Mega Yacht CRASHES Through Anchorage Ep. 74

[@geemoon7244]

Great Job, Guys!!

[@laserracer6]

That dude that owns that cat owes you all some beers BIG TIME

[@marshallbrowne5371]

Great job you two!!

[@SailingTurtle]

Thank you!

[@ChrisDoesWhat]

Glad people are willing to help others when they see people in need.

[@SailingTurtle]

Us too. Thank you so much for watching and for taking the time to leave us a comment! We really appreciate it!

[@keny7797]

Great Job, You Guys are Heroes!

[@SailingTurtle]

What was funny to us was that the crapy spare anchor from our 26' boat was miraculously able to stop the 67' catamaran! A few days after the ordeal we happened to run into some of our friends that we had met while anchored at Royal Island during the lightning storm, and they told us that they heard all about how the smallest boat in the anchorage saved the largest boat in the anchorage and were excited when they heard it was us. Haha We didn't know word would spread so quickly. We couldn't have done it without the help of the other cruisers who were willing to jump into action as well. Thank you so much for watching our video and for leaving us a great comment! We appreciate you being part of our sailing adventure!

[@thewildmanjoeburns]

Hello sailing Turtle. How are you guys doing? Hope all is well, and we look forward to watching any updates on your adventures. Have you guys thought about posting videos even during off season?

[@SailingTurtle]

Hello! We are doing great! Thanks for asking. =D We have actually been posting weekly videos for the past year and a half straight. This last Sunday/Monday was actually the first week that we missed and didn't post a video! Kenzie needed a little break from editing and took some time for herself, but is planning on getting back to our regular weekly posting schedule this week!

[@thewildmanjoeburns]

@@SailingTurtle me and my wife missed you guys lol. Be safe buddy. We look forward to your videos.

[@bobbybaldeagle702]

Happy new year kids... I'm so proud of you kids jumping in and helping to save that cat. Some day when your in need someone will help you because you paid ahead by helping someone... My prayer for you kids is that God will keep y'all safe, and bless you above and beyond your needs. Love & prayers... BBE...

[@SailingTurtle]

Thank you so much for your kind comment! We appreciate you watching our videos and being a huge part of our sailing adventure. We hope that you have a very happy new year as well!

[@Me-zw5pw]

you guys were so nice helping to secure that boat. boat owners like that are a menace really. more money than brains. i had one similar swipe off my solar rack in an anchorage one time.

[@kayakexcursions5570]

How is it the boat owners fault? Even the marina thought is was impossible to break its mooring.

[@SailingTurtle]

It was definitely unfortunate that the catamaran broke loose that night. With the high winds we had that night, it could have happened to anyone really, and it could have been a lot more serious. We heard that the boat owners were not even in The Bahamas at the time and that the boat's captain had recently left the island for a couple of days. There probably were precautions that could have been made to help prevent situations like this from happening, but they either didn't happen or got over looked. Hopefully the marinas in the area were able to learn from the experience and dive on their moorings just to double check that they are all in good shape. Thanks for watching our videos and for leaving us a comment! We really appreciate it!

[@SailingTurtle]

I don't think anyone was expecting a situation like that to ever happen, especially in the middle of the night. It could have happened to anyone though. We're just glad that it wasn't as bad as it could have been and that there were people that night who were willing to jump in and help in so many ways. Thanks for watching our videos and for taking the time to leave us a comment! We really appreciate it!

[@RiggingDoctor]

Nicely done!

[@SailingTurtle]

Thank you so much for watching our videos and for leaving us a comment! We really appreciate it!

[@sethile]

Wow!! Whoever owns that big cat owes you all a beer, in not a brewery! Although I guess it's really the marina or whoever is responsible for that failed mooring, not to mention the insurance companies liable for that mess!! That would have been so much worse without all of you rescuing the situation!! Nice work!!!! Oh, and Happy New Year!!!

[@SailingTurtle]

Thank you so much! We hope you have a happy new year as well! We are so glad that there were people willing to help out in this scary situation and are glad that we were in a position to where we could help as well. The owners of the catamaran, along with their professional captain, were off island at the time of the incident. We personally never did hear from them or meet them, which is fine. One of the guys who helped us save the boat from crashing into the other anchored boats actually is an acquaintance of the owners and said that he spent time on the catamaran the year before. It was a crazy chain of events that's for sure. We are just glad that no one got hurt and that no further damage was done. Thank you so much for watching and for taking the time to leave us a comment!

[@SailingSquib]

Whats better, to have the money to buy such a big boat, or to have the time to stay on a smaller?

[@SailingTurtle]

Hahahaha is this a trick question? Seriously, it depends on if the small boat can take you everywhere you want to go and if you are comfortable sailing and living aboard the small boat. If the answer to either of those are no, then you may need a slightly larger boat. We would not have wanted to cross oceans on our 26' sailboat, but its small price did afford us an opportunity that we couldn't have made possible with the cost of a larger boat. While anchored in some of the most beautiful anchorages in The Bahamas, there would be huge mega yachts and big fancy sailboats anchored next to us. We wondered what it would be like to have the money, so that we could experience The Bahamas on one of those big fancy boats, but then quickly realized that we were already seeing and experiencing The Bahamas exactly the same way they were, and probably for less $$. It doesn't take loads of money or a big fancy yacht to get you to where you want to be, as long as you are willing to set goals and put forth the work necessary. Thanks so much for watching our videos and for taking the time to leave us a comment! We appreciate it!

[@SailingSquib]

I envy you, to do all this things when you are young, I entered the sailing community when I was 42, bought a 30 ft boat and made an atlantic circle a few years later and as you say you can reach the same beautiful beaches with a smaller boat, and I made the experiance, it is much easyer to move a smaller boat around, I don`t avoid to anchor on two or three places a day. And the best, less stuff to repair! Thanks for showing us the beautiful bahamas!@@SailingTurtle

[@SailingTurtle]

Wow an Atlantic circumnavigation is a big trip! That must have been an incredible adventure! You probably have some great stories!

[@prqrsqtful]

Well Happy birthday Randall and Happy New Year! Strong work on saving that cat!

[@SailingTurtle]

Thank you so much! We hope that you have a great New Year as well! Thanks for watching our videos and for leaving us a comment. We appreciate it!

[@prqrsqtful]

@@SailingTurtle You guys have really motivated me. I have a 1985 O'day 26 which I sail around Puget Sound. It looks not unlike you boat. My dream.... well you guys are living my dream. I'm looking into getting my boat to Florida. And then... who knows. Thank you for the videos! I hope 2019 is extra special for you both.

[@SailingTurtle]

Wow this just made our day! We can't even begin to tell you how special it is for us when we are able to hear uplifting comments like yours. We are passionate about sharing a positive message through our videos and love that you are working towards living your sailing dream! As you probably already know, we had a rough start when trying to leave the west coast. Just about everything that could go wrong, went wrong, and just about everyone we met along the way either thought we were insane or told us turn back, because God was obviously didn't want us to make it across the country with our boat. It was the most stressful month and a half, but all the hard work and effort that we put into getting over to Florida and then over to The Bahamas all paid off in the end. We hope that when your chance finally comes to get your boat over to Florida, that you will have easy sailing and fair winds! Hahaha We would love to follow your sailing story if you ever decide to share it. Never give up and stay safe!

[@mboyer68]

What's the name of that anchor safety app that texts your phone if your boat moves more than a distance you set after you've set your anchor and know what distance to set the alarm for? It works really well..I haven't used it but a KZbin sailing channel highlighted the app in a video. I don't like assuming anything or being negative thinker...but...I wonder what the cat owners would've done if your boat broke free and went towards their cat. Hopefully they'd have done the same as you did:) The marina insurance is going to have to cover any damage it sounds like..unless those are govt supplied moorings in which case it's likely going to be the cat insurance. Does it say anywhere "use these moorings at your own risk" or something like that?

[@SailingTurtle]

That app sounds really cool. We did use the anchor watch setting on our chart plotter to wake us in the night if we drug at anchor. As for the cat breaking free from its mooring, we believe the mooring was privately owned and rented out by one of the marinas located in March Harbour. The marina employees were quite certain that their mooring had not broken, even after staring at half of the broken mooring dangling from the bow of the boat. They absolutely had no reason to put a boat of that size and windage on that size of a mooring. I mean that boat was easily double what I would have felt comfortable placing on that mooring. It was just plain stupid if you ask me, but I am constantly unimpressed with the ground tackle that people like using on their boats as well. Thanks again for watching our videos and for taking the time to reach out to us! We really appreciate it and love it when we can connect with our viewers!

[@john-austinsmith8388]

Happy birthday Randall!!🎂 happy new year guys!!🍻

[@SailingTurtle]

Thank you! We appreciate you spending 2018 with us on our 2017 sailing adventure LOL and hope that 2019 will have great things in store for you! Thanks for being a huge part of our sailing adventure!

[@ThompsonBMXbikes]

Happy New year! And happy birthday Randall! You two are awesome! Keep em coming!!!!!!

[@SailingTurtle]

Thank you! We still have more to share and will keep posting as often as we can. Thanks for watching and Happy New Year!

[@joeh5236]

Just discovered your channel. I waited until my kids grew up before I got into sailing. Wished I went on an adventure like yours many, many years ago. I think it takes some courage and commitment to make this happen especially when you are just starting out in life as a young couple. Sounds like your adventure is over? What are you doing now?

[@SailingTurtle]

Joe H, Thank you so much for watching our videos and for taking the time to leave us such a great comment! We love connecting with our viewer! We are so excited to hear that you recently found our KZbin Channel and are happy to have you along for the journey! Yes, our epic sailing adventure to The Bahamas took place back in 2017. We filmed our entire trip from start to finish and created our KZbin Channel so that we could share our story with our close friends and family members who were interested in our adventure. We have been blown away by the positive response we have gotten from so many people from all around the world and have had a blast sharing our videos with everyone. We have been posting new videos every week ever since we got back from The Bahamas, and are trying to keep up with that schedule the best we can now that we are both working full time jobs again. Currently we are trying to get our financial feet back under us and trying to think of something that can either equal or top our Bahamas trip for our next adventure. Thank you again for watching our videos! We really appreciate it!

[@timk4944]

Its great you guys helped out to save that cat from crashing into the rocks. All though, unfortunately, I wouldn't be surprised if the owners didn't share that sentiment. Nice to see people that care about helping others!

[@SailingTurtle]

Thanks! Yeah it was a crazy chain of events that's for sure. We are glad that we were in a position to help and couldn't have done it without the help of the other cruisers who were also willing to jump into action. We still to this day can't believe that our crapy spare anchor from our 26' boat was able to miraculously stop the 67' catamaran from drifting further out of the bay. The owners of the catamaran, along with their professional captain, were off island at the time of the incident. We personally never did hear from them or meet them, which is fine. Thank you so much for watching our videos and for leaving us a great comment! We appreciate it!

[@mac22sailor20]

Good job guys. Happy new year ⚓⛵

[@SailingTurtle]

Hahaha Thank you so much for spending 2018 with us, experiencing our 2017 sailing adventure! We have LOVED sharing our story with everyone and hope that 2019 will have great things in store for you!

[@michaeldenicola6725]

You both did a great job saving the cat. Very nice video. How do you like Abaco so far. Safe Sailing

[@SailingTurtle]

Thanks! At this point in our trip we were loving it! We were really excited to finally find coconuts and had a blast cooking some yummy meals with the coconut cream. The snorkeling in the Abacos was great everywhere we went. There are good anchorages, but we found ourselves needing to use a stern anchor more often than we did in the Exumas. The number one thing that we absolutely hated while in the Abacos were the no-see-ums! They were EVERYWHERE!!! We had to bust out the screen covers for the hatches for the first time and trying to go ashore was just a joke. Even before reaching the beach in the dinghy we had swarms of no-see-ums attacking us. We tried bug spray, which didn't do anything. We literally had thousands of the most unbearable itchy bug bites covering our entire bodies, which lasted for weeks on end! At one point we counted, Randall had over 300 bug bites on just one ankle! We were so glad that we took "After Bite Itch Eraser" with us. Although, the relief didn't last very long. Randall's mom worked at a Health Food store at the time and gave us a bottle of New Zealand Manuka Honey before we left on the trip. (Here's a LINK: amzn.to/2LHeJgV ) It helped a lot, but after applying it to the bites we couldn't move around much else we would get honey on everything we touched or sat on. Next time we go to the Abacos we will do more research on how to avoid the no-see-ums. Maybe they're seasonal? We hadn't really heard about them from other people before going.

[@thewildmanjoeburns]

Good job guys. Happy new year and happy birthday.

[@SailingTurtle]

Thank you so much! We have enjoyed having you along with us for our sailing adventure and hope that 2019 will have great things in store for you and your family! We can't wait to see what fun adventures we will have this year and hope that we will be able to keep sharing them with everyone here on our channel. Happy New Year!

[@DufkoM]

Happy bday man! For a second there I really thought you were 27 y.o., and Im sitting here like wtf am I doing with my 28 years old ass :D

[@SailingTurtle]

Hahaha Thanks for the compliment! LOL Going on an epic sailing adventure has been a dream of mine since I was just a kid. It took me 30 years of hard work till I was finally able to buy my sailboat and then another 5 years of refitting projects and learning how to sail. Working towards your goals doesn't mean you have to stop living life in the mean time either. Even though I had to work hard to make this trip happen, I also took time over the years to take small trips here and there and was able to travel to some pretty incredible places around the world. Don't forget to live your dreams while your young! We appreciate you watching our videos and for leaving us a great comment!

[@allynonderdonk7577]

Wow you two are good custodians of your fellow man. For your next boat consider a Danforth or Fortress as a secondary. Fortress anchors are super light so anyone can pull them up, and they are huge with lots of holding power. Get a Mantus as the main anchor! Are you two getting a new boat in the near future??

[@SailingTurtle]

Yeah we would have loved an aluminum fortress as a secondary anchor, but it wasn't in the budget. We do have hopes of getting another boat someday, but nothing in the immediate plans as of right now. Thanks for watching our videos and for leaving us a great comment! We appreciate it!

[@SailingSquib]

When the fortress is digged you need the same force to get it out as any other anchor, it doesn´t depend on the wight of the anchor but how deep it is in the ground and wich sort of ground. The Mantus is just a modification of the german Bügelanker, as same as the Rocna, the Original is much cheaper. If you want a real good anchor buy a Jambo

[@SailingTurtle]

Thanks for sharing this bit of information on the subject! Much appreciated!

[@charleschamberlain53]

Happy new year's

[@SailingTurtle]

THANK YOU!!! We are so excited for 2019 and can't wait to see what fun adventures we will have this year. We hope to be able to continue sharing our sailing adventure and hopefully share some of our other adventures as well. We hope that you have a great new year as well and can't thank you enough for watching our videos! We really appreciate it!

[@jonnorousseau3096]

Nice work, I'd be more careful if I were the skipper on that cat.

[@SailingTurtle]

Thanks! The owners of the catamaran, along with their professional captain, were off island at the time of the incident. We personally never did hear from them or meet them. One of the guys who helped us save the boat from crashing into the other anchored boats actually is an acquaintance of the owners and said that he spent time on the catamaran the year before. It was a crazy chain of events that's for sure. Thanks for watching and for leaving us a comment! We appreciate it!

[@kenpole3058]

That windlass/anchor rode is poorly thought out. Any feedback from cat owners? 🇨🇦⛵️

[@SailingTurtle]

No doubt. I would not feel comfortable being without an option for manually weighing anchor. The owners of the catamaran, along with their professional captain, were off island at the time of the incident. We personally never did hear from them or meet them. One of the guys who helped us save the boat from crashing into the other anchored boats actually is an acquaintance of the owners and said that he spent time on the catamaran the year before. It was a crazy chain of events that's for sure. Thanks for watching and for leaving us a comment! We appreciate it!

[@tonybell8752]

Happy Birthday. I'm sure good karma will be your reward for helping save that catamaran.

[@SailingTurtle]

Thanks mate! We appreciate you watching our videos and for leaving us a comment! =D

[@alicecoppers8980]

That piece of crap probably saved a life...YHoo

[@SailingTurtle]

Hahahaha We still can't quite believe what happened that night. It seriously was a miracle that our tiny spare anchor held that boat from drifting further out to sea or from crashing on the rocks. We are so glad to have had the help of some really incredible people that night! Thank you so much for watching our videos and for taking the time to leave us a comment! We really appreciate it!

[@1aview]

Happy new year

[@SailingTurtle]

Thanks man! Can't believe it's already 2019! Where has the time gone? It's hard to imagine that we were leaving Oregon at this time 2 years ago!!! Thanks for spending 2018 with us on our 2017 sailing adventure LOL

[@1aview]

I've got 45 min left of 2018 lol il catch up soon enough

[@wysiwyg2006]

That cat owner. Has too much money to care. Looks much too big for those moorings. Out moorings are designed for a certain tonnage, bet those are.

[@SailingTurtle]

HahaThat was the first thing we said about the mooring size as well. Thanks for watching mate!

[@murraybarnes76]

You need to fix the name of your video... a boat is up to 40 feet... a yacht is 40 to 80 feet... a super yacht is 80 to 200 feet a mega yacht is 200 to 400 feet and a giga yacht is 400 feet plus... what you dealt with, and good on you for helping, is a mid-range yacht and no where close to a super or mega yacht

[@SailingTurtle]

Thank you so much for watching our videos and for taking the time to leave us a comment. We really appreciate you being part of our adventure! The title of this video wasn't meant to be taken literal to the exact measurements and we didn't mean to offend anyone by it. We appreciate you sharing this bit of information for our viewers and hope that it can be beneficial to anyone reading through the comment section of this video. However, the 67' foot catamaran was by far the largest boat in the bay that night. It was privately owned, had a professional captain and would be anyone's dream boat to own if they had the money to do so. When comparing it to our small 26' sailboat, and for all of the rest of little guys out there trying to live the dream, it is a mega yacht. A very large boat equipped for cruising. Thanks again for watching!

[@murraybarnes76]

​@@SailingTurtle yes... but it is not a mega yacht... your video title is totally misleading... just because you think it is big doesn't make it a mega yacht... the sole reason I clicked on your video was to see a mega yacht... I thought the small yacht in the photo was the one that got crashed into by the mega yacht... when I realised that there was no mega yacht, at all, I was very disappointed... we are hoping to build a super yacht between 90 and 120 feet and I believe the reason this video showed on my KZbin feed is the keyword mega yacht... which, again, is totally misleading... this is not how you build a KZbin Channel which is probably why you only have just over 3,000 subscribers after more than a year... again... I strongly urge you to update your video title to not be misleading... maybe... 67 Foot Catamaran CRASHES Through Anchorage Ep. 74 ... or ... We Helped Save a 67 Foot Catamaran As It CRASHED Through Our Anchorage Ep. 74

[@kayakexcursions5570]

A yacht is a pleasure boat you dope, has nothing to do with size. They don't have to rename their video because you're an idiot. And please don't act like your intelligent enough to build a yacht, you obviously can't even afford a camera to document it, let alone afford the parts.

[@RT-gs7fj]

60 foot cat not that big . 88 foot is big .

[@SailingTurtle]

So very true! Compared to 26 foot anything is big. Hahaha We appreciate you watching our videos and for taking the time to leave us a comment. We hop you have a great new year!

[@SailingTurtle]

That's so fun! We are missing the beautiful islands and tropical waters of The Bahamas too. Where all did you get to travel to? How was it? Thanks for connecting with us!

[@bryanbernart439]

That POS is NOT a Mega Yacht.

[@SailingTurtle]

LOL Mega = Large and Yacht = boat equipped for cruising. You can call it what you want, but it was by far the largest boat in the bay, privately owned, had a professional captain, and is probably beyond a majority of other cruisers budgets. Besides that when comparing it to our small 26' sailboat, it is a mega yacht. Hahaha Thanks for watching mate!

[@danthemansmail]

She has the whitest teeth I have ever seen.

[@SailingTurtle]

Thank you. And thank you for watching our video!