Monster waves
BG Comments interspersed .... I see you didn't want to touch the
subjects of tsunami's and stability. Your lack of knowledge and inexperience showing again? Simple Simon wrote: I'm not the one bragging about being aboard boats that get structure stove in by large waves am I? Didn't see any bragging on my part, and considering the potential for damage to that ship, what she sustained and survived would be considered acceptable. I've sailed up and down many a fifty footer with no problem. Any and all structure aboard my boat is still intact and shows no wave damage. Doubt you've ever seen a 50 footer. You haven't done enough deep sea sailing. If by chance you had seen even a 30 footer ..... we all get lucky. I'll admit I've never even seen a hundred-footer in person but that's because I'm smart enough to avoid them. Can you claim the same? Once again, your lack of experience showing. If you go to sea long enough, where you are trying to get from point A to point B, you are bound to run into conditions that mean you will have to deal with some serious weather. You can avoid some things, but others you just have to deal with. I remember a picture which was making the rounds of the web, showing a tanker in heavy weather, going to Alaska. I have been Master of that tanker, on that run, and seen the same .... sometimes you are stuck dealing with what you are dealt, and in the case of a rogue, you generally have no fore warning, which means, in your case, odds on, we wouldn't be having this discussion if you had ever run across one. BG Try as you might, Neal, you will never see the conditions, I've seen.... and to be honest, I hope you don't. otn |
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otnmbrd wrote:
I remember a picture which was making the rounds of the web, showing a tanker in heavy weather, going to Alaska. I have been Master of that tanker, on that run, and seen the same .... sometimes you are stuck dealing with what you are dealt, and in the case of a rogue, you generally have no fore warning, which means, in your case, odds on, we wouldn't be having this discussion if you had ever run across one. BG Try as you might, Neal, you will never see the conditions, I've seen.... and to be honest, I hope you don't. All of us who have sailed on the Valdez run had a more than a fair share of that kind of seas. When we started running from Valdez to the Far East is when it got really nasty and on one trip we really did have 30 meter waves for several days straight with winds steady in the 80's and gusting to over a hundred. Could hardly tell the difference between sea and sky most of the time. Nil would have crawled into a lifeboat and cried if he could have made it that far. Would love to have Nil experience that sometime. Would shut the fool up maybe if he didn't move to Kansas. Either way if it got him off the water the seas would be a lot safer. Of course by the sound of his seamanship and general nautical knowledge I am not sure he has much contact with the sea aside from buying canned tuna anyway. Rick |
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Simple Simon wrote:
I've been out there and been in sight of very large ships that went completely out of sight behind such waves. Have you ever been out on a boat, Nil? Consider that on your tiny toy boat your height of eye is about 6 feet and the trough of nearly any wave or swell will put you out of sight of anything over a few dozen feet away in the trough of another wave or swell. What a frigging idiot ... Simple, yes. Mariner? Bwahahahahahahahahaahahaha Rick |
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There are no facts to support this.
"Simple Simon" wrote in message ... I'm afraid no boat will ever please Booby, however. The reason being he cannot eat it. S.Simon "Bobsprit" wrote in message ... Funny, we don't hear Neal talk of his ''next boat'', or call his Coronado a ''stepping stone''. He seems quite satisfied with the boat he OWNS. Hey, look! A Siedleman owner comes to the defense of a Coronado owner! RB |
Monster waves
Comments interspersed:
Simple Simon wrote: We have a little old current around this neck of the woods called the Gulf Stream. In the wintertime when we get northers the wind acts against the current and produces fifty-foot, short period waves on a regular basis. BS. Although you will see some nasty seas on the East Coast of Fla, during NE Gales, 50 footers are rare (generally not enough fetch to develop them until you clear the Bahamas) Doubt you've ever been out there to experience them. If you are ever up this way I'll take you out into the axis of the Steam in a northerly gale and show you a fifty footer or two. I've been out there and been in sight of very large ships that went completely out of sight behind such waves. ROFL Just because you're always sailing in the lee of your little islands does not mean real waves don't occur in other places. Give it a rest, Neal. You rarely leave Tampa Bay S.Simon |
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Hey, putz. I was on top of one wave and the ship in the trough of
another a ways off and it went out of sight. I know you've never been in such seas but please try to imagine them at least. S.Simon "Rick" wrote in message hlink.net... Simple Simon wrote: I've been out there and been in sight of very large ships that went completely out of sight behind such waves. Have you ever been out on a boat, Nil? Consider that on your tiny toy boat your height of eye is about 6 feet and the trough of nearly any wave or swell will put you out of sight of anything over a few dozen feet away in the trough of another wave or swell. What a frigging idiot ... Simple, yes. Mariner? Bwahahahahahahahahaahahaha Rick |
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I love it when the tugboat captains all get together
and stroke each other's flagging egos. Their old memories are those of a fisherman who caught a minnow which grew into a whale in the telling . . . S.Simon "Rick" wrote in message hlink.net... otnmbrd wrote: I remember a picture which was making the rounds of the web, showing a tanker in heavy weather, going to Alaska. I have been Master of that tanker, on that run, and seen the same .... sometimes you are stuck dealing with what you are dealt, and in the case of a rogue, you generally have no fore warning, which means, in your case, odds on, we wouldn't be having this discussion if you had ever run across one. BG Try as you might, Neal, you will never see the conditions, I've seen.... and to be honest, I hope you don't. All of us who have sailed on the Valdez run had a more than a fair share of that kind of seas. When we started running from Valdez to the Far East is when it got really nasty and on one trip we really did have 30 meter waves for several days straight with winds steady in the 80's and gusting to over a hundred. Could hardly tell the difference between sea and sky most of the time. Nil would have crawled into a lifeboat and cried if he could have made it that far. Would love to have Nil experience that sometime. Would shut the fool up maybe if he didn't move to Kansas. Either way if it got him off the water the seas would be a lot safer. Of course by the sound of his seamanship and general nautical knowledge I am not sure he has much contact with the sea aside from buying canned tuna anyway. Rick |
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ROFLMAO Didn't think you'd be able to come up with any response that
would show any experience with "heavy weather". Stick to the Bay, Neal, we'll all be safer Simple Simon wrote: I love it when the tugboat captains all get together and stroke each other's flagging egos. Their old memories are those of a fisherman who caught a minnow which grew into a whale in the telling . . . S.Simon "Rick" wrote in message hlink.net... otnmbrd wrote: I remember a picture which was making the rounds of the web, showing a tanker in heavy weather, going to Alaska. I have been Master of that tanker, on that run, and seen the same .... sometimes you are stuck dealing with what you are dealt, and in the case of a rogue, you generally have no fore warning, which means, in your case, odds on, we wouldn't be having this discussion if you had ever run across one. BG Try as you might, Neal, you will never see the conditions, I've seen.... and to be honest, I hope you don't. All of us who have sailed on the Valdez run had a more than a fair share of that kind of seas. When we started running from Valdez to the Far East is when it got really nasty and on one trip we really did have 30 meter waves for several days straight with winds steady in the 80's and gusting to over a hundred. Could hardly tell the difference between sea and sky most of the time. Nil would have crawled into a lifeboat and cried if he could have made it that far. Would love to have Nil experience that sometime. Would shut the fool up maybe if he didn't move to Kansas. Either way if it got him off the water the seas would be a lot safer. Of course by the sound of his seamanship and general nautical knowledge I am not sure he has much contact with the sea aside from buying canned tuna anyway. Rick |
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Simple Simon wrote:
Poor old Nil. Never was never will. Rick |
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