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Friday, May 20, 2016

Let someone else go down to the sea in boats

Every so often, usually in spring, the urge arises to find a way back onto the big ocean. Then thanks to all the new ways to recall what that's like, as in this YouTube collection, there comes a good reason to pour another scotch, turn up the heat and find a good movie on Netflix. Not interested in trying to sleep held in place by lee straps while the bow pounds into wave after wave and water crashes into the wheelhouse windows.
Take a look at some good reasons to stay home.



Singin' them songs about them storms at sea

Some comments:
Joe May One of the first ones looked like Columbia bar. I especially enjoyed the one with the traveling furniture. The one I thought most serious was the container ship....only one big cross sea away from a broach.
Every spring on the first warm wind I have a wish to be back out there...happily the wish only lasts a few minutes and passes for another year.

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Tim Jones I thought the same thing about the Columbia Bar, the second one I think. It was almost funny the guy out on the bow taking a picture and then seeing what's coming hightailing it for the house. I was on a boat once where a car on deck started to come loose. Long story about that, but fortunately the seas weren't anything like this.
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Joe May I was only in something comparable once, on an 85 ft tug. I was a deckhand and the Capt and I alternated 15 min. on and 15 min. off the wheel for 12 hours. Nobody else could get to the bridge to relieve us. In the morning after it had subsided a bit s...See More
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Tim Jones I have heard of water coming down the stove pipe. Makes you wonder. I got down to half hour wheel watches once, never 15 minutes though. Must have been something on a tug that size.
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Betty Sederquist Crazy! Glad to be on land.
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Joe May We were responding to a distress call from another tug. In the middle of the night a spare anchor lashed to the inner bulwarks broke loose and was running free on the deck. If it wasn't captured it would breach the superstructure and sink us.The Mate ...See More
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Tim Jones haha i wish i could be somewhere other than here
Joe May I scanned an entry out of my old sailing log and sent it to Bonnie this morning. similar to Bruce's problem but with a happy outcome. 1988 on the SE end of POW Island...Kendrick Bay.
Wind shift at night when on anchor and boat swung over a mud hump of the ebb tide and grounded.

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Tim Jones I dragged anchor against the beach in an 83-foot tender in Icy Bay. Fortunately it was a steep beach and the hull was configured for a large, deep fish tank which put the propellers and rudders higher than the bottom of the hull. I was able to twin screw the stern seaward and then back off the beach with no damage


Joe May Would it be legal then to write "shipwrecked" on a resume?
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Tim Jones Legal perhaps, but advisable? I don't think so.
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Tim Jones This is the last line of the "Legend of Adak Charlie:" "Those times I gets to thinkin' real fondly about them poor souls in the Bering Sea and the time I spent there. Don't last long, though. I always come back to my senses.” http://alaskaatitude.blogspot.com/.../we-come-off...

ALASKAATITUDE.BLOGSPOT.COM|BY TIM JONES
Joe May Tim Jones Makes an impression though if used between "shot-at" and "frozen".
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Tim Jones That would make an impression.
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Eric Lopez Ya the whole "Ship Wrecked" or "Foundered/sunk" is really way over rated on the ol' resume...first hand experience...
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