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Running the Columbia River bar!!

Posted: Nov 28th, '12, 11:28
by Rawleigh
"I think we need a bigger boat!!"

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Re: Running the Columbia River bar!!

Posted: Nov 28th, '12, 11:51
by Bertramp
a bigger boat or some clean undies !!

Re: Running the Columbia River bar!!

Posted: Nov 28th, '12, 17:22
by ianupton
But in a Bertram, you wouldn't even need to hang on the the wheel in those seas.

:)

Re: Running the Columbia River bar!!

Posted: Nov 28th, '12, 17:59
by Charlie J
thats insane

Re: Running the Columbia River bar!!

Posted: Nov 28th, '12, 18:17
by Brewster Minton
The fish they catch must be worth alot of $$ to do that everyday.

Re: Running the Columbia River bar!!

Posted: Nov 28th, '12, 18:50
by IRGuy
Bertram weather!

Re: Running the Columbia River bar!!

Posted: Nov 29th, '12, 11:09
by clay
I lived in Seaview WA for 2 years just out of highschool and worked as a bait boy on a couple of headboats that fished for salmon in the Pacific back in the day when you could. We ran the bar every morning and night, I spent a few nights out in the ocean at the mouth of the river being banged around when the Coast Guard would close the bar to all vessels. Look at the size of the scuppers on those boats I rember skippers yelling check the flappers are open and clear. Some of the old salts used to tell of hitting bottom when the bar depth was maintained at 32 feet now that its 40 that almost never happens. "Graveyard of the Pacific"

Re: Running the Columbia River bar!!

Posted: Nov 29th, '12, 18:35
by Bob H.
That is some crazy boat handling...need 24" scuppers just to clear the deck...at one point the boats look like there going backwards...BH

Re: Running the Columbia River bar!!

Posted: Nov 29th, '12, 21:53
by gplume
In this case, speed is your friend. I figure if you could match wave speed, it may not be so bad. Those trawlers are not the right vessel for those conditions, i'd put my moeny on a Bertram

Re: Running the Columbia River bar!!

Posted: Nov 30th, '12, 07:24
by Charlie J
looks like there just surfing them in

Re: Running the Columbia River bar!!

Posted: Nov 30th, '12, 10:44
by Carl
gplume wrote:In this case, speed is your friend. I figure if you could match wave speed, it may not be so bad. Those trawlers are not the right vessel for those conditions, i'd put my moeny on a Bertram

don't think there is a right vessel for those conditions.

Re: Running the Columbia River bar!!

Posted: Dec 1st, '12, 16:58
by Morning Wood
That aint their first rodeo at that boat handling. Incredible!