Thread: Crossing a bar
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Old 02-17-2020, 04:04 PM   #20
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Originally Posted by mvweebles View Post
Interesting USCG Notice to Mariners (2015) on the OR/WA bars in link below.

By far, the craziest bar on the west coast is Depoe Bay OR. Also below is a video of two USCG MLBs coming in - notice how the lead one is waiting for the right set, then see the black exhaust smoke when the helmsman punches it. According the notice to mariners below, this channel was recently widened from 35-feet to 50-feet.

That looks like a whole barrel of nope. Having to run a boat up on plane in a space that narrow would already have me doing a bit of and that's before adding those waves into the mix.
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