Thanks for this mate, Peter Blake was always one of my heroes. (I am a New Zealander)

I remember these great times with sailing and Peter Blake what a fantastic sailor with the beautiful yachts Steinlager 1 & 2

Wow, brings back crazy beautiful old memories... I joined Big Red soon after, in Rotterdam, and 3 year later we had so similar situation, 65kts gust in Dover Straight and

It's incredible to find this video on youtube.... Just to explain the situation: during the night on the english channel we where sailing only with a #4 on 45knt of wind from stern. After a while the waves started to be higer and the wind made the same up to 55-60 knts. Was impossible to avoid to jibe and even if the runners where tided we where not so happy about it ( the masts are the same from 1990..)

A walk in the park!! Fun video thanks!...good job to the cameraman.

These yachts could really motor in the right conditions. During the Whitbread, when Steinlager and Fisher & Paykell were having their own private race around the world in the main event, the clip that I most remember was taken on board F&P on the Fremantle/Auckland leg. They were 800 miles out in the Great Australian Bight, heading for Auckland at 29 knots, because that's what the readout in front of the helmsman said and then the camera panned around to look astern and there, fifty feet behind them was Steinlager surfing down their wake. A brief look in this video: kzread.info/dash/bejne/dZl6m897e7fVdbg.html Start at 30 seconds.

Any way, was a long night and....everybody who had similar experiences can understand what is the feeling you get once you see again the light of the new day. We where so tired but after few ours of wind an waves in the dark, we relaxed a lot. I'm sorry for my "click on stanchion", but believe me, the situation was veeeeery steady at that moment when we took the video....

Not "...bad weather" This is bloody excellent weather! Although I do question the helmsman's wisdom of attaching himself to one of the weakest points on the deck!

Awesome adventure lucky to be you!

Great footage, good job guys. Very controlled, obviously a boat and the skills to suit the conditions.

Beautiful images, nice boat, so jealous

Would love to be on this beautful Sailboat. Enjoy!

Wat een lekker grote koffiemolens staan op dat schip zeg! :-)

Awesome vid, thanks for sharing

The 80s were great years if you were part of the sailing fraternity because everyone seemed to be interested with even yachting drama on TV called Howards Way and not to be missed showing the wonderful parts on the river Hamble and South Coast

Reminds me of running up the Waiarapa coast in 50Kts + , Not bad in the afternoon but a bit hairy as the night fell in a 40ft, 60 year old double ender Gaff rigged cutter , Handled it like a dream ( Full Keel ). Miss Blakey , Good man . I wonder what he would have made of the crazy BS going on today .

It blows hard but the boat and the crew can weather it Good job.

Cool footage! 🏆

⚓️ Thanks seppiale 😎 IOR led mine from the olden days…. Before UHMWPE… May have had some aramid fiber rigging. Halyards were wire to rope. One of those jibs weighed 60 K ills. 🎸

No problem! Thanks for a video

Cameras flatten waves, fact.This could easily be 55kts. Wave size is incredibly variable, and a Northerly or Southerly in the Channel doesn't always kick up a big sea due to the lack of fetch. I was in the North sea with 45kts and, judging by the movement of S2, we had similar wave patterns.

Thats a fair lick, fabulous.

grande andrea!!! allora hai visto che sorpresina....momenti indelebili ciao a presto alessio

Great video. Were you sailing with storm jib up, or bare poles?

That wave at 1:54 was plenty big

I crossed the channel in such conditions in a 24' trident triple keel, the crossing too 31 hours!!!!!!!!!! We were blown hither and thither and only made Cherbourg when the wind died. The little trident was as good as gold, we never felt unsafe but warm and comfortable .......Noooo!

heaven has a great sailor-Sir Peter Blake

Cameras always make it seem more calm. Those waves were only 5cm on my phone screen.... Nice thing was it was from well astern. We spent a few days in 35kts to a peak of 48 kts in the Coral Sea. That was just forward of the beam, and pretty wet on board.

@frankmiller95

Жыл бұрын

Don't you mean "less rough?"

That is 11 Bf+, geezus. 9Bf get uncomfortable but 11 is crazy

Your boat looks so stable. You make the weather conditions look effortless. Just as well your not sailing west ( just a guess) … lol

And when the helmsmen went below he enjoyed the best fucking cup of tea he ever tasted in his life!

That looks exhilarating.

A shallow, steep sea. Good job you are running before it.

Great video, just wandering how big was the swell?

Sailorboy, remember this is the english channel and therefore the fetch can potentially be quite short. Therefore the waves might not be as big as you might expect.

The sea state looks exactly like 55kts of wind to me!

Was that 55knots at deck level or masthead. I was caught out in 55knots and waves were breaking over the boat and slamming me into the cockpit. Had no sail up and drogues deployed still surfing down waves!! Mother Nature in all her glory

It was at this moment that they realized the flying car and the submarine are on the same technological wish list.

fuckin awesome it has returned home to new zealand and is now doing charters in auckland pity we wont be allowed to take it out in 55 knots cant wait to go on a trip

Nice video! However, I wonder why they took off mizzen. Mizzen provides much stability to the yawl boat type. Especially in heavy weather, then main sail is on riffs.

I agree. I would never "click on" to a stanchion. However, I do not know the boat and they might have felt secure in that. A jackline would have been prudent.

Is it really safe to pick the lifeline to the railing? I am a beginner and those are professional sailors, but I was always told otherwise.

@frankmiller95

2 жыл бұрын

Probably not, but it's done all the time.

very good

How big are these waves?

@ryder6070

2 жыл бұрын

substantial

Sir Peter Blake

It took a lot of work and energy to reduce to the stormjib, and even if we where 9 on crew, was not so easy to control the boat at wind with a 50 hp engine and even more to get off the jib with a tuffluff on 60 knts and waves of...i don't know but they where big!

sir peter blake rip

Should have at the very least taken one minute to pan that camera 360 degrees.

@seppiale

9 жыл бұрын

Hi bubbly there is video 2 front panoramic....

You really shouldn't clip your tether onto the lifeline.

@vincent7520

6 жыл бұрын

excellent remark ! … but then again : it's done !… cheers !

@bigkiwial

6 жыл бұрын

Cyrus MrT comment only about 25 years too late.

Can't believe the helm clipped on to the lower lifeline (opening segment of vid)! If he were thrown overboard...bye bye.

wow

So man darf schnell reisen.

Nice boat 😊⛵

Too bad the cameraman didnt know that the camera also worked when pointed forward or up.

Survival sailing I call it.

Where's Shag?

The Southern Ocean's got nothing on the English Channel!

I guess you sail in 55 knots all the time to state this . Sorry mate this is 55 knots and any sailor will tell you the camera dosent pick up how truly shitty it is out there .

vague de bonhomme

What an incredibly stupid place to fasten your safety harness to.

@GJ0KYZ

8 жыл бұрын

+chris lacock Agreed. Clip into a proper secured eye bolt in the cockpit.

Guard rail is not the safest to be tethered to

8 m waves

Too bad we couldn't see what sails were up, not much I guess.

Give me any kind of commercial fishing boat and I’d be all good… but on a sailboat? NO F}*#KING WAY!!!!!!!!!

This got me thinking of the poor people trying to cross from France to the UK in a 4m inflatable. Just shows how desperate they must be to get to safety 🙄

@songsmith31a

2 жыл бұрын

Sailors take calculated risks and know (or should know) their business. As for "safety" - that's a calculated assessment but only a fool sets off FROM safety across one of the busiest and more hazardous waterways in the world.

@richardgiles2484

2 жыл бұрын

@@songsmith31a you are obviously very lucky to have never been a position that you have had to take a risk and been able to do a risk assessment. I've sailed for over 30years and 20years with the UK RNLI and take it from me sometimes you you just have to go for it. All I was trying to point out is how desperate people can be to cross the English channel in a 4m rib and probably with no training 🙄

@songsmith31a

2 жыл бұрын

@@richardgiles2484 With the Met. Police from 1960-1992, I know something about risk assessment. I also know about people's personal attitudes towards achieving what they seek beyond the requirements of the law and putting yourself and those who depend on you in harm's way FROM a safe place to a preferred place in this way is hardly a logical or commendable type of behaviour IMHO.

Easy to do in a 60 foot boat.

Full movie about Sir Peter Blake available: vimeo.com/ondemand/blakey More sailing documentaries: vimeo.com/jachtfilm

For me that is never 55 kn. The waves are not like 55 knt. I guess 34 knt.

just work

The English channel and the Bristol channel is terrible waters to always respect the sea though

Get your life line off of the stantion

Doesn't look like 55kt wind to me. Just a stiff breeze for what appears to be a good size vessel.

@bigkiwial

6 жыл бұрын

F.J. H. Another fucking keybord expert.

Fail, sailorboy

Clipping onto the Lifelines is a No No. No sea spray off the tops of the waves ... that's Not 55 knots. Hate how the wealthy think its great sailing a Mega Yacht with lots of crew. LOA 83.5 ft. Disp. 77000 lbs.

Beufort Scale 10 (48-55 Knots) is described as: Very high waves (29-41 ft) with overhanging crests, sea white with densely blown foam, heavy rolling, lowered visibility. The conditions descibed in this video don't even come close. At best a near Gale (28-33 knots).

@vincent7520

6 жыл бұрын

The most keyboard sailor moment I ever read !… 1) It is already very difficult to assess the size of a wave when directly experiencing it aboard, it is absolutely impossible to do so on a video. 2) Beaufort scale is a measure based on estimates for a forecast : it aggregates different informations so that each sailor can guess what the weather will be. These infos are wind speed, height of waves, how they behave, crest formation, spume, animals behavior such as insects (flies, up to force 2 or 3… sea birds, etc…) and so on. The lack of one of these informations do not mean that the strength of the wind is lesser than described in the video : conversely the lack of seagulls here does not mean they are experiencing a hurricane !… Watch images from hurricane Irma : the horrendous state of the sea does not tell you the wind is 350 km/h which tops the wind speed way over force 14 !… 3) Moreover this has been taken in the Channel and it seems that this is a same wind and current direction situation. Had it been in a wind against current situation they would certainly have had steeper waves and our keyboard sailor would have said the boat was in a hurricane well above force 10 !!!… 4) Then again, where in the Channel : the Raz Blanchard, Bishop Rock, Dover Straits and the Needles offer different situations with the same wind… All in all : supernovae should get out, read less and sail more often in all type of boats … then he can talk. However, by then he will know well enough to remain solent, admire the shots, and know this crew went through hard weather : that's what really counts…

@Starmania_FR

6 жыл бұрын

+supernova60609 You sailor just with keyboard

@bigkiwial

6 жыл бұрын

vincent7520 top comment, good job!!👍

@williamevans8377

6 жыл бұрын

way to go on the callout

@williamevans8377

6 жыл бұрын

25 footers at most

Fixing the lifebelt on the railing? You are kidding...🫣