Amazing simple creative ideas that could not only save our boat, but also our life. Gracias por el vídeo!!

It is nice to know that a hull can take that much of a beating before failing.

It hurt to watch someone breaking a hull..

I love the idea of the board with the engine foam... never thought of that... I'm going to make one like that and have it stored in the locker just in case I need it... we sail a lot on the Great Lakes and there is a lot of debris floating around, including logs.. so I bet its only a matter of time that we will need something like this... Thanks a million for the great tip!

Greatly helpful. Next time show the hole and where the action is.

My notion is not to nail a plywood plate to the interior hull, but to secure it with drywall screws. Essential that pilot holes be drilled first, since you cannot drive a screw into solid glass (much less a nail). But I found the plan to draw a plate over the hole using a line fed from the inside to be quite clever. I carry a selection of bolts, which when things calm down could secure padded plates inside and out. For all this a battery drill required. Aa highly useful series of realistic demonstrations by Yachting Monthly, in y opinion, to their usual standard.

I have heard that the sail-wrap method only works while the boat is stationary. Upon moving, it actually gathers up a greater volume of water and presses it through the hole, making the leak worsen. I am surprised at how effective it was on a stationary boat, though!

Awww fiddlesticks. I'm new to your channel but can't wait to see your boat sailing! She's BEAUTIFUL!

at 1:42+ the camera man wont even point the camera at the hole that the guy is talking about....

Can you please film the object being talked about not the person talking?

Thanks so much for showing this

Punches hole in boat: "Yeah that's a hole"

so much for fiberglass being brittle!

Very educational , thanks

nice to see a test and instructions

very good indeed great bit of video Dylan Keep Turning Left

Fantastically informative video of an immensely stressful situation. You could see how even this controlled event affected him. Thank you for this series. Time for an ale. 🍻 Was the boat floating initially or just suspended in the sling? Should have kept the bulkhead intact to see how the water traveled through the boat. Also, please show & calculate the effectiveness of the bilge pumps. Were they even used?

@felipeherrerias Duct tape will only stick to dry surfaces unless you can wrap it around and around to make a seal, such as on a split pipe, on the wet hull it wouldn't stick.

Someone tell the cameraman to point the lens at the f...ing hole in the boat "We put it there..." means nothing when all we've seen is the guy's face! We've all read about these methods - why use a film so we CAN'T see how they work (or don't).

I can't imagine doing this in a seaway. First a high volume electric pump because any method is going to take time. Then a wedged cushion seems the best.

Thanks for doing this video. I hope I never need to use these solutions but if I need to I more prepared. Speaking of that could you make more video's of what to do when things go wrong. One example I recently learned is if the tide is going out and there is no wind and your main doesn't work drop the anchor.

Great that the sail works, it was your first time so maybe practice would make it faster?

@LibertaerUeberAlles Many wooden and fibreglass yachts have made it offshore, over oceans and around the world without crash bulkheads. Handy to have, but by no means essential.

The slings holding the boat were lowered so the boat was floating, and the hull was supporting herself, not the slings. The slings were left in position just in case she sank :0)

while it'd been nice to hear from the navy, the examples given are the ones you typically hear about on the docks. i found it interesting that it seemed, once again, that the cheapest, most versatile solution was bracing a type IV against it until you could figure out a longer term solution, such as fothering with a flat sheet of plasticized canvas.

What if you just filled a bowl of urethane foam and then keep pushed agains the waterway from the inside of the boat until it dries?

Good tips etc but the pic quality is awful

you could fill up a food bowl and keep it pushed against the hole?

The cushion is remarkably effective. Don't want to be on a long cruise with this guy. The cushion forms around the hole the board doesn't.

maybe you could make some really thick goo that is water resistant that you could plug the hole with

I could imagine the trouble if it were below the water tanks. There would be no way of removing that very easily

what did you do with the yacht... can i have it :D

Try doing that on a westsail 32.

Can you do a video showing when the crapper overflows and causes an imbalance flipping the boat?

What kind of boat is that?

Hydraulic cement.

Poor Old Boat!

Why don't you do better and show us how it's done.

Good experience. Why didn't you tried duct tape?

Jesus! two tonnes in 8 minutes? I need a bigger bilge pump.

alright now try the same things in heavy weather with huge waves and 40 or 50+ knots wind speed

this boat really hasn't been a willing participant in this has it

Fightingg the dock lines didn't help

What kind of boat was that at the beginning - they kept hitting it with a sledge after cutting it with a grinder and the sledge hammer just kept bouncing off LOL

ohhh nooooo, i can't watch how to crash a boat :((

9X rivet gun with a punch or shear woulda cut right through in about 20 seconds

FLEX TAPE

Piece of cake. Gorilla Duct Tape and sail away

Careful being cocky. Because look at the Titanic, She was supposed to be unsinkable.

I’d rather see what you’re talking about then see see talking

just another example of the RYA trying to teach us all how to do something in the harbour in ideal conditions same as life raft exercise . try it on a heaving deck when you are shit scared and attached by life lines then one of you gets tossed over board because you still have life lines attached to the deck and there is only two of you then you will loose the yacht and two crew. The RYA needs to get with it and seek advice form people that have been at sea in all conditions for real

These guys are liars, they said they made a hole in thee boat and it took 30 sec. If you check the clock on the video it takes a ,minute and a half and they stopped the video twice. It likely took them more than five minutes.