Fighting the tide in Dodd Narrows

This fellow took on a battle with a 5 knot ebb current in Dodd Narrows. Chasing a back eddy, then trying to push through the bottleneck. He just wouldn’t give up.

[@williamturner1517]

OK! I finally see the logic! Be stupid long enough and the tide will go slack! Just another 3 hours.

[@audentesfortunailuvat]

The fun part is when you get up at 4:30 am and hit the high tide outflow in the right direction at Dodd Narrows. It is like being on a waterslide but in a boat. Never before was I so happy to have planned my trip using the tide chart. I would have made the same mistake if not for my wise old foreman who asked "have you read the tide charts for Dodd Narrows?"...to which I replied "Oh, is that something I should do?" We live and learn...

[@HalcyonGuitars]

You fought the Dodd, and the DODD WON!

[@grantmcinnes1176]

Yeah. It's all fun and games until a tug and timber boom comes round the point opposing you, with the current behind her. I once mistimed the current in Dodd and got spat out into Northumberland Channel like a cork out a bottle. Little did I know that there was a solid 15 knot wind blowing down the channel and the waves were stacking like crazy. Visibility was poor. No way to turn and go back though. I was taking a beating. Lost my anchor and it was pounding against the fiberglass hull. Almost had to turn her around and drive her up onto the beach, but I was able to coax her over to the Gabriola side and tie up to a timber raft and get my shit together. Live and learn man, but that was scary.

[@65clifton]

My friend, this is why they publish tide books . You can look to see what time the current will be slack and go thru then. Thank goodness other boats were not going thru at the same time.

[@Pamichen]

yep...the poster of this video is an amazing and extremely intelligent boater...can't control other people's follies though.

[@williamturner1517]

First it's necessary to have the ability to read written text and understand the concept of the hands on a clock.

[@mikenagy938]

I went through there several times when I was cruising the straight. Don't do like this guy who must have been born on a dodo farm. So much nicer to wait for slack tide. The other thing is dragging your dingy behind your boat. Almost every day I was there someone was on the radio calling for help when their dingy overturned. Shows poor seamanship, but this entire video shows that.

[@afinelookinggentleman2631]

I go through there almost dayly in summer. I’ve never had a problem, though I’ve had to work around panicky and or unprepared people. My boat only does 7 knots full out, but I’ve done 14.4 knots on a flood tide. For those looking for advice, slack is best, but remember there’s plenty of room at slack for vessels to go in both directions. People unfamiliar think it’s single file and I’ve had captains and their mates jumping up and down and waving and yelling at me because I was 40 feet off their port going in the other direction. A heavy current will typically push you toward the middle so more care should be taken, in my experience

[@robertsutherland1097]

Those Haida's are tough little boats. It did not help that he had the drag from the canoe and the inflatable, also he had a following breeze, perhaps if he hoisted the main and put the dinghies on deck he might have made it. And where did he get that tiller, is it his old spinnaker pole?

[@dougwhite6767]

I hope this is a what not to do video. He was doing fine in the back eddy. Could have been fatal if the engine gave up. I also noticed the flag at half mast.

[@redeyedmongoose2963]

I would never consciously set foot on this boat to go anywhere with that captain It irks me to have to call him, Captain, but he’s the only one on board so ergo

[@damiantokara]

Oh man I was totally rooting for the guy...

[@Pamichen]

me tooooo!!!

[@Pamichen]

@@SailingSeaDreamofClyde he is VERY lucky. horseshoe right up his butt! ;)

[@karlthoennes3942]

And this is why I have twin 454's.

[@oldchunkofcoal3141]

Got spit out in a deep draft 58 foot seiner like we were a toy

[@williamturner1517]

At the very tail end-- 12 minutes or so. Our sailboat captain observes the power boat passing thru Dodds. The sail boat person then exclaim s-- IF THAT GUY CAN GET THRU SO CAN I !!

[@TheVbelanic]

Only time I be in those waters is with a powerful motor with fishing lines out.....

[@brucestott6520]

Correctly he was fighting the current, not the tide. Tides rise and fall, currents flood and ebb.

[@BarkBarque]

You must be a blast at parties.

[@ericlakota1847]

Think draging the boat dosent help even the conoe if he had some one to tow him using the dingy probly still be in same position .

[@vroddestroyer300]

Captain coconut

[@joninordland5567]

Canadian drivers

[@TheVbelanic]

Fuck this bugging me just head back to Harmac and do some bottom bounce fishing roll slack tide

[@ruserious8761]

Just proves that any idiot can own a boat whether they know what they're doing or not...

[@francoislepine4698]

what a waste of fuel!!! the fastest water is ALWAYS at the very top, where water's flat....if you have so much trouble through the "rapids" you'll NEVER make it over the top to the other side

[@lukejsoren]

LMAO

[@angryoldman9140]

What a fail ahhaha