The ketch at 12:32 was sailing beautifully, handling the conditions like a boss.

@cyrilleMDL

10 ай бұрын

1973 ketch Nautor Swan 65 and still so perfect!

@nearlythere9443

10 ай бұрын

Having sailed through the Needles Channel many times, that Ketch looked to be the only one I would be happy on in those conditions.

@tiokann

10 ай бұрын

Full agree!!!

@GI-AUS

10 ай бұрын

Aussie boat I believe. If correct, they sailed from Aus just to participate in the Fastnet, and not for the first time. Edit: no different ketch, I was thinking of 72' Kialoa II, see her here: kzread.info/dash/bejne/goKD2MlrYtfOYdo.html

@dr.buzzvonjellar8862

10 ай бұрын

Sure did, reefed and trimmed beautifully for conditions

great video thanks, some crazy conditions there, thanks for not putting on music, it's much more real with just the sound of the wind and waves - awesome!

@RodOrmston

10 ай бұрын

Thanks for the kind comments.

Great to see a bit of un-edited, un-scripted, straightforward reporting of some interesting conditions. Thank you.

It is good to have bad weather every so often. Designers and skippers need to remember that boats should be durable, not simply fast.

@daviddelucia6202

10 ай бұрын

how many of those boats the keel snaps off

@kevinhaley8625

10 ай бұрын

How right you are, fast alone won’t cut it, if a boat can’t bring her crew home safely it isn’t a safe boat to sail on

@davidfenwick2811

10 ай бұрын

​@@daviddelucia6202❤

@igorvas5097

5 ай бұрын

На лодке опасно,можно выпасть,....лучше с берега смотреть​@@kevinhaley8625

Good to see all those storm jibs getting an airing!

Thank you for not adding music.

Fantastic video!! Thanks for sticking it out for us!

Man, that was brutal! Thanks for filming / sharing!

Great footage of all the classes racing!! Thansk for posting!

Great footage! Having also spent the day at sea in similar weather (not @ Fastnet unfortunately) I came home to enjoy this!

Wow..just sitting here at a harbour waiting out a gale that is blowing through and happy not to be out there...watching this video reminds me of how much we love to sail. Every boat that competes in that race is a winner regardless of final place! Well done lads...now back to my coffee and brekky and more sailing videos! Mike 😊

Such an incredible vantage point of the Fastnet Race. Shows the extreme conditions these sailors and support teams had to endure. Thanks for sharing! ⛵

Great work - thanks for filming that!

A new. Era an a new breed of boats.❤ Thanks for takin us along.

Thanks for sharing those images! Impressive how the tide and wind changed within one hour!

Great video, thank you Horrible conditions!

amazing stuff, and footage! thanks! (and fascinating to see the huge variety of hull shapes and sizes. AND... the pretty broad range of sail area being flown. (can't believe a few boats seemed to have nearly full sail hoisted...and seemed to be performing as well as someone right next to them with nothing but stormsails).

Thanks for uploading.

Great video,many thanks for posting

Thank you for posting!

Great video ... thank you for sharing this!

Thanks for sharing. It was interesting to watch!

Looks like everyone was having a marvelous time. I love weather like this.

@seanmccuen6970

6 ай бұрын

me too, love heavy air.

Fantastic filming. Really showed the conditions at Hurst. I've been there solo and over canvased and it can be very scary.

Thanks for standing out in that to film. Interesting to compare the performance with reduced sail area. To my eye, in many cases, there was no performance deficit. Add to that the crew comfort and their race long performance; overall a gain to reduce sail.

@winstoncat6785

10 ай бұрын

Plus. Your boat doesn't break/you don't thoughtlessly endanger others having to rescue you....😮

@HumanityWillPrevail

9 ай бұрын

Could not agree more. I frequently shorten sail early on the basis that "if you think you should be putting a reef in, put a reef in" and it never seems to affect overall boat speed noticeably, but it massively improves comfort.

Thank you! Great pictures

Thanks for the video, best footage of the non exotic yachts I've seen. Very interesting to see reefed headsails on at least a couple of yachts, they were going well too.

Good footage. Thanks for the updates!

Epic footage well done braving those conditions!

Fantastic footage. Wish there were more big boats like there were last race.

Nice video! Lots of amazing boats!

Excellent footage, interesting to see how well most boats were coping. Exhilarating for the crews, but I'm glad I wasn't out there with them.

Interesting to see the variety of sail settings from full main to full genny and all variations in between.

Super Film, wer hier segelt ob erster oder ob letzter ist, ist ein könner❤

Great video !!!!❤

Fantastic, thank you.

Thanks for a great video.

Great footage. Love it.

Great camerawork thanks. Most modern yachts don’t like to be close hauled in stronger winds and choppy sea. While older designs like the shown Swan 65 an S&S design seems to be quite comfortable and great fun. Greeting’s from Copenhagen Jasper

@aldertvanweeren3474

10 ай бұрын

yes that is absolutely the cas. old style design works much better here

@seanmccuen6970

6 ай бұрын

@@aldertvanweeren3474 nope, a modern boat set up/sailed well will easily distance an equivalent length older boat every time.

Thanks , Great shots

great! I was hoping for this footage again this year

Ahhh the Fastnet. Nice vid. Thanks

It's on my list to sail that race one day. Hats off to all that have.

Rod, what a beautiful film.

Brutal conditions out there hope they stay safe!

Thank you😊

thank you !

wow, it looks even tougher than the 2021 edition. RORC should definitely extend their live coverage to include the bulk of the fleet passing Hurst Castle

Fantastic footage ! An external look at what I experienced and saw from the deck at 15:30 s/y Fujimo ab POL14833. Thank You very much for this excellent souvenir :)

@RodOrmston

10 ай бұрын

Thank you for the kind comments.

Nice footage. Thanks for sharing the shredding

Nice footage!! That Solent 🕺💃🔥!! Thanks a lot (Remember leaving Portsmouth to France in pretty same conditions)

Outstanding! We must've been sat next to you. Needed a hot bath after an afternoon's thrilling spectating.

Great video !!!! Thank You. 👍 Not easy at all .. for all of them even with the storm sail ahh

Interesting to see how some of the boats with less sail out are doing better.

Lovely conditions 💯

Great video, shows that those who had set up their boats for the conditions could manage OK. Good call by Race Committee to start on time. It is an Ocean Race.

Thank you

OMG. What absolutely miserable conditions for a race start. Good luck to them all. Tough race ahead.

That's wonderful coverage ...I will watch this again and again...natures power posing some important decisions being made in multiple areas.....

Love the crew waving on GBR 4147L, thanks for sharing.

Thanks for the footage 3 reefs and a storm jib untill the sunrise !

I love this weather..

Really enjoyable to watch. That big ketch was lapping it up.

Awesome❤

Nice job!

great pics

Great footage, jeez nasty conditions

12:29 , that two master looked stable and smooth compared to all the other boats dancing around.

@dr.buzzvonjellar8862

10 ай бұрын

Sure did, reefed and trimmed beautifully for conditions

@ricdanger2

10 ай бұрын

absolutely setup and sailed to perfection. That's Sydney yacht "Eve" a Swan 65.

@robbristow

10 ай бұрын

I think it is the Maxi, Kailoa II - according to planetsail

@mddah01

10 ай бұрын

Its wonderful - you can almost hear the clink of fine china and the pop of a bottle or two being opened below deck

@user-wz2qe2pv6r

7 ай бұрын

Yep heavy long keel displacement....Easy to forget 60 years ago thats how they all looked and sailed....beautiful easy motion...a real sail boat.

looking Lively out there matey!!

What an incredible event! This looks like a life changing event. Love it! (And thanks for the great footage.)

Nice conditions 👍🇬🇧

Шикарное видео! Жаль что нет борьбы на знаке.. Спасибо оператору!

Wow. Many of these boats have way too much jib out for the conditions.

Chanan Dror 17:37 (1 minute ago) Excellent video, thanks to the brave photographer. Also for the great sailors

@RodOrmston

10 ай бұрын

Thanks for the kind comment!

Nice to see the storm jibs being used.

Cool to see Imp there.

Buenísimo.

Great video, I can imagine what it was like and I wouldn't want to be there ..

Looks like fun.

Big respect to these skippers - really tough conditions with such strong wind against the tide

Felt for Medallia, OCS at start so 2hr penalty and then the foresail unrolled causing more delays.

Great footage! Please do an extended version😃

@RodOrmston

10 ай бұрын

I'll see how many un-used clips I have - and indeed all the ones used were trimmed fairly short. Will see what it looks like...

A lovely British summer.

that is how i love to sail!!!! please take care of the sailors and of the boats

Ahoy there from Australia.

Pretty rough - but I’d love to be out there with them.

Wow looks like it was really blowin’! What do you reckon the wind speed was? Any capsizes?

@General_Crock

10 ай бұрын

Title says gusting to Force 9 😶, which is 75 - 88km/h or 41 - 47 knots. Gear-breaker stuff.

2023-1925 = 98 years ago. My guess is there have been a few years when no race was held. Fascinating to see the variety of boats participating.

@RodOrmston

10 ай бұрын

Yes, it was annual until 1931 and then became bi-annual, but then missed the war years.

Damn, brutal conditions.

awesome

Great conditions.

Some good (cross that out - excellent) video work especially of the smaller boats having to tough it out. Gnarly hardly describes it.

@RodOrmston

10 ай бұрын

Many Thanks for the kind comment.

Good Lord, is that the legendary IMP at 16:42???

Brutal.

Very lively indeed!

Great footage, makes sailing look good. Was nuking it through at that point.

That looked like a rough start for some of the smaller boats! Good luck to all the crews! Is this the In-North East Shingles buoy @9:23?

@RodOrmston

10 ай бұрын

Yes, that's the one!

@thearchibaldtuttle

10 ай бұрын

@@RodOrmston Damn! Have seen this in much calmer conditions!

Nice footage. Definitely a bit bouncy at Hurst. Not the time to be putting the kettle on for a quick brew.

Beautiful. How fast does the tide run out here? The running monohull at 17:00 doesn't seem to make any speed over ground at all.

@RodOrmston

9 ай бұрын

On springs, the west-going tide can be as much as 4.5 knots.

Brutal