Sam Holmes Sailing · video

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Sailing a Seawind 1000 catamaran, Sam Holmes and Arlene depart Port Blair under sail, beating upwind for roughly five hours toward Havelock Island in the Andaman Islands.▶ 0:00 While navigating near a reef, the boat strikes an unmarked shoal that charts showed as 18 feet deep but was actually less than a foot below the surface.▶ 6:14 Holmes puts the boat in reverse immediately after the depth sounder alarm triggers, and the crew drags an anchor off the stern to pull free.▶ 8:11 Post-grounding inspection finds only scrapes on the starboard rudder, skeg, and hull bottom — no fiberglass penetration, no water intrusion into the balsa core.▶ 5:35 Holmes notes the forward-facing sonar is missing parts and resolves to cross-reference satellite imagery against charts going forward, calling Andaman chart accuracy severely unreliable.▶ 7:55 A sea snake found aboard the boat is identified as venomous but non-aggressive and removed.▶ 3:42 The crew dives the wreck of the Inchkeith, sunk in 1955, tying the dinghy anchor to the wreckage in open-water conditions.▶ 22:26 A broken shear pin in the electric winch motor is repaired temporarily with 3M bolts and epoxy, with load limits reduced on the control panel to protect the fix.▶ 19:31 Holmes also launches a parasailor without running backstays, using a tight topping lift and mainsheet to support the mast.▶ 20:19

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