Alaskan Sea-Duction
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A much better trip this time.
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"Regarding lack of power, I'm surprised you did not just run the generator. "
I would have preferred that but unfortunately my mechanic at home pulled the injector pump off to have it rebullt. Timing for this trip was more important than waiting for that to get assembled so we came without it.
"No worries, but John and I will have to discuss your punishment." Aw ****, is this going to involve me getting a mortgage?
I would have preferred that but unfortunately my mechanic at home pulled the injector pump off to have it rebullt. Timing for this trip was more important than waiting for that to get assembled so we came without it.
"No worries, but John and I will have to discuss your punishment." Aw ****, is this going to involve me getting a mortgage?
Mike:
Glad to hear you were able to get your boat down to Portland with only a little fuss and bother. The most serious mess up seems to be failing to meet up with ASD and Crusty, but I am sure you are now looking forward to that occurring, risk and all.
Glad to hear you were able to get your boat down to Portland with only a little fuss and bother. The most serious mess up seems to be failing to meet up with ASD and Crusty, but I am sure you are now looking forward to that occurring, risk and all.
Here are a couple of videos Tina took. The first one, which I didn't know she took until we got home, from inside the cabin. The second is from the fly bridge. I'm not sure where the first one was taken, the second was taken on day two as we were passing the choke point at Thirteen Mile Point. At Thirteen Mile Point the river narrows from about 3/4 mile across to about 1/3 mile across. The current push we were getting was upped from about 2.4kts to about 5.5kts. Gotta love that when you're going with the current.
Here's #1
[video:youtube]https://youtu.be/AE9bg0JIE-8[/video]
and #2
[video:youtube]https://youtu.be/NWDvO8P76Yw[/video]
Photos will be loaded when I get them together and uploaded to my 3rd party hosting site.
Here's #1
[video:youtube]https://youtu.be/AE9bg0JIE-8[/video]
and #2
[video:youtube]https://youtu.be/NWDvO8P76Yw[/video]
Photos will be loaded when I get them together and uploaded to my 3rd party hosting site.
Alaskan Sea-Duction
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OK, I finally got some time to load the photos. There aren’t a heck of a lot of them, and Tina gets the credit for taking most of them. I had my hands full of other things most of the time. I'm not sure what was going on with my image hosting site but it took 2-3 tries for each photo to finally get them uploaded.
This is the tug and barges that we followed at a snail's pace toward McNary lock, but he was nice enough to let us go through the lock with him so I shouldn't say too much bad about him.
https://postimg.cc/image/qbfglkwqj/
Here we are tied up next to him in the lock. They don't let us tie up to the barge, which is fine with me. We tie up to the bollard that floats up and down as the water level changes.
https://postimg.cc/image/hcykznoi3/
This is looking over the side of the lock at the spillway. They're flowing TONS of water now to help the salmon get to the ocean faster.
https://postimg.cc/image/48t0mz463/
My deck hand waiting as we're getting ready to be lowered. You can see the water level behind the gate--it's 85' down to that level.
https://postimg.cc/image/6vd4hvi97/
When we got to John Day lock (Day 2) we got there ahead of a tug that was heading upriver. They turned the lock around for us and made him wait. He was a bit pissed (you could hear it in his voice on the radio) so when they got us down to the lower level and we got ready to leave, he crowded the opening to make it a bit tougher for us to maneuver out of the lock. Jerk.
https://postimg.cc/image/8aep6ngsb/
Here's my trusty deck hand doing what she does well.
https://postimg.cc/image/l9bwvo4cr/
This one is out of order, but it's a shot of Beachcomber sitting at the Tyee Yacht Club awaiting her new canvas.
https://postimg.cc/image/9wzbdwy8r/
On the way home we stopped by Multnomah Falls. It's supposedly the 2nd highest free falling falls in the US.
https://postimg.cc/image/c6s12lrh7/
See, I told you so....
https://postimg.cc/image/x3o979x7v/
Multnomah Falls Lodge
https://postimg.cc/image/7kvwu9ldn/
That's it. Not my usual number of photos and videos but I'll take more when we bring the boat home in about 3 weeks.
All things considered it was a good trip. I'm not sure Tina would wholeheartedly agree with that. She doesn't find the idea of spray coming up over the fly bridge as exciting as I do.
Then, on the way home we were on the freeway in a construction zone where the left lane was closed, the speed limit was 40mph and I had some arsehole come flying up on my rear. He was so close I couldn't see the hood of his car.
I gave him a quick brake check but he didn't back off so I ignored him.
He stayed right on my tail until we cleared the construction zone then he raced around me into the left lane then pulled right in front of me (within a car length or so) and hit his brakes. He must not have liked the single finger wave I gave him as he went by. He did that a few times then took off.
I guess I don't understand that road rage thing. I mean c'mon man, we're in a single lane with traffic moving at 40mph. WTF does he think I'm going to do, pull off on the shoulder so he can go by me?
I promise to take more photos and videos on the way back upriver with the boat.
This is the tug and barges that we followed at a snail's pace toward McNary lock, but he was nice enough to let us go through the lock with him so I shouldn't say too much bad about him.
https://postimg.cc/image/qbfglkwqj/
Here we are tied up next to him in the lock. They don't let us tie up to the barge, which is fine with me. We tie up to the bollard that floats up and down as the water level changes.
https://postimg.cc/image/hcykznoi3/
This is looking over the side of the lock at the spillway. They're flowing TONS of water now to help the salmon get to the ocean faster.
https://postimg.cc/image/48t0mz463/
My deck hand waiting as we're getting ready to be lowered. You can see the water level behind the gate--it's 85' down to that level.
https://postimg.cc/image/6vd4hvi97/
When we got to John Day lock (Day 2) we got there ahead of a tug that was heading upriver. They turned the lock around for us and made him wait. He was a bit pissed (you could hear it in his voice on the radio) so when they got us down to the lower level and we got ready to leave, he crowded the opening to make it a bit tougher for us to maneuver out of the lock. Jerk.
https://postimg.cc/image/8aep6ngsb/
Here's my trusty deck hand doing what she does well.
https://postimg.cc/image/l9bwvo4cr/
This one is out of order, but it's a shot of Beachcomber sitting at the Tyee Yacht Club awaiting her new canvas.
https://postimg.cc/image/9wzbdwy8r/
On the way home we stopped by Multnomah Falls. It's supposedly the 2nd highest free falling falls in the US.
https://postimg.cc/image/c6s12lrh7/
See, I told you so....
https://postimg.cc/image/x3o979x7v/
Multnomah Falls Lodge
https://postimg.cc/image/7kvwu9ldn/
That's it. Not my usual number of photos and videos but I'll take more when we bring the boat home in about 3 weeks.
All things considered it was a good trip. I'm not sure Tina would wholeheartedly agree with that. She doesn't find the idea of spray coming up over the fly bridge as exciting as I do.
Then, on the way home we were on the freeway in a construction zone where the left lane was closed, the speed limit was 40mph and I had some arsehole come flying up on my rear. He was so close I couldn't see the hood of his car.
I gave him a quick brake check but he didn't back off so I ignored him.
He stayed right on my tail until we cleared the construction zone then he raced around me into the left lane then pulled right in front of me (within a car length or so) and hit his brakes. He must not have liked the single finger wave I gave him as he went by. He did that a few times then took off.
I guess I don't understand that road rage thing. I mean c'mon man, we're in a single lane with traffic moving at 40mph. WTF does he think I'm going to do, pull off on the shoulder so he can go by me?
I promise to take more photos and videos on the way back upriver with the boat.
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GFC,you could ask a helpful Mod to help change the thread title. 
Unless of course the last trip was worse.
Unless of course the last trip was worse.
Bruce, I thought about that and chuckled over it but decided to leave it because the trip did start out better. The last time we tried it the winds were so bad we turned around after about 10 miles.GFC,you could ask a helpful Mod to help change the thread title.
Unless of course the last trip was worse.
This time the winds and waves weren't too bad for the first two days. The worst we saw in those two days was winds about 15-20 and waves about 2'-3'.
Even on the third day they were OK, with winds about 20-30 and waves about 3' until we got to that narrow stretch. The winds picked up to about 40 because they were being funneled through the gap and the waves to about 6'-8'. Fortunately it was only for about 2 miles.
By the time we got to Bonneville Dam the winds had stopped ((they were blowing over the tops of the adjoining hills) and the water was flat. Between Bonneville and Portland they picked back up a bit but even then it was OK.
The thing that freaked me out the worst was backing the boat down the fairway at the yacht club. There was a wind blowing down the fairway and a current running from right to left. I made it OK but when I got to the end and had to back the boat 90* into a turn to side tie it, that got my attention. My pucker factor was about a 15 on a 1-10 scale.
Here's the fairway.......
https://postimg.cc/image/xwecm8obf/
