Fishing boats nearly capsize and sink entering the Greymouth River

That is the most scariest crossing I have seen and its not worth it when you are dead.
Surely, if NZ love their seafood, they love you more. So a mothership out in the bay for transfer of produce, fuel and fishermen.
Anchor off until clam. If that ever happens.

far out what a shit hole of a bar. good skipper and that out rigger saved him

Skipper has big balls

omg! I feel sick just watching it! how the heck???

who do I talk to about that stabilizer arm? I have a rolling schooner that could use it! Seriously!!

I like the guy at 2:10, with the window open... kickin' back like that was just another day at the office. LOL Now THAT is what you call a bad-azz seaman.

Amazing how these small boats take the swell and the tide in their stride.There is not much you can do in this situation.Keep the engine full ahead and try not to go broadside which you can't stop anyway.

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My first trip after getting my second mate foreign going certificate was on the MV Konini, sometime in 1968. She was owned by USSCo and was on the coal run from Greymouth to Wellington.
My duty after letting go when leaving port, was to stand by the whistle lanyard and sound it if we touched bottom on the way out, likewise on the way in. The Harbourmaster watched our entry and exit and calculated our position if the whistle was sounded (all proper nautical terms by the way). The bar was never stationary but moved according to the weather, and the port authorities liked to know where it was.
There was never any doubt if we did touch - the ship paused as it touched the sandbank and all the attachments such as masts, accommodation, funnel, objected to the strain placed upon them. In other words, the hull was slowed almost immediately while those parts that were joined to the hull but above it, wanted to keep on going at the same speed. It's all very simple and to do with "levers". The ship's radio aerial which was attached to the foremast, was left slack during the crossing as it would most likely part as the mast bent.
That was a long time ago. I sailed with them for another 2 or 3 years and moved on, but another memory that remains from that period is that it was a commonly held belief amongst the officers that the Inter-Island ferries had to arrive on time or as near to it as humanly possible. If the Master in his wisdom deemed that entering Wellington Harbour was against all his nautical instincts due to extreme weather, and loitered in (more) sheltered waters waiting for it to break, the time spent waiting was probably best utilised in packing his bags, as his next voyage would be on something like the "Konini". It was understood that he would be replaced - Company policy! It may not have been an official policy, but more an empirical one where one watched, listened and learnt.
If anyone has ever wondered why the "Wahine" tried to enter Wellington Harbour in such atrocious conditions yet failed in its attempt, here may lie the answer.
Lane White

that is on a good day

i was on that boat

I deckhand this boat lol

You know, I think the fishing can wait for another day, they didn't have to go out....

To do all this and to continue actively fishing (look at the fishing cones) - wow...!!

This boat must be returning from a fishing trip and encounter low tide and high sea at the river mouth.

Does one have to get a Certificate of Insanity before they issue one an operating license for this channel?

Respect that skill, those conditions were some of the most dangerous situations you can be in a boat, curious what the water depth is there.   To think I was once paranoid about oregon inlet.  Might not work pretty but those stabilizers do work.

holy shit greymouth is usuly more rough then this and a boat this big still got wasted but he was very good at handeling it

I have been a sea farer for half of my life and have been piloting boats of various sizes and each quality boat were built with their best buoyance .