Not going to lie. I laughed a little harder than I probably should have at the naming of the new rock. Well done!

We did pretty much the same thing last year minus the sirens. 😂 Since it was our first grounding we were nervous. Did the same preliminary checks as you and all seemed reasonably ok. It was end of season and we were lifting out anyway, so we got a surveyor to come and take a look at everything. Except for a chunk of metal being dug out of the keel bulb (it was pebbly/rocky bottom) and the generator jumping out of place and through a bulkhead (there was previous water damage to the bulkhead, so we had to fix it anyway) , everything else was a ok. Good thing we were going slow. And ours was on the chart and we knew about it... We got distracted looking for an anchoring spot in a busy bay.

I sailed the east coast of Sweden this year - and did not hit anything. But I tied up next to a nice young swedish sailor in one harbor and he reported a Swedish saying similar to yours: “There are 2 types of sailor - those who have hit a rock and those who will. I liked that 😊

Always enjoy seeing nail polish on a sailing professional. 😊

Another very entertaining episode, Sophie and Ryan. Now I will have you to thank for never hitting another fuX#ing rock. Many many thanks from the future!

$300 for the Navionics subscription, $200 for the new keel paint, Discovering the benefits of having user Navionics user comments on the chart plotter, priceless. Thought I got away without hitting the bottom this season. That was until we hauled the boat out and looked at all the scratches on the front and sides of the keel. Should have called it Ryans rock

Hello from Victoria BC Canada Really tuning into sailing shows thease days . Taking my first sail on the Balderdash a former race boat in March which falls in with rocks . We have to get her out near Sooke BC When the tides are just right in March or it will be grounded . When my brother and co workers were going from Maple Bay to Sooke they could see the rocks bellow October 1 .So its watching sailing shows and walking lots ,,need to get in shape . Again love the show .

Admiral Nimitz (the same that commanded the US Navy during world war 2) ran his destroyer Decatur aground on a mudbank in the Philipines. Unable to get it off he took the advice of his grandfather "do not worry about things over which you have no control" set up a cot on the deck and went to sleep. A steamer appeared after daylight and pulled it off. He was court martialled for "Hazarding a ship of the US Navy" and accepted responsiblity and was given a letter of reprimand - but it obviosuly didn't damage his career too much!

Been there, done that! Hilarious use of the Siren theme and rock naming! 😂😂😂

Sailing off Phuket last week. Rocks and shallows everywhere (many not charted) so at least you are looking for them. This one was lurking ready to bite.

I was in Port Mouton last year and I entered the bay in deep fog, under chart plotter, radar and depth sounder, thank fully I did not hit any rock. A few months later I was less lucky in Guadeloupe where I hit a well marked cay and broke my keel. I ran aground twice in Martinique trying to visit "Les baignoires de Joséphine". I am not afraid to say that I ran aground many times in my sailing carreer. Cheers, Salutations

I’ve definitely had my centerboard skipping off the ground before. It actually took my son and I a second to realize what was happening. I grabbed my laptop and looked at Navionix and was finally able to put 2&2 together. In the grand scheme of boat mistakes, this doesn’t hold a candle to my larger oppsies!

So sorry that happened to you. Glad it wasn't worse! Safe travels ❤

As you're probably not the first owners of the boat and there might have been groundings before plus the gap between the hull and the keel, I'd surely have the bolts checked with X-ray. Stainless Steel is not as stainless as the name suggests and will corrode if contact with salt water is made and there is another metal nearby. Some boats have lost their keels just because the docks in the homeport were of mild steel. Cast iron and Stainless Steel for example will make quite a good battery and as the iron is usually the thicker material the bolts will corrode away. Galvanic current changes the metallurgy inside the bolts where cast iron doesn't have much to change. But I believe you took the right conclusions already as you mentioned the correct step to call a surveyor.

Thank You for this, I found it really helpful and informative. Nice to see it from an understandable position. Not some dude on the dock pontificating!

Ryan totally added that comment on Navionics. LOL

The muck bottom of the Chesapeake will really create a suction. Been there done that.

I would add chainplate examination (particularly backstay) to the sage list of checks. Maybe not in your case but the shock of dead stop with the inertia/momentum at the top of the rig puts big loads at rig base - check out the gelcoat for signs of cracking. As to rocks... done that one because a moment's inattention to scale a vector chart for all the available info meant the charted rock was not showing.on the screen at the time - a lot still to be said for paper.

The title got me worried. Having seen more than one hull design of that kind separate grid and hull I would hate you going through that, but indeed you were very slow and even lost some more speed at the first gentle touch. It could not have gone any better. Great choice of naming the location. 🙂

love the name of the new rock ,cheers

Wonder if ya ever looked at getting FLS(foresee looking sonar)? I’ve heard it’s especially helpful in spotting Bombies…Continue to Stay Safe and Enjoy 😎

That is an appropriate name for that particular rock 🙂

So, you’ll want to pull up the floor boards surrounding the keel area and look at the joint where the inner modular grid mates up to the inner surface of the hull. You likely did not suffer any damage on the underside of the hull, but the force of the impact transfers thru the hull and keel to the grid. The skin of the hull is not breached as it ends up flexing, but the energy transfers thru to the grid. That is where that type of construction stresses under a grounding and can develop cracking of the tabs on the modular grid. Not fatal, but will need to be addressed by a boatyard. Definitely need to get all your floorboards pulled up in the salon and look for cracked tabs on the grid. You guys have probably checked into all this by now, but if not, check the grid thoroughly.

Thank you for posting.

Thank you. Great video!!!

Glad you guys are ok! We also ran a ground twice recently while on our first anchorage 😅 luckily it was soft mud.

That is so true lol the ones that touch the bottom and the ones that Lie 😅we have touch the bottom twice and What a great name for a rock 😂😂😂

I've hit bottom three times too. All muddy groundings. The first and worse was during delivery of my own boat. Worse because speed was about 5 knots, and we had to be towed out. The other two times I used the jib to rock the boat and widen the mud hole and motored out. It happens. These were due to not updated charts, and after heavy storms. Just paint off the keel, no other damage. Stuff happens. Fair winds.

Did you speak to the boating community, locals, boats in the area prior to moving, it can be priceless and very informative despite all of the Nav stuff. Still hitting rock drama always gets more views, forward view depth sounder for Christmas

yep, done it. twice! 😂

I forget how many times we have grounded our centreboard on the Trimaran. We have broken it 4 times.... so yeah don't feel too bad..Onloy 2 types of sailors those who have run aground and those who will

To bad you didn't pull into Portsmouth NH and fly out of Manchester/Boston . Just south is the Northshore Cape Ann. Maybe next time .

Thanks for the mention guys, hope you are doing well :)

Great video

Okay naming that rock "another fuc#in rock" almost cost me my laptop, I just took a sip of wine.

Bonjours à vous deux, propriétaire d un oceanis 40 de 2007 j ai malheureusement vécu la même expérience de talonnage au mois août sur notre jolie île de brehat ( Bretagne nord ) et comme vous seulement de petites rayures ! Bienvenue au club des talons d or 😂

OMG...perfect description of Chesapeake mud. Lol

Check your frame to hull joints. Probably good. It's just that Beneteau and Jeanneau glue their frames to the hull. Expedition Evans bought a 50' Beneteau that had a very bad keel strike, yanked the frame hull joint. (It all worked out. They got the boat for $25k! and had to do a lot of fixing. ) "One day it may happen to you..." Last week while heading out of the harbor I saw both Boat US tow boats each towing a boat. Wished them a silent best of luck and thought, someday that'll be me...

Nova Scotia - where Stan Rogers was scattered. Absolutely amazing - never knew sirens had such pretty noses :D ...sigh. Come spring I am signing up to learn to sail somewhere here around Umeå - I got to try this. ...probably a midlife crisis brewing xD

Long time subscriber! Have a project boat (beneteau 35s5) and she's coming together after 3 years of restoration. Have only run aground one time (a bluough grounding situation)! After reading the chart more carefully it said "dredged, not regularly maintained" :(

yep, ive hit two reefs but only one I own up to. Scraping sand and mud doesnt count as that just cleans the bottom part of your keel.

'Sand dollar', close relative of the 'sea biscuit' and 'sea urchin'.

Glad to hear no damage to the boat. A scary few minutes to say the least. Is it in the plans to mount the Starlink permanently?

50 years sailing- lost count of grounding, adventure enough and you will too.

Agh the bottom hitters club, many of us that admit to it and soooooo many who deny it lol.

Fucking rocks do create some rock and roll😅🎉..but reality is good..as long as the keel sticks to the boat it is😅😊

Keep the rocks in your cocktail glasses...

My new goal in life is to sail those islands and discover ‘Yet another F*ck1ng rock’ and claim it for the King….

U both did really well with that grounding, u talked it through, u didn't panic and u didn't yell at each other. It's a credit to us Sailing abilities. I'm impressed, because u hit twice that I saw, but calmly got out of it. Hugs for Barnicle, she was probably thinking oh S#!+is finally happened, I'm seal food. Goes to show just how alot of these water are really not charted very well at all. Hope Polar Seal is not too scratched up. 👍🐨🇦🇺🌈🐶glad u were holding onto the rigging Sophie. Ur a bloody funny B!+€h Soph.🤣🤣🤣

You took it great. I would be shocked too. What is the Lesson to be learned?

So had you updated the Navionics on your phone more recently than the Navionics on your chart plotter. Also did the new rock that you marked show up on the updated chartplotter as quickly as on the updated phone chart?

I touched a lot of bottoms but never sailed does that count

you really find it fine using regular starlink on a rocking boat that changes direction?

LOL.... F-N Rock...

A not fun grounding, on a loopy friend’s Macwester 27 Bilge Keeler. Friend loopy ecause he Never listened. sigh.We had been out for the day from the Estuary he moored at, which had a very tricky Channel out into the Bay, on leaving, sand dunes to starboard with a sandbar right on the edge of the channel.Well he grounded on the Bar on the way out, so perhaps should have told him to go back to the mooring after towing him off with the Dinghy. Ho Hum, we Continued out, and I noticed there was something wrong with the Port side Channel Marker Buoys next to the large amount of Rocks, and at least one of the Buoys was missing. I commented that the Buoys weren’t right, and that on our return at Full Tide, I’d take the Dinghy in First to check them out. Which I did, and found that the last two were missing, so back on the boat, we headed in, and I explained when you get near the last visible Buoy, Slow Right down and Turn to Port . Response Eh ? Instant Repeat . Eh ? We are doing 5+ knots with the Tide behind us and those damned Marker buoys are running Out Fast, so at the top of my Voice I Shout Slow Down and Turn to Port ! Crash bang wallop , Mast Bends like a Bow, and crash bang wallop still not slowed Dow, we keep going until we run out of Rocks to collide with. I look below, grab Life Jackets and go below to check for leaks, He finally Slows down and we get to the Mooring, then wait for low Tide to check for damage. There was a small chip in the Gel Coat on each Bilge Keel, which I cleaned with acetone, and used some Gel Coat repair stuff on, then we went to the Pub. The Owner was a really nice guy but so bloody Clueless. Still, I suppose the Bulk of the “Don’t Do That “ Things on Boats I learned while Crewing for him. Never have an underpowered inboard engine, him getting us stuck for hours in Overfalls. Always have your engine and gearbox fully serviced, and regularly check the Stuffing box. Him, after having to push his boat with my Dinghy lashed to the side all the way up the coast to another friend’s mooring he had the use of for the Summer, as the engine died just as we left the Bay where the estuary e moored up was. Not a Breath of wind it was a millpond and a scircher of a day. It took 3 refills of the internal tank of my 3.3 Hp Tohatsu 2 stroke, to do a bit over 40 miles. We rolled into the Mooring, only to find out that he had booked us in at our Harbour Master friend’s Restaurant for lunch S he had said we’d be there by mid day at the latest, but it was about 7pm when we rolled in, after being welcomed by our friends on the Lifeboat, after a bit of a telling off, all he could say was Eh ? Ex Merchant Navy he knew it all, but just like Manuel in Fawlty Towers He Knows Nuuu Theeeng. Lovely guy though, a self made millionare three times, but three wives took him to the cleaners. One Demonic Darkside almost wife, was enough for me. Happy Days ! Bob.🤣🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧⛵️🌟🌟🌟❤️

I jumped over a rock while sailing not fun surprising feeling

Im impressed. Not to take any pleasure from the mishap…but you owned it! When you own it…it seems like no big deal. You guys are a great team. Does Ryan own Dakota lithium?

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But...but my dream was to hit rocks.

Hi … your videos are amazing. It’s really inspiring for me and my GF … planning to spend our first few years after retirement as live-aboard (still 10 years to go though). Question: I heard that starlink is charging a lot of money to sailors because they discontinued their RV plan (or they do not allow boats) and basically have only a marine service tailored to super-yachts … is it true? Has Elon finaa sad lot realized that not all sailors are billionaires? And in fact sailors-Tubers give a lot of good press to his company??? Why penalizing them … in any case I don’t think that the data rate generated by sailing yachts will break the bank and bring down his network … can you comment?