Alaskan Sea-Duction
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Awesome video of the USCG on the Columbia River Bar
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It is great!!! Looks like a lot of fun. I have driven a 47', but not in conditions like that.
Fletcher500
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Those are some thick swells. A good recruiting movie for 18 year olds. Sign me up.
Benthic2
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That looks like fun! ( as long as its someone else's boat!)
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I was interested in the way the pilot operated the engine controls.
I think I was out there this year when they filmed it! Or at least that was the way it looked to me.....NEVER EVER cross on an ebb......
I think I was out there this year when they filmed it! Or at least that was the way it looked to me.....NEVER EVER cross on an ebb......
caltexflanc
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Furuno.
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Great fun!
Now, to put a placid looking cruiser topside onto one of those competent hulls...
Need an interested lottery winner...
RB
Now, to put a placid looking cruiser topside onto one of those competent hulls...
Need an interested lottery winner...
RB
Pgitug
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Helped a guy take his 43’ Mason from Portland to Long Beach California. The morning we crossed the Columbia River bar I told him to wait for the flood tide. He was in a hurry and crossed an hour before slack low tide. Leaving Astoria just before sunrise the entire river was as flat as a glass mirror. As we made the final turn to SW the waves were 6-7’ and only 75’ a part. The captain was so sick he threw up for the next 18 hours until we got to Newport. Never cross on an ebb tide.
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Maybe even my right one.
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Except for the cresting waves, that's what happens on the eastern (down-wind end) of Suisun Bay when winds counter an opposing tide: steep, five-foot, quick-succession waves that nearly bury my boat's bow and sends spray over the entire boat.
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It would have been educational to have observed the helmsman make throttle adjustments.
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It would have been educational to have observed the helmsman make throttle adjustments.
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I love watching Pros at work!
Benthic2
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They couldn't give those guys in inside helm station ???
psneeld
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There is a lower station on the 47s, just most dont like operating from there.
Poor Mark will never understand that, particularly when the boat rolls over.
From Wikipedia.....
"Employing "fly-by-wire" control systems,[8] the boat can be operated from four different locations: two from the enclosed bridge, and two amidships from an open bridge.[3]"
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Paul Swanson
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There is a CG school at the Columbia that trains for surf conditions. Fly Wright is correct ...they are pros. See the film "the finest hour" ;" they have to go out, but they don't have to come back"
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