Because stuffing just isnt for Christmas and Thanksgiving. :@) Happy Turkey from the Great White North!

@BoatZone could you answer a question I have, (also Thankyou for the amazing amount of one of a kind content!) could you link a video or explain briefly why haulover can be SO rough? What makes inlets SO dangerous ? If fresh water flows out into the ocean and sea water looks to flow inward how does that work? Is that why waves get so big? I can’t find any vidoes explaining inlets but am very curious , would like to understand more of what I’m watching. Sure you’re the expert with the years of experince filming. I’ve never been to an inlet, or on the ocean for thst mater, just a single dad of awesome daughters that had one of your vidoes pop up in my feed and I think I’ve watched them all a few times. Ontop of being amazing and exciting, I find the sound of waves and water relaxing , I often turn one of your videos on when I Can’t sleep and it puts me to sleep after a bit so Thankyou. As a dad I can’t understand how #1 anyone chooses to go through here with no life vests on (ESPECIALLY children!) my heart races every time I see a kid in a bow with no jacket or a parents holding a baby or toddler with no jacket in the bow!?? Not sure why anyone ever tries to ride in the bow in these conditions, seems to often make a stuffing much worse! Just my concerned dad brain haha. Regardless it makes for great content that you’ve been able to show to the world. I’m very ill at the moment so jsut watching your videos to get thru each day while missing my daughters terribly so thanks for you efforts and time & congrats on the deserved channel growth!! There’s a lot of crap on UKposts but there’s also some golden content like your channel & im greatful to see it growing so much, hope it continues to grow for ya! I’m seeing other new channels trying to do the same but mOst miss the mark of your channel, adding unwanted narration , adding annoying music over the beautiful waves and sounds of the boats, not adding boat info below the boats,..your model is perfect 👍 👍 keep it up! Thanks in advance if you can point me to an explanation video of why haulovers so dangerous or even jsut explain briefly why. (Thanks to anyone who sees this that might be able to offer any info,..it’s appreciated.)

For the Dad that was curious about what causes these conditions at Haulover Inlet (and almost all “inlets”),the rough water, with steep, often breaking waves closely spaced…simply put, its caused by “wind and current in opposition.” The typically prevailing easterly or south-easterly wind along the southeast Florida coast causes fairly moderate well space wind waves on the surface of the open deep water ocean (a mile deep) that begins several miles offshore. When those wind wave approach and begin to traverse the shallower waters of the submerged continental shelf, they become more closely spaced, as they begin “to feel” the drag of the bottom, some 30’ to 40’ below the surface. As they approach the even shallower waters close to the beach, those wind driven swell steepen further. Now, add a strong current moving in the opposite direction to the waves through a narrow opening in the barrier island. This is the ebb tide, in an “inlet,” when inshore bay waters are pulled out into the ocean by the gravitational forces of the moon and the sun through a relatively narrow opening. To recap: surface waves moving in a westerly direction, current flow, of water just below the surface, moving in an easterly direction. Wind and current in opposition. This is the recipe for the kind of sea state that you see in these videos. You’ll find some degree of this hazard at every inlet that cuts through a barrier island or barrier reef, and at every river mouth where a river flows directly into the ocean. The key to making a safer passage is to await the slack tide, the few minutes each day when the tidal flow if close to nonexistent.

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1:15 Oh my God! That was so shocking! Please don´t ever show such shocking moments again on your channel. That´s just too much for the viewers. I´ve never seen anything so shocking in the history of Haulover Inlet. That was so shocking that you could have done a video only of that shocking moment.

So tell us you can do it better?

@@Tarheel13 I can do it better.

This explains Florida perfectly… This shit doesn’t happen in the Midwest. I’ve lived in both places and they are completely different.

Yep. Watch this video and you will learn absolutely EVERYTHING you need to know about America. EVERYTHING, says the jealous, douche, hater.

To be fair it's mainly Florida not all America as a whole - just Florida has a special kinda dumb.

People jump out of airplanes. It’s fun, fun is sometimes dangerous.

just like jumping in your car everyday, you don't know if you are coming home that day

I mean, I grew up on 14 foot fishing boats in the open ocean. It has nothing to do with the boat, its inexperienced operators, period. I could safely take any of thise boats out of Haulover, and I have, from 20’ Boston Whaler to my 41’ quad engine Regulator

I know what you mean, when I see a yacht, jumping out, and in the water, I think the same thing, however, I’ve been out on a smaller boat, myself with my husband, scary, absolutely, but we’re OK, FYI, I would not go here though, it’s bananas

@@bladeshred01false equivalence

Most people in Florida are either from Latin America or New York/New Jersey so that kind of tells you a lot

EXACTLY, I live across the road from the ocean in far Northern California and that's when it is the quietest and calmest.

This inlet is apparently always like this because the ocean is going in and the river is going out. Probably how it got its name. You'd be waiting for something that'd never come, while a few jet skis putt by the seemingly quarter mile to the smooth stuff that's waiting to be got to.

This HAULOVER INLET does have “SLACK” tide, like most inlets, which is the best way to enter or exit, but most of these MORONS don’t know the tide schedule and have FENDERS AND LINES hanging over the side! I’ve been in and out of that inlet hundreds of times in my 40’ SAILBOAT, so it’s waaay different in a sailboat.

The problem here is monetary success in Miami immediately elevates egotistical men to offshore skippers overnight without the need for any study of even the most basics of seamanship.

@@ItsDaJaxDo you have any evidence for that statement? Every bar I've ever seen is much worse on an ebb tide.

I’m afraid if that scenario happened, there would be a recovery not a rescue.

Captain ? License? Not sure either of those on display here

I love cruising with MSC!!!! 😼 😎

Don't worry they have been trained to ask someone to "Here hold my beer" just in time! ;

The small open boats with bows dropped down to barely above water level with hardly any freeboard are the strangest things to go out to sea in. Especially as the tradition is to pack the family and youngsters sans lifebelts in the front to be potentially washed out as it scoops up the ocean with any wave action. Watching these videos it is difficult to fathom what thought beyond the purely artistic goes in to the design of these boats or the decisions to purchase them.

And not one wearing a life vest!!!😮

@@michaeld5888 I agree, they defy logic.

@@michaeld5888 As far as I know the point to this design is that it is specifically for towing a water-ski on inland lakes. The drop bow design intended to give you better forward vision while up on plane and towing, especially on potentially crowded lakes. Taking something like this out to sea is just bloody stupid imo.

​@@jimmycricket5366It's florida. In one video I saw a dude standing on a paddle board out there.

Maybe they're trying to bust a kidney stone loose.

Including young kids

Some of these boats are like the Titanic, they can never sink.

That's a rib jammer Baby!

why isn't is compulsory to wear life jackets..? Don't tell me. it isn't in the constitution

To say nothing of carrying unjacketed children.

That’s what I was thinking, guess these people don’t value their lives

@@nuntius1933 absolutely!!! As a dad of awesome baby daughters this continues to shock me seeing some parent no life jacket sitting in the bow holding a baby or toddler with no life vest as they enter haulover!??? I think that it should be a requirement for parents to have children in vests for sure! If a child falls into haulover little children have no buoyancy in their little bodies, not enough mass and fat to help them be able to stay afloat and most can’t swim and wouldn’t be able to in these conditions anyway. Not having them in vests assures their drowning if they go in and ANY parent will 100% punish themselves the rest of their lives if they lose a child this way when they could have prevented it with a free vest. Requiring parents to wear vests too when minors and kids are in the boat also assures a parents ability to rescue a child and be of aid in an overboard situation. I was watching a video last week on one of these channels of a very experienced surfer paddling through the inlet during a recent hurricane , he paddled out with no vest which I understand for surfing vests keep u from duck diving waves , but on the return he was stuck making to progress in the inlet, paddling like crazy just to keep from going out to sea and it was so violent he couldn’t even safely get to the edge finally falling off his board and desprately trying to swim to people on the walkway trying to reach for him, he started bobbing underwater after a short time and started screaming for his life . A lucky wave pushed him to a civilian who grabbed him and pulled him out and he jsut lay there unable to even sit up he was so exhausted . That’s an experinced surfer in a wet suit , so your average person that could go overboard I just can’t understand why u wouldn’t want to wear a zip up life vest that ensures you will float head up without any effort needed to stay afloat? My toddler daughters I bought an offshore toddler vest for her which fit like a tank top tight , zip up, then triple strap , bright fluorescent color to be seen easier, have reflective material that artificial light reflects off of light ambulance graphics, they also have twice the buoyancy of an average child’s vest and a neck pad that keeps the child’s head out of water and face up with extra material placed strategically in areas of the vest designed to keep the child floating leaning backward to keep the front of their bodies/face up and out of the water so less water is near their mouths. Engineered to keep a baby/toddler /little child who doesn’t understand the concept of swimming or survival , alive and in the safest body position until they can be rescued. It has zipping dry pockets for transmitters or even just cell phones so you can use location apps etc. it’s a no brainer to me , I want to give my baby girl THE best possible scenario if for some reason we were temporarily seperated or God forbid something happened to me in the water. It’s also why even though I’m a great swimmer & in excellent shape , I ALWAYS wear a zipping offshore life vest even at lakes,..solely so I can focus on rescuing my child & KNOW I can help others and not worry about drowning myself. The number of clips of openbows gettting full of water and the people yelling they can’t swim but not wearing a life vest in this wild inlet!?? I understand “it’s a free country” but like it’s a law in the US to wear your seatbelts when driving for your own safety, even though it’s protested with people arguing it should be their right to drive without one and risk their own life, I feel like it should be ok for the goverment to require something simple that massively saves lives like seatbelts or in this case life vests,..you can get them free, so there doesn’t need to be a cost to the user, it doesn’t create any danger or actual discomfort, the percentage of people saved wearing them verses not is astronomical and if at the least the wearer doesn’t care about their own life , at least their loved ones have a better chance of having that person alive in the event of an accident and it saves those loved ones, parents, children, spouses and friends from having to deal with the total devastation of losing a loved one to drowning. Also if someone goes overboard without a vest in these conditions and drowns, often the bodies never found or found much later , the $$$resources spent searching for remains /a lost civilian can be extremely expensive , at least with a vest , you’re found much faster.

Was suprised no one went in the sea without a life jacket.. 😱 Crazy shit!

No lifejackets in sight. It's not just the water, but the powerboat behind which needs hi-vis warning you're there.

well its very normal for bigger well equip boats to get through this inlet in rough conditions its just the idiots who don't know a thing about boating safety and try gun it out in a overloaded lake boat.

You should move to, like, Kansas. There you can be SAFE.

@@totemthepole Depends on your definition of safe. The USA most certainly is not that.

Yeh, but you are obviously intelligent, it don’t come natural for the average person.

Agreed. Seems the Sea Ray has the best design for taking in water. Every one of these I have watched, the Sea Ray takes the cake. I hope they at least have a very good bilge pump. lol

Value of sufficient power and life jackets should always be considered important.

and yet the rod holder mount grill survives ...

That was a big shudder at 7:43.

lots of people have getting drunk on their minds and not being safe on their minds... I worked on lobster fishing boats and it taught me some very important lessons.

My thoughts exactly…

Yellow Submarine 😂

And immediately afterwards, the boat's pushing hard and going slow because of a half a boat of water in it.

A lot of the newer more architectural designed ones (vandutch, waterdream etc) seem terrible at deflecting water.

Oh, was that big orange thing, a boat. Thought it was a shovel.

Those modern boats "Say 42" and "Waterdream" look like they were cut from solid blocks of wood. Not attractive to look at and they don't seem to deflect water very well, judging by the heavy showers the passengers were getting with each wave.

@@BohoHobo948I for sure don't get them, big money for poor performance. The dorky look is free.

😂 agreed!

game as fuck thats what they are son no pussy footing all action

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No just mainly Trumpsters

@@gregorychurches5468 The captain in the white house is a real winner, too!! Except he’s using OUR credit cards 💳

Sorry, mate, this captain aren't clueless. Excuse my French, but they are stupid 🙄 😒. Seriously, only stupid people buy boats, which should be on lakes and use them on the sea. What a bunch of puff as captain.

They saw it. We have been in communication

@@BoatZone Good on ya for helping them out. It looked like it may have been a test ride; the two near the helm seemed to be in matching shirts. And while it was rough, it didn't look like they were handling the boat stupidly. Especially on the way back in, didn't look like anything wrong with their driving there.

naa, they only wanted to test the bilge-pumps ... and it was a great success :-)

They only got wet because of the morons driving the boat. If they would have done it correctly nothing would have happened. Especially on the way in they just should have ridden the back side of the wave, instead they went faster and buried the bow in a wave. Same for the way out. Kind of dumb.

The bow of that boat does have a decent flare but it starts too high up the stem. IMO the bow would not get stuffed as it did if the flare started ~2ft lower.

My personal "ocean spec" is 50', steel hull, 2 diesel engines, and experience. Lifeboats are a nice concept as well.

New boater here. I appreciate it. Still trying to figure out trim settings in different situations. Have been out 5 times in the last year. Experience is key, I’m sure.

It’s crazy how expensive some of these boats are and their captains have no idea what they are doing. I have a 94 four winns 195 sundowner that I treasure and treat so good. A fraction of the cost of some of these boats that are just getting destroyed. Smh

Too many Idiots out there

I can’t imagine heading out towards haulover and like so many of these pilots have no idea what to do in the haulover situation ,..I’d definitely spend some serious time researching, talking to experinced people , maybe even the local coast guard who can be very helpful in safe navigation tips through these areas they patrol ,..sure there are even plenty of knowledgeable and experienced pilots that would be willing to go out with beginners and show them how to get through this. I live in the ski resort mountains of Utah and with the massive influx of people moving here for cost of living, very low crime rate, endless beauty and activities,..there are Facebook pages where locals like me offer to new residents or anyone , snow driving instruction /tips & many offer to meet up at the base of ski resort roads and drive the new residents vehicles up the snow covered resort canyon roads and back , give them instruction in what settings to have the vehicle in, how to handle loss of traction, what to do when hitting the brakes and not stopping & lists for winter emergency crates (blankets , food, water, flare gun, road flares, dry firewood, charger/radio unit , shovel, traction ramps or mats, smal hand saw, coats, socks, gloves, hats, recovery strap, small harbor freight cigarette lighter air compressor , proper snow Jack, LED emergency multi-tool flashlight, basic auto repair kit, ice scraper, D-Rings, jumper cables, everything you could possibly need to survive sliding off the road in a blizzard for days or to be able to self recover or help another vehicle, all in a single Tupperware container in the back of a vehicle. These groups do it because lives are lost every year from someone or a family getting over their heads in a storm , or lost and not having the proper supplies to make it once fuel runs out and no automotive heaters available. We’ll get them a list of the kit supplies with prices & where to buy (Amazon nowadays) & they can have an entire complete kit for $100 that could save their lives one day & at the very least gives them a peace of mind when heading out in a storm. Then we offer to drive ya up to a resort and down, show them about their vehicle & how to use recovery gear, take them to a parking lot and show how to correctly regain control, stop, accelerate , safely continue momentum in a slide and then have them practice the same. It’s all free & I’ve been told by a number that they feel night and day better about driving in the snow. There are SO many simple things so many down know about driving in the snow and ice, like if they’re sliding and can’t turn , let off the brakes so u can make the turn or pump them,..in some cases turning off traction control , especially if stuck etc. loading a couple 80 lb bags of concrete mix ($4 a bag and they’re small and dense) in the trunk of rear wheel drive cars and 4x4 /all wheel drive cars helps immensely. Lastly many Facebook pages where you can if u have service post that you’re stuck & need help & sections you can post your location and destination with emergency contacts heading into a storm where you delete the post when arriving safely , so that locals can see when someone doesn’t remove a travel post after x amount of times passed to get through a bad spot , then page watchers can repost the post , make contact with emergency contact to see if they got home & worst case organize a few 4x4 recovery vehicles to go drive the route & search/recover the poster. It’s all free , no recovery fees or anything , just locals that want to make sure that whether your new, a local, a college student traveling home, passing thru the state or experinced , that you get where you’re going safely & if bad luck hits ya, which happens to thousands of winter drivers, it’ll all be ok. I have a Toyota 4Runner Expedition-Recovery Vehicle I’ve built for off-road and winter vehicle recovery that I truly enjoy rescuing and recovering people in trouble or jsut stuck vehicles. My dad took me all growing up in his 1960 Chevy stepside recovery truck helping people for free and now I take my daughters doing the same . Our first trip with my girls was when a massive blizzard hit on Christmas Eve-Day & my girls on Christmas Day were so excited to go help people trying to get somewhere for Christmas , we towed out and pulled 4x4 SUV’s and diesel trucks all day , was SO rewarding seeing the relief on these families faces when in a blizzard and stuck here comes a built recovery vehicle to help, and seeing my girls smiles when we’d get them on their way is priceless. I’m sure groups like this exist all over the world but we encourage ANYONE in an area that could use a group like this, anyone with experience, to create a Facebook page and group and hep others! So I hope there’s a group or page like this for Haulover and other dangerous inlets. Seeing some of these boats that take on water and the screaming of “I can’t swim” while not having a life jacket on makes me think people aren’t doing any research before heading into these potentially dangerous inlets. I’m sure SO many in the comments here would be happy to help & could use their great experience to help others. If there’s no Facebook pages or IG pages like that, someone local should create one & share it around , locals can post current haulover conditions , video of the swells real-time , warnings etc, ask for advice or help etc. it’s extremely rewarding! 🙂👍👍 Sorry for the long post but as a dad, I worry a lot about the kids especially being taken thru here by people not prepared or experienced, we can always do more to help. I’ve seen a few haulover channels using their drones to help search for people in the water & man that amazing and infinitely helpful to rescue services! Good on you guys

@@TopNotchCav628 credit card Captain

Some of them have ballast tanks up the front which can be filled from an inlet that lowers at the transom and fills using the speed of the boat.

It was used as a mule

@@Tarheel13 Nope

just snapped right off!

Glub glub

😂😂😂

Amar taking waves over the fly bridge is awesome.

And no one wears a life jacket….until the boat fills up with water 🤦🏻‍♂️

They aren’t thinking.

Chiropractor Porn

Apparently they're trying to get to the calm stuff not even a mile out of the inlet.

But what if every single boat gets stuffed

But what if every single boat gets stuffed

@@ToddtheLoneDroner allot of ego behind the wheel - one way to avoid it is to slow down, trim the boat a bit bow high and plow through at a manageable speed ( even then you're going get some what over here and there)- going into those conditions at high speed with people riding up front is lunacy

@@rayo1371 "People riding up front is *LUNACY* " Can we make that the quote of the day please.

Amazing what experince alone can do, watching those bluetop teenage girls in that tiny bluetop whaler boat with a single little engine they go full throttle up and down the inlet and never have trouble , then u see groups of adults in $2M center consoles with 5- 450R’s that get beat to hell, stuffing their massive boat and Turning tail giving up halfway thru the inlet, a bit of experience goes a very long way

I’m sure they could make one , but unfortunately no one wants to see that :)

I do agree that no one would want to see it done the right way. Not at all exciting. But is there a way to tackle the inlet waves without betting the boat or sinking the boat.

@@johnwidgery7189 I know there is but they want viewers and subscribers to watch people mess things up , try to save their phones while they get drenched with thousands of gallons of water , no life jackets , ect, more fun to watch :)

@@johnwidgery7189 There are videos of how to cross a bar/ inlet safely if you're interested....most of the best ones come from Australia/ New Zealand though....some of those bars are scary as hell, and if you tried to cross them like the guys in these videos do, well natural selection is a thing. On some of them (I forget the name unfortunately) you have to radio the local coastguard before attempting to cross, and then radio them again once you make it. If the coastguard don't get the second call within a certain timeframe, they send out the rescue boats/ helicopters.....like I said, scary as hell.

From comments I've seen; yes and no. Somebody said it's pretty much like this all the time.

I got this... The following is a comprehensive list of "regulations to prevent stupidity" at Haulover inlet. 1) Thank you for reading. That is not to say there are no rules. If stopped by any of the 5+ entity's with authority all the industry standards apply. No license required (small craft). No age restriction. Does this help?

There are risks involved in living in a free country (I know that 'free' is debatable now). People learn that way. A few pay a price. If there was heavy regulation, people would complain about that. I'll take the free.

I’ve wondered the same as a dad of child daughters , every time I see a parent with no life jacket in the bow holding a baby or a toddler on their lap with no life vest going thru haulover it makes my heart race! You couldn’t pay me any amount to let my daughters go thru there in a bow and without a jacket! I see some other US and even Florida Inlets have police and coast guard that yell on speakers at people to get off closed bows and even open, put on life jackets, keeps speeds down, no overtaking etc but seems haulover has no rules? Seems like life jackets should be a bare minimum in such rough waters? There’s no swimming out of that current your going out to sea and rougher waters. Bytheway, I watch some videos on some of your inlets in NZ and WOW!!!???? Some of them make haulovers swells look little! Terrifying! Do u know what the worst inlet is in NZ? I’d love to look it up. Thanks from this American. 🙂👍👍

Yes there are regulations, but most american people are too blinded by the whole "freedom" concept that they just turned into not thinking dumbass knowitalls.

Captains going too slow, poorly designed hulls and people sitting in the bows = every occurrence I’ve seen where captains swamped their boats, risked their passengers lives and needed professional rescuers. Education and training would go a long, long way to making things safer out there. Speed limits? Not necessary. Never saw one rescue in Haulover related to a lack of speed limits.

come to new England you haven't seen anything yet

Yes, easy to miss though as the cameraman was fixated on little red bit of stern gear on the back deck, red arrowing her while the nautical action was happening with the forward hatch getting ripped out…good pickup. I missed it also for the woman with an arse and no sea legs.

That hatch had to have been unlatched.

An ego is a terrible thing to waste 😂

The Big waves occur because the deep water meets shallow water AT the inlet. Anywhere where there aren't barrier reef to stop the ocean water you will get waves at the shallow end

@@hayatel2557 Thankyou so much!

The reason you see what we refer to as ‘square waves’ quite often at Haulover Inlet is caused by a combination of the prevailing Easterly winds (onshore) creating wind-driven waves (the windier it gets, the bigger the waves) meeting the opposing outbound current of the ebbing tide. The narrower the inlet, combined with how much there is to be pushed seaward, the greater the speed of the current. Walk down to the inlet a few hours after this battle and you’ll see a far calmer, much less scary scene. It’s when you get a 20 knot breeze blowing onshore for a few days opposed by a Spring tide ebbing straight into those waves that you get these vertical monsters. Things get pretty nautical for several hours. If you think this is sporty, you should see the 4-knot northbound Gulfstream when the wind is blowing out of the North at 35 knots. The Gulfstream western edge is only about 4 miles offshore down here - but you can see the turmoil from the beach. Looks like an infinite herd of Buffalo running.

Tide going in or out.

Hispanics

It's tide coming over a sand bar that goes out underwater for a distance. You're basically stuck running into the waves until you get out far enough for things to settle down.