Regarding SSB radio and contrary to what is said in the video, from Wikipedia: "Effective 1 August 2013, the U.S. Coast Guard terminated its radio watch on the international voice distress, safety, and calling frequency 2182 kHz and the international digital selective calling (DSC) distress and safety frequency 2187.5 kHz. Marine information and weather broadcasts that had been transmitted on 2670 kHz ended at the same time".

Looking to buy a Bavaria 50 next year. Thanks for the good advice.

you should have ask the younger guy if he would dive for the anchor for you? i would have and paid him for his time.

It's crazy how hard it is to live aboard in these countries. Yet immigrants get everything handed to them.

Another great video! One note of mention, if lightning gets you, or gps gets interrupted by solar activity... In the worst possible time, in a reef filled area, having a paper backup would be nice. I'm a not old, old fashion guy.

1:200 are terrible odds for possibly your life.

This is great. So much better than 99% of the other so-called sailing channels.

Hi Michael, I'm wondering how you managed passages such as Dieppe to Boulogne, if single-handed with no autopilot ? Golden Haze at that time ?

You described one of my big problems with the Caribbean: no history and no culture. However, no one thinks of Mexico as the Caribbean. And there is a lot of history and culture there. So, I'll see what's in my future.

Really stirring chronicle, thank you. I hope he can patch up and move on. Not so much of the 'sailing gently' on this episode as the 'sailing on gas and air'. I shall sit down with a medicinal glass now.

Great video! Please keep your great work up! I wish I could crew on your boat. So much to learn from you. Can you make a video on how you boom out the main in downwind course?

Well done. Items covered and the presentation . Thank you.

This is how to explain something, simple plain clear language with no waffle or life story, Thank you.

wonderful storytelling and a lifetime of knowledge. Really appreciate this opportunity to learn. Thanks Michael.

this is an awesome video

Everyone has a good quality camera nowadays on their phones and this sort of quality in this weather is extra ordinary. I was in the southern bays of Grenada (12 degrees South) where all these cruisers should have been and escaped the worst of it. But I feel for those who decided the mangrove hurricane hole would save them. Remember There is no such thing as a safe Hurricane Hole. Now we are trying togt food, water and help up to them as soon as possib;le. Speed is crutial. Thanks for sharing

A continuous length of chain is best, but if you feel the need to buy a connector link. Buy from reputable manufacturer with published specs, such as Crosby.

If looking for a new anchor. SV Panope does excellent unbiased testing. youtube.com/@flygoodwin?si=1EGeDmyhq5nSQE-9

Lucky he wasn't mountaineering. But seriously, imagine being mid ocean in something like that. All videos I've seen of that are rescue videos.

Your chain didn't break, you just added a fail point.

how exciting! great footage. thanks! ⛵😃

Remarkable story. Thank you for sharing Michael. Take care. S.

Bloody hell. A serious test of fortitude.

Why not pay someone to recover your anchor?

There is a reason they are called WAFI's

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Heartbreaking

WOW Iv been in 60 knots but 100+ is a different ball game , 60 was hard on the boat & the body (Battened down & layed a Hull ) off NZ , Thanks a sobering post , Nature at its worst .

Excellent video. Great lessons. Thank you.

Way to HOLD FAST Jason!!

That was sceary! I have had the North Sea as my working place for 20 years. Between Aberdeen/Esbjerg to north of Bergen in Norway. The worst I have experienced was a new year when we had NW 64 m/s during a night. Or rather, at 64 m/s the wind instrument crashed. Today I stay tied up if the forecast predicts 15 m/s. What your friend witnesed was indeed terryfying. Your boat?

Nothing gives you an appreciation of the force of natures fury more than a hurricane. Grateful this sailor is able to live and share the tale! "If it's gonna happen, it's gonna happen out there" Captain Ron was right. ~__/)__*

That was totally unreal 😮

I hear a South African accent there. If he's had experience sailing around the Cape he's familiar with bad weather and Strong winds. That probably helped him through this situation.

Fair play to Jason... he has done the very best he could have with an awful situation - in getting the boat to Grenada! Thanks for sharing Michael - it will really help him!

wow not often you get to watch inside a hurricane , how much is your insurance on your own boat now ?

Taking the emotion out of this. Its happened before and will again. More people sail and the levels of complacency is unreal. Im not talking hindsight we all have that but this is the opersite, good decision making. If everybody left and headed further south as others did would the southern hold up have been able to cope? I have been through 190mph+ in the south China seas, well onshore as we were evacualted from the gas rig, we lost the weather station offshore at 187mph and onsgore we had sustained 140 and gusts 160+. People seem amazed this is even possible, it has always happened and always will... go sailing but be ready for the unthinkable in my view.

Wakko what a blow. upto 160kts they say. I've seen mast pump on a 30ft boat and it was only 25kts so without wrapping with halyards I reckon your in the lap of the god's when those numbers are hapening but with all the carnage it's amazing there was so little loos of life. Thanks for posting the video and I hope it dosen't force him back to land. good luck for the rest of the season with your boat🏴‍☠

Thank you

I know Jason some good years now since he was running a boatyard at Slipway, Dar es salaam. Remember how he built the doghouse using the windscreen of a bajaj threewheeler, putting in a new Hatz vertical shaft engine and such like works. Went through bad winds myself at 60kn - just a small taste and nothing like this craze. Absolute amazing! Well prepared and then its a doze of luck !

That was absolutely terrifying to say the least. I can't begin to imagine how scary that was being in the thick of it. Glad be was okay,and also very sad for those who lost.........

Phenomenal windspeeds' as only a huge hurricane can generate. Bizarrely, I have to ask is your check shirt Jaeger as i still have mine all these decade's later...

Everyone please share this.

Been through many hurricanes in my 66 years in south Florida but on land. What I find crazy is 48 hours before it hit it was obvious it was time to head south why boats stayed in Carriacou is a mystery to me.

At last a video that truly captures the primitive huge forces and crapshoot involved in trying to survive one’s own and every other bloody boats jumbled up struggle and preparations ..thank you - Jason-for being brave enough to post to inform others… you are a rare spirit . Impressive. I hope you get a rig up again asap 🤞🙏

BERYL DID MINOR DAMAGES TO MY CONDO IN EL LAGO TEXAS USA BUT IT WAS VERY SCARY . SALUDOS

The stuff of nightmares. He was lucky to survive.

When I came down the Pacific Coast (US - Mexico - Central America) every marina assured me that they either never see tropical storms or that they are somehow protected. Then you later learn that a big storm demolished the place a couple of decades ago, but they have seen nothing similar since. I think the more honest statement would therefore be that you have a 1 in 20 to 1 in 50 chance of being exposed to a full on storm at such locations (with the probability increasing, each year).

I never even knew that an annenometer was capable of reading that sort of wind speed. Incredible!

I'm safe in my chair and I was scared sheetless by this video! I wouldn't stick my head out in a hurricane, not even with a hard dodger.