USCG rescue off Cape Disappointment, Washington - large breaking sea

[Jud - s/v Sputnik]

Look at this large powerboat getting completely rolled and crushed by a large breaking wave today…just in time…holy shit…not too often you get to see what large breaking wave can do. (Rollover is in the second vid below.)

If this were instead a sailboat, running downwind under a drogue, would/could this have happened…I wonder…I’m in drogue-making mode lately, so it’s hard not to ponder this.

 

[toddster]

WTF were they thinking? We're getting 30 knots today inside the marina, to which I retreated because of this very well-predicted event. I happened to be looking at the wind instrument during one long gust at 45.

 

[Jud - s/v Sputnik]

WTF were they thinking? We're getting 30 knots today inside the marina, to which I retreated because of this very well-predicted event. I happened to be looking at the wind instrument during one long gust at 45.

Certainly not the boat for those kinds of conditions. Who knows how it ended up out there…

 

[Wess]

Look at this large powerboat getting completely rolled and crushed by a large breaking wave…just in time…holy shit…not too often you get to see what large breaking wave can do. (Rollover is in the second vid below.)

If this were instead a sailboat, running downwind under a drogue, would/could this have happened…I wonder…I’m in drogue-making mode lately, so it’s hard not to ponder this.

OMG the occupants and swimmer got clobbered in that roll over. Wow!! Amazing if all got out of that alive.

 

[toddster]

If this were instead a sailboat, running downwind under a drogue, would/could this have happened…I wonder…I’m in drogue-making mode lately, so it’s hard not to ponder this.

He's in the surf on a lee shore. If anything, more a case for a sea anchor. Or a lot more sea room.

 

[toddster]

OMG the occupants and swimmer got clobbered in that roll over. Wow!! Amazing if all got out of that alive.

I think the rollover happened as they were departing the scene, after the rescue.

No... you are correct, there are swimmers in the water. But the caption seems to suggest a successful rescue.
Jeez. Owner just climbed out on the swim platform when it went over. Needed to get my reading glasses.

 

[dfw_sailor]

Certainly not the boat for those kinds of conditions. Who knows how it ended up out there…

/S Maybe it was on its way to a research project. S/

 

[33jesus]

You can see someone on the aft platform when it occurs. Wow!

 

[Jud - s/v Sputnik]

He's in the surf on a lee shore. If anything, more a case for a sea anchor. Or a lot more sea room.

Was that a near shore breaking wave? I.e., is it likely to have broken there/like that because of shallower depth there? I don’t know exactly where this is, how far off the coast.

 

[toddster]

Was that a near shore breaking wave? I.e., is it likely to have broken there/like that because of shallower depth there? I don’t know exactly where this is, how far off the coast.

IDK - the CG caption says "in the surf." See below - the big pink zones are the usual trouble spots (waves start breaking miles from shore) but could be farther up or down the coast.

 

[See Level]

Close enough to shore that you can see an entrance buoy at the end, as Toddster said, maybe the South jetty side of the Columbia River bar or Westport entrance.
I like how the CG rescue swimmer ducks under water at the last second as the wave breaks over him.
Good job Coast Guard.
wtf was the guy doing out there in that boat in those conditions anyway.

 

[Calling Elvis]

Looks like a red can, so south side of channel. Amazing rescue. Going to be interesting to see where the wreck washes up, on the jetty rocks or beach. If it happened after 10AM PST, was it an ebb tide + current against a SW wind? Brutal conditions.

 

[Jud - s/v Sputnik]

Close enough to shore that you can see an entrance buoy at the end

Thanks - I didn’t notice the entrance buoy. That would seem to explain the breaking wave/wave shape.

 

[Zonker]

Good argument for pointing the boat into a wave. That was probably a 20-25' wave

 

[Autonomous]

Suspect the mini-condo-yacht lost power to due to plugged fuel filters.
No evidence, just a guess.

 

[Calling Elvis]

More to the story.

After leaving dead fish at 'Goonies' house, police say Canadian man stole boat, needed Coast Guard rescue

The man who left a dead fish on the porch of the Goonies house is the same man who was rescued by the Coast Guard Friday after his stolen boat flipped, police said.

www.king5.com

 

[Al Paca]

Isn’t that what stinkpots normally do?

 

[Tacoma Mud Flats]

Is there a 'Canadian man' thread?

This guy has a rap sheet a kilometer long...

Man with five warrants wanted by Victoria police

Police believe Jericho Labonte is travelling to the Victoria area and said he might pose a risk to public safety.

www.timescolonist.com

 

[Calling Elvis]

We got ourselves a Canadian Barefoot Bandit on the loose

 

[See Level]

Yeah, barefoot now, he probably lost his sandals and cowichan socks in the rescue.