Wild Port entry

[Grasshopp]

Is this good sailing skills or just lucky. I think I would have tried to find a different place to pull in.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBsA3wa5OGE&feature=player_embedded


The harbor is Svaneke, a town on an island in the Baltic Sea.

 

[shemandr]

Hopefully the helmsman didn't have to buy his own dinner.

 

[dparilla]

Sometimes better lucky than good, sometimes just plain lucky!

 

[Stroh]

I would say those guys have done that before. Looks like a lot of skill with a small amount of luck to me. Those guys are good!

 

[Benny17441]

It looked to me like local knowledge.

 

[Snotter]

I guess there are some positive points to being stuck inland!

 

[rpwillia]

Part of Life

One time entering Quantico I had to go in sideways (boat pointed into the current) because the current was ripping so bad. Probably a lot of local knowledge and experience.

 

[Gary_H]

Mostly skill with a little luck. The crew didn't appear surprised and it looks like they have done this before many times.

 

[jimmcgee]

Wow

 

[dscribner]

Hold, on . . . I'm still clutching the rail.

 

[Steve Dion]

Yes, it reminds me of the Heimlich Maneuver with a sailboat boat. It just sort of squirts through the opening and then it's there!!

 

[XPatriot]

One of the comments on YouTube was priceless:

"I don't know [how] that boat stays afloat given the collective weight of those guy's balls."

 

[derfus]

I would rather be lucky than good any day like that!

 

[Joe]

Geez.... that was slick.... the fact that they were out in those conditions makes me think it wasn't their first rodeo. They set the boat in a position to let the wave jet the boat through the gap... cool.