Imagine being a pirate on mushrooms in the late 1400’s and this type of storm is on to you 😂

Guys, you are lucky. I know it is a race, but why did you think it is OK to sail into it without reefing your sails? Anyway, glad you shared it with other people. People need to be aware how little time you sometimes have to react. When you see something like this on the horizon the time to react is now. I am also glad you manage to take down your spinnaker in time. If you have waited just couple minutes more that would be probably too late.

Awesome!!!

It happened fast and they fix the casualties quickly. Sailing ain't easy.

Fastnet 1979 was much more dangerous and with many more victims. This is frivolous playing with life

4:50 made me very, very nervous! But it also made me realise that a sailboat can handle a lot more than you might think. I also try to learn from this. Would it have been better to steer into the wind in a situation like this?

Exhilarating & scary AF. Terrific footage 👍🏼👍🏼

Of course, "winners are not judged." However, while paying tribute to the team for their courage when they decided to post this video and perfectly understood the inevitability of harsh criticism, nevertheless: such carelessness (expressed, among other things, in the absence of life jackets from the crew, while a storm was clearly approaching, but there was time to prepare) could end in disaster; I was surprised why the yacht did not capsize; and all because the captain was too careless (or overconfident - wasn't he a former military man?), - he could have had lives wasted on his conscience. Конечно, "победителей не судят". Однако, отдавая должное команде за ее смелость, когда они решили выложить это видео и отлично понимали неизбежность суровой критики, - тем не менее: такая беспечность (выражающаяся в т.ч. в отсутствии спасательных жилетом у команды, в то время как явно приближался шторм, - но время для подготовки было) могла закончиться катастрофой; удивлен, почему яхта не перевернулась; и все потому, что капитан был слишком беспечен (или самоуверен - не бывший ли военный?), - на его совести могли быть напрасно загубленные жизни.

I like how they took their sweet time to lower the sails even though they could see the storm being close 😅

😮 Imagine i was in this situation alone.It’s terrifying.⛵️

Perkele

Poor main sail...

That escalated quickly

What a gorgeous day for sailing. Not a joke. Up until the squall hits, looks like flat waters, full sails, and the boat zooming at top speed. Had you managed to shorten the sails faster, I bet you'd have been smiling ear to ear through the whole thing.

I reckon screaming tee-shirt man may choose to wear a rain jacket next time, although who am I to question his sense of rebellion?

Your other challenge would have been to send crew to the bow for the drop. Likely would have submarined your boat up to the mast and washed your crew off the boat. Not much room for error in those conditions

The boom in the water gave me seriously sweaty palms.

getting hit by something like that sure feels much more comfortable when windsurfing... you can just go for a short swim and keep both hands on your board :D

Lucky escape. Could have easily had dire results.

What a SHOW thank you

Glad I am on land, and I will stay on land.

Turn the nose of the boat more to the wind .Danger could be avoided 😊.

Excellent work, one of these video which makes you fill up the car and go on the trip to use the car for what it has been made 💪🏻

Head down. Control the boat. Get it settled. Decide what to do next. Looks like 30-40 knots. Easily handled in flat water.

People without life jackets in offshore sailing race under storm conditions; really brave people 🤔

This is substantially crazier than the other videos

When is the right time to reef? Answer: Immediately after you first ask yourself that question.

Wow! What a ride.

They had 4 minutes. Lucky for them the front was fairly mild. With all the crew could of hoved too, got everything stowed away, sails adjusted and then resumed course. ....but they were racing, so had to blow out a expensive sail....ouch. Sailing, like life is a learning process, which can be learned through experience. Thank you for sharing your adventure.

I would have thought that at least some of the crew would already have learnt that very important and basic lesson. I struggle to understand how the crew could put themselves in that position, both personally and for the sake of the boat.

Love to see old Porsches being used for initial intention nearly 60 years ago

All fun until someone goes over the side. I don’t see anyone clipped in, no one wearing a flotation device. Who would inform the NOK? Oh, I forgot they were racing

The soundtrack is awesome, where it came from?

Poetic, keep Sailing!

Brilliant! Thank you for sharing. Kudos to the skill of everyone. Even this chap's surname is an anagram of SANDAL SINK STORM :)

Good thing they got the kite down when they did...

pure awesome

thanks for sharing. Lots of things to learn here

Sails should have been down 5 minutes ago

Head down to control the boat

what happened to reefing ?! idiots

Race mentality is always fun to see. Cruiser mentality would have pulled spinnaker down well before the squall even got close and had the small jib out and 2 reefs in the main. Racing is how real sailors are made. Good job on the win.

That was a close on, you reefed just in the nick of time. I understand the will to win, but I think it would be better to start reefing just a bit earlier next time. BTW, I had a similar situation last year on a Bavarian lake. I managed to get out of the way and into the cover of trees at the shoreline in time, but one of the gusts almost tipped us over with a bank angle of about 50 or 60 degrees. Not necessarily something I want to repeat...

All sails down and start the motor, may a little stormfok is also posseble to juice😂😅

Whoever ordered that sail without reef points should now feel the regret

Awesome video. I loved watching it!! 👍

Sandstrom > thunderstorm

Fantastic film, great taste in music and of course, in cars! @petrolicious needs to see this.

Beautiful film

Wonderful video. thanks. 1) Finns are accustomed to weather, this is not a scary storm. the foredeck man never even wore a windbreaker. 2) water nearly flat before, during and after. this is not a major storm else big chop would arrive. 3) they are racing to catch the boat ahead, so wearing full jib and main is very reasonable tactic. Aggressive racing often leads to shredded cloth and broken shackles. 4) "short time coming, short time lasting" is the old rule for gales, storms and squalls. It was easy to predict the squall would be very short lasting. I think the crew and vessel did perfectly given they didn't have enough info to avoid flying the jib. even the full main was not damaged, and jib damage is possible in racing. 5) tether lines probably get in the way and make unsafe passage, but I would wear a high quality inflatable PFD with pull inflater so the thing doesn't blow in these probably frequent squalls. without the benefit of hindsight -- well done!