How to get a yacht with an 80ft mast under a 65ft bridge

that is awesome!

Im not really sure i would try it, Im too chicken, but the skiper seems to be pretty calm and confident

Once, I pulled an engine on a twin SF in the water and I put a pallet of cinder blocks in the cockpit to counter the weight of the one remaining engine.
I would never have thought of the sail boat trick.

I love that video. I have seen it on here before. I think it was floating around last year. Worth repeating though.

OK that was way cool. I don't have the balls to do anything like that.

Hi,

It was posted here: http://www.yachtforums.com/forums/g...at-balls-how-get-80-mast-under-65-bridge.html

It has also just popped up this morning at a FB Group I belong to so it will probably be doing another round.

There were a couple a of similar videos like that circulating last year. A pretty standard trick for sailboaters. They also use that method to stay off the bottom in the shallows or get "unstuck" when they hit bottom. The angle reduces the draft of the keel.

That is ingenious.

Did similar many years ago on a delivery by getting the two crew out on to the end of the boom which was braced out at 90 degrees to the boat. The VHF aerial still clipped the bridge .......

Was very young and stupid and would NOT do that now, so you can hold the derogatory comments ......