Posted on 01/26/2013 11:18:56 AM PST by navysealdad
We DID enjoy the islands.
Our boat was also in a charter fleet with a bareboat company in Anacortes. It was the flush deck model (only 22 were built). Had to sell because the charterers did damage to it and the charter company would not use their insurance to cover the damage.
It was a great and beautiful boat, though...
Been there done that, it is a wild ride.
Those are training sessions for prospective pilot boat captains. The U.S. Coast Guard does similar things with prospective captains for their cutters.
It’s funny I never getsick when it is real rough, but a slow roll will get me.
Wahoo! You can get paid to do that?
INCREDIBLE video! Thanks for posting.
I won’t complain the next time we’re out in 4 footers. LOL
I was on a Soviet stern trawler in the Bering sea when a bad storm sent all light craft into rocky coves to hide - where they spent the night engines roaring at max to stay in place. I went to the bridge at a moment when our 93 meter trawler was leaping up and all I could see out the bridge windows was bright blue sky.
We landed hard and I watched the bow slide right into the water and thought it wasn’t going to stop. But leap/dive, leap/dive for days.
The 2nd tried some fancy sailing and our ship was caught hard and spun to starboard so hard you could hear equipment and stores falling over on all decks. So while the rest of the Soviet fleet had headed into the wind out to sea and put alot of distance between each ship, our ship was outta-luck cutting 90 degrees across everyone else’s course while we leaned so hard to starboard that the difference between the wall and the floor was unclear (almost like walking in ‘v’). And the mates basically communicated “Oh, and that’s not all....” They took me over to an antiquated radar and showed me that we, among all ships fighting the storm, were the only ones on a heading for land and were unable to slow down or turn.
With all this in mind, the 3rd mate would let go of railing and like an ice skater slide past me to get to the other side of the ship to read the degrees when we were hit harder with waves - the ship kept on with its leap/dive, leap/dive, we could hear small boats coordinating with each other not to collide tightly packed in rocky bays, and some poor guy in a small boat up in the ice floes without a rudder....and me wishing I was not on a 1950’s Soviet sterm trawler in that storm. We all lost long range antennas and could only play ‘telephone’ with short wave....over ships radio came a song...some American captain holding the mic open to encourage us all......
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-diB65scQU
It was hard to describe ‘flying’ airborne and crashing down on course for land, leaning so hard to starboard, and the night we almost capsized in that storm (I went to bed fully expecting to wake up on the ceiling in the night)...still all set to the music I linked.
Let me guess..they send out TWO boats in case ONE sinks..
This was a big storm test for the boats.
Underneath the video is an ad for boat hull repair.
Could be Potato Patch Shoals outside the Golden Gate.
Love the way the one skipper ‘surfed’ his boat.
Happened to me once, but it was totally unplanned.
One of the most exhilarating moments of my life.
My father, aka ‘The Chief’, tried to warn me about cutting the shoals too close but a guys got to learn.
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