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God! No thank you. Looks like what "Bull" Halsey's fleet must have gone through in the Pacific when he miscalculated what the typhoon would do and ran with it. If I am not mistaken they lost a few destroyers and destroyer escorts in that storm.

I'm with you Walter, but that was an awsome video.

Hopefully that trip was for more than a burger and a beer !! :-D

Walt, I was in a couple of those south Pacific typhoons.
Some of the Destroyers were stripped of life boats, stacks, even gun mounts. When they would bury there bows into the seas there sterns rose so high you could see there screws spinning in the air. A fire broke out on the ship I was on due to power cables ripping out when waves grabbed a 50 ton aircraft elevator and tossed it into the sea. Nasty!

Many years ago a sailing friend who owned the boat I was foredeckman on, and with whom I sailed over 25,000 miles, gave me a birthday present, which he had labeled "A Foredeck Man's Survival Kit". In it was a roll of duct tape, a nip size bottle of rum, and a pocket size version of the Oxford Book of Prayer.

A couple of years later I was asked to give a layman's message to the small church my family attended. Several of the members, who were not into any type of boating, knew I had sailed through some rather heavy weather and asked me to talk about how it felt to be on a small boat in a big sea. As part of my message I thought it would be fitting to end it with a prayer used by men at sea. Not being deeply religious I went to the Oxford book but could find only one simple prayer, attributed to Portugese fishermen. It went simply...

"Oh Lord please watch over me...
for the sea is so big, and my boat is so small!"

yes i am sure!!!!!!! thurday fire island inlet------- lesson number " 1" never, never expect outboards on a center console to navigate a bad inlet like a 31 bertram . 31 contenter twin yamaha`s with excellent experiance driver lost it coming in with strong following sea . stuff it down she went recover but destroyed. we came in at 13kns. and sail her right in on top of huge wave. no problem and if i was sleeping the waves would come up to the base of bridge and roll off why-------INBOARDS.the crew was shaken but ok.

I'd rather be on a sub. Pull the plug and head down to 800 feet.

rad shots from the copter.......that must have been fun. it switched to a second boat right at the end.

" Look at this. Three, a fresh cold front swooping down from Canada. But it's caught a ride on the jet stream... and is motoring hell-bent towards the Atlantic. What if Hurricane Grace runs smack into it? Add to the scenario this baby off Sable Island, scrounging for energy. She'll start feeding off both the Canadian cold front... and Hurricane Grace. You could be a meteorologist all your life... and never see something like this. It would be a disaster of epic proportions. It would be... the perfect storm. "

Last night while I was sleeping, my outboard motor broke into my house and tried to kill me and my family. Luckily the neighbors inboard motor heard what was going on and saved us all. It was a close call.

captbone wrote:Last night while I was sleeping, my outboard motor broke into my house and tried to kill me and my family. Luckily the neighbors inboard motor heard what was going on and saved us all. It was a close call.

Probably a four stroke, you can't trust them any further than you can throw them.

jspiezio wrote: Probably a four stroke, you can't trust them any further than you can throw them.

It was!!!! It was also a Japanese engine and we all know you cant trust them either after the whole sneak attack deal. He threaten me saying if I ever take him outside the inlet again, he will destroy my boat and burn down my house.

real smart,real smart they were my friends and one came close to drowning! under watch may have internal injuries

up date -----spleen removed and part of intestines seems to be in good spirits and recovering.

Hey Bob,are you talking about the people on the center console. I talked to my friends on the Island and no one heard anything about the sinking. whose boat was it?....Russ

bob lico wrote:up date -----spleen removed and part of intestines seems to be in good spirits and recovering.

That inlet is no joke...glad he is doing better.

Carl

sim we can only guess the steering wheel hit him in above the stomach instead of the normal rib break he took internal injuries i don`t want to mention names it just not right at this time.