Great effort by the whole Wave Rover Rescue team. Next week Wave Rover is back at sea in high winds and big seas as the rest of the fleet stays safely at anchor (I consider next weeks video to be one of my most exciting...just saying).

Always remember: Better be on a boat with a drink on the rocks, than be in the drink with the boat on the rocks!

@SailingWaveRover

4 ай бұрын

Well said my friend!

It was a pleasure to meet you and be part of the little rescue team. So glad we could get him off those rocks. It is always so heartbreaking to see. That's one of best parts of this cruising community. Everyone helps each other out.

@SailingWaveRover

5 ай бұрын

Great to hear from you. I suspect you are in the Caribbean by now.

Man, i Love You Guys. Cant thank you enough. "Forge ya on Adventure." Now im Embarrassed. lol She is at slip in Hampton now. I'm back in NY though I'm going to Pull up on you when the traffic die down.

@SailingWaveRover

5 ай бұрын

Great to hear from you Teray! Make you say hello somewhere down the road.

That was a relief, before watching I thought it was Wave Rover on the rocks

@SailingWaveRover

5 ай бұрын

With the grace of God, Wave Rover continues to be safe and sound.

Well done to everyone involved in the rescue. Quick thinking and controlled action plan. Hope the grounding didn’t cause too much damage.

@SailingWaveRover

5 ай бұрын

The sound of the hull grinding on the rocks is a very unpleasant sound for any sailor to hear. I checked for water ingress and there wasn't any. Before departing I advised the skipper to get a look at the bottom as soon as possible.

Good job! That is what I love about the mariner community right there. I also have a small boat and use the Danforth as my primary anchor. Maybe I need to rethink that?

@SailingWaveRover

5 ай бұрын

I think the Danforth is still a good anchor, but his was undersized for those conditions.

The sailing community is such a great crew. No mattr the skill or experience, everybody pitches in to help. Tbis sailior will take what he learned and pass it along. Sometimes sailing is very competetive, but first sign of trouble and people band together. Lesson to all. Fair winds.

@SailingWaveRover

5 ай бұрын

It was smiles everywhere!

Great to see you Alan 👍that wind is blowing enough to hear it on video!! Hope that boat is OK. It seems to be! Stay safe and take care Alan💯✌️🙏🙏

@baronsamdi1800

5 ай бұрын

Thank you, She is ok.

@SailingWaveRover

5 ай бұрын

Thanks 👍

"A little learning is a dnagerous thing..." (Good on you, Alan.)

@SailingWaveRover

5 ай бұрын

I hear you!

Well done, Canadiens ! I like the name on the rescued boat : " Escape " ! A boat, the only way to escape from our bullshitworld. I gotta remember this, just in case I build another boat. 😂

@SailingWaveRover

5 ай бұрын

A great name!

Good thing about the cruising community, always pulling together to help each other. Nice job.

@SailingWaveRover

5 ай бұрын

Absolutely! And so rewarding for both.

Kudos good to have folks help each other !

Hear, hear, skipper! Always love seeing folks casting bread upon the waters!

@SailingWaveRover

5 ай бұрын

You are a good man my friend and I know you would have been helping us had you been there.

Good day Alan. Glad it worked out. Glad the owner showed up is happy about the outcome. That he is a follower is amazing.enough. But Wildly intrepid too? I follow them as well. Their channel is a bit removed in time and space (Their last post had them on lake Erie). I look forward to see their version of this. Interview each other if you are still sharing an anchorage.

@SailingWaveRover

5 ай бұрын

They stayed long after I left the anchorage. Not sure of their whereabouts but very nice folks.

Yea Canada 🇨🇦 🍁 team… may hy adventures keep forging away from rocks !

@SailingWaveRover

5 ай бұрын

Good to hear from you my friend!

Wel done Allan for the help that you end the other person’s that helped you fore saving that boat on the rocks.

Well done and hold fast! ⛵️🇨🇦😀

Only the Canucks out there in the winter. Seems like summer to them!

@SailingWaveRover

5 ай бұрын

lol

Go Canada!!!

@SailingWaveRover

5 ай бұрын

Ironic eh?

A mast head halyard to the kedge some times works by reducing draught ❤

@SailingWaveRover

5 ай бұрын

That was going to be our next plan.

Hey Allan. Nice job on the video of our forged adventure:)

@SailingWaveRover

5 ай бұрын

Great to hear from you my friend. In the heat of the moment I didn't recall your vessels name. But I put a FB post out yesterday with a shortened version and both your names and your boat are superimposed. You guys will be featured again in a couple of weeks as WR catches up to you in Chesapeake City.

Every time you put it down , you wonder, is it going to hold, then you wonder is it going to come up? Like to be there to help.

@SailingWaveRover

5 ай бұрын

You are a proper sailor my friend.

Bravo Zulu

@SailingWaveRover

5 ай бұрын

Roger that!

Great, job!!

@SailingWaveRover

5 ай бұрын

Thank you!

Been anchored there a few times. That hidey hole is generally safe BUT do probe around before dropping a hook. There is junk and sunken steel pieces of who knows what that are concerning. Nice save, folks...

@SailingWaveRover

5 ай бұрын

Good advice.

Damn nice of you. I've received a lot of help I need to pay forward...

@SailingWaveRover

5 ай бұрын

Absolutely! And it's good for the soul!

nice save there guys

@SailingWaveRover

5 ай бұрын

Great bunch of guys.

The secondary anchor was a Danforth type, but what was the primary? An oversized anchor and lots of scope is cheap insurance!

@SailingWaveRover

5 ай бұрын

Both anchors were Danforths

There are two kinds of sailor's, the one that gone aground and those who lie and say they never went aground

@SailingWaveRover

5 ай бұрын

lol

Funny..gusting 20.....Gusts here over 100 kms!

How are you handling the snow and lousy weather. Just asking because I just came in from shoveling all the sunshine off my driveway. 😎

@SailingWaveRover

5 ай бұрын

Lol. Went for a lovely walk this morning with a wind chill of minus 19 C

@DrSurf-fx4gf

5 ай бұрын

OMG😵

Could you also have tilted the boat by attaching a rope to the mast? May have given you less draught??

@SailingWaveRover

5 ай бұрын

That was our next step

@glowingfatedie

5 ай бұрын

I don't think draft was the problem, I don't think she was stuck on the bottom. I think the dinghies couldn't pull her off because of the windage on the larger vessel. We could see the motor power they needed just to keep the dinghies themselves from blowing onto the rocks.

When pulling a vessel off...like that doesn't work, many times I've pulled SIDEWAYS on the stuck vessel's HALYARD. It heels it over...decreasing draft and almost always frees it.

@SailingWaveRover

5 ай бұрын

That was our next plan.

@schuttrostig5729

5 ай бұрын

its an option, but easy to break something in the mast top. so better to try something more material friendly first.

So, are you working on your circumnavigation at this time or are still doing seatrials?

@SailingWaveRover

5 ай бұрын

I wouldn't call these sea trails anymore. We are definitely cruising.

Yeah its nice that people are watching out for each other out there. However, have people got into trouble trying to do a good deed saving someone's boat and it turned out bad for the good intent? No one is on the boat and asking for help, in the interest of keeping the boat out of harms way, you handle it and turn into a liability for you. Has anyone have experience?

@SailingWaveRover

5 ай бұрын

Interesting thought.