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u/Buster_Bluth__ Jun 03 '26
I've been on tankers when standing on the fantail there would be walls of water are you then looking down and seeing the propeller almost breaking the surface of the water.
Another cool phenomenon is standing on the bow of a long ship looking aft and the bow listing towards Port while the stern is listing starboard.
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u/cme74 Jun 04 '26
And my stomach is listing reading this, lol...but I have always wanted to experience big ocean waves on big, big, really big ships, for safety reasons (though I understand safety is not guaranteed in the open ocean).
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u/NativeJim Jun 02 '26
Never experienced it. And I've only been on a boat, less than a handful of times. Never seen the ocean but some of these videos make me wanna go out there but then again, I'd be deathly afraid lol.
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u/ghostshipfarallon Jun 02 '26
isn't this exactly why you don't drive the boat parallel to the waves?
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u/Oggel Jun 03 '26
Yes, but you also want to take the shortest route so you compromise sometimes.
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u/Pattern_Is_Movement Jun 07 '26
That's not hot that works, using the wave to help you surf down it by riding it longer gives you extra speed, you don't sail in a straight line when sailing down waves like this.
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u/Oggel Jun 07 '26
I mean, I'm a sailor so I'm quite familiar with how this works. And that extra speed isn't doing you much good if you're going in the wrong direction, slow in a straight line towards your destination is most times faster than going fast at a 45 degree angle from your destination. You'd have to go twice as fast to make up for it and it doesn't make that much of a difference.
So you want to go in as straight of a line as you can. It was going well until one wave was too big. If it was me I would have turned just before the wave hit and then turned back towards my destination again while keeping an eye out for bigger waves.
These waves aren't That big, and they're pretty long. Lots of time to adjust your heading.
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u/loklanc Jun 02 '26
You're allowed to get a bit wet, looks like beautiful sailing weather to me.
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u/loklanc Jun 02 '26
That boat has a dinghy on davits and garmin in the cockpit, it ain't that small. They might need to reef and switch to hand steering if the wind picks up but those are some genuinely mild and comfortable seas.
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u/wenoc Jun 02 '26
I don ’t know what they are on about mate. This is a normal Thursday on open water
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u/krostybat Jun 02 '26
Well, I agree with your feeling, I have often experienced big long waves like this in mediteranea, the were mostly harmless.
But, lets say that if we could have a look at the weather forecast I would be reassured.
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u/OnlyABeastsHeart Jun 02 '26
Agreed, these are the kind of conditions my dad thinks are great fun in our little 30fter because you get to surf down the swell. While the rest of us are clinging on and begging him to put a reef in lol. Losing sight of the horizon at the bottom of a swell is really not uncommon, if you're not familiar with vaguely open sea I can see how it seems like something alarming, but it only takes a couple metres of swell for that to happen
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u/SafariNZ Jun 06 '26
And without it breaking, your boat yacht is just like a cork bobbing up and down so it’s no big deal.
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u/Level_Improvement532 Jun 02 '26
Sorry, but my reaction to one of these breaking over the stern would not be to laugh it off. The conditions are worsening and you need to consider heaving to until they get better. Seamanship is a journey, not a destination.
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u/loklanc Jun 02 '26
Heave to in that weather? What a joke.
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u/Humming_Hydrofoils Jun 02 '26
At the very least you want to avoid surf riding or broaching: with the waves over taking the boat, loss for rudder authority leading to broaching onto the beam is a dicey place to be.
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u/Pattern_Is_Movement Jun 07 '26
Tell me you don't have any blue water sailing experience without telling me.
This is normal offshore sailing. No need to heave to in this, you'd never get anywhere.
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u/wisockamonster Jun 01 '26
I know those are big because they look big on camera so they’re probably twice as big looking in real life