Thank you. You've saved someone's life today.

Believe me, your work is saving lives and boats, thanks!

Thank you so much. I like to think that your video should be a required watching for all who is venturing out to sea for work or pleasure. Certainly an indispensible tool for teaching for sailing schools and associations world over.

Thank you guys SO MUCH!!! I know this is a rather old video so my comment may go unread, but the information presented here is timeless and valuable.... ESPECIALLY for people like us from the US where pretty much anyone can operate a boat without any training, safety courses or license required!!! My husband and I are experienced boaters but on the relatively calm waters of the Chesapeake Bay. We recently purchased a new motor yacht and need to bring it home via the Atlantic Ocean and we have literally looked high and wide for information about navigating inlets safely. There are very few between us and our new boat that are jettied and we want to be as prepared as possible so this is great! Thank you!

We had to do an assault beach landing onto Stockton beach one year when I was in the Army Reserves. Being the commander of the boat, I told the motorman, when we were actually coming into the beach, to sit on the back of the wave and ride it in to the beach. None of us had ever done a beach landing before. I just thought it was commonsense and safer that way. We didn't roll over unlike others,

I’ve crossed the Columbia River bar hundreds of times. One of the worlds biggest, most dangerous crossings. Had the boat airborne once! River bars do not tolerate foolish decisions.

I wasn't intending to watch this but I've had a bit to do with boats, mostly sailing, and this all makes perfect sense. Especially not to cross a bar at low tide and how to return on the back of a wave. As an ex surfer the swells made my mouth water!

Many thanks, for your informative video. As a retired merchant seaman (Navigator) I have found this video extremely good. I am based in Jersey (UK) and on my next visit to N.Z. I will, with more confidence by following your instructions be taking my N.Z. based brother out. Again many thanks.

Following seas always freak me out more than heading into the seas. Great video!

This was really good. Thanks for posting!

Excellent Video!! Thanks for posting. Could save some lives for sure.

This is the best safety type video I've seen. I've watched the whole video and I don't own a boat or plan on getting one. Usually safety videos are 30 years old and have horrible actors playing out unrealistic scenarios.

He made it look so easy but I am sure there is years of experience behind. Overall a very informative and good video.

Great info my boats in rhy Kent Uk the tides there can be dangerous loads of lives lost with the riptide many thanks for this advice greetings from the Uk 🇬🇧👍🏻

Great advice - many thanks.

It would be a good idea to not have the music running on the video to demonstrate engine sounds and revs so people can get an appreciation of the throttle control being used with the engine. Especially what happens when a wave is being approached and the throttle back on cresting, then power recovery for the next wave.

this was great. thank you my friend.

I found years ago that a round stern boat was a big help as the water tended to go around the stern where a flat stern gave the water something to push on turning the boat beam on to wave then capsizing. that's talking of a following wave as you head in, never tried it in choppy conditions on going out.

Great advice! Many people here in the USA would be alive if they took the time to learn things like this. Boating here is pretty much drunken free-for-all

Great vid. Perfect spot for foiling

We ran a bar off hot springs cove, tofino, bc.... 40ft Toller, 2nd day post storm, clear blue skies, cove was calm, we rushed it a bit wanting to get on our way.. . once we reached the point of no turning back, waves were brutal short, but that wasnt the main problem.. It was the wind, boat keels in the wind, in a narrow channel losing steering ability, that is a boat killer.. longest 15 minutes of my life.

Excellent PSM! Thanx for sharing your Wisdom

Top information! Thank you.

Great advice. And even for the non sea person I learned a lot from this video.

Thank you very much. Been trying to find an informative video on this and this is fantastic.

Very well made tutorial, thank you

commercial dive boat skipper from south africa,we launch from the beach all day long,very dangerous,no matter the tide,being doing it for 25 years, informative for beginners,

really good one. thanks.

We used to big wave surf at a bar in Taiwan with typhoon swell.... the bar would always move around especially after heavy rains... it was great for surfing because the waves would really suck up there , anywhere else the ocean floor drops off too steep for anything but shore break..

Thank you guys SO MUCH!!!

good. real good. As an RYA instructor, this is very thorough and useful info

Very informative thank you.

Great video! Right I’m out there

Really cool vid. Thanks.

Excellent, well done video...

Look at those waves!!!

A excellent Video thanks from Sydney

When reentering make sure that the bilge is dry. Going out we took a small wave over the bow. It seemed like spray but we had taken on 20 plus gallons of sea water unknown. Once outside we turned and went in. Being young and foolish we surfed a gentle rolling swell. Once on the slope the bilgewater flowed to the bow. Being surfers and senseing the perl the crew raced far astern and I gunned it. Alas the moving swell combined with the heavy bow to cavitate the prop and we slid down the slowly growing swell inches from sinking the bow and the dreaded pitchpole. I could feel a veering due to being off the flat hull and up into the bow and fought to avoid the roll. As we survived and outran the swell the bilge flowed back, the prop hooked up water started gushing from the pump. As we watched how much water had come in so quickly and hid we realized what a few more gallons would have meant. Lessons learned: Boats aren't surfboards unless you are willing to wipe out. Visually check the bilge after taking any water. Front pumps keep you from going down by the bow with the stern pump up in the air useless. You got old boaters and bold boaters but very few old bold boaters.

Gracias, Muy buen video

Thank you

great computer animations

valuable essential information

This one of the most helpful boating videos I have watched, nice job!

Excellent advice ! ;>)

Very nice video thanks

8:42 All I see is potencially good surf waves for a kayak 😍

great vid thanks

lol @4:17. Going to --- "a good fishing spot." That oughta do it!

Great thank you

A mate of my dad and his young son drowned crossing a bar many years ago. Please take it seriously.

At 2:04………those checkerboard waves are very dangerous.

thanks i learnt something today

Not bad! But a couple of points, forgot to mention never rely on someone to tell you what's happening behind you while returning/(anytime), must look and judge yourself as pilot/skipper/driver, some get caught watching the wave in front as best to do but this wave can drop off and nearly disappear allowing you to fall back without noticing and be right underneath the one behind you and it could be too late by then, being picked up and ploughed into the water and rolled and tossed like a cork, (seen them stand up 30+ feet behind me!) Have a lookout but learn from the very start of boating to observe and commit, as you said wholly, and if you don't know what you're doing don't do it! Secondly, in a do or die/don't situation turning should be done in the right manner, better to quit than face immediate danger/emergency when an alternative is the better option, again make the decision and do it ASAP in the correct way, as you stated yes or no from the beginning! But a rouge wave or other can make the original decision untenable,. If it's got to be done do it as soon as you can behind the last wave gone under/past you, and treat it as a normal return crossing. Could well be not your day, but at least get to the safe position and watch the bar for a second time period and use common sense as to return to shore or go it again! Never went into the for and against of going broadside to escape the worst of waves if it can be achieved., as to smaller craft and so forth. Obviously in-between swells and waves when safe to do so but there again is a boating skill that needs to be learned, as some/lot of get scared and freeze and the power of the sea has you at it's mercy. If this is to be done it should be studied and course plotted (in your head) before crossing begins. As you stated learning and knowledge of any bar-way you intend to cross is your first decision! (Skipper 38 years, professional fisher 40, Tasmania) sure you know where that is! lol. cheers.

Returning in a tail running wave set is by far the most dangerous I have been caught by it and it is scary as f

bars looks great for surfing

Did he mention trimming the nose up (If your boat type allows it) on the way out and in?

The best ever 👍💐

I remember a water safety video years ago which counseled strongly against wearing gumboots (Wellingtons to most) anywhere near the water as once in the water they will sink you like a stone. So surprised to see they are the skipper's footwear of choice.

Thanks from Brasil

Thanks for the great vid. Crotch straps on life jackets are very important for maximising buoyancy.

When crossing bars in under powered slow larger vessels, be sure to have practised drifting in the latest automotive game so you can get your opposite lock on and ride those waves full throttle on the way in. Also be prepared to come to a full stop when a breaking waves hits your bow on the way out, despite the large diesel and big prop pushing you forward in what seemed to be a freight-train kind of way. Having surfed a 12.5 tonne 40 foot 13'6' beam sport fisher with only 250hp through a narrow 25 foot wide channel with shallow water and jagged volcanic rock on each side successfully, I can tell you that it's not easy! :-D

I’m definitely planning to stick to the lakes, but this was interesting nonetheless. Lol

Am new to boating, do i have to cross the bar to go offshore? Every coast has to have bar?? Thank you

Terrific post. I learned a great deal. Thank you!

Thanks

With speedy boats like these is “easy”, slow boats like sailboats, specially those equipped with deep keels, have great difficulty in traversing high waves bars

this is one of the best vids ive ever seen on youtube....dope animations and helo camera angles. sometimes i watch a real sheet sandwich of a vid then see its got 10 millions views and 1 million comments......this should be one of those. thanks for the tips bru! i was a skipper for 12yrs without ever once showing someone else how to use safety equipment, but we were all lifeguards so we could ditch the wreckage and swim to safety no prob bob. The Hudson river in NY doesnt have abar though. Hello from the gutters of N.Y.C., which are filledwith dog manure, vomit, stale wine, urine, and blood. Hello from the sewers of N.Y.C. which swallow up these delicacies when they are washed away by the sweeper trucks. Hello from the cracks in the sidewalks of N.Y.C. and from the ants that dwell in these cracks and feed on the dried blood of the dead that has seeped into these cracks.

Why is Matt moving in slow motion with his sunglasses on?

So what do i do if the wave behind me catches up? Or did i miss that part?

do you have to cross the bar ? Is it the only way to boating in the ocean?

These guys are amazing pro's

What are your recommendations for crossing in sailboat?

They call very dangerous Bars “Dives”.

Greeting from Malaysia Coast Guard!!

So, I'm thinking that if the tide is just coming in, and there is a moderate to strong wind going against the tide, executing plan B be can be done from the living room. 🙂

Why is it ok to return b4 or after high tide but not ok to leave after high tide?

Good safety measures for crossing a Ba

How to cross the bar starts at 6:23

At 5.17 is that a ufo in the background? First thought it was a helicopter but no signs of the tail or rotor shadows🤔

what must you do if wave brake wile you ride out the wave

Is there a limit on unit s of alcohol if you can still cross the bar safely

Nice video I don't agree with the "never turn around on a bar" i think i can very well see that in your case in the film it was perfectly easy and safe to do,you just watch the waves like a hawk!!! ; and i have turned back many a time right in the middle of it; but i am amazed at the tremendous trouble that the whole thing entails there, forget it.

Hi, what exactly is a Bar in the ocean? EDIT: Never mind, the first narrator explained it. Thanks.

This is so random :)))). This YT algorithm is full of surprises. Cool vid though.

Skipper almost killed 12 divers trying to cross the bar at tweed heads back in 2003, stalled us sideways, wash flipped the boat. Have to give a shout out to the Tweed Head life savers, those boys are badass mofos, saved the day!

Okay this is how it should be done - but I knew a guy who did none of this. The boat trailer was reversed far enough into the river, and left there. The - (mostly open) 15' runabout's monstrous outboard was fired up, and we surged our towards the Bar. I have no idea if the guy checked anything about tides etc. We headed out, thumping across the wave crests and out to sea. I was concerned seeing land disappearing, no life-jacket and unaware of any safety gear. He hove-to and hauled in fishing nets - amazing me we were not swamped, even by the low sea state. We survived that. The outboard fired up and throttled to maximum, so we raced toward the river mouth. I awaited to see how he handled the bar - and was shocked because - just like on our way out, the keel only contacted the crests. Crash crash crash and getting wet - but we survived. Back at the trailer, my curiosity about putting the boat back on the trailer was answered. He aimed the bow at the trailer and pumped the throttle. The boat rocketed forward mounting the trailer. It was clearly risky. Well I am alive, but he isn't. He was lost off the coast fishing some time back. I wondered if he had ADHD or something that infected his judgement.

can eesily cipsize eeny vissil

and if you dont have a big pair of gumboots, just tie an anchor around each ankle??

Don’t forget - never, ever cross a bar after visiting a bar on land! 😜

Does also effect 52 feet boats

8.33 narrowly avoided crossing that wave as it was breaking.

I live on Lake Superior so the closest Ocean is 2000Kms away,..... not entirely true, Hudson Bay is 1500KMs North but I cant really get there. I wish I lived somewhere on the Ocean

A good bartender precludes the necessity to cross the bar.

Don't think you covered slower moving vessels, ant tips in avoiding the broach when incoming.

And in a low powered sailboat?

How do you do that in a sailboat -- under sail ?

That's a lot of calls to Coast guard per individual trip in and out. Poor CG dude on shift gonna be like a single soul at Chicago ATC on a busy weekend day.

Played the video twice never got to learn what was plan B

i just learned that these people dont realize many boats dont have the speed to stay between swells! and you will have a swell over take you!

I like to stop at the bar for a beer. why would i cross it??