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"Gordon" wrote http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxvP3DWi7_k This is a good one This is a one of the best examples of shallow water roll over dynamics that I've seen and is similar to what Ken Barnes was describing in the clips I saw. There are some differences however. This incident happened in shallow water where the waves are feeling the bottom so that the lower part is being slowed down while the breaking crest continues at higher speed. If you look closely, you can see the impulse and snap as the keel, entrained in the slower moving water, trips the boat as tons of impact push on the topsides. If the boat had been end on, lower resistance of the keel, greater longitudinal stability, and less topside area to be acted on might have let the boat remain upright and only be swept. There still would have been tremendous force on the companionway. It looks as though it was open and the boat probably would have taken on a lot more water if pooped. She probably would have kept her rig though which would have been important if far from rescue. Easier to bail than re-rig. It doesn't appear as if the wave was the 20 feet quoted. Looking at the size of the crest and the boat makes it hard to believe how any boat could survive tthe open ocean. However, waves break differently in deep water. Without the bottom effect, there is less difference in velocity between top and bottom. Waves combine until too high and steep to retain their shape. Aided by the wind, the tops collapse. There still can be huge forces but they are more vertical. This means that the wave crest has to be larger, large enough for the weight of water above the boat to develope sufficient force or for the boat to fall off the face. The probability of capsize is orders of magnitude less or no one would be sailing deepwater in small boats. What this vidio illustrates beautifully is the extreme danger posed by waves that are feeling the bottom. Anytime there is a big sea running and you are in water less than twice the depth of the average wave height, this could easily happen to you. Attempting to seek shelter through channels bounded by shallow water while tired and scared is a perfect set up for this kind of accident. Whether in shallow water or deep, the vessel faces the same dilemma. Staying end on to the seas reduces capsize risk. Speed may allow the boat to surf ahead of the crest or maneuver to avoid the worst part. Both however, increase the risk of plunging the bow into the back of the wave ahead where the surface water is moving in the reverse direction. The forward moving water of the following wave surface can be fast enough to momentarily slow flow over the rudder enough to eliminate steering effectiveness. Broaching into the trough of a wave in front of a collapsing crest is av good set up for a roll over. A smaller boat may do better in a some waves because it is too slow and short for the bow to reach the trough before the wave passes. However, the smaller boat will experience the same dangerous dynamics in smaller waves that it is more likely to encounter. Statistics and probability factor into all of this in a major way. For every set of wave conditions and even for each individual wave, there is an optimum speed and course. Survival is maximized by having fresh, alert, and skilled helmsmen that can constantly adjust. Fatigue eventually forces the single hander or small crew to simply let the boat sail itself or, in extreme conditions, lie a hull. It's then like sleeping in the middle of a shipping lane. You may get run over and you may not. From what I can descern of Ken Barnes' experience, it may not have been sufficient to have maximized his chances of having just the right sail plan, speed, and attitude for the conditions. This doesn't mean that the accident happend because he wasn't up to the task. He could have been the most experienced roaring 40's sailor on the planet at optimum speed and still been hit by a wave running just enough differently from the rest to catch the boat wrong. Someone could also do just about everything wrong and still luck out. Ultimately, this is high stakes gambling. You can do a lot to improve your odds but there are no guarantees on the outcome. Nothing reveals the ignorance and lack of sea sense of armchair coastal putterers more than the posts that Barnes must have been a poor sailor simply because he lost his boat in the great southern ocean. There are few simple and sweeping statements you can make about the sea. About the closest is this, if you get your sailboat into conditions where large waves are breaking due to bottom effect you are in deep, deep ****, man. |
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Roger ,,, on and on you go. Always the same theme. You know everything
and anybody who disagrees is not a sailor but a "putterer". "Nothing reveals the ignorance and lack of sea sense of armchair coastal putterers more than the posts that Barnes must have been a poor sailor simply because he lost his boat in the great southern ocean. There are few simple and sweeping statements you can make about the sea. About the closest is this, if you get your sailboat into conditions where large waves are breaking due to bottom effect you are in deep, deep ****, man. " Why don't you for once just admit you don't have any idea what happened to Ken Barnes and his boat. What we do know is this: he set out to sail around the world. He was in a very well constructed boat. Somehow, his well constructed boat got damaged, it did not sink. Mr Barnes decided to leave his well constructed boat and the boat is now sunk. These are the facts. Calling people "putterers" because they might have a different opinion from yours, cheapens the value of your conjecture. I fancy the word putterer. In fact, I like it. Until I am able to sail off for 6 months at a stretch, and experience all that the ocean has to offer on a small sailboat; being a putterer is fine with me. Captain "Putterer" .. and proud of it. "Roger Long" wrote in message ... "Gordon" wrote http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxvP3DWi7_k This is a good one This is a one of the best examples of shallow water roll over dynamics that I've seen and is similar to what Ken Barnes was describing in the clips I saw. There are some differences however. This incident happened in shallow water where the waves are feeling the bottom so that the lower part is being slowed down while the breaking crest continues at higher speed. If you look closely, you can see the impulse and snap as the keel, entrained in the slower moving water, trips the boat as tons of impact push on the topsides. If the boat had been end on, lower resistance of the keel, greater longitudinal stability, and less topside area to be acted on might have let the boat remain upright and only be swept. There still would have been tremendous force on the companionway. It looks as though it was open and the boat probably would have taken on a lot more water if pooped. She probably would have kept her rig though which would have been important if far from rescue. Easier to bail than re-rig. It doesn't appear as if the wave was the 20 feet quoted. Looking at the size of the crest and the boat makes it hard to believe how any boat could survive tthe open ocean. However, waves break differently in deep water. Without the bottom effect, there is less difference in velocity between top and bottom. Waves combine until too high and steep to retain their shape. Aided by the wind, the tops collapse. There still can be huge forces but they are more vertical. This means that the wave crest has to be larger, large enough for the weight of water above the boat to develope sufficient force or for the boat to fall off the face. The probability of capsize is orders of magnitude less or no one would be sailing deepwater in small boats. What this vidio illustrates beautifully is the extreme danger posed by waves that are feeling the bottom. Anytime there is a big sea running and you are in water less than twice the depth of the average wave height, this could easily happen to you. Attempting to seek shelter through channels bounded by shallow water while tired and scared is a perfect set up for this kind of accident. Whether in shallow water or deep, the vessel faces the same dilemma. Staying end on to the seas reduces capsize risk. Speed may allow the boat to surf ahead of the crest or maneuver to avoid the worst part. Both however, increase the risk of plunging the bow into the back of the wave ahead where the surface water is moving in the reverse direction. The forward moving water of the following wave surface can be fast enough to momentarily slow flow over the rudder enough to eliminate steering effectiveness. Broaching into the trough of a wave in front of a collapsing crest is av good set up for a roll over. A smaller boat may do better in a some waves because it is too slow and short for the bow to reach the trough before the wave passes. However, the smaller boat will experience the same dangerous dynamics in smaller waves that it is more likely to encounter. Statistics and probability factor into all of this in a major way. For every set of wave conditions and even for each individual wave, there is an optimum speed and course. Survival is maximized by having fresh, alert, and skilled helmsmen that can constantly adjust. Fatigue eventually forces the single hander or small crew to simply let the boat sail itself or, in extreme conditions, lie a hull. It's then like sleeping in the middle of a shipping lane. You may get run over and you may not. From what I can descern of Ken Barnes' experience, it may not have been sufficient to have maximized his chances of having just the right sail plan, speed, and attitude for the conditions. This doesn't mean that the accident happend because he wasn't up to the task. He could have been the most experienced roaring 40's sailor on the planet at optimum speed and still been hit by a wave running just enough differently from the rest to catch the boat wrong. Someone could also do just about everything wrong and still luck out. Ultimately, this is high stakes gambling. You can do a lot to improve your odds but there are no guarantees on the outcome. Nothing reveals the ignorance and lack of sea sense of armchair coastal putterers more than the posts that Barnes must have been a poor sailor simply because he lost his boat in the great southern ocean. There are few simple and sweeping statements you can make about the sea. About the closest is this, if you get your sailboat into conditions where large waves are breaking due to bottom effect you are in deep, deep ****, man. |
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Is this the best you can offer?
==================== "Charlie Morgan" wrote in message ... On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 15:54:45 GMT, "NE Sailboat" wrote: Roger ,,, on and on you go. Always the same theme. You know everything and anybody who disagrees is not a sailor but a "putterer". "Nothing reveals the ignorance and lack of sea sense of armchair coastal putterers more than the posts that Barnes must have been a poor sailor simply because he lost his boat in the great southern ocean. There are few simple and sweeping statements you can make about the sea. About the closest is this, if you get your sailboat into conditions where large waves are breaking due to bottom effect you are in deep, deep ****, man. " Why don't you for once just admit you don't have any idea what happened to Ken Barnes and his boat. What we do know is this: he set out to sail around the world. He was in a very well constructed boat. Somehow, his well constructed boat got damaged, it did not sink. Mr Barnes decided to leave his well constructed boat and the boat is now sunk. These are the facts. Calling people "putterers" because they might have a different opinion from yours, cheapens the value of your conjecture. I fancy the word putterer. In fact, I like it. Until I am able to sail off for 6 months at a stretch, and experience all that the ocean has to offer on a small sailboat; being a putterer is fine with me. Captain "Putterer" .. and proud of it. I think "Captain Putz" suits you better. CWM |
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"NE Sailboat" wrote in
news:95tph.8464$312.5602@trndny02: Roger ,,, on and on you go. Always the same theme. You know everything and anybody who disagrees is not a sailor but a "putterer". I'm just glad that you so quickly connected this description with yourself. -- Geoff |
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NE Sailboat wrote:
Why don't you for once just admit you don't have any idea what happened to Ken Barnes and his boat. With pleasure. I'd don't know for sure what happened to his boat despite figuring out what happened to boats and ships being one of my professional functions. I do know, via the Internet clips, what Ken Barnes says happens to his boat. It is similar enough to what has happened to many previous vessels and what is probably the primary hazard in deep water cruising that is is worth discussing and thinking about. Having studied quite a few marine casualty accounts and attempted to correlate them with other facts over the years it wouldn't surprise me a bit if Ken Barnes doesn't even know what happened to his boat but only thinks he does. I'm not aware of any statement of mine that would make disagreeing with me in any way relative to the question of being a "putterer". People who disagee with me are my most valuable and respected professional resource in things like my Titanic research. Puttering about in boats is a perfectly respectable activity and probably a lot saner and, I believe ultimately more rewarding, than making deep water voyages for their own sake and seeing nothing but waves for weeks on end. It's just making judgements about the ability of someone engaged in the later from the putterer's perspective that I find a bit grating. It's sort of like hearing an avid hiker of the New England woods (itself a perfectly respectable activity) proclaim that someone who fell far up on the slopes of Mt. Everest must have been clumsy. -- Roger Long |
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Roger Long wrote: NE Sailboat wrote: Why don't you for once just admit you don't have any idea what happened to Ken Barnes and his boat. With pleasure. I'd don't know for sure what happened to his boat despite figuring out what happened to boats and ships being one of my professional functions. I do know, via the Internet clips, what Ken Barnes says happens to his boat. It is similar enough to what has happened to many previous vessels and what is probably the primary hazard in deep water cruising that is is worth discussing and thinking about. Having studied quite a few marine casualty accounts and attempted to correlate them with other facts over the years it wouldn't surprise me a bit if Ken Barnes doesn't even know what happened to his boat but only thinks he does. I'm not aware of any statement of mine that would make disagreeing with me in any way relative to the question of being a "putterer". People who disagee with me are my most valuable and respected professional resource in things like my Titanic research. Puttering about in boats is a perfectly respectable activity and probably a lot saner and, I believe ultimately more rewarding, than making deep water voyages for their own sake and seeing nothing but waves for weeks on end. It's just making judgements about the ability of someone engaged in the later from the putterer's perspective that I find a bit grating. It's sort of like hearing an avid hiker of the New England woods (itself a perfectly respectable activity) proclaim that someone who fell far up on the slopes of Mt. Everest must have been clumsy. -- Roger Long In this video: Why was his companionway open? With no power and no way to sail out of the situation, wouldnt he have been better to simply anchor? The anchor would have brought the bow to the waves making him much less likely to roll over. Even then, the breaking waves appear to be few so this would have given the rescuers time to reach him. |
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"Frogwatch" wrote in message oups.com... In this video: Why was his companionway open? With no power and no way to sail out of the situation, wouldnt he have been better to simply anchor? The anchor would have brought the bow to the waves making him much less likely to roll over. Even then, the breaking waves appear to be few so this would have given the rescuers time to reach him. Heaving-to may have been a good idea (can't say for certain since I wasn't there), but anchoring? I can't imagine that being a good idea in those conditions. Laying to a sea anchor, perhaps. |
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Frogwatch wrote:
Why was his companionway open? Hard to put yourself in the mind of a terrified human being. I would guess that his panicked 2 year old child on board had a lot to do with the hatch being open. Being rolled over may have been the last thing on his mind and watching and reassuring a terrified child would be hard to talk yourself out of doing. As to what he was doing out in those conditions with a 2 year old and no adult... well, maybe that just gives us an insight into his level of judgement. With no power and no way to sail out of the situation, wouldnt he have been better to simply anchor? Looking at how little wind there was, I suspect that the boat would not have headed up into the seas, if indeed the wind was onshore. He might well have just ended up in the troughs but anchored. That wouldn't have changed the outcome very much. -- Roger Long |
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Frogwatch wrote:
Roger Long wrote: NE Sailboat wrote: Why don't you for once just admit you don't have any idea what happened to Ken Barnes and his boat. With pleasure. I'd don't know for sure what happened to his boat despite figuring out what happened to boats and ships being one of my professional functions. I do know, via the Internet clips, what Ken Barnes says happens to his boat. It is similar enough to what has happened to many previous vessels and what is probably the primary hazard in deep water cruising that is is worth discussing and thinking about. Having studied quite a few marine casualty accounts and attempted to correlate them with other facts over the years it wouldn't surprise me a bit if Ken Barnes doesn't even know what happened to his boat but only thinks he does. I'm not aware of any statement of mine that would make disagreeing with me in any way relative to the question of being a "putterer". People who disagee with me are my most valuable and respected professional resource in things like my Titanic research. Puttering about in boats is a perfectly respectable activity and probably a lot saner and, I believe ultimately more rewarding, than making deep water voyages for their own sake and seeing nothing but waves for weeks on end. It's just making judgements about the ability of someone engaged in the later from the putterer's perspective that I find a bit grating. It's sort of like hearing an avid hiker of the New England woods (itself a perfectly respectable activity) proclaim that someone who fell far up on the slopes of Mt. Everest must have been clumsy. -- Roger Long In this video: Why was his companionway open? With no power and no way to sail out of the situation, wouldnt he have been better to simply anchor? The anchor would have brought the bow to the waves making him much less likely to roll over. Even then, the breaking waves appear to be few so this would have given the rescuers time to reach him. In 3000 feet of water. How much anchor rode do you carry on your boat? |
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