Posted on 01/08/2018 7:46:02 AM PST by BenLurkin
I worked a tour boat along the Jersey Shore for a summer. It was fun but strictly fair weather cruising. A rough trip would have been fun.
The captain was kind of a weird dude. I didn’t even know he knew my name until he called me up to steer while he hit the head.
”Adventure is the result of poor planning.” Roald Amundsen
I served on the old WWII diesel subs in the early '50s. Dryest boats in the fleet. We could go through some HEAVY seas and not be hit with anything other than wind-blown spume while on lookout up in the shears (those long posts sticking out of the conning tower). Those clipper bows splayed out and when you hit a big wave, it was like Moses and the Red Sea - it just threw them aside.
Later on I was transferred to a "Guppy" (streamlined snorkel boat). Those were the wettest in the fleet. Was a lookout when we ran into a big storm. On those boats, the lookout was only exposed head and shoulders and a bit lower in the sail. I saw us knife into a 50' wall of grey water and braced myself. It felt like I was under Niagara Falls. It got so rough, we dove to 100', and the boat still rocked, so you knew we were in heavy weather.
In the '80s, the wife and I were on a cruise that ran into a storm off Mexico. There was just a pleasant slight roll to let you know you were at sea, and so help me, some of the passengers were afraid we'd roll over.
Nope. Came out when I was in my early teens. Cool factoid, though.
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