#15 Weather Strategy: Australia and New Zealand. Consequences after the 2nd wave.
28 de abril de 2026 · 47 min · 1K visualizações · South Pacific
Vuelta Vertical sails stormy seas near Australia and New Zealand.
O que este vídeo aborda
A knockdown to approximately 90 degrees in the Roaring Forties — between 40°S and 50°S in the Indian Ocean — is the central event of this live debrief aboard Alegría Marinero, a circumnavigation vessel mid-passage between South Africa and New Zealand.16:31 The boat's boom entered the water and the mast nearly touched the sea; a wave broke through the closed Bimini on all three sides (port, starboard, and stern) and flooded the cockpit and companionway.16:34 Seawater reached the electrical panel, soaking two inverters, a DVR, cameras, and audio equipment; the crew dried the electronics over three hours using a Bluetti portable battery when the main batteries were unusable.20:26 Pedro, on deck at the moment of knockdown, credits a brief stillness he calls the "parola effect" — a half-second pause before a breaking wave — for giving him time to grab a handhold and survive the knockdown uninjured.13:48 A crew member sustained a facial laceration near the eye; Paula treated it with Steristrip closures rather than sutures, citing boat motion and proximity to the eye as reasons to avoid stitching.6:41 The knockdown follows an earlier rogue-wave incident in the Atlantic that forced a one-month diversion to South Africa for repairs, pushing the crew past the austral-summer window for their planned Antarctic Circle approach.0:54 Now in the Pacific, 500–600 miles from New Zealand and tracking 7–8-meter swells, the crew is routing north to a waypoint before turning south again.1:29 The Yankee headsail tore when it snagged on the spinnaker pole during furling and was replaced with the Genoa.36:51 Floors were screwed down before departure from South Africa as a precaution against violent knockdowns.27:21 Preparation before a Southern Ocean passage — screwing down cabin sole panels, securing all loose gear, and keeping a portable battery bank independent of the main electrical system — proved its worth when a 90-degree knockdown flooded the nav station.
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