good".. I died laughing...

@krampp24

8 жыл бұрын

+Matador Sportfishing awesome video and boat tho you guys are awesome

i came here to see this inlet in action. sadly the captain from wicked tuna charlie griffin just passed away coming into this same area. be safe out there.

Fairly normal day for botany bay to head north to sydney harbour or south to port hacking, Sydney Harbour entrance with a south easterly following sea , always "fun"

Smoothed it... Nice read

That was a nice one @ 1:43

Great video IT looks really bad on video but I know from experience how much worse it is when you are in the boat !!!! AWESOME !!!!🇺🇸

That looks like fun.

many years ago we were exiting a bar at Jones Beach , piloting a Chriscraft . My Dad timed it poorly , and we took 2 huge breakers that broke on the forward deck and came over the windshield. luckily the scuppers handled the first wave pretty well. By the second wave , we were nearly swamped and barely made the 3rd wave of the set. A truly scary situation as we would have been dead in the water with subsequent waves beating the small vessel to bits. Inlets and bars are places to exercise extreme caution...

Whole crap that would’ve been nerve racking. The rise and fall between the sets was up there. The skip knew exactly what he was doing by taking it easy and pointing straight at the waves as that’s the safest way. If he went to fast it’d be a serious calculated danger and that is not water I’d want to try & stay afloat in for longer than 1 minute.

Coming back should be fun!

Nice work lads

For sure that’s a tough navigation task. Been through a few times and I am NOT a professional. Scared the crap outta me. I wouldn’t have tried it with that combo of wind/tide. Butt pucker for sure. Well done

@CharterFishing

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you.

Wow! You guys are nucking futs!!

Nice job!

Nice job on taking the rollers. My concern would be bottoming out when you hit the hole on the backside.

nice video but when o was a little kid it was the Stuart inlet in Florida bigger waves and a smaller boat keep up the good work

Doesn't seem bad to some folks here BUT when a 42 footer is tossed around like a 21 foot Boston Whaler you got some serious seas under you.

thanks guys.

The camera really makes things look ALOT easier than it is , for instance you can see someone on a mountainbike ride down a REALLY steep hill and you can hear them screaming like they re on the worlds worst roller coaster or something but when you look at the hill they re riding down it looks like its nothing at all but still you kinda understand how bad it is when you hear professional mountainbikers screaming like little girls almost . Greetings from Norway

I've been in 6ft seas in lake tahoe in my 24 ft searay. Looks very similar to what you were experiencing in 12 ft in your 42ft craft. Same cold water, same pounding, same taking a few over the bow....same shot of adrenaline! That's why we keep doing it!! Btw nice video.

@MegaBait1616

2 жыл бұрын

I've been at the helm for decades oceans, lakes and rivers.... Tahoe is a beautiful lake and been on it many times but it's nothing like the ocean.... Ya don't have tides vs the wind to deal with.... Be Well.

Nice job.

We’re going to need a bigger boat. Mayday mayday chief Brody

Been there done that . WA coast too plus it jars your backbone.

I remember when i had my first beer

I went out of new river inlet in my 20 ft sea ox cc. I say 4-6 ft breakers, It wasn't my brightest day, I was betting it flatten out or roll and that wasn't the case. Plained up stayed back side of the crest and surfed in. Quick boat trip could been my last. Glad I had experience that could been bad, loss power, submarined rolled. Who knows. Last time been out in that bs

@CharterFishing

6 жыл бұрын

Good job!

I got sick just watching....when we were kids, my folks and us would take out our boat from Morehead City out to the ocean....i would get sick every time!!!

@col2959

5 жыл бұрын

Melody Patterson can't imagine you puking melody your wayyyy to cute

It does get mighty rough out there. Imagine the challenge they'll have when they build the new Bonner Bridge.

Sorry I don't have any videos but if you think that is hairy, your dreaming, I cross coastal bars on a regular basis as skipper of a rescue vessel and believe me that's nothing, must comment on the way you approached the sets, excellent, slow and steady.

perfect handling ..... not too much power not to shot ....... the right balance ...........

Closest to this I’ve witnessed is going out of hateras and that is scary shit especially at close to low tide I saw those big ass breakers crossing the bridge

That's how you rearrange the furniture down below:)

I’ll be heading through the inlet again on August 2nd. I’ve fished the Marlin Mania this year out of Teachs Liar (Hatteras) and I will be fishing with Patrick “Little Clam” in two weeks and have fished them waters before they are no joke to get out that inlet...

Not sure why all the thumbs down. That was some scary stuff right there. My guess is a bunch of land lovers clueless about what they're seeing. 42' boost getting slapped around like that is no joke.

Was up in North Carolina two weeks back. It looked like a lake then. Smooth as could be.

@CharterFishing

2 жыл бұрын

That's the thing about North Carolina. If you don't like the weather, wait a day because it'll be completely different.

That is insane

I've run that inlet many times. It gets crazy very quickly. When too bad I shoot down to Hatteras inlet to come home.

Putting the ole Carolina flare to work!

Better check for stress cracks after this one lol

i have watched quite a few of theese videos and have to say just because somebody can do something doesnt mean they should . i have my own boat just a 22 ft with a big 4 stroke and i kind of know its limits but that doesnt mean i need to push it that far . theese guys and there boat did well ............ boats are made not to sink , and i realise bad stuff happens but i would bet most boating accidents are not from waves .

Came in the Willapa bar a few years years back on early June salmon opener on board a 50 foot crab boat and I thought we're going to flip that thing I would have my life jacket on ready to go under it was the most terrifying experience I've ever had in my life

1978 I was on the Columbia Bar with 20 ft swells. The bar was closed as the roughest day of the year while we were only half way out.

@CharterFishing

6 жыл бұрын

Venora Dobrowolski that's scary stuff.

Got a place in Nags Head, I remember the first time I took my 25' Grady white through OI. Video doesn't do this much justice.

A RecPro 650 twin 70 would be wave hopping the heck out of those seas

Good work getting out through those waves. But I should think coming back in would be more serious. Perhaps easier when the tide is slack?

I've run that inlet. it can get ugly. one of the nice things one can do is run down to hatteras inlet by intercoastal. charters usually won't because of their experience and cost of fuel. the captain did a great job. bravo.

The helmsman did a good job. A lot of people panic and put too much power or steerage into play during these situations. It was a bit of a pucker for sure, but that boat could certainly have taken on more head seas. You get really concerned when the water coming over the bow or hitting the forward windows is green, white foam is not bad. Not trying to minimize the experience, I'm sure it was an ass clencher and I would have been there tensed up like anyone else. I've spent a lot of time in the Gulf of Alaska in rough weather and I can tell you that when you film waves you can look at them later and feel like the camera shrunk them to 10% of their size, so these waves looked a lot bigger to the guys on the helm. One of the hardest things to do when at the helm during rough weather is try to keep a calm head and see the waves like the camera would.

Bet it felt a bit more uneasy than it looks on video here.. been in this situation a few times. Keep the bow up and keep plowing through:)

Hell, I was doin that when you swabbys were ridin yer big wheels! Aye!

In a social sort of way, the waves are pretty big here at home too.

@CharterFishing

6 жыл бұрын

ClayZ it's soooo metaphoric FOR LIFE! Lol.