You definately don't want to go over the side
in the ocean. Tossing garbage overboard
and pumping out your holding tank might
actually attract sharks to your boat, and if they
are hungry, to follow your boat for many miles.

Fun eh?

"katysails" wrote
How reassuring...I Guess I won't be checking out our bottom any time soon
with the snorkle...

"Bart Senior" .@. wrote \
http://dsc.discovery.com/tvlistings/episode.jsp?episode=0&cpi=23349&gid=0&channel=DSC 10: Lemon Shark--8 feet, great night vision, likes shallow waters. 9. Blue Shark--8' - 13', Fastest shark. 8. Hammerhead Shark--Fastest turning, 7 senses 7. Sand Tiger Shark (Grey Nurse Shark)--10' - 14', found in numbers around shipwrecks and plane crashes. 6. Grey Reef Shark--fights over food, attacks each other in mass feedings 5. Short Fin Mako--6' - 12' Fastest shark. Exceptional jumpers 4. Ocean White Tip--best sense of smell, numerous, very hungry. 3. Tiger Shark--10' - 20' and will eat anything 2. Great White--14' to 23' long. Attack from underneath into the air. 1. Bull Shark--8' long. Found in fresh up to 300 miles up river and salt water--even some lakes. They sometimes school in large groups. Many previous attacks attributed to the Great White were probably Bull Sharks --the most deadly shark.

I really wasn't planning on going overboard any time soon....and we probably
won't do much more than coastal cruise anyway since we're not set up for
offshore sailing at all...we'd have to either get a macerator pump or get
the y-valve replaced and we don't have a radar...there's nothing wrong with
coastal cruising...especially when you have wide open spaces like Pamlico
and Abermerle Sounds to explore....
"Bart Senior" .@. wrote in message ...
You definately don't want to go over the side
in the ocean. Tossing garbage overboard
and pumping out your holding tank might
actually attract sharks to your boat, and if they
are hungry, to follow your boat for many miles.

Fun eh?

"katysails" wrote
How reassuring...I Guess I won't be checking out our bottom any time
soon
with the snorkle...

"Bart Senior" .@. wrote \

http://dsc.discovery.com/tvlistings/episode.jsp?episode=0&cpi=23349&gid=0&channel=DSC
10: Lemon Shark--8 feet, great night vision, likes shallow waters. 9.
Blue Shark--8' - 13', Fastest shark. 8. Hammerhead Shark--Fastest
turning, 7 senses 7. Sand Tiger Shark (Grey Nurse Shark)--10' - 14',
found in numbers around shipwrecks and plane crashes. 6. Grey
Reef Shark--fights over food, attacks each other in mass feedings 5.
Short Fin Mako--6' - 12' Fastest shark. Exceptional jumpers 4. Ocean
White Tip--best sense of smell, numerous, very hungry. 3. Tiger
Shark--10' - 20' and will eat anything 2. Great White--14' to 23' long.
Attack from underneath into the air. 1. Bull Shark--8' long. Found in
fresh up to 300 miles up river and salt water--even some lakes. They
sometimes school in large groups. Many previous attacks attributed
to the Great White were probably Bull Sharks --the most deadly
shark.

Last I was in BVI, we had a 3 foot barracuda underneath the catamaran for
several hours. It seemed to like the shade, so at one point I opened up the
emergency hatch in the head and reached out and tried to grab the tail. He
sure didn't like that at all, but didn't get me. Still it stuck around for
hours.

http://www.sailnow.com/gifs/barracuda_small.jpg


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"Bart Senior" .@. wrote in message ...
You definately don't want to go over the side
in the ocean. Tossing garbage overboard
and pumping out your holding tank might
actually attract sharks to your boat, and if they
are hungry, to follow your boat for many miles.

Fun eh?

"katysails" wrote
How reassuring...I Guess I won't be checking out our bottom any time soon
with the snorkle...

"Bart Senior" .@. wrote \
http://dsc.discovery.com/tvlistings/episode.jsp?episode=0&cpi=23349&gid=0&channel=DSC
10: Lemon Shark--8 feet, great night vision, likes shallow waters. 9.
Blue Shark--8' - 13', Fastest shark. 8. Hammerhead Shark--Fastest
turning, 7 senses 7. Sand Tiger Shark (Grey Nurse Shark)--10' - 14',
found in numbers around shipwrecks and plane crashes. 6. Grey
Reef Shark--fights over food, attacks each other in mass feedings 5.
Short Fin Mako--6' - 12' Fastest shark. Exceptional jumpers 4. Ocean
White Tip--best sense of smell, numerous, very hungry. 3. Tiger
Shark--10' - 20' and will eat anything 2. Great White--14' to 23' long.
Attack from underneath into the air. 1. Bull Shark--8' long. Found in
fresh up to 300 miles up river and salt water--even some lakes.
They sometimes school in large groups. Many previous attacks
attributed to the Great White were probably Bull Sharks --the
most deadly shark.

Capt. JG

Last I was in BVI, we had a 3 foot barracuda underneath the catamaran
for
several hours. It seemed to like the shade,

Let me guess .......... Cooper Island?

Actually, it was off Norman.

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"rgnmstr" wrote in message
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Capt. JG

Last I was in BVI, we had a 3 foot barracuda underneath the catamaran
for
several hours. It seemed to like the shade,

Let me guess .......... Cooper Island?

Every year we have anchored off Cooper we have had one under the cat
for the afternoon. I guess like you said they must like the shade.
I've seen big ones diving the wreck of the Rhone at 90 feet.

Yeh, I saw one there once a long time ago. It was huge. Made the one in the
pic look like a minow. I couldn't figure out how to tell my dive buddy it
was a barracuda, so I used the shark sign. :-)

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"rgnmstr" wrote in message
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Every year we have anchored off Cooper we have had one under the cat
for the afternoon. I guess like you said they must like the shade.
I've seen big ones diving the wreck of the Rhone at 90 feet.

Could it have been a Tarpon?

Lots of those in that area.

"Capt. JG" wrote
Actually, it was off Norman.

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"rgnmstr" wrote
Capt. JG

Last I was in BVI, we had a 3 foot barracuda underneath the catamaran
for
several hours. It seemed to like the shade,

Let me guess .......... Cooper Island?

I don't think so, but I suppose it's possible.

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"Bart Senior" .@. wrote in message ...
Could it have been a Tarpon?

Lots of those in that area.

"Capt. JG" wrote
Actually, it was off Norman.

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"rgnmstr" wrote
Capt. JG

Last I was in BVI, we had a 3 foot barracuda underneath the catamaran
for
several hours. It seemed to like the shade,

Let me guess .......... Cooper Island?

"Capt. JG" wrote in message
...
Actually, it was off Norman.

We saw them everywhe Marina Cay, at The Indians, Jost VanDyke at both
Little and Greater Harbors, Peter Island, Cooper, and swam with them over
the reef north of Virgin Gorda. They'll leave you alone if you don't screw
with them. One was waiting patiently just off the stern of a large
catamaran with a tiny, yappy dog bouncing all over the swim platform on one
of the hulls. If the dog had slipped off the boat, he'd have been lunch.

Max