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How do you get 80 ft of mast under a 65 ft bridge?
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How do you get 80 ft of mast under a 65 ft bridge?
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| Author | Topic: How do you get 80 ft of mast under a 65 ft bridge? |
| Hoosier |
posted 03-26-2012 11:45 AM ET (US)  
Not Whaler, but nautical. How'd he do it? |
| jimh |
posted 03-26-2012 12:54 PM ET (US)
I saw that presentation some time ago. The yacht has a long history of navigating the intra-coastal water way where the fixed bridge vertical clearance is maintained at 65-feet. The skipper has become adroit at listing his hull to travel under those bridges. I think there is a whole website devoted to his method, somewhere out there in the WWW. |
| Hoosier |
posted 03-26-2012 01:22 PM ET (US)
Thanks Jim. I went looking and found this note under this video on You Tube How to get an 80' rig through the 65' bridges of the Intracoastal Waterway using two tons of water. The balls get swung out with an initial turn to port or stbd. The tendency then is for the roll to continue by itself, but is controlled by letting the bags out slowly with a line made off to each bag and running through necessary tackle to a cockpit winch. Here's another video of him doing it again. Awesome seamanship. |
| kwik_wurk |
posted 03-26-2012 02:53 PM ET (US)
Not bad seamanship. Raw water intake needs to be managed, mast needs to be stout, rudder looses bite at that heal. And there appears to be only one person aboard. |
| Mambo Minnow |
posted 03-26-2012 03:25 PM ET (US)
Wait for Mean Low Low Water :) |
| contender |
posted 03-26-2012 05:58 PM ET (US)
We did something like this once before, we had a 32' sailboat (not mine) that was stuck on a sand bar off of Key West. Tied a line to the top of the mast and I used my whaler to pull it over on it side, then we had/used two other boats towing to deeper water... |
| Powergroove803 |
posted 03-28-2012 12:03 PM ET (US)
Every year we race 18 to 30 ft catamarans out of Blackwater sound up into Jewfish Creek and into card sound and back to Anne's Beach(Key Largo Steeplechase), before the draw bridge was installed we used to flip the boats over and let the current drag us under bridge, then right the boats and set off up Jewfish Creek. All pretty fun stuff, and the scenery for this 50 mile jaunt was out of this world. |
| domlynch |
posted 04-07-2012 07:56 PM ET (US)
With a hell of a lot of difficulty... |
| The Chesapeake Explorer |
posted 04-15-2012 11:31 PM ET (US)
One easy way.. "Full speed ahead.. damn the torpedos" or.. say mast. |
| robrcr |
posted 04-16-2012 12:16 AM ET (US)
We did this last year in my buddy's sailboat which was just too tall to comfortably make the Port Mayaca railroad bridge coming through the Cross Florida canal. There is a guy who has a business of running up along side your sailboat in his skiff with the 55gal. barrels and water pumps to assist. It's called the Okeechobee Limbo. |
| Hoosier |
posted 04-16-2012 11:55 AM ET (US)
Of note is that the "skiff" cited above is a Whaler.... |
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