remember this guy, the boy has skills
- Thread starter jon hansen
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so you say those are little boats. try this.
i prefer sailing with a crew, but that's just me.
i prefer sailing with a crew, but that's just me.
I think it is the hat! No way he could have done that if he were wearing a ball cap.
Docking under sail has always been one of my favorite things to do. It gives one a feeling similar to having super powers.
Nice. But not overly impress with the video in #4. That was an end tie. Doesn't count as a "real" docking. LOL
I agree it is very empowering, but I only do it when absolutely necessary. It's not about my boat or my confidence, but rather about the other boats around me.
It is pretty obvious that the first guy really knew the area, but well done. I didn't watch the others. Any boat with a large, well trained crew should be able to do anything.
For those of you in the Caribbean who'd like a challenge, sailing into North Sound in Antigua was a blast on Skipping Stone. I also was very pleased with myself when I sailed Skipping Stone into Charleston Harbor in an offshore wind and anchoring off the City Marina, with a very inexperienced crew.
But by far the most exciting (and stupid) entrance I've made (even more so than the Columbia River Bar) was into Tutukaka, NZ on my 65' hermaphrodite ketch, Seafarer. I'll grant that I was under power, but my bowsprit hung way out over the rocks, which were only a few feet away from the hull, as I waited for the swell to push me off the rocks and I could make the turn in. There was a pretty big swell running that day, which actually helped, but increased the pucker factor a great deal, as well. I'd never entered Tutukaka before, and certainly never did again. I wanted to catch a White Marlin and that was the best place to do it.
For those of you in the Caribbean who'd like a challenge, sailing into North Sound in Antigua was a blast on Skipping Stone. I also was very pleased with myself when I sailed Skipping Stone into Charleston Harbor in an offshore wind and anchoring off the City Marina, with a very inexperienced crew.
But by far the most exciting (and stupid) entrance I've made (even more so than the Columbia River Bar) was into Tutukaka, NZ on my 65' hermaphrodite ketch, Seafarer. I'll grant that I was under power, but my bowsprit hung way out over the rocks, which were only a few feet away from the hull, as I waited for the swell to push me off the rocks and I could make the turn in. There was a pretty big swell running that day, which actually helped, but increased the pucker factor a great deal, as well. I'd never entered Tutukaka before, and certainly never did again. I wanted to catch a White Marlin and that was the best place to do it.
jssailem
SBO Weather and Forecasting Forum Jim & John
- Oct 22, 2014
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Most of my entries were on the salmon & crab boats and we'd fish long after it was really smart to do so, off that coast. By the time we got to the Columbia River bar, the option of waiting for the tide was long gone.
jssailem
SBO Weather and Forecasting Forum Jim & John
- Oct 22, 2014
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My Uncle, commercial fisherman, waited outside the bar for 36 hours. Finally decided he’d had enough. Needed to get the fish to the plant. Headed in. Would have made it without an issue, except for one breaking wave. It came up out of sequence, or he had slowed, the story gets fuzzy. The wave washed across the stern. Carries the pilot house, diesel tank under the pilot house, and the skipper at the helm clean off the boat. His crew, who had been below come up on deck to see my Uncle floating beside the boat still gripping the helm in the pilot house. Crew throw him a line. CG patrol boat takes the boat under tow. Then delivered the fish. My Uncle was talked about as the first skipper to abandon his boat yet deliver the fish at the helm of his pilot house.
I marvel at what stories occur when fishermen go to sea.
I marvel at what stories occur when fishermen go to sea.