Brandon Darby spent years navigating extreme environments ashore—from grassroots disaster relief after Katrina to high-stakes investigative journalism. Now, he’s preparing to head south to Patagonia, cross the Drake to Antarctica, and tackle the Northwest Passage. To take on unmarked rock sills, williwaws, growlers, and floating pack ice, typical blue-water cruiser assumptions don't hold up. In this livestream, Brandon and I break down what it really takes to outfit a dedicated high-latitude exploration vessel. We cover the French production benchmark (Garcia and Ovni), dive into why lifting centerboards and heavy unpainted aluminum (KM Yachtbuilders, Boréal, CMP 68) give you access to shallow caletas, examine Skip Novak’s no-nonsense manual systems philosophy, and settle the debate on whether composite boats—even high-performance catamarans like an Outremer—can safely operate in ice. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⏱ CHAPTERS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 0:00 — Introduction & Book Giveaway Rules 1:40 — Meet Brandon Darby: From Land to High Latitudes 3:50 — The Ultimate Benchmark: Skip Novak’s Pelagic 77 8:35 — Pelagic 77 Deck Layout: Manual Rig & Cockpit Design 15:10 — Watchkeeping, Shelter, & Heavy-Weather Arches 19:50 — Shore Lines, Waste Stowage, & Galley Systems 25:35 — Mast-Mounted Reefing vs. Cockpit Lines 28:50 — Coffee Grinders, Big Sails, & Balanced Rigs 34:00 — Deck Hardware & Heavy Ground Tackle 40:30 — Interior Design for Heavy Seas: Handholds & Bulkheads 45:10 — Paper Charts vs. Digital in Remote Latitudes 50:20 — Refleks Diesel Heat & Sea Chest Redundancy 54:20 — The Dutch Standard: KM Yachtbuilders & Dykstra 58:45 — Weighted Lifting Keels vs. Unweighted Centerboards 1:05:10 — Bestevaer 65 & Modern Aluminum Aesthetics 1:11:15 — Boréal Yachts: French Centerboards & Twin Daggers 1:15:30 — Inside Doghouses & The Problem with Hidden Lines 1:20:45 — MCP 68, Garcia, & Allures: Production vs. Custom Metal 1:24:40 — Luna Drops By the Studio 1:29:20 — Ovni Aluminum & Electric Propulsion Realities 1:33:10 — The Redundancy Rule: 4 Ways to Charge at Sea 1:36:05 — Captain's Verdict: Step on Real Boats Before Buying 1:41:05 — Vetting Polar Crew & Pilot House Aerodynamics 1:48:00 — Fishers, Nauticats, & Heavy Displacement Tanks 1:53:35 — Offshore Debrief Podcast & Wrap-Up ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ☕ SUPPORT THE CHANNEL ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Help us keep uncovering and telling these stories: ⚔️ Join the Inner Circle on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/bethecaptain 🍺 Buy the crew a beer / one-time tip: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/svzingaro ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚓ RECOMMENDED GEAR & PARTNERS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Defender Marine — Outfitting boaters since 1938 with trusted marine gear, expert advice, and refit supplies: 👉 Shop Defender Marine: https://defender.com/en_us/ PredictWind — The world leader in offshore marine weather forecasting, routing, and departure planning: 👉 Check out PredictWind: https://www.predictwind.com/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📖 RECOMMENDED READING ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Patagonia & Tierra Del Fuego Nautical Guide by Giorgio Ardrizzi and Piero Valdini https://www.amazon.com/clp/8865944315?lv=shuf&channelId=500 Skip Novak on Sailing: Words of Wisdom from 50 Years Afloat https://www.amazon.com/Skip-Novak-Sailing/dp/1399414747/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0 Be The Captain by James Allan Evenson — A definitive field manual on offshore seamanship, survival, and command. https://bethecaptain.com/ 🔔 Subscribe and turn on notifications so you don't miss the next one. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ TAGS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #HighLatitudeSailing #Antarctica #NorthwestPassage #AluminumBoats #GarciaYachts #Bestevaer #BorealYachts #SkipNovak #Outremer #ExpeditionSailing #BrandonDarby #JamesEvenson #BeTheCaptain

Today I'm doing a live consultation with Ashton and his family. They've never sailed; they live in Utah, and they want to move aboard with three kids under 10 and eventually cross an ocean. Monohull or catamaran? New or old? Where do you even start? We'll go through all of it. Then I'm looking at a strange listing: the last Hans Christian 41T ever built. Brand new, never used, and never finished. It's been sitting in a shed in Texas for ten years. Bargain or money pit? Plus a follow-up on the Cheeki Rafiki episode and your questions in the chat. Cheeki Rafiki Video: https://youtu.be/t48t_mAh8L4 📖 Be The Captain, the book: https://bethecaptain.com ⚔️ Join the Inner Circle on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/bethecaptain 00:00:00 Introduction & Stream Rules 00:04:10 Meet Ashton & Whitney: Family Goals, Timeline & $500K Budget 00:09:18 Why Sail vs Power & Sailing Route Ideas (Med vs Crossing) 00:15:25 Monohull vs Catamaran for a Family of Five 00:17:48 Boat Option 1: Tayana 58 (Layout, Solar & Bilge Switches) 00:30:08 First Book Giveaway & Proactive Boat Searching 00:36:13 Boat Option 2: Outremer 45 Catamaran (Gen 1 vs Gen 2) 00:46:44 Boat Option 3: Catana 47 & Ongoing Running Costs 00:59:18 Second Book Giveaway & NEEL Trimarans Overview 01:03:51 Boat Option 4: Hallberg-Rassy 53 01:06:40 Boat Option 5: Amel 54 Ketch 01:11:17 Aluminum Cats: Garcia Explocat 52 01:14:00 Advice: How to Gain Sailing Experience from Landlocked Utah 01:21:13 Online Certifications, Off-Shore Passages & Why Avoid Production Charter Cats 01:25:20 Wrap-up with Guests & Solo Reflection 01:27:40 Audience Q&A: Delivery Routes, Irwin Citation 34 vs Jeanneau & Morgan 462 01:43:03 Hidden Dangers When Buying 30+ Year Old Boats 01:46:50 Final Book Giveaway & Outro

In May 2014, four British sailors were bringing the Beneteau First 40.7 Cheeky Rafiki home from Antigua Sailing Week. Halfway across the North Atlantic, she started taking on water. Then her keel came off, she rolled over, and all four men were gone. The search was called off within days. Their families fought to get it started again, and when a US Navy ship finally found her floating upside down, the life raft was still on board. The investigation traced the failure back years before that crossing: groundings, repairs, and a keel bolt that wasn't there. I delivered her bigger sister, a Beneteau 47.7, from the Exumas to Cartagena, and on that trip I found out what that kind of hidden damage looks like. This is the full story, from the first leak to the trial. In memory of Andrew Bridge, James Male, Steve Warren and Paul Goslin. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⏱ CHAPTERS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 0:00 — Cheeki Rafiki: The Last Phone Call 1:36 — Antigua to Southampton: The Route Home 2:20 — Beneteau First 40.7 vs 47.7: Sister Ships 2:34 — How the Keel Is Attached: The Glued-In Grid 3:48 — The Crew of Cheeki Rafiki 5:25 — Crossing the North Atlantic: Azores High and the Westerlies 6:53 — Water in the Bilge: The First Red Flag 7:51 — Keel Grounding Damage and Grid Repairs (2007–2014) 12:56 — The Safety Inspection That Never Happened 13:59 — Beneteau 40.7 Keel Failures: Barracuda and Five More Boats 15:39 — May 15: Taking On Water Offshore 16:42 — Leak or Water Tank? How to Find the Source 17:55 — The Emails and Calls to Stormforce 19:25 — My Own Keel Leak on the 47.7 20:47 — When Should You Call a Mayday? 22:52 — The Last Call: "This Is Getting Worse" 23:11 — What the PLB and EPIRB Signals Tell Us 24:07 — The Search and the Families' Petition 26:25 — The US Navy Finds the Hull: Liferaft Still On Board 28:04 — The MAIB Investigation 28:29 — How Production Sailboats Are Built 30:09 — Grid Separation and Keel Bolt Leaks on the 47.7 31:30 — How a Grid Repair Should Be Done 33:02 — The Missing Keel Bolt 34:27 — Is Beneteau Responsible? 35:48 — The Stormforce Trial and Verdict 36:45 — What a Marine Survey Won't Find 37:48 — How to Check Your Keel and Grid 38:26 — EPIRB With a Hydrostatic Release 39:07 — Remembering the Crew ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ☕ SUPPORT THE CHANNEL ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Help us keep uncovering and telling these stories: ⚔️ Join the Inner Circle on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/bethecaptain 🍺 Buy the crew a beer / one-time tip: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/svzingaro ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚓ RECOMMENDED GEAR & PARTNERS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ - Defender Marine — Outfitting boaters since 1938 with trusted marine gear, expert advice, and refit supplies: 👉 Shop Defender Marine: https://defender.com/en_us/ - PredictWind — The world leader in offshore marine weather forecasting, routing, and departure planning: 👉 Check out PredictWind: https://www.predictwind.com/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📖 THE TRUE STORY — FURTHER READING ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ MAIB Report 8/2015: Loss of the yacht Cheeki Rafiki (Marine Accident Investigation Branch) Be The Captain by James Allan Evenson — Winner of the 2026 Eric Hoffer Award. A definitive field manual on offshore seamanship, survival, and command. 🔔 Subscribe and turn on notifications so you don't miss the next one. 📷 Archival photographs courtesy of the US Navy, press and public archives. If you hold the rights to any image used here and would like credit or removal, please contact captain@bethecaptain.com ✂️ Edited by Alex Sennett ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ TAGS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #CheekiRafiki #KeelFailure #Beneteau #SailingDisaster #MAIB #OffshoreSailing #LifeRaft #EPIRB #Shipwreck #TrueStory #MaritimeHistory #BeTheCaptain

Get my award-winning book: https://bethecaptain.com/ I've sailed over 90,000 miles offshore, with great captains, bad captains, and a few I'd never step aboard with again. When I started writing Be The Crew, I asked you to send me your stories. You did. One sailor was alone at the helm off the Washington coast in a building storm. The autopilot was dead, the engine alarm was screaming, and the captain never left his bunk. One delivery left Maine with the engine seacock closed, algae in the fuel, and the sails still sitting on the dock. One two-man passage turned into a screaming match over a preventer, and the crew member spent the rest of the trip keeping his distance from the rail. And one crew member heading north from San Francisco held the jib on with a soft shackle he'd tied while listening to the audiobook. Tonight we're talking about the decision that comes before any of that: whether to step aboard at all. How to vet a captain before you fly halfway around the world to meet him. What to ask, what to watch for on the video call, and when to walk away. And what good crew looks like when the captain isn't up to the job. *Got a captain story of your own:* captain@bethecaptain.cpm ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚓ SUPPORT THE CHANNEL ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚔️ Inner Circle on Patreon (join the WhatsApp crew): https://www.patreon.com/c/bethecaptain 📖 Be The Captain, my maritime field manual on seamanship, leadership, and crisis at sea (unlocks 10% off Defender Marine + 20% off PredictWind): English: https://bethecaptain.com/ · Español: https://a.co/d/08yiAfse 🧰 Free downloads in the Captain's Locker: https://bethecaptain.com/locker 📚 Getting ready to buy a boat? Leadsman offers market intelligence and 17-page vessel condition reports: https://leadsman.ai/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚓ RECOMMENDED GEAR & PARTNERS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Defender Marine: outfitting boaters since 1938 with trusted marine gear, expert advice, and refit supplies. 👉 https://defender.com/en_us/ PredictWind: the world leader in offshore marine weather forecasting, routing, and departure planning. 👉 https://www.predictwind.com/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⏱️ CHAPTERS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 00:00 Abandoned on Watch: Viewer Survival Stories 00:59 Story 1: Left Alone at the Helm Off Oregon 03:21 Navigating the Strait of Juan de Fuca & Columbia River Bar 05:58 Two Crucial Offshore Rules: Sunset Reefs & Night Approaches 06:56 The Autopilot Failure & Solo Engine Trouble 11:04 Heaving To: The Missing Skill 16:50 Making the Call: Diverting to Neah Bay 18:55 Captain Breakdown: Why Passing the Buck Offends Me 21:38 Crucial Pre-Departure Briefings 24:06 Command Decisions at Sea 26:11 Story 2: The Ill-Prepared Delivery from Maine 27:15 Engine Traps: Raw Water Seacocks & Fuel Contamination 28:17 Dual Racor Setups & Marine Fuel Care 31:00 Emergency Radio Protocol: Pan-Pan vs. Mayday 32:54 The True Responsibility of Crew 36:42 Story 3: Moving Up from Deckhand to Skipper 38:32 The Professional Deckhand vs. Passenger Mentality 40:25 Obscure Sailing Memoirs & Head Failures 42:50 Resetting Under Stress: The Physiological Sigh 45:58 Boat Audit: Steel Endurance 36 & Hull Material Realities 51:28 Roast My Boat: Hunter Vision 32 & Coastal vs. Bluewater Designs 54:36 RYA Yachtmaster & Licensing Programs 57:12 Life Raft Mounting Points & Hydrostatic Releases 01:00:15 Evaluating Older Multihulls: Prout Snowgoose vs. Catana 01:03:45 Motor Sailors: 1970 Banjer 37 Assessment 01:07:56 Dutch Barges & Inland Cruising Realities 01:10:48 Atlantic Crossing Realities: Beneteau 411 Route Analysis 01:16:58 Boat Audit: 1974 C&C Viking 33 01:19:50 Monohull vs. Catamaran for a Family of Five #sailing #offshoresailing #bluewatersailing #sailingcrew #crewing #liveaboard #BeTheCaptain #BeTheCrew

I've been delivering boats for 25 years and I've sailed over 90,000 miles offshore. I've sailed with great captains, bad captains, and a few I'd never step aboard with again. When I started writing Be The Crew, I asked you to send me your stories. You did. One sailor was alone at the helm off the Washington coast in a building storm. The autopilot was dead, the engine alarm was screaming, and the captain never left his bunk. One delivery left Maine with the engine seacock closed, algae in the fuel, and the sails still sitting on the dock. One two-man passage turned into a screaming match over a preventer, and the crew member spent the rest of the trip keeping his distance from the rail. And one crew member heading north from San Francisco held the jib on with a soft shackle he'd tied while listening to the audiobook. Tonight we're talking about the decision that comes before any of that: whether to step aboard at all. How to vet a captain before you fly halfway around the world to meet him. What to ask, what to watch for on the video call, and when to walk away. And what good crew looks like when the captain isn't up to the job. First, a quick recap from Annapolis. Then it's your questions. Crewing, boats, gear, passages, buying decisions. Bring them. *Got a captain story of your own:* captain@bethecaptain.cpm ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⏱️ CHAPTERS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Chapters will be added after the stream. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚓ SUPPORT THE CHANNEL ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚔️ Inner Circle on Patreon (join the WhatsApp crew): https://www.patreon.com/c/bethecaptain 📖 Be The Captain, my maritime field manual on seamanship, leadership, and crisis at sea (unlocks 10% off Defender Marine + 20% off PredictWind): English: https://bethecaptain.com/ · Español: https://a.co/d/08yiAfse 🧰 Free downloads in the Captain's Locker: https://bethecaptain.com/locker 📚 Getting ready to buy a boat? Leadsman offers market intelligence and 17-page vessel condition reports: https://leadsman.ai/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚓ RECOMMENDED GEAR & PARTNERS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Defender Marine: outfitting boaters since 1938 with trusted marine gear, expert advice, and refit supplies. 👉 https://defender.com/en_us/ PredictWind: the world leader in offshore marine weather forecasting, routing, and departure planning. 👉 https://www.predictwind.com/ #sailing #offshoresailing #bluewatersailing #sailingcrew #crewing #liveaboard #BeTheCaptain #BeTheCrew 🎙️ New to streaming or looking to level up? Check out StreamYard and get $10 discount! 😍 https://streamyard.com/pal/d/5052422175653888

A harbor bar is a ridge of sand across an inlet or harbor entrance. As swells reach that shallow water, they steepen and break, turning a long, gentle wave into a wall of water across the channel. Full Video: https://youtu.be/0I1Ura6aUIY 📗 Get My Book: https://bethecaptain.com

Four men took a 36-foot boat into a 70-knot gale during a nighttime snowstorm in February 1952 and returned with 32 men. The captain never considered himself a hero, and the story contains a second rescue that rarely gets told. Full Video: https://youtu.be/0I1Ura6aUIY 📗 Get My Book: https://bethecaptain.com

On February 18, 1952, two oil tankers broke in half off Cape Cod in the same storm. One got her mayday off, and the entire Coast Guard of New England went to her. The other, the SS Pendleton, never got a call out. Her crew stood on half a ship and listened on a radio that could only receive while a full-scale rescue was run for somebody else. That night, four Coast Guardsmen took a 36-foot wooden lifeboat over the Chatham Bar in a 70-knot nor'easter, at night, in a snowstorm. Their own station thought they were going to die. They came back with 32 men. This is the true story behind The Finest Hours, and it's not the Hollywood version. The movie left out the part that mattered most, and it got one of the most important moments completely backwards. You'll hear Bernie Webber tell it himself, in his own voice, from a 1967 radio interview. And you'll hear about the second rescue nobody talks about: a chief engineer named Ray Sybert who took command of 32 frightened men on a broken ship and fought to keep her off the shoals with no bow, no radio, and no reason to believe help was coming. I've been on the receiving end of a Coast Guard rescue myself. This is the greatest story I've ever told. 👉 Lifeboat House Project: https://www.orleanshistoricalsociety.org/cg36500-lifeboat-house-project 👉 Keep her afloat: https://cg36500.org/Afloat-CG36500.html ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⏱ CHAPTERS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 0:00 — The Greatest Rescue Story Ever Told 1:06 — SS Pendleton Breaks in Half: No Mayday 3:01 — Bernie Webber's 1967 Interview: The Sources 4:35 — Why T2 Tankers Broke in Half 7:02 — The Nor'easter of February 1952 7:56 — The Fort Mercer Mayday 8:44 — How the Coast Guard Found the Pendleton 9:48 — Ray Sybert: The Rescue Nobody Talks About 10:50 — A Captain's Lesson: Give Your Crew a Job 11:38 — What The Finest Hours Movie Got Backwards 13:35 — Bernie Webber Watches Another Crew Go Out 15:01 — The Breeches Buoy Plan 16:26 — "Go Out and See What You Can Do" 17:01 — The Crew: Fitzgerald, Livesey and Maske 18:50 — Daniel Cluff's Impossible Order 21:38 — Why Fitzgerald Wasn't Scared and Webber Was 24:17 — "Proceed as Directed" 25:03 — Rock of Ages and Harbor Lights 26:02 — What Is a Bar? Why Chatham Bar Kills 29:27 — Crossing Chatham Bar With No Compass 30:20 — Andy Fitzgerald Thrown Overboard 31:20 — Why the CG-36500 Self-Rights 35:30 — Bernie Webber's Heavy Weather Technique 37:27 — The Engine That Kept Dying 38:42 — Lost at Sea: Searching for Pollock Rip 39:44 — Finding the Pendleton Stern 41:31 — The Jacob's Ladder 43:09 — 36 Men on a 36-Foot Boat 45:58 — All Live or All Die 46:45 — George "Tiny" Myers, the Last Man 50:36 — The Gold Lifesaving Medal and What It Cost 51:39 — Running for the Beach Blind 52:44 — The Radio Argument Hollywood Rewrote 54:18 — Back Over the Bar to Chatham 55:39 — The Heroes Who Got No Medals 56:38 — What Became of the Four Men 57:28 — The Last Words on the 1967 Tape 58:49 — How the CG-36500 Was Saved 1:04:29 — Why It's the Greatest Story Ever Told 1:05:42 — Thank You to the Coast Guard 1:06:43 — Help Keep the CG-36500 Afloat ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ☕ SUPPORT THE CHANNEL ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Help us keep uncovering and telling these stories: ⚔️ Join the Inner Circle on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/bethecaptain 🍺 Buy the crew a beer / one-time tip: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/svzingaro ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚓ RECOMMENDED GEAR & PARTNERS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ - Defender Marine — Outfitting boaters since 1938 with trusted marine gear, expert advice, and refit supplies: 👉 Shop Defender Marine: https://defender.com/en_us/ - PredictWind — The world leader in offshore marine weather forecasting, routing, and departure planning: 👉 Check out PredictWind: https://www.predictwind.com/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📖 THE TRUE STORY — FURTHER READING ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Chatham: The Lifeboatmen — Bernard C. Webber The Pendleton Disaster off Cape Cod: The Greatest Small Boat Rescue in Coast Guard History — Capt. W. Russell Webster, USCG (Ret.) The Finest Hours: The True Story of the U.S. Coast Guard's Most Daring Sea Rescue — Michael J. Tougias & Casey Sherman Be The Captain by James Allan Evenson — Winner of the 2026 Eric Hoffer Award. A definitive field manual on offshore seamanship, survival, and command. 🔔 Subscribe and turn on notifications so you don't miss the next one. 🎙 Bernard C. Webber interviewed by WOCB News (Wes Sidstone, Gordon Caldwell, Ed Semprini). Recorded off the air in 1967 by William C. Ryder of Chatham. 📷 Archival photographs courtesy of press/public archives. If you hold the rights to any image used here and would like credit or removal, please contact captain@bethecaptain.com ✂️ Edited by Alex Sennett ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ TAGS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #TheFinestHours #SSPendleton #CoastGuard #CG36500 #BernieWebber #FortMercer #ChathamBar #RescueAtSea #TrueStory #Shipwreck #MaritimeHistory #CapeCod #BeTheCaptain

Worried about pirates? Researching destinations and reading cruiser reports on noonsite.com can help identify security concerns before arrival. In areas with known risks, choosing a guarded marina is always worth more than saving money by anchoring outside. Full Stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEILDY6Min0 📗 Get My Book: https://bethecaptain.com

In 2020, a storm wrecked my catamaran on the way to Hawaii. In 2023, we pulled sailors out of the water on the way to Panama. And last year, I nearly lost the keel on a sister ship of the Cheeki Rafiki, the Beneteau 40.7 that capsized in the North Atlantic in 2014 with four men aboard. This summer, boats have been going down worldwide. In August, an Oyster 825 racing at Hamilton Island Race Week reportedly struck a reef, lost her keel bulb, and turned upside down in seconds. All ten aboard were pulled out of the water. Then sperm whales holed a 52-footer north of Norfolk Island, and her crew spent the night in a life raft before a container ship picked them up. Tonight we’re talking about what actually decides who comes home. Not luck. Decisions. When to call for help, where your beacons are, whether you can really get your raft off the boat, and what’s hiding under your floorboards. Then it’s your questions. Boats, gear, passages, buying decisions. Bring them. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⏱️ CHAPTERS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 00:00 - Introduction & Pendleton Teaser 01:14 - Welcome & Livestream Rules (Book Giveaway) 02:35 - Annapolis Sailboat Show & Captain's Locker Downloads 06:32 - Studio Tour & Community Poll Results 08:12 - Upcoming Documentary: Cheeki Rafiki & Offshore Safety Ratings 10:48 - Recent Maritime Incidents: Keel Loss, Whales & Abandonments 17:23 - The Emergency Protocol: Why You Need a VHF Mayday Card 24:06 - Lessons from 3 Real-World Casualties & Rescues 27:58 - Book Giveaway #1 28:46 - Critical Survival Gear: Hydrostatic Releases & Life Rafts 33:28 - EPIRBs, PLBs & AIS Man Overboard Beacons 38:57 - Bilge Pumps: Manual Gushers, Maintenance & Diagnostics 42:38 - Q&A: Visiting Annapolis & Meeting at the Show 45:45 - Q&A: Circumnavigation Budgeting & Monthly Costs 50:52 - Q&A: Offshore Boat Insurance & Crew Coverage 52:42 - Q&A: Mast Steps on a Cruising Rig (Pros, Cons & Styles) 56:11 - Book Giveaway #2 56:26 - Q&A: Best Bilge Pumps, Float Switches & High Water Alarms 01:02:08 - How to Set Up an Emergency Crash Pump 01:04:44 - Q&A: Handing Over Boats in Fiji & Pacific Routing Realities 01:10:20 - Q&A: Hurricane Survival Strategies & Mangrove Holes 01:15:26 - Q&A: Seasickness Testing & Getting Offshore Experience 01:17:32 - Q&A: High-Latitude Routes & Cruising Passages 01:20:21 - Q&A: Safety Briefings, Vessel Rules & Free Diving 01:23:14 - Pendleton Sneak Peek & New Animation Style 01:26:45 - Q&A: Privilege Catamaran vs. Aluminum Monohull 01:31:00 - Book Giveaway #3 & Redraw 01:37:33 - Wrap-Up & Safe Seas ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚓ SUPPORT THE CHANNEL ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚔️ Inner Circle on Patreon (join the WhatsApp crew): https://www.patreon.com/c/bethecaptain 📖 Be The Captain, my maritime field manual on seamanship, leadership, and crisis at sea (unlocks 10% off Defender Marine + 20% off PredictWind): English: https://bethecaptain.com/ · Español: https://a.co/d/08yiAfse 🧰 Free downloads in the Captain’s Locker: https://bethecaptain.com/locker 📚 Getting ready to buy? Come see Leadsman at the Annapolis Sailboat Show, booth O-18. Market intelligence and 17-page vessel condition reports: https://leadsman.ai/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚓ RECOMMENDED GEAR & PARTNERS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Defender Marine: outfitting boaters since 1938 with trusted marine gear, expert advice, and refit supplies. 👉 https://defender.com/en_us/ PredictWind: the world leader in offshore marine weather forecasting, routing, and departure planning. 👉 https://www.predictwind.com/ #sailing #offshoresailing #bluewatersailing #liveaboard #shipwreck #survival #BeTheCaptain #CheekiRafiki

A proposed November passage from Langkawi to Oahu raises questions about storm timing, fuel range, and sailing against the trade winds. I propose an alternative route and get into challenge of approaching Hawaii from near the equator. Full Stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEILDY6Min0 📗 Get My Book: https://bethecaptain.com

Last Saturday, someone on this livestream asked me whether a Beneteau Oceanis 51.1 could handle bluewater cruising. At almost the SAME TIME (Saturday, Sep 26th), a 51.1 was sinking in the South Pacific after a run-in with sperm whales. Both sailors got off safely and the Royal New Zealand Air Force rescued them after 18 hours. Tonight we're breaking it down. What we know about what happened, what the rescue footage shows, and the bigger question: what makes a boat built for offshore different from a boat built for the charter fleet? We'll talk watertight bulkheads, crash boxes, rudder design, and why "buying time" is the most important thing your boat can do when something goes wrong a thousand miles from land. Then it's your questions. Boats, gear, passages, buying decisions. Bring them. Glad these two are safe. Well done, RNZAF. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚓ SUPPORT THE CHANNEL ⚔️ Inner Circle on Patreon (Join the WhatsApp Crew): https://www.patreon.com/c/bethecaptain 📖 Be The Captain — my maritime field manual on seamanship, leadership, and crisis at sea (unlocks 10% off Defender Marine + 20% off PredictWind): English: https://bethecaptain.com/ · Español: https://a.co/d/08yiAfse 🧰 Free downloads in the Captain's Locker: https://bethecaptain.com/locker 📚 Data-Driven Vessel Evaluation: Getting ready to buy? SEE Leadsman at the Annapolis Sailboat Show, booth O-18. Check it out for comprehensive market intelligence and 17-page vessel condition reports: https://leadsman.ai/ #sailing #beneteau #whales #offshoresailing #bluewatersailing #liveaboard #sunken 📖 Be The Captain — my maritime field manual on seamanship, leadership, and crisis at sea (unlocks 10% off Defender Marine + 20% off PredictWind): English: https://bethecaptain.com/ · Español: https://a.co/d/08yiAfse 🧰 Free downloads in the Captain's Locker: https://bethecaptain.com/locker 📚 Data-Driven Vessel Evaluation: Getting ready to buy? We are publicly launching Leadsman at the Annapolis Sailboat Show. Check it out for comprehensive market intelligence and 17-page vessel condition reports: https://leadsman.ai/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚓ RECOMMENDED GEAR & PARTNERS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ * Defender Marine — Outfitting boaters since 1938 with trusted marine gear, expert advice, and refit supplies: 👉 Shop Defender Marine: https://defender.com/en_us/ * PredictWind — The world leader in offshore marine weather forecasting, routing, and departure planning: 👉 Check out PredictWind: https://www.predictwind.com/ 🎁 Exclusive Reader Perks: When you grab a copy of Be The Captain, unlock 10% off Defender Marine + 20% off PredictWind forecasts: 📖 English ("Be The Captain"): https://bethecaptain.com/ 🇪🇸 Español ("Sé el Capitán"): https://a.co/d/08yiAfse #Leadsman #BoatBuying #BeTheCaptain #Sailing #liveaboarddiving

Get my award-winning offshore manual📘 Be The Captain: bethecaptain.com MAIB REPORT: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6821ea1aced319d02c9060f2/2025-Bayesian-InterimReport.pdf Two years after the superyacht Bayesian capsized at anchor off Porticello, Sicily, taking the lives of seven people—including Mike Lynch and his daughter Hannah—the maritime world is still waiting for official closure. While the UK's Marine Accident Investigation Branch found that a severe beam wind above 63.4 knots could overwhelm the 56-meter Perini Navi while motoring with its centerboard up, Italian prosecutors' experts have pointed fingers at the crew's actions during what they characterize as "little more than a squall." Meanwhile, the builder, The Italian Sea Group, is tangled in a massive €456 million lawsuit against the owner's estate and crew, all while dealing with fallout across their order books. In this deep dive, we break down what the MAIB interim report actually confirms, what remains heavily disputed, which theories hold water, and what every captain anchoring in high-stakes weather needs to take away from this tragedy. Sources discussed: MAIB interim report (May 2025), Italian prosecution expert findings (Apr 2026), and reporting from Boat International, Maritime Executive and Pressmare. MAIB REPORT: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6821ea1aced319d02c9060f2/2025-Bayesian-InterimReport.pdf ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚓ CHAPTERS 00:00 — Introduction: Why We’re Finally Talking About the Bayesian 03:30 — The MAIB Interim Report: Facts, Figures, and the Timeline 05:15 — The Numbers Game: Mast-to-Draft Ratios vs. Standard Offshore Cruisers 07:35 — Centerboards & Ballast: Understanding Vanishing Stability 09:40 — The Weather Event: Supercells, Microbursts, and Global Weather Shifts 14:30 — Evacuation & Survival: How the Crew and Guests Escaped 16:45 — The 70-Degree Trap: Why She Didn't Come Back Up 24:10 — The Blame Game: Legal Battles, €456M Lawsuits, and Builder Fallout 27:30 — Q&A: Vessel Evaluations & The New Leadsman Launch 31:50 — Q&A: Is a Cutlass 27 Good for a First-Time Sailor? 39:05 — Q&A: Cruising the Med and Visa Realities for Americans 45:00 — Q&A: Pearson 35 & Halberg-Rassy 38 Evaluations 1:07:35 — Q&A: Offshore Cruising on a Beneteau 51.1 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚓ SUPPORT THE CHANNEL ⚔️ Inner Circle on Patreon (Join the WhatsApp Crew): https://www.patreon.com/c/bethecaptain 🍺 Buy the crew a beer: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/svzingaro 📖 Be The Captain — my maritime field manual on seamanship, leadership, and crisis at sea (unlocks 10% off Defender Marine + 20% off PredictWind): English: https://bethecaptain.com/ · Español: https://a.co/d/08yiAfse 🧰 Free downloads in the Captain's Locker: https://bethecaptain.com/locker 📚 Data-Driven Vessel Evaluation: Getting ready to buy? We are publicly launching Leadsman at the Annapolis Sailboat Show. Check it out for comprehensive market intelligence and 17-page vessel condition reports: https://leadsman.ai/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚓ RECOMMENDED GEAR & PARTNERS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ * Defender Marine — Outfitting boaters since 1938 with trusted marine gear, expert advice, and refit supplies: 👉 Shop Defender Marine: https://defender.com/en_us/ * PredictWind — The world leader in offshore marine weather forecasting, routing, and departure planning: 👉 Check out PredictWind: https://www.predictwind.com/ 🎁 Exclusive Reader Perks: When you grab a copy of Be The Captain, unlock 10% off Defender Marine + 20% off PredictWind forecasts: 📖 English ("Be The Captain"): https://bethecaptain.com/ 🇪🇸 Español ("Sé el Capitán"): https://a.co/d/08yiAfse #Leadsman #BoatBuying #BeTheCaptain #Sailing #liveaboarddiving

About 100 miles off Kona, pounding waves broke my catamaran’s rear main beam, leaving the starboard hull hanging from the deck. Keeping the boat together meant repeated trips into the black water beneath it, using rope and winches to lash a broken home back together. Full Catamaran Video: https://youtu.be/o__mcZS-jfU Excerpt From: https://youtu.be/C1xIcXZqErU 📗 Get My Book: https://bethecaptain.com

Grab a copy of Be The Captain, 10% off Defender + 20% off PredictWind: https://bethecaptain.com/ Boat shows are notorious for pushing shiny new solutions to problems we didn't know we had, but hidden among the gimmicks are a few pieces of tech that genuinely move the needle for shorthanded cruisers. This year at the Cannes Yachting Festival, we saw something I've been waiting years for: foiling monohulls are finally hitting the cruising market. Grab a drink and join the replay as we sift through the most interesting, practical, and highly debatable gear from the docks. What We Break Down: The Foiling Monohull (Scow 6.5m & 12m): The racing scene has always influenced cruising, and the prototype cruising foil boats are finally here. We debate if this articulating tech is the future of sailing or a maintenance nightmare offshore. The $24k Lightning Debate: Dinnteco’s DDCE system is a massive investment. We discuss how this charge-dissipation device works to prevent upward streamers and if it genuinely belongs on a cruising mast to protect your electronics. BlueNav Smart Mooring: The winner of the Best Tech innovation. We look at this retractable push-button docking system and debate if it is the end of traditional boat handling or a massive safety upgrade. Windelo 50 Catamaran: An all-electric catamaran with a forward cockpit and sliding glass walls. I explain why I went in wanting to hate it, but ended up incredibly impressed by the airflow and layout. Fendsea (Fancy) Inflatables: These high-tech inflatable fenders offer internal storage and break down to nothing. Practical innovation or just a pricey cooler? Captain's Q&A: We dive into viewer questions, tackling the Morgan Out Island 41 vs. Island Packet hull designs, the legendary rig engineering on the Mason 43, fluid drives, and the realities of buying a 60-year-old Cheoy Lee. The goal isn't to bolt every new gadget onto the deck; it's to find the tools that actually make us safer, more self-sufficient, and better equipped for the realities of the ocean. Drop your questions, thoughts, and your own offshore experiences in the comments! #Sailing #BoatTech #CannesBoatShow #YachtingFestival #OffshoreCruising #SailboatRefit ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚓ SUPPORT THE CHANNEL ⚔️ Inner Circle on Patreon (Join the WhatsApp Crew): https://www.patreon.com/c/bethecaptain 🍺 Buy the crew a beer: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/svzingaro 📖 Be The Captain — my maritime field manual on seamanship, leadership, and crisis at sea (unlocks 10% off Defender Marine + 20% off PredictWind): English: https://bethecaptain.com/ · Español: https://a.co/d/08yiAfse 🧰 Free downloads in the Captain's Locker: https://bethecaptain.com/locker 📚 Data-Driven Vessel Evaluation: Getting ready to buy? We are publicly launching Leadsman at the Annapolis Sailboat Show. Check it out for comprehensive market intelligence and 17-page vessel condition reports: [Insert Leadsman Link] #Leadsman #BoatBuying #BeTheCaptain #Sailing #Liveaboard ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚓ RECOMMENDED GEAR & PARTNERS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Defender Marine — Outfitting boaters since 1938 with trusted marine gear, expert advice, and refit supplies: 👉 Shop Defender Marine: https://defender.com/en_us/ • PredictWind — The world leader in offshore marine weather forecasting, routing, and departure planning: 👉 Check out PredictWind: https://www.predictwind.com/ 🎁 Exclusive Reader Perks: When you grab a copy of Be The Captain, unlock 10% off Defender Marine + 20% off PredictWind forecasts: 📖 English ("Be The Captain"): https://bethecaptain.com/ 🇪🇸 Español ("Sé el Capitán"): https://a.co/d/08yiAfse CHAPTERS 0:00 - The Monohull Foiling Revolution (Scow 6.5m) 1:57 - Book Giveaways & "Sé el Capitán" 7:42 - The $24k Lightning Rod Debate (DDCE System) 12:14 - Real Lightning Strike Damage (SV Cuba) 15:52 - Push-Button Auto Docking (BlueNav Smart Mooring) 17:30 - The Truth About Electric Cruisers (Windelo 50 Catamaran) 26:33 - Book Giveaway Winner #1 28:48 - Windelo 50 Interior Walkthrough 32:01 - Fendsea (Fancy) High-Tech Inflatable Fenders 35:32 - Live Q&A Begins: Cannes vs. Annapolis Boat Shows 42:23 - Skiff Sailing & My Old Islander 28 46:50 - Launching Leadsman & Boat Buying Realities 51:06 - Fluid Drives & Hydraulics on Steel Yachts 56:00 - Book Giveaway Winner #2 58:43 - Shoal Drafts: Morgan 45 vs. Island Packet 1:06:56 - Is Basalt Mesh Better Than Fiberglass? 1:09:35 - Buying a 60-Year-Old Cheoy Lee 36 1:11:19 - Why the Mason 43 is a Beast Offshore 1:16:22 - Final Giveaway & Wrap Up

We’re live from the Cannes Yachting Festival! Recent conversations across the cruising community have put keel safety, hull construction, and structural integrity under the microscope. Between high-profile incidents like the Oyster 825 keel loss and aggressive marketing campaigns claiming modern fin keels are accidents waiting to happen, there’s a lot of fear circulating—and not enough sober engineering facts. Today, we’re cutting through the marketing noise to look at what actually causes keel and hull failures, what modern naval architecture gets right, and what offshore sailors genuinely need to know about structural safety. What We’re Breaking Down Today: The Oyster Keel Failure: What really happened, the structural factors involved, and the regulatory lessons learned. Vestas Wind at 19 Knots: Analyzing how a modern racing boat survived a violent reef grounding without shedding its keel. The Mike Plant Tragedy (Coyote): A look back at history, experimental designs, and ballast bulb attachments. Encapsulated vs. Fin Keels: The structural pros and cons of bolt-on fins, skegs, and encapsulated keels without the marketing spin. Safety vs. Fearmongering: Why building offshore confidence requires understanding real risk factors—not buying into scare tactics. Live Q&A: Answering your boat-buying, hull-surveying, and structural safety questions live from the docks. Join the conversation in the live chat! Drop your questions, thoughts, and your own offshore experiences below as we walk the docks in Cannes. #Sailing #BoatSafety #CannesBoatShow #YachtDesign #OffshoreCruising #SailboatKeels ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚓ SUPPORT THE CHANNEL ⚔️ Inner Circle on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/bethecaptain 🍺 Buy the crew a beer: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/svzingaro 📖 Be The Captain — my maritime field manual on seamanship, leadership, and crisis at sea (unlocks 10% off Defender Marine + 20% off PredictWind): English: https://bethecaptain.com/ · Español: https://a.co/d/08yiAfse 🧰 Free downloads in the Captain's Locker: https://bethecaptain.com/locker 📚 Further reading: The Ship and the Storm by Jim Carrier · NHC 1998 Tropical Cyclone Report: Hurricane Mitch #HurricaneMitch #Fantome #BeTheCaptain #Sailing #MaritimeDisaster #Livestream #bethecaptain ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚓ RECOMMENDED GEAR & PARTNERS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Defender Marine — Outfitting boaters since 1938 with trusted marine gear, expert advice, and refit supplies: 👉 Shop Defender Marine: https://defender.com/en_us/ • PredictWind — The world leader in offshore marine weather forecasting, routing, and departure planning: 👉 Check out PredictWind: https://www.predictwind.com/ 🎁 Exclusive Reader Perks: When you grab a copy of Be The Captain, unlock 10% off Defender Marine + 20% off PredictWind forecasts: 📖 English ("Be The Captain"): https://bethecaptain.com/ 🇪🇸 Español ("Sé el Capitán"): https://a.co/d/08yiAfse

In October 1955, the Joyita, a 69-foot motor yacht chartered for a routine supply run, set sail from Samoa for the Tokelau Islands with 25 people aboard. She was an incredibly sturdy, oak and cedar ship packed with five inches of solid cork insulation—making her physically incapable of sinking. When the ship failed to arrive, a massive aerial search yielded nothing. But five weeks later, the Joyita was discovered 600 miles off course, flooded and heavily listed, yet perfectly afloat. Her life rafts were missing, all 25 souls had vanished without a trace, and the eerily preserved crime scene included frozen clocks, bloodstained bandages, and a severed radio wire. This video is a forensic breakdown of the tragedy: the slow, quiet rot of a galvanized iron pipe that caused the flooding, the panicked breakdown of command in the dark, and the terrifying logic that led 25 people to abandon an unsinkable ship in the middle of the Pacific. It is a stark reminder of the oldest rule of the sea: you never step down into a life raft unless you have to step up into it. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⏱ CHAPTERS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 0:00 — The Unsinkable Boat 1:00 — The Oldest Rule of the Sea 3:20 — Hollywood Origins: The History of the Little Jewel 4:42 — The Murder Weapon: Galvanized Pipes & Dissimilar Metals 7:22 — The 69-Foot Lifeboat 8:31 — Captain Dusty Miller & The Charter 11:00 — The 25 Souls Aboard 12:03 — Irresponsible Choices & Dirty Bilges 17:00 — Departure & The Floating Crime Scene 18:35 — The Fatal Leak Begins 21:09 — 10:25 PM: The Clocks Freeze 23:54 — The Two-Mile Mayday Call 25:14 — The Search & Discovery of the Ghost Ship 28:57 — The Official Inquiry: "Inexplicable" 30:20 — Theories: Murder, Submarines & Insurance Fraud 32:59 — Theory Four: A Fight for Command 35:05 — Reconstructing the Final Night 40:48 — Project Joyita & The Ship's Doomed Fate 45:16 — Final Lessons: Know Your Flotation ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ☕ SUPPORT THE CHANNEL ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Help us keep uncovering and telling these stories: ⚔️ Join the Inner Circle on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/bethecaptain 🍺 Buy the crew a beer / one-time tip: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/svzingaro ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚓ RECOMMENDED GEAR & PARTNERS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Defender Marine — Outfitting boaters since 1938 with trusted marine gear, expert advice, and refit supplies: 👉 Shop Defender Marine: https://defender.com/en_us/ • PredictWind — The world leader in offshore marine weather forecasting, routing, and departure planning: 👉 Check out PredictWind: https://www.predictwind.com/ 🎁 Exclusive Reader Perks: When you grab a copy of Be The Captain, unlock 10% off Defender Marine + 20% off PredictWind forecasts: 📖 English ("Be The Captain"): https://bethecaptain.com/ 🇪🇸 Español ("Sé el Capitán"): https://a.co/d/08yiAfse ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📖 FURTHER READING ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ * Joyita: Solving the Mystery by David Wright (The 2002 investigative book mentioned in this video that pieces together the final sequence of events). * Be The Captain by James Allan Evenson (My award-winning maritime field manual on offshore seamanship, leadership, and crisis management). * Free Hull Penetration Map: Available in the Captain's Locker at bethecaptain.com to help you track your boat's through-hulls. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎬 ABOUT THE CHANNEL ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ True stories from the sea — the rescues, the wrecks, and the choices that decide who comes home. You don't have to be a sailor to feel them. But if you are, they might change the way you feel about the water. 🔔 Subscribe and turn on notifications so you don't miss the next one. 📷 Archival photographs courtesy of press/public archives. If you hold the rights to any image used here and would like credit or removal, please contact captain@bethecaptain.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ TAGS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #MaritimeMystery #Joyita #GhostShip #Shipwreck #OffshoreSailing #Seamanship #TrueCrime #Sailing #BeTheCaptain

Moving the engines aft creates more interior space, but it also places the rudders ahead of the propellers. I would test low-speed maneuvering on each engine separately because two engines are not true redundancy if one failure leaves the boat circling. Full Stream: https://youtube.com/live/Z3zU93HTT4A?feature=share 📗 Get My Book: https://bethecaptain.com

For decades, cruisers gathered in Grenada because it sat just below the hurricane box that shaped many marine insurance policies. In July 2024, Hurricane Beryl flattened Carriacou and turned Tyrell Bay into a boat graveyard, shattering the industry's faith in that safe zone. Full Video: https://youtu.be/p0Oc8njxsxk 📗 Get My Book: https://bethecaptain.com

A ship's hull behaves like one enormous beam, bending through hogging and sagging as wave crests and troughs support different sections. Push that steel beyond what it can bear and the hull can fracture, a failure that overwhelmingly strikes long, heavily loaded tankers and freighters. Full Video: https://youtu.be/p0Oc8njxsxk 📗 Get My Book: https://bethecaptain.com