This story really pissed me off (Fan Stories of Horrible Sailing)

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