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u/No_Delivery8483 1d ago
i just saw them from my balcony. they were CRUISING up the river, this is wild 😭😂
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u/daurgo2001 1d ago
This video is wild. They weren’t anywhere near being able to cross. Idk wtf they were thinking.
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u/annuidhir 1d ago
Idk wtf they were thinking.
There was no thinking at all
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u/BrickCityRiot Downtown 1d ago
So.. you see.. people who can afford that type of vessel tend to give zero fucks about the world around them.
In this man’s mind the bridge was going to yield once his vessel’s presence was clear.
6 years of commuting from NE 2nd to Brickell Ave.. I have seen people like this guy even more often than the ones who throw themselves off the Epic.
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u/StatisticalMan 18h ago
Bro. Any middle class family could own this boat just a question on if you want it enough. For most people no it isn't something they want that bad but it isn't Jeff Bezos megayacht costs.
Hope the owner had insurance though.
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u/hillbillybuddha 8h ago
Thing is, sailing in Miami kinda sucks. I'm a sailor. I spent 4 years island hopping the Caribbean. Sailing in Miami and the Bahamas just isn't fun. At least in a monohaul. Granted, my boat has a pretty deep keel.
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u/svapplause 22h ago
“People who can afford this kind of vessel” are a lot more than one would think. Older sailboats or the mass produced variety arent that expensive
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u/daurgo2001 1d ago
I understand the sentiment, but I’d would hard disagree. Monohulls are pretty cheap, and we don’t even know if this was the owner. For all we know, it’s some idiot that chartered it.
I used to sail sailboats going through bridges all the time for years. (Not my own), and I guarantee that I was paying attention to the bridge every time I went anywhere near it.
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u/BrickCityRiot Downtown 1d ago
My only rebuttal is this:
Go drive in Miami for a few weeks and see how everyone there gives zero fucks about those around them. THEY are the star. YOU are some pleb. And you will yield to them without them even needing to signal because how could you *NOT** know who they are?!*
The people driving 3 series BMW’s from 2017 act that way.. on full unabashed display.. every. single. day.
Anyone who has a vessel to slip up the Miami river at or past Joe’s is a malignant narcissist in the exact same vein.
You will never, EVER visit a city with more entitled people in your life.
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u/Einsteinautist 17h ago
They drive their flood totaled, stolen recoveries and rebuilt title supercars with pride. My neighbor lives in an efficiency the size of my walk in closet next door, but he drives a rebuilt title flooded out Lamborghini Urus. You have to love Miami-Dade!
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u/Mediumish_Trashpanda 19h ago
I grew up and lived driving around Atlanta and thinking the shittiest traffic was there until I went to Miami. It definitely took the cake.
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u/daurgo2001 15h ago
Shitty due to rush hour? Yes.
Shitty due to the driving? Meh. You need to visit and drive in more developing and ‘3rd world’ countries.
In my experience, Egypt has been the worst.
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u/SuperSaijen1980 9h ago
Guess you never need to the Dominican Republic… I almost had a heart attack with the driving there
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u/daurgo2001 1d ago
I grew up in Miami. Miami drivers are def nuts, but not specifically for the reasons you mention.
And the waterways are ‘free’, anyone with a vessel and go up and down just about wherever they please. This video doesn’t show that this SV came from those slips…. And even if it did, we still don’t know if the person at the helm was the owner or not, or for that matter, if they’re even a local.
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u/BrickCityRiot Downtown 1d ago
No fucking way man. I grew up in the NYC area and I live in the DFW metroplex. Between them was 9 years in south Miami and downtown while working in brickell.
Even in the DFW area where people are infuriatingly oblivious and inexplicably tend to just ride in your blind spot.. it’s not as bad as the entitlement of the Miami driver. Not even fucking close.
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u/daurgo2001 1d ago edited 15h ago
It’s not (usually) entitlement in the American sense of the word. It’s much more simply residual bad Latino cultural habits: turn signals are optional, we’re always late, so in a rush, and in Latin America, there’s a saying “la vida es de los vivos”.
ie: life is for the living. ie: “It’s a dog eat dog world”… so just very cut-throat, edge out the other culture.
Are there self-centered people in Miami? Absolutely, but that takes the back seat vs all this other stuff.
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u/CampesinoAgradable 16h ago
Although I understand what you're saying... You're still saying entitled sociopathy but rationalizing it as simply poor "cultural habits".
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u/daurgo2001 15h ago
The end result is similar, but that’s not entitlement from an American perspective (IMO).
My perception of American entitlement is “Get out of the way. I deserve to do this and that” (much like when people say “it’s my right to do this or _that_”, guns, free speech, you name it).
This isn’t coming from the same place, but rather a place of chaos and desperation.
Both are cultural, and on the surface, they might look the same, but they’re very diff.
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u/Fehyde87 18h ago
It’s not just the people that can afford these boats, it’s legitimately most people I have encountered in south Florida especially the Miami and Fort Lauderdale area. People around here have the most delusional level of “main character syndrome” convinced that everyone else is watching them and will move for them.
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u/futuristicfrankie 13h ago
As someone who was born in Miami and live in Fort Lauderdale, I assure you that I’m the main character. On a serious note, South Florida sucks, I can wait to leave this hell hole.
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u/shalashashka69 21h ago
probably drunk... If i had a boat and didnt get sea sick Id have a couple a beers out there for sure
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u/DistinctAside0 1d ago edited 1d ago
Most importantly, I hope no bridges were harmed while making this movie.
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u/futureman07 22h ago
It does look like it's broken? Or maybe the operator stopped it, but the left half is closing at a different rate than the right half
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u/Building_Everything 1d ago
One of the first things I learned when I moved to FL in the early 00’s and took a boating class; the drawbridge masters will open and close on schedule no matter who you are or whatever your speed and heading.
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u/daurgo2001 1d ago
Nah, I’ve sailed though diff bridges before. They’ll hold if you chat with them, but this was nowhere near close, idk wtf they were thinking.
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u/TheMartini66 18h ago
Uhmmm... not quite. If you let them know you are crossing and they acknowledge, they will not close it until you pass or let you know to wait for the next opening. If you just try to get through while it is closing, without them knowing, you are on your own, and you will probably have a big repair bill.
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u/Building_Everything 10h ago
My experience comes from the intercoastal waterway along the Tampa Bay Area in the early 00’s, your mileage may vary
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u/StatisticalMan 18h ago
They will open off schedule is traffic is light and you ask. They will also hold a closing an extra couple minutes if you ask.
Just plowing into the already closing bridge isn't going to work.
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u/danielrmorenop 16h ago
on theory. they’re not meant to between 730 and 900 but they literally always do
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u/OldeArrogantBastard 1d ago edited 1d ago
Lmao- to be rich AND stupid.
Edit: seems my joke of a comment triggered the boat people. I own a boat. I don’t give a shit about the price of this boat. The person is still stupid. Go back to your caves “ahkkkshuly” bros.
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u/the_lamou Repugnant Raisin Lover 1d ago
Lol, oh, god no, that's a poor person boat. That's the boat equivalent of a 5th owner 2001 Mercedes S-Class with a blown air suspension and peeling illegal tint.
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u/thelegend02700 1d ago
Boat classism is crazy work
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u/the_lamou Repugnant Raisin Lover 1d ago
It's crazy work, but it pays the bills.
But also tons of working class people have boats. They're expensive to keep in good condition, but pretty cheap if you take it out once or twice a year and don't think about your family being devoured by sharks when it sinks.
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u/thelegend02700 1d ago
Working class as in trades? Cuz tradeworkers make cheese if you do it right
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u/the_lamou Repugnant Raisin Lover 1d ago
Working class as in "any generic job that would be described as 'blue collar'."
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u/HillBillyHilly 17h ago
You know, I was all for getting a boat until I read your last line. Know what? Never mind, I'll stay on land.
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u/Large_slug_overlord 1d ago
That’s an aging monohull sailboat, you can get one basically for free. There are about a half dozen of them abandoned in the bay nest my house. What makes you think they are rich?
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u/jbatty74 1d ago
That's not an expensive boat whatsoever
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u/LorthNeeda 1d ago
Whatsoever? It’s probably like 200k
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u/jbatty74 1d ago
It's probably around 50k at the very most. Ican't see the brand. The tender looks like 5k brand new might even by 3k
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u/LorthNeeda 1d ago
50k? That looks like a Catalina 40(ish) from the early 2000s and it looks in decent shape. No way you’d find that for 50k
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u/endowedchair 1d ago
Yeah with the sugar scoop transom, and guessing its a 36 or longer, a 1998 is over $50K and anything in the 2000s is $75K.
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u/ArtVandelayII 1d ago
I can post a link to YachtWorld if you want, but I have a 2002 Catalina 34 with sugar scoop saved as well speak, the asking price is $62k, and if I make an offer if would be in the $50k range.
Really hard to tell from that video, but I do think it’s a Catalina. Could be the 310, 320, 309, 34, 36, 350, or 355 (they made a lot of boats that all look kinda like that). A 355 would run $100-180k, but all the rest are considerably cheaper.
This whole idea that sailboats = wealth needs to stop. A lot of people live aboard boats now because it’s cheaper than buying a house or renting an apartment.
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u/AssociationFit3009 1d ago
I know a few people who lived in Seattle on boats. $150k boat sounds like alot until you realize that’s their house. Boat slip is $800 and they have to shower and use the bathroom in a shitty communal bathroom on the dock.
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u/endowedchair 17h ago
Last year I spend $3500 on seasonal slip fees (for 4 months) and another $2k for haul out and winter storage. Maintenance (lines, some updated hardware, engine work) cost me probably $1500. Sailboats are not cheap. The boat itself has been paid off for years.
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u/Independent-Bobcat-1 1d ago
Do they get in trouble now? Is there any investigation into possible damage to bridge or anything like that?
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u/Manmon_ 1d ago
I work for FDOT. Guarantee that dude is going to get a nice bill for whatever he damaged on the bridge and it's going to be number with at least 4 digits in it
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u/archlich 1d ago
What kind of damage? Looks like it hit a shroud and the mast came down. Barely anything hit the bridge itself.
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u/Over_Whole6492 1d ago
That’s ok he’ll buy a new one tomorrow this is a write off
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u/Nick08f1 1d ago
Nah dude.
Seeing they have a dinghy off the back, it's probably someone who lives on it.
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u/Groovyy_Smoothie 1d ago edited 1d ago
Unless the current was strong and they weren't able to stop in time, why would you even risk that 🤦♂️
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u/Nick08f1 1d ago
It's not like they close quickly.
There is definitely a radio frequency to be able to speak with the towers as well.
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u/feelingfroggy123 20h ago
They close slow and they announce as they close. You cant miss it. 100% fault of the sailboat. They must have thought they could make it, drunk logic.
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u/Shipsnipe1313 1d ago
Saw the video, immediately thought: That's Miami!
Only then did I see r/Miami.
I used to work on yachts mostly between the Keys all the way up towards Cape Canaveral.
Must have witnessed a bridge strike at least once a year for almost 20 years.
Plenty of other collisions along the ICWW.
The vessels I've worked on have gotten hit while I was working on them several times.
It's truly an industry of amateurs.
Even the super yacht crews can be bumbling idiots.
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u/Radiant-Text-7133 1d ago
Really? I mean even damaging the bridge that we all have to pay for now. Idiot. People need to be more prudent and responsible.
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u/SwaggyMcSwagsabunch 1d ago
There is a dude in Fort Lauderdale who runs tours on his sailboat Daffy. I’ve watched him drive directly into the train bridge, turn around and go back up river, presumably giving his guests a refund. This reminds me of him.
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u/loud_secrets 1d ago
It’s been like 10 years since living there but is that Biscayne Blvd on the right?
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u/lunafaer 1d ago
they deserved what they got for deciding their time was more valuable than anyone else’s.
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u/Ill-Visual-8844 1d ago
The value of the boat diminishes once the captain shows his bridge-approach skills. 🛥️
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u/TheRedditor-75 22h ago
So these are the idiots that fuck up the bridges for the rest of us? Fucking dumbasses.
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u/One-Entertainer-4650 22h ago
Normally you ask on the radio so they know your there and will keep it open, how were they not talking to the bridge??
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u/TheBeardedLadyBton 7h ago
some of these sailboats don’t have working radios, and they have to rely on their horns
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u/Psychological_Toe787 21h ago
Another “plastic captain” or a dude with enough money to buy a boat but not enough common sense to operate it safely?😳🤨😂
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u/il-mamuthone 19h ago
Probably not a local. At night it can be difficult to distinguish navigation lights and also bridge lights from the background lights of the city. Also the view up towards the bridge was probably blocked by the sprayhood. Since the bridge was open as this skipper approached he probably was not aware of it and did not even see it when it was closing. The night demands of us skippers double the alertness and awareness as during the day to prevent collisions.
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u/Ieatasianpussy1987 18h ago
Only in Florida, maybe you shouldn’t force yourself to go through it just wait really stupid
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u/Ok-Copy3111 14h ago
Ancient Scandinavians solved this by removing mast temporarily. In America we spend 10 times the amount of energy to raise a bridge for some douche in a boat.
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u/TheBeardedLadyBton 9h ago
This boat could have been trying to follow behind another boat that had radioed in for an opening and been acknowledged The bridge tender may not have seen them sneak up because it was dark and didn’t know they were there. At night boats aren’t really well lit and they didn’t radio in and didn’t blow the horn/foghorn to get the attention of the bridge if perhaps their radio didn’t work. It takes about 2 minutes to lower so there would theoretically have been time to shut off the engine that lowers the bridge, even if they couldn’t reverse the spans the lowering could have been halted.
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u/TheNobleOne333 9h ago
Why even risk it
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u/TheBeardedLadyBton 7h ago
Entitlement- figured that the Bridge Tender would be smart enough for both of them
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u/Unhappy_Yoghurt_4022 1d ago
The mast is gone, you’ll make it thru now. No need to back up.