How Did Pirate Ships Deal With Storms? | The Pirates Port

Ever since men first went to sea sailors have had to contend with bad weather. Pirates, while fearless in a number of ways, knew very well how dangerous a storm could be. They would have avoided sailing into bad weather if they saw a storm on the horizon, but weather forecasts did not exist until 1859 so they were largely limited to their own visibility, talk from other sailors, and folklore to predict a storm. Make sure to subscribe, like, and become part of our crew by supporting our channel on Patreon or donating through PayPal.

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[The-Dom]

Anybody who's worked on a boat in even slightly rough waters can testify to how scary this must have been.

[PaneShaynter]

The Wydah museum on cape cod is so cool. The guy who discovered the wreck was in the last area grinding concretions off coins, picked up one he just finished and handed it to me. I was the second person to hold that coin in hundreds of years, cool feeling

[paulklee]

Loved the background sounds... the creaks and groaning water noise ... real goosebump

[cohoanglervancouverwa]

This is also the origin of the phrase “a loose cannon”.

[theheathendiaries]

Woop! Glad you are back - don't leave us this long again!

[TheSeamJimi]

This is great! Excellent art on display here, and I really dig the creeky wooden ship sounds beneath everything. Lovely touch and polish.

[mrdoctor]

Great videos, well researched and with wonderful visuals. Very underrated history channel.

[MrG]

Imagine how terrifying a storm would have been on one of those ships in those times.

[Mayor.Of.Eville]

I like how even pirates were like: this is a good fuckin kitty right here

[l.v]

this channel is amazing i find pirates so interesting but can almost never find good quality videos. now i know where to find them

[dude]

I remember the Real Pirates exhibit that detailed the Whydah! It was so cool to see all of that treasure and many more artifacts from real life pirates

[tiagoverde]

been waiting for your videos this past weeks sir...
and finaly another interesting video can't wait...👍😁

[TheSonicfrog]

A common technique used by both sloops and square-riggers in a storm is called "heaving to." For a square rigger like the Wydah, that would entail sailing on a beam reach (parallel to the wind), shortening the main sail, and and then bracing the main yard around so that the fore sails are working as normal but the mainsail is backed, and you slow or stop. Ideally, you can get underway again if needed by bracing the main yard back around. For a sloop, you point off the wind, and just back the jib.

[siddharthc.]

🤩🤩 Your channel is very informative, pirate era landscape is fascinating to see and your voice is calm, nice to hear. Keep going make more videos. It’s amazing to watch your videos.

[MMarshallEllwood]

I'm currently researching to write a novel about the golden age of piracy and your videos are a massive help, thank you for your hard work in making this.

[baylusbrooks]

Very informative! Keep'em coming!

[Lady_Chaos]

YOU'RE BACK!! We've missed you! The video is fantastic! Thank you!!

[Leto]

All these sunken ships and only thanks to a few survivers their tales could be told.
Thanks for yet another great and inspiring video. :)

[siddharthc.]

I wonder the financial system of the era. How bank, credit, money and government worked in that era and how did these Outlaws used them to facilitate loans or finance their expeditions.

[OtherWorldExplorers]

Just want to let you know this was my first video from your channel. It was damn good and I subscribed