Corryvreckan Maelstrom & Thunder Child II documentary

[@somedandy7694]

Here from a video about George Orwell. It briefly described his visit to this place and being cast from the broken dingy along with his family (none of whom were killed, thank god). I LOVE the Internet! Thank you, KZbin. For all your faults, I would NEVER have heard of this force of nature (or learned of it's working) without your recommendation. Thank you, creator, for making this video. And thank you, whoever read this comment - you have a good attention span to read all the way through. Treat yourself to something nice. Ja, mata!

[@marcostesta6541]

Mr Kowalsky....I am so proud of these boats you and your naval team have built over the years. It is so good to be able to see them... It is a feeling that rarely occurs.

[@hdan1867]

Dear Mr. Kowalski, congratulations with this and all your other accomplishments like Thunder Child II and other vessels - You're a truly "Master Naval"

[@andrewrobb633]

I could watch your videos all day. The coolest KZbin channel ever.

[@DieselPumpUK]

One of the best videos yet, very inspired by your work. Thanks again for adding great content to KZbin.

[@richardwelkiv8325]

Thank you so much for these videos . I know my observations or opinions don't carry much weight as I am not a naval architect or have any engineering training . I am just a layman who has spent his entire life on the water . When I look at Thunder Child 11 from the side I see three distinctly different hulls all molded into one . I am not only captivated by it's performance but mesmerized by her sea keeping abilities . Richard C. Welk iv

[@hoosiercrypto9955]

Crypto for 2 years. I want to outfit one for a personal craft 🤑

[@adfasfuiuiui1056]

@@hoosiercrypto9955 never happening

[@التصميموالابداع-و2خ]

We had fun with you on this beautiful trip. I work in the construction of ships. Thank you

[@normaltirpoe]

The new boat is beautiful .The bouyancy is very good en the coulour is astonishing.GreatJob ++++

[@BelmontRose1]

I’ve never felt comfortable on smaller boats in mildly turbulent water. This boat, I believe I would feel comfortable, and that would get a feeling of excitement and euphoria. The skill of the captain for me was evident in the fact that he could nibble on food and drink his soda looking so relaxed in this maelstrom.

[@davidcarpenter9232]

From Florida seen a lot of boats ,,, remember when Fountain come out with the step Hull design ... But no comparison to that monster ,,, it will take the teeth out of the North Sea ... you've got to be proud ... owned several boats myself power and sail ... and know just how dangerous it is out there ,,, have lost a lot of friends to boating ... what you're doing is very important... Thank you ... Dave ...

[@michaeld8815]

Thanks Frank, Wonderful footage as usual, good crew.

[@davidanderson8381]

That's an amazing bit of ocean. Great drone footage as well. Cheers.

[@Roy-gi5ul]

What a vessel! What a crew! Corrievreckan has a fearsome reputation and is not to be messed with lightly! Respect...

[@thunderpants007]

Kick ass boat, sounds like thunder when it throttles up.

[@8MoonsOfJupiter]

Great work - loved seeing the standing waves from eye level; spectacular!

[@lordjaashin]

except the annoying music

[@iansellars4153]

Great bit of filming , and what a boat !!! wow

[@johnheaney6383]

Such a capable craft! Easy on the eyes yet so powerful and reliable. Hope you guys are having the time of your lives!

[@poly_hexamethyl]

0:30 That's a great bow design. It seems like a good compromise between piercing the waves so as not to get flipped up too high, yet not diving like a submarine either.

[@poetnathan26]

Man! That is a Sick boat! Looks like a blast! Thanks for the great videos

[@csjrogerson2377]

Went through the Corryvreckan many times in HMS Upton, a 47m coastal minesweeper. Beautiful scenery. The whirlpools in the Messina Strait are also spectacular, being more numerous and considerably bigger, but there is much more sea-room to avoid them.

[@KochADV]

Will be passing that way in February... will be heading north and keeping the cauldron on port... great video. Thanks

[@stevebeaswimmin4643]

Ever since I happened upon Thunderchild in dry Dock many years ago, I've been completely enamoured by this perfect culmination of engineering and raw experience. She's so perfect it brings tears to my eyes

[@BrianNavalinsky]

Be proud. That boat is a great achievement.

[@richards1816]

Great video and explanations! Can you turn up the dialogue please and ditch the music which is too loud? Thank you sir!

[@Petriefied0246]

The performance of this boat is impressive! I'd love to see it on the Wavy Boats channel!

[@howegav]

That is one impressive boat. Love the video, excellent quality.

[@ISOSAILING]

sailed it quite a few times it's a awesome place!! and mental we could be sitting still and 5 foot away the tide is running past us at 5nots best one was when we got caught in a whirlpool and did a 360 while managed to keep the spinnaker flying!!

[@ASalishFalcon]

I love what you guys are doing! I wish you luck from Canada!

[@shaynelhta]

The color is awesome! I always wondered why people don't use a net to catch drones off a boat!

[@munbao8368]

A🙂😃

[@mik99D]

Went on a charter boat. I think it was 900hp jet boat? Can't remember. But the wall of water was higher than the boat. Everyone was cramped in cabin. I was out gripping onto the guide tubes taking photos. Scarry as anything. Thank the skies, we had almost 1,000 hp on tap to get, the hell, out. Great video. Thank you so much.

[@johnswimcat]

Interesting boat, beautiful place. Thanks for a well filmed and edited video

[@AtenzaSaseko]

Meraviglia della ingegneria nautica, stupenda, meravigliosa, semplicemente unica: love from Italy ! Marvel of nautical engineering, wonderful, amazing, simply unique 💖

[@joecarnes9174]

I think you had as much fun with the drone as you did with the boat! Well dun!

[@0wrx2]

the machining in those surface drives 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

[@lionelfournier]

Amazing footage as always Frank! Thanks for the explanations and history background. Until “modern navigation days” This place has for sure fueled mariners worst nightmares and instilled shear terror. Very impressive! Thanks again! (Would put 10 thumbs up if it was possible)

[@bluewhalestudioblenderanim1132]

4:06 probably quite close to the maximum size for a whirlpool in the area . . whitch looks very impressive altho "dent rapids" in canada . might have more powerful whirlpools , but it's quite hard to tell

[@sailingtheglobe2741]

Thats one hell of a boat you got there. I like it 👌

[@mikemcadie1498]

Been through it many times... north of Jura is just awesome place....

[@user-ho5vz5tg3r]

Very impressive. I really like the Pilot Boat and Barracuda too, all different, all super badass. The only way to get to the Whirlpool, thanks for the Drone Footage, Kudos!

[@ShibumiBoatBuild]

Wow what an amazing video. well done on this epic trip and video footage.. Epic!

[@larou14]

Wouawww...I love this exceptionnel boat ! Thank you for this video ! 😮👍😎

[@raedwulfguthweard3911]

As featured in Powell & Pressburger's 1945 "I Know Where I'm Going". Corryvreckan, that is, not Thunder Child II! Nice little piece, thank you. P.S. Sorry, but have to agree with Richard S - music annoying; no point in the cabin dialogue if I can't make out what you're saying...

[@zzp1]

I know the design from the beginnng in 1998, at the Island of Man, at that time fitted out with two seatecs. Over the years it has been adapted to the perfection of today - with a wide range of possibilities of use.Thunderchild can master almost any seastate at very high speed and a manoeuvrability which is stunning. I believe she is equipped with the SDS drives from France Hélice. I believe she is good for speeds up to 50 knts.

[@MogulMonk1]

A real nice and illustrative explanation

[@PropertyJemberKota]

I'm dreaming to have this amazing boats, I'm your fans Mr. Kowalski, from Indonesia

[@MarloweDash]

I heard about Corryvreckan from the great 1945 film 'I know where I'm going' by Powell and Pressberger, the famous British directors. (starring Wendy Hiller and Roger Livesey). It is free on YT and worth a watch!

[@mkxair]

Phenomenal... Love the drone footage - it completes your videos.

[@romeoalfa5787]

Good good good indonesia

[@midafricam]

Your videos are awesome and love the explanation of the Pinnacle, at this rate you can start pushing more content instead of building boats

[@thegreatchimp]

Stunning boat. Named after the dreadnought in War of the Worlds?

[@rodrigosjourney]

Great way to catch the drone… I was waiting to see how you were going to do it 😊

[@MalukuOriginal]

great video brother... love it. this looks a little scary

[@MOSSFEEN]

BRILLIANT VIDEO AMAZING FOOTAGE THANK YOU

[@123boat]

Absolutely stunning video. 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍😁

[@benskai2475akurfishing]

good design and everyone who works at this ship company are geniuses and professionals

[@drewboyone]

That was particularly cool guys. Thanks for that one ✅

[@Shumi-kr3tc]

Thank you for posting, awesome video!!! Any chance you can do video showing the interior and electronics?

[@lewe1451]

Thanks for a very interesting video.

[@rollinrock6696]

Go on Frank, try the whirlpools in Storm conditions! The boat will handle it!

[@captainconsumer]

is this beast a pilot or rescue boat..it looks sharp to nudge up against a hull near a pilot ladder. looks bonkers

[@gboates]

We enjoy your videos, particularly as we have similar seas/tides here in the Bay of Fundy, Cape Split area of Nova Scotia. Our whirlpools are so strong some craft cannot penetrate them. Production is great except for the loudness of the glory music vs the narration.

[@wendyhill2285]

❤️🎩🖤👤🗣️💙💙🖤🌚🌍🌏🌎🌈🦈🐬🎩❤️⛄🐨🌌👻🐼🐻👀 Yes true I'd very much like to hear more what they're saying!

[@sbkenn1]

It is rare to see people enjoy their work as much as the Safehaven crew. They make their own opportunities to have fun. Round Ireland and Rockall, Greenland, and now this. Good for and on ya guys (and girls). I wish I didn't get seasick, but I think I would avoid Corrvreckan maelstrom. I did sail past it once having transited the Crinan Canal, 45 years ago. Ran into a fogbank right there (long before GPS), but we had picked slack tide anyway.

[@lecturesfromleeds614]

Whirlpools are structurally beautiful

[@rogerbeecroft7849]

I thought this boat was out of a James Bond Film when we saw it come up Loch Craignish to make this film the other week. Very much in contrast to the rowing boat Lily that I saw a few days earlier. Two lads are rowing around Britain to raise money for mental health. I'm not sure which crew are the bigger nutters.

[@ianrkav]

It might be their own mental health they're rowing for:-)

[@charlesrenniemacki]

Your 'funny ha-ha' comment is crass and insensitive. Using the words mental health and nutters in concurrent sentences does nothing but display your total ignorance of mental health issues. You're just compounding the stigma that people suffering from mental health issues and disorders are, as you put it, 'nutters'. Still, it got you a handful of 'likes' so you must be feeling accomplished if nothing else.

[@ChrisM541]

I used to work in the salmon farm on Loch Craignish around the mid 1980's (it's still there, I think). I remember, at the weekends, we'd take the boat to the small islands immediately to the east of the gulf and set some creels on the sheltered sides. I also remember, very well, that the flow of the sea was like a river. The lochgilphead fishmonger would visit the farm and buy the lobsters and crabs. Great memories.

[@govs1234]

Great info, thanks. Love the music choices :D Must've hired Hans Zimmer

[@ufoclips1]

I `ve been through it on a rib during a whale watch,fantastic ride!!!

[@macscotsman51]

You guys are wacko crazy nuts but I mean that in a “I’m totally in awe of your skill and daring” kind of way. Well done.

[@antonioromao5681]

This boat should do a test in Nazaré on an average day (25-30 fts). It would be a spectacle for the world!

[@balkanboy1203]

It would be a disaster

[@antonioromao5681]

@@balkanboy1203 With waves over 30 feet it would be a disaster! Experts say the boat's limit is 25 - 30 feet. As the waves in Nazaré are very wide it was good for the boat to show all the performance. Nazaré is two days away from Ireland.

[@bernardosantana2817]

If you get caugth in a wave would be a disaster. You would roll in to the cliffs before you know it

[@kelevra558]

Hey according to dude he was just in surf 9 meters high. So he should be able to tackle Portugal no problem. Homeboy built one helluva boat but hes full of shit. He also said the little whirlpool was 50 meters wide. Honestly to me, if guys like Ross are surfing waves 10 times taller at 50 years old than what you put this billion dollar boat through, shut up until you send it through something thats actually death defying if you fuck up. Bunch of rich dudes farting around in their million dollar toys is so far from exciting its not even funny. Ever seen anything from nitro circus? Quadruple backflips on bicycles, frontflips on 350 pound quads, triple backflips on dirtbikes. Ive seen more impressive nautical conditions being braved on deadliest catch.

[@jamiemahon5678]

@@kelevra558 you do realise that they're the builders of the boat and they just enjoy going around looking at things in the great achievement that they made along with there other boats and it gives them great publicity (safehaven marine cork) and he didnt say it was 50 meters when they were there he said it can grow as big as 50 meters👍

[@GeraldPUR]

The ultimate test for this masterpiece is a hurricane cat 4/5. Beautiful vessel *

[@ianrkav]

That is one seriously impressive boat. Just how much stronger would that be over a boat such as a Sunseeker Predator 74 or similar? Twice as strong maybe?

[@MrTrapper28]

Chalk and cheese!

[@gaycha6589]

Impressive as ever. Thanks

[@sebastians2262]

will be there next summer to surf that waves!

[@procatprocat9647]

Love the drone recovery method !

[@MikeTarifaArtist]

Amazing Boat! congratulations!

[@hakankonyar6454]

Dji wasnt perfect while landing 😅 Thanks for usefull informations. Here s Istanbul 🤚

[@jimquinn9454]

Wow,its a scary place at the best of times ,.You should have went to " the Falls of lora" at Connel bridge usually a 6 knot tide but has been recorded at 12 knots ,loch Etive

[@nicolasrose3064]

"Thunderchild ll" is seriously a brutally beautiful and mighty machine, when asked what it was that inspired him to buy "Thunderchild ll", the guy says "my Son is a Ski athlete and being where we are, we can easily go across the (English) Channel for lunch in France....."

[@Xatger]

Did I see this boat leave the Dublin coast at full speed a feww weeks ago . William

[@TheXeneco]

I was wondering if the name had a literary reference, and there it is at 7:21 Cool boat, cool inspiration :) And great vid too :)

[@Mr7valentine7]

Great footage. Thank you!

[@ColvinBlog]

Quality video , love the weather you got to check this area out, m the hydrofoil style boat, very epic for exploration, game changer defo

[@ss-5553]

Nice boat you have !

[@fjeldfross9327]

To see the boat just driving in the wirlpools makes my hair stands on end and my stomack flip. I see that its safe for you, but all my instincts are screaming

[@upnorthyooper1196]

What with the sound going up and down? Love the boat!

[@alexandergrey5913]

Total class !

[@videosforcatsanddogs214]

I hope they make a yacht version of this boat. Would be awesome to travel the world with family and friends in comfort and ultimate safety.

[@percyfaith11]

That's what this is.

[@joewoodchuck3824]

I wanted to know more about the boat.

[@williamchristian8705]

I wish to get one for Christmas.

[@wmrustycox]

That's where Orwell and his son almost drown whilst trying to cross from Jura in rowboat. Both were thrown from the small boat and luckily found their way ashore. They were later rescued. Btw Orwell wrote his famous book,"1984" whilst on Jura.

[@ccar1332]

Love the vid!!! Thank you! Just one thing.... Why cut the film, just when TCII is about to be hammered by a lateral current that would show its stability (or lack of) at 2:34? Honest question. I really would enjoy seeing TCII at it's limits, or even beyond! It is truly the most beautiful and capable 23m I have seen.

[@frankkowalski6405]

I don’t know Gary, I can’t see anything at that time clip that was particularly challenging.

[@markscott554]

What an amazing boat. Were you going to Scarba Fair?

[@SuperSventizeMe]

Corryvreckan is also the name of the best single malt whisky made by Ardbeg on nearby Islay. Named after the whirlpool.

[@variedades-verenicesiprian2078]

muito obrigada pelo belo vídeo

[@better_together-w4m]

Please give us a full tour!

[@Yamesy]

that boat is insane

[@No-Pro]

Those props!

[@tolex3]

Beautiful....!

[@keepingcalm6469]

stunning ...

[@mattlechner8442]

you seem to know a lot about motorboats, but not so much about the ocean. The reason for the extreme waves is not water "falling in" in to deep hole, it has to do with the fact that like all things having a physical presence, water is subject to friction. The water in the hole is essentially like a deep puddle, and when the other water tries to go over it, the configuration of the bottom creates friction and makes the puddle not move the way the water on top wants to move. Your explanation sounds dramatic and kind of other-worldly, but it's the same basic reason why waves steepen up going over a sand bar. The water wants to go fast, but planet earth slows it down, and in the process the waves steepen up. There is no aspect of water "falling in" to the hole.

[@lucalepre9864]

Great Frank !

[@alexanderwilliamson6780]

Wouldn't like to go over board here😲

[@stephenswistchew7720]

Went through this once while on a fish boat once through We lost the rudder after we were through we had to come back on our cables and four fish boxes for steering put the trawling cables out with two boxes on each cable and payed them out and managed to steer back to oban scary trip but aaargh these be tha breaks Jim lad