(Joe) wrote in message . com...
"Donal" wrote in message ...
" Yea did it all the time carrying 100 passengers and half a million
dollars of tools, everyday. This time of year is the worst on the
Mississippi delta. But like I said Ive ran south and SW pass of the
mississippi in fog so thick you could cut it with a knife. Had to-the
helicopter could not fly. And I wasent farting around at 4 knots, we
usually ran at 25-30 knots.

No Coll Regs in your part of the world, huh?

Yes we have col regs and I obeyed them. Why do you ask. Is it because
of the speed we were running?

This is a sister ship off one of the boat I ran on the mississippi
servicing rigs in the mississippi canyon area :
http://www.carlmaples.com/oil_field_...UTF-8%26sa%3DG

Thats the Big Thunder, I worked boats called the Thunder Cloud, and
Thunder Storm. All the Thunder boat had a thunder names and were out
of Morgan City LA., thunder bolt, thunder chief, thunder

All fast boats and well equipt to run in peasoup. Had to 3 months a
year.

So again Im asking you why you asked about the colregs?

Joe
MSV RedCloud













Do you have to do this for the USCG ticket?

Plotting is a major part of the test

But whats important is we had to do it everyday for real, and you
better be able to tune in a radar to pick up logs, perows, and plywood
hunk of **** boats unless you want some insane coonass to put a few 30
30 shells thru your wheelhouse.



I picked up a 2 gallon paint tin on my radar once. The visibility was about
2 feet, (or maybe 50 yards), and only a third of the can was sticking above
the water. The gain was set to "auto". Isn't modern technology a
wonderful thing?

With 50 yards visibility you should have no problem.



Regards


Donal
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Joe