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.
Joe MayOne 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.
Tim JonesI 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.
Joe MayI 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
Tim JonesI 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.
Joe MayWe 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
Tim Joneshaha i wish i could be somewhere other than here
Joe MayI 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.
Tim JonesI 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 MayWould it be legal then to write "shipwrecked" on a resume?
Tim JonesThis 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...
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