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Nice photo Oliver.
Nothing in the upper or lower third .. would make a great panoramic.
I love the cleat.
Nothing in the upper or lower third .. would make a great panoramic.
I love the cleat.
Glass Days
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Don't like glassy water, either in the floatplane or the boat. In a floatplane, it's downright dangerous and can kill you. In a boat it's pretty but I don't like the way boats feel in glassy water. They handle better, in my opinion, with some air being introduced under the hull. Other than for taking photos, I'll take at least a rippled surface over glassy water every time.
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The many pontoon planes I've observed never had a problem with smooth water.
It would take me far to long to explain why glassy water is so dangerous to a seaplane pilot. Not once you're on it but landing on it and taking off from it. Landing is the far more potentially dangerous situation, but it can get a pilot in trouble when taking off with a heavy load.
I used the photo I posted, which I took while landing on a glacier lake deep in the BC Coast Range, in the instructional book I wrote about flying floatplanes to illustrate the danger when landing.
PS- They are called floatplanes, not pontoon planes. The things they float on are calked "floats" not "pontoons."
PPS-- While the water in your photo probably appeared glassy to you, it isn't to me were I flying our plane into Ketchikan at that particular time.
I used the photo I posted, which I took while landing on a glacier lake deep in the BC Coast Range, in the instructional book I wrote about flying floatplanes to illustrate the danger when landing.
PS- They are called floatplanes, not pontoon planes. The things they float on are calked "floats" not "pontoons."
PPS-- While the water in your photo probably appeared glassy to you, it isn't to me were I flying our plane into Ketchikan at that particular time.
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No doubt the pilots were all experts, making the difficult look easy. Would pilots prefer two-foot chop over glass smooth?
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Friend of ours on the Napa.
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Murray,
I'll give you the A word on that one .. awesome!
This pic = glass on 6 mile wide Clarence Strait slightly disturbed by Willy.
Marin's right. I once ran around in circles w my big OB boat to rough up the water so a friend could take off w his Cesna 150. Serious glass is "sticky" and Bob had been to Vancouver on a shopping spree w this awesome new girlfriend and she loaded down the plane so it wouldn't take off w full fuel .. that they needed to get home to Masset. So I tore up the glass and they finally got off.
As to being dangerous I suppose on landing if one was going fast and lightly loaded the stickiness of glass could cause a flip endo .. the stickyness of the glass causing too much drag. Waddiua think Marin?
I'll give you the A word on that one .. awesome!
This pic = glass on 6 mile wide Clarence Strait slightly disturbed by Willy.
Marin's right. I once ran around in circles w my big OB boat to rough up the water so a friend could take off w his Cesna 150. Serious glass is "sticky" and Bob had been to Vancouver on a shopping spree w this awesome new girlfriend and she loaded down the plane so it wouldn't take off w full fuel .. that they needed to get home to Masset. So I tore up the glass and they finally got off.
As to being dangerous I suppose on landing if one was going fast and lightly loaded the stickiness of glass could cause a flip endo .. the stickyness of the glass causing too much drag. Waddiua think Marin?
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Sunset during my Gulf of Mexico crossing... I was doing 5 knots and no, there is absolutely zero wake at that speed on Seaweed. There is a bit of turbulence at the stern for maybe two feet, but that's it. Life is sweet.
And those jellyfish are cool... reminded me of the movie Finding Nemo. Great picture!
And those jellyfish are cool... reminded me of the movie Finding Nemo. Great picture!
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Dry Pass, Prince of Wales Island, last August.
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Our Delivery trip in December, from Oriental to Washington NC. was pretty idyllic...
Anyone who has spent any time boating on the Neuse, Pamlico Sound and Pamlico River will testify what an awesome photo that is. The first time I ever crossed the Albemarle Sound it was like that.... but never again...
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Nice to see the plants running! Don't miss the work though.The notorious "wait for weather" Delaware Bay:
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Glass day on Carquinez Strait:
Typical day on Carquinez Strait:
Typical day on Carquinez Strait:
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I swear all mother had to do was read Albemarle or Pamlico on the chart and she'd get queasy. [And generally there'd be a pretty good reason she was not feeling so swell... or perhaps it was the swells, cross waves, current and the roll of the boat that made her sick.]
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Here's a photo from Pelorus Sound, NZ.
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And another, looking back at the stern,
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