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Stinkpotter
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Initially Posted - 11/19/2013 :  15:52:48  Show Profile
Gets [url="http://www.soundingsonline.com/dispatches/291347-video-cruising-rally-takes-a-beating"]nasty[/url]. Same weather system that raked the midwest this week. Anyone paying attention??
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Dave5041
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Response Posted - 11/19/2013 :  20:33:02  Show Profile
We paid attention.
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redeye
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Response Posted - 11/20/2013 :  05:15:13  Show Profile
Not enough salty dogs... I guess they are making some in the process.

I always chuckle when someone asks if a 25 is a seaworthy boat...
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Response Posted - 11/20/2013 :  14:33:46  Show Profile
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by redeye</i>
<br />...I always chuckle when someone asks if a 25 is a seaworthy boat...
<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></font id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">Everything's relative... You could say a 25 can handle 10' seas, if you believe [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaxJSZDvFXQ"]this[/url] is a picture of 10' seas. (It's more like 3'ers.)

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-4RmGetKP4"]Here's more like 8-10'[/url], in what looks like a 40+ foot yawl. I'd say that's a picture of "seaworthy"--the 25' Catalinas rate a <i>little lower</i>. Imagine 30-footers with the tops being blown off as sheets of spray.
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Response Posted - 11/20/2013 :  19:39:43  Show Profile  Visit britinusa's Homepage
When we took JD to the Bimini Islands, we experienced 6-8' seas.
My wife asked how I knew they were 6-8feet.

My response was.. When we are in the valley and you have to look up to the top of the next wave, it's probably 6-8 feet! I was looking up and over those waves for about 8 of the 13 hours we were transiting from Biscayne bay to Bimini.

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Response Posted - 11/20/2013 :  20:02:12  Show Profile
Swell is one thing... Wind waves are another. 6-8' swell is like an gentle but out-of-control elevator... 6-8' wind waves are like an out-of-control washing machine that's trying to kill you. On the ocean, you commonly get wind waves on top of the swell--often from different directions. The swell is from a distant storm (maybe 1000+ miles away), and the wind waves are local--typically with a few hundred miles of fetch. When you're several hundred miles off-shore, that's when things get "interesting" and you want a bigger, blue-water boat. Or maybe you're more adventuresome than I!
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OJ
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Response Posted - 11/21/2013 :  13:40:59  Show Profile
Remember this clip?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yG9JmkhH7Qg

All of the crew looks calm and collected . . . whew!!!
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redeye
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Response Posted - 11/22/2013 :  05:50:41  Show Profile
THis is how I like it...

http://www.schooners.com/multimedia/beachcam.htm
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Stinkpotter
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Response Posted - 11/22/2013 :  07:58:12  Show Profile
I remember that harbor entry... can't believe the guy standing on the bow! Yes, he has the forestay in hand, but the pointy end is the one that pitches the most and sometimes goes under--I suspect his feet were trying to lift off the deck now and then!

Here's a maxi in the 2010 Sydney-Hobart...



I had friends in that race, far behind the maxis... I tried to post a shot of 100' Wild Oats almost fully submerged, but the link wouldn't work.
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Ben
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Response Posted - 11/22/2013 :  08:44:43  Show Profile
I know it may seem crazy, but I think it'd be an incredible rush to be on the bow of a boat like that in those conditions.
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Response Posted - 11/22/2013 :  08:52:22  Show Profile
Some images you don't easily forget..



is that it dave?
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Chief RA
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Response Posted - 12/01/2013 :  09:25:16  Show Profile
Have rode out 4 Typhoons on the USS Kidd with 40 to 50' swells years ago. Have done 16' swells recent times on 26' Clipper Marine and boat handled them easily. Chief
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Response Posted - 12/01/2013 :  10:05:07  Show Profile
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by redeye</i>
<br />Some images you don't easily forget...
is that it dave?
<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></font id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">Yup!
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