See How This Boat Gets Saved When Mooring Breaks After Massive Storm Hits Small Coastal Town

Boat lucky not to be damaged as it heads out the river bar when its mooring breaks after heavy rain.
Two men manage to get on and save the boat.Check out another vid from the same bar, where boat nearly flips • Boat Has a Close Call ...
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Whakatane River Bar New Zealand.

[@mikesteens1678]

1:59 If you look quickly you can see that man swimming to the boat. Looks dangerous doing that with all the debris floating around!!

[@AB7F9]

What a great boat!! Took a beating, still stable and then no problems getting back out through the waves!!

[@WickedSalty]

That water is gnarly! Pure dirt, looks like a ripping current too.

[@r0adraycer]

This guy must clink when he walks, balls of steel!

[@tritty84]

did well to save it. must be a pretty decent sea boat.

[@neleabels]

Kudos! Determined and courageous action saved the vessel. Good seamanship.

[@lostpuppy3955]

Been over that bar and its scary even on a good day ..

[@jsmcguireIII]

Amazing the prop wasn't fouled with all that crap in the water. Without power he is SOL. Good job working out of that jam. Maybe invest in better mooring lines?

[@johnkirby4290]

I would like to buy these guys. Dinner and drinks. Great job guys. I got A 1978 Egg Harbor .If it was out there I would have done the same thing. 🇺🇸

[@ALLINKEDUP]

Good save. Nice boat.

[@Antipodean33]

Good job getting out to it and saving it. It did really well though on it's own there for awhile

[@gobbly1337]

Go little boat! Be Free!

[@davidmg1925]

Go little boat indeed. My sentiments exactly. Nice boat

[@frucklerbullpit]

Beautiful in it's own little way..

[@KeeweeRider]

New Zealand dedicated captain won't let his ship go down without him, r.i.p

[@dougwalton1638]

New Zealand boaters have it rough. Credit goes to them

[@jstbig1]

that's a damn good boat.....rides well

[@OpporTUNAtySportfishing]

Nice save!

[@tomrizzo1554]

That is so awesome that guy was able to save his boat pretty seaworthy boat I might add

[@jimthompson717]

He did well. Borderline miraculous .

[@juliojjesgmailcom]

It's a Big Miracle that Rudder/Propeller did not get damaged after running aground the shoreline...

[@regressmenot]

The boat owners owe those two men a steak dinner and a beer. Well done.

[@davidhill2265]

I would guess the owner either was one of the men or they work for him because you would need the key to start that boat.

[@svILLUSION]

I thought they handled it well. It was a bit iffy to wade out to the boat but the wave action there wasn't too crazy. The boat looked well maintained, people always forget to put money into their moorings... Was that a barn animal floating downstream? Wuh NZ...

[@tomthumb6307]

Man that is the nastiest debris field I ever saw. You guys have some truly ugly water down there.

[@davidhill2265]

Major storm and thats a river mouth so you get all the debris from the hills coming down the river.....Most of the time its clear of debris and good swimming and fishing.

[@DinoNucci]

Seems like a nice place for a swim

[@davidhill2265]

I swim there all the time its a great place for a swim just not after a major storm lol.

[@amandahudson431]

Anyone know anything about the river and why it was running so rapid?

[@WowMike2002]

Tell ya what, those guys deserve an ice cold beer and a weekend retreat for doing that service!

[@Themikies]

That was a cool video. Glad it had a positive outcome. Get the cleaner out and get ta scrubbin. Thing hit those waves like a boss. Full throttle jumpin whatknots!!

[@KristyLudwig1]

awesome vid!!

[@wishiniwasfishin8164]

wow, at least now the owners know it Can handle some rough seas

[@123boat]

Great job 😀

[@Paul115544]

anyone know what makes and model? pretty awesome handing the sea

[@tammyhacker3181]

Not a boater,,a true freakin sailor

[@BandiGetOffTheRoof]

That's a lot of wood in the water. Looks like costa rica beaches after a flood

[@MrJimbassplayer]

Well designed boat, meant for heavy seas. The bad part was all the stuff floating in the water, anyone of those things could snap a prop or prop shaft, that's the hard thing to get by.

[@VTSPQR]

Nice save, that could have ended up very badly, to say the least. Glad your all OK.

[@eltipoboricua]

where was he going at the end??

[@anfobomb]

how did it get there? dont seem like someone did get an idea to get out for a trip in the nice weather?

[@joemorrow7691]

what location was this?

[@rockroll9473]

My compliments to a job well done.

[@MrSpikebender]

What caused the terrible conditions to start with? anyone.

[@rediryou]

What happened to the guy swimming at 1:59 O.o. Holy hell I wouldn't go near that in those currents.

[@blackdiamondmarine]

that is a seriously tuff little boat

[@daveh3276]

Well done tricky waters. . .

[@gerardhand1954]

Well done, they did a great job of saving the boat

[@wj5mjk]

Hang on,little buddy!

[@olivedog1880]

Those men are nuts!

[@edmctug8800]

lucky they didn't bend a shaft, or damage a wheel

[@evdanker]

Was that a reverse tide?

[@tomkeal78]

wat was that ting at 1.19 in the video

[@mdhofert]

Good one Luddie

[@boatman6865]

Brave boys, but too big a risk I think, anything could have been in that water.

[@lerch122]

i was going to go out in my trailer sailor in this river but saw the waves and turned back.It was then i saw a 20 feet or so boat lying on the rocks,he came in at night and his spot light moved and got hit by a wave so it pays to have every thing in ship shape condition

[@426superbee4]

I give up that was not what i typed! was it abandon ?

[@n40tom]

HOLY COW ! ! ! Sorry I couldn't help that.

[@danielcullum8996]

What a mad boat them waves hitting it boat barely moved it

[@Visionery1]

What's that floating at 1:21?

[@cordelmar]

That boat looks like an old hatters.Great boat it could handle that rough water and not sink.

[@The5thSurvivor1998]

finders keepers

[@feuquegougueule1809]

+Almedin Rovasanin Loosers weepers!

[@flyingdog1498]

As Trump said, At least you got a boat, or Who's boat is that boat. MORONs

[@Imwright720]

That’s a lot of stuff floating in the way. This surely can’t be a regular crossing for boats.

[@rsswga]

ropes broke at the dock. crazy waters for sure

[@kohlguy8656]

Mir fällt ein Stein vom Herzen . Das Boot ist gerettet - Halleluja ! Man habe ich Angst gehabt um das Boot .

[@cekiert]

That's why sea cows are endangered. Speeding through a no wake zone

[@vitoriogil890]

Eu que andei no mar inclusivamente estive no porto de shtampton acho incrível este video

[@eugenewebb5489]

must have been a bad storm

[@FILIPFROMSALMO]

its rough out there!

[@captjim007]

I always head to the bar when my mooring breaks.

[@theoracle2877]

I missed the swimming bit!!

[@tomrizzo1554]

Nice save

[@sidknee8490]

That boat looked like it had a gyro considering the conditions it coped well..

[@MsLilyhorse]

Did the cow make it to shore okay? It looked it was doing the backstroke.

[@ken244]

you could tell its out going tide by the color of the water

[@clintdavis3781]

Good recovery. Get hammer and straighten out prop. I do it all the time

[@Mahalo_83]

Clint Davis you should take better care of your prop

[@Jkur2009]

If you’re really doing that then you’ve got to have some serious vibrations which is damaging your running gear.

[@dannymartin4375]

Wana go on my boat.. yeah sure where we fishing ? Hold on ... Beats hammer on prop fuck that I'm out

[@pigskin1000]

Why are you in need to straighten out your prop with a hammer all the time? I suggest you learn how to operate a boat and that won't be necessary. BTW, using a hammer to straighten out the big props on that boat would never work. They need to be fixed professionally or else you are sure to have vibration. Which can cause all kinds of other problems.

[@Jkur2009]

pigskin1000 exactly.

[@426superbee4]

Thats crazy, i would be out there in my boat, all the shit floating around, good way to get a hole in the hull and sink

[@Texaca]

the boat looks like a toy in those rough waves

[@divisioneight]

Surprised he was able to maneuver with all that debris clustered about his props.

[@FlatlandMando]

Interesting & very rough water. Telephoto lens accentuates this, making it look like no space between wave groups. Yes, unmanned boat adrift or sunk...first on board gets salvor's rights, isn't it? Some marine laws are international because they go so far back in time. Too bad there are no international environmental ocean protection laws, or few anyway.

[@mightyhorserocks]

I was thinking the same thing. lol...He could have been as easily crushed. I watched a 28 foot whaler get set right up on shore in one big wave while a couple of guys were trying to hook a tow line. They had run out of fuel when the lake got rough. On Lake Superior shit can go bad real quick.

[@Erictheirritated]

That's called 'salvage rights'. It's been part of the law of the sea for several hundred years.

[@TheInsultInvestor]

you know nothing

[@thecommentor8384]

Depends on the salvage rights in New Zealand lol

[@freespirittransport5139]

Repo men going the distance here!!

[@tritty84]

What was that dead thing floating? why was there so much rubbish?

[@rss3781]

easy stuff if you know boating as long as it steers and runs and pumps your good

[@sethsutich667]

My guess is either no insurance. Or they had a couple square groupers on board

[@markmcc78]

bravo!

[@stuarthearn9890]

whakatane river where I grew up and sailed as a kid

[@ryanc815]

A 3 hour tour

[@ryandavey9772]

1mill on this video, nice job weka

[@WekaDigitalMediaNZ]

Thanks, yeah didn't think that this vid would be watched so much as it has. :)

[@Thinkbeforeyoureply]

Are you kidding, *+Weka Digital Media NZ*? I love this shit. Some of the video of fishing boats crossing the Grey River Bar are fantastic. Having done that crossing myself on a relatively calm day, it's a freaky experience at the best of times. Cheers for the upload.

[@ryandavey9772]

Thinkbeforeyoureply wheres the grey river? grey mouth?

[@Thinkbeforeyoureply]

Yeah, that's it ryan.

[@ryandavey9772]

Thinkbeforeyoureply ahhh, seen alot of that bar and i aint going near that shit even on a good day.

[@WekaDigitalMediaNZ]

Check out another vid from the same bar, where boat nearly flips kzbin.info/www/bejne/faWUgWl_jbh-pqc

[@nickerrichiello2441]

What country is this in? Looks like cooks river out there

[@peterlovett5841]

New Zealand - Whakatane in the Bay of Plenty.

[@vinnitca1990]

Brave people !!!

[@vinnitca1990]

Highly skilled! Pleasure to watch. Salute to the captain!

[@trucking604]

They must have had the keys to get the engines started?

[@wj5mjk]

Skipper!

[@charlieamc]

Well done chaps!

[@gsaldana22]

You must mean no structural damage, because that boat got swamped! There's bound to be water damage in the living quarters if not inside the cabins where the portholes are on the bow. Good they saved it, though.

[@matthewbruckman9000]

As long as they closed all of the ports and if anything in that water somehow broke the glass I think it wouldn't be very wet in the cabin if at all. As long as the seals for everything were in good shape it should be fine

[@426superbee4]

I'am not getting all of the story here! Why did they take a smaller boat to go out to the yacht for? Then you see them cleaning off the stern and taking off, was the abandon?

[@Piccolo_Sun]

Thats boats is a fighter it did not want to go down.

[@jazldazl9193]

Whakatane NZ looks like post cyclone debris and flood swept this away

[@shadowbanned5164]

Whakatane is a river outlet so when it rains a lot you get all the crap from the hills coming down the river and getting trapped in the tidal flow at the mouth its a great place to fish from 99% of the time.

[@StarVoyager9]

All that debris in the water...looks more like hurricane water than anything else.

[@lorenzovezzulli7677]

There was something on board...👃

[@zacksgaragedoorserviceandr1208]

Did the boat survive I am guessing not

[@roygee1283]

very brave men, good luck to them.