True North wrote:
I feel I know our local conditions good enough to know when to go out into exposed parts of local bays and harbour.
If anything I tend to err on the side of caution.
I don't enjoy long slow passages riding up over side of a swell or wave and down the other.
Even in a larger boat I tend to get seasick if tossed around too much.
Actually, owning a small boat probably limits me from going out in questionable circumstances that I might take a chance on in a 20 footer and regret later. Also saves me from the wife's wrath...she wants it as calm as a mill pond. ;-)
You should have bought a bigger boat. Why limit yourself to 1-2 foot seas?

"JustWaitAFrekinMinute" wrote in message
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On 8/3/2013 4:52 PM, John H wrote:
I used to take my 18' fishing boat 20 miles
out into the Atlantic when we lived in NE Florida. There were
smaller
boats out there, too.


OH, what a bunch of bull****....

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Why is that bull****? I know many people who go out 20 miles or
more to fish in small boats in good weather.
They don't do it in boats designed for fresh water lakes or ponds.

On 8/3/2013 10:05 PM, Eisboch wrote:


"JustWaitAFrekinMinute" wrote in message
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On 8/3/2013 4:52 PM, John H wrote:
I used to take my 18' fishing boat 20 miles
out into the Atlantic when we lived in NE Florida. There were smaller
boats out there, too.


OH, what a bunch of bull****....

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Why is that bull****? I know many people who go out 20 miles or more
to fish in small boats in good weather.
They don't do it in boats designed for fresh water lakes or ponds.



It's my opinion that coming from Harry, the whole story is bull****....
Right down to the whole 45 days, ten hours... la, la, la... Why?

wrote:
On Sat, 03 Aug 2013 16:35:31 -0400, Wayne.B
wrote:

Rough calculations show something like 800 days actually underway
since we bought the trawler 9 years ago. Not all of that was blue
water of course, maybe half. In terms of actual time onboard,
probably about 40 months. I've also done a fair amount of blue water
sailing over the years, enough to have a sailing endorsement on my
USCG ticket.

I have about 9000 hours clocked on my current boat but most of it was
in places where I could wade ashore and walk home.

All of my USCG time put together was a few months but some of it was
pretty exciting (North Atlantic in the winter sort of thing)
My Navy time was all ashore.

I had no urge to spend my life at sea. Why I turned down a chance to go to
the Calif Maritime Academy in my youth. Figure that was foolish now. Lots
of jobs that did not require all that time at sea.

In article ,
says...

On 8/3/2013 4:52 PM, John H wrote:
I used to take my 18' fishing boat 20 miles
out into the Atlantic when we lived in NE Florida. There were smaller
boats out there, too.


OH, what a bunch of bull****....


You stupid twit, there's all sorts of boats out that far in boats less
than 18' on just about any decent weather day.

In article ,
says...

On 8/3/2013 10:05 PM, Eisboch wrote:


"JustWaitAFrekinMinute" wrote in message
...

On 8/3/2013 4:52 PM, John H wrote:
I used to take my 18' fishing boat 20 miles
out into the Atlantic when we lived in NE Florida. There were smaller
boats out there, too.


OH, what a bunch of bull****....

---------------------------------

Why is that bull****? I know many people who go out 20 miles or more
to fish in small boats in good weather.
They don't do it in boats designed for fresh water lakes or ponds.



It's my opinion that coming from Harry, the whole story is bull****....
Right down to the whole 45 days, ten hours... la, la, la... Why?

Man, your jawbone has you posting **** that makes NO sense.....

On 8/4/13 9:31 AM, iBoaterer wrote:
In article ,
says...

On 8/3/2013 4:52 PM, John H wrote:
I used to take my 18' fishing boat 20 miles
out into the Atlantic when we lived in NE Florida. There were smaller
boats out there, too.


OH, what a bunch of bull****....


You stupid twit, there's all sorts of boats out that far in boats less
than 18' on just about any decent weather day.


Typically, we went out very early in the morning, at dawn, usually, and
came back in in the early afternoon in order to miss the typical mid to
late afternoon thunderstorms. Most of the time in the late spring
through the early fall, offshore boating in small boats was pleasant and
if you worked the trip right, you could avoid most of the annoyances of
the nor'easters, too.

I recall seeing 16' Carolina Skiffs "way out there," and to me that was
risky because those boats didn't have much freeboard. But the CS boats
are just the best deal going for the ICW and for the great fishing in NE
Florida bays, rivers, and just offshore. You don't need much of a boat,
size wise, to enjoy Florida fishing.

In article ,
says...

On 8/4/13 9:31 AM, iBoaterer wrote:
In article ,
says...

On 8/3/2013 4:52 PM, John H wrote:
I used to take my 18' fishing boat 20 miles
out into the Atlantic when we lived in NE Florida. There were smaller
boats out there, too.


OH, what a bunch of bull****....


You stupid twit, there's all sorts of boats out that far in boats less
than 18' on just about any decent weather day.


Typically, we went out very early in the morning, at dawn, usually, and
came back in in the early afternoon in order to miss the typical mid to
late afternoon thunderstorms. Most of the time in the late spring
through the early fall, offshore boating in small boats was pleasant and
if you worked the trip right, you could avoid most of the annoyances of
the nor'easters, too.

I recall seeing 16' Carolina Skiffs "way out there," and to me that was
risky because those boats didn't have much freeboard. But the CS boats
are just the best deal going for the ICW and for the great fishing in NE
Florida bays, rivers, and just offshore. You don't need much of a boat,
size wise, to enjoy Florida fishing.

Hell, I've been in the gulf out that far in a 16 footer hundreds of
times.