Watching the news and it sure looks like some of those poor people in Texas
are going to get clobbered.

Also, a 500+ foot freighter, hauling crude petroleum, is dead in the water,
100 miles offshore. The captain tried to get out of the way of the
hurricane and had engine failure. Coast Guard attempted a rescue of the 28
crew members, but had to call it off due to high winds and weather.

This may be another major weather disaster in the making. Hope not, but it
doesn't look good.

Eisboch

On Sep 12, 3:43*pm, "Eisboch" wrote:
Watching the news and it sure looks like some of those poor people in Texas
are going to get clobbered.

Also, a 500+ foot freighter, hauling crude petroleum, is dead in the water,
100 miles offshore. *The captain tried to get out of the way of the
hurricane and had engine failure. * Coast Guard attempted a rescue of the 28
crew members, but had to call it off due to high winds and weather.

This may be another major weather disaster in the making. *Hope not, but it
doesn't look good.

Eisboch

"Certain death" is the warning from the weather service.. I hope not,
some reports have half the population not taking advantage to
evacuate. I saw the report this morning about the ship, 22 crew on
board, no navigation at all. I wonder how direct of a hit it is going
to take, anyone seen a map?

wrote:
On Sep 12, 3:43 pm, "Eisboch" wrote:
Watching the news and it sure looks like some of those poor people in Texas
are going to get clobbered.

Also, a 500+ foot freighter, hauling crude petroleum, is dead in the water,
100 miles offshore. The captain tried to get out of the way of the
hurricane and had engine failure. Coast Guard attempted a rescue of the 28
crew members, but had to call it off due to high winds and weather.

This may be another major weather disaster in the making. Hope not, but it
doesn't look good.

Eisboch

"Certain death" is the warning from the weather service.. I hope not,
some reports have half the population not taking advantage to
evacuate. I saw the report this morning about the ship, 22 crew on
board, no navigation at all. I wonder how direct of a hit it is going
to take, anyone seen a map?

NOAA was issuing similar Warnings 3 DAYS before Katrina Hit. Coast Guard
should force an abandon ship on that boat/ship. They can drop anchors
and set sea anchors. Salvage what's left after the storm passes.
Hopefully they could secure the ship against spillage.

jim wrote:
wrote:
On Sep 12, 3:43 pm, "Eisboch" wrote:
Watching the news and it sure looks like some of those poor people in
Texas
are going to get clobbered.

Also, a 500+ foot freighter, hauling crude petroleum, is dead in the
water,
100 miles offshore. The captain tried to get out of the way of the
hurricane and had engine failure. Coast Guard attempted a rescue of
the 28
crew members, but had to call it off due to high winds and weather.

This may be another major weather disaster in the making. Hope not,
but it
doesn't look good.

Eisboch

"Certain death" is the warning from the weather service.. I hope not,
some reports have half the population not taking advantage to
evacuate. I saw the report this morning about the ship, 22 crew on
board, no navigation at all. I wonder how direct of a hit it is going
to take, anyone seen a map?

NOAA was issuing similar Warnings 3 DAYS before Katrina Hit. Coast Guard
should force an abandon ship on that boat/ship. They can drop anchors
and set sea anchors. Salvage what's left after the storm passes.
Hopefully they could secure the ship against spillage.



An opinion from Cap'n No-Boat?

On Sep 12, 4:53*pm, hk wrote:
jim wrote:
wrote:
On Sep 12, 3:43 pm, "Eisboch" wrote:
Watching the news and it sure looks like some of those poor people in
Texas
are going to get clobbered.

Also, a 500+ foot freighter, hauling crude petroleum, is dead in the
water,
100 miles offshore. *The captain tried to get out of the way of the
hurricane and had engine failure. * Coast Guard attempted a rescue of
the 28
crew members, but had to call it off due to high winds and weather.

This may be another major weather disaster in the making. *Hope not,
but it
doesn't look good.

Eisboch

"Certain death" is the warning from the weather service.. I hope not,
some reports have half the population not taking advantage to
evacuate. I saw the report this morning about the ship, 22 crew on
board, no navigation at all. I wonder how direct of a hit it is going
to take, anyone seen a map?

NOAA was issuing similar Warnings 3 DAYS before Katrina Hit. Coast Guard
should force an abandon ship on that boat/ship. They can drop anchors
and set sea anchors. Salvage what's left after the storm passes.
Hopefully they could secure the ship against spillage.

An opinion from Cap'n No-Boat?

Hey, he did post a picture of a picture of some boat that he said he
owns, glass glare and all.

JimH wrote:
On Sep 12, 4:53 pm, hk wrote:
jim wrote:
wrote:
On Sep 12, 3:43 pm, "Eisboch" wrote:
Watching the news and it sure looks like some of those poor people in
Texas
are going to get clobbered.
Also, a 500+ foot freighter, hauling crude petroleum, is dead in the
water,
100 miles offshore. The captain tried to get out of the way of the
hurricane and had engine failure. Coast Guard attempted a rescue of
the 28
crew members, but had to call it off due to high winds and weather.
This may be another major weather disaster in the making. Hope not,
but it
doesn't look good.
Eisboch
"Certain death" is the warning from the weather service.. I hope not,
some reports have half the population not taking advantage to
evacuate. I saw the report this morning about the ship, 22 crew on
board, no navigation at all. I wonder how direct of a hit it is going
to take, anyone seen a map?
NOAA was issuing similar Warnings 3 DAYS before Katrina Hit. Coast Guard
should force an abandon ship on that boat/ship. They can drop anchors
and set sea anchors. Salvage what's left after the storm passes.
Hopefully they could secure the ship against spillage.


An opinion from Cap'n No-Boat?

Hey, he did post a picture of a picture of some boat that he said he
owns, glass glare and all.


I'm sure Florida Jim owns a picture of a boat. The posters here who
attempt to insult the boats of others seem the most reluctant to post
detailed photos of their boats...Florida Jim, Reggie, DK, BAR, Loogie...
it's sort of a common element among them.

And just recently, the mighty SW Tom 'fessed up that his Ranger only had
a 20" transom, after spending a year "kidding" the 25" transom on my
Parker. That particular model of Ranger, by the way, was not in
production very long, and SW Tom said because it did not run properly,
he had to dump the original engine on the boat, buy one with a longer
shaft, and then mount that engine on a jack plate.

I wondered for some time why a Yankee boater would need a jack plate on
a flats boat...jack plates are common enough in south Florida, of
course. The reason is clear...the boat had a serious design flaw.
No wonder he can't sell it.

"jim" wrote in message
...
wrote:
On Sep 12, 3:43 pm, "Eisboch" wrote:
Watching the news and it sure looks like some of those poor people in
Texas
are going to get clobbered.

Also, a 500+ foot freighter, hauling crude petroleum, is dead in the
water,
100 miles offshore. The captain tried to get out of the way of the
hurricane and had engine failure. Coast Guard attempted a rescue of
the 28
crew members, but had to call it off due to high winds and weather.

This may be another major weather disaster in the making. Hope not, but
it
doesn't look good.

Eisboch

"Certain death" is the warning from the weather service.. I hope not,
some reports have half the population not taking advantage to
evacuate. I saw the report this morning about the ship, 22 crew on
board, no navigation at all. I wonder how direct of a hit it is going
to take, anyone seen a map?

NOAA was issuing similar Warnings 3 DAYS before Katrina Hit. Coast Guard
should force an abandon ship on that boat/ship. They can drop anchors and
set sea anchors. Salvage what's left after the storm passes. Hopefully
they could secure the ship against spillage.


Last I heard it was dead in the water and the forecast was for up to 50 ft
seas. Not good.
If they can maneuver to set anchors, maybe they would have a fighting
chance.

I remember once being dead in the water on one of the DE's I was on. It was
off Newport, RI in the middle of the winter .... rough, but not anything
like a hurricane. The ship's main electrical distribution panel blew
something and we were dead. In a matter of minutes we were all ordered to
put on life jackets and set condition zebra or whatever it was where you
shut all water tight doors. That little ship rolled, pitched rocked and
rolled violently for an hour until they repaired the problem and we got
underway again.

Can't even imagine being in 50 footers like that.

Eisboch

On Sep 12, 8:12*pm, "Eisboch" wrote:


. *That little ship rolled, pitched rocked and
rolled violently for an hour until they repaired the problem and we got
underway again.


That really must have been horrendous to try to work at repairing
electrical under those rolling conditions.

On Fri, 12 Sep 2008 15:43:53 -0400, "Eisboch" wrote:

Watching the news and it sure looks like some of those poor people in Texas
are going to get clobbered.

Also, a 500+ foot freighter, hauling crude petroleum, is dead in the water,
100 miles offshore. The captain tried to get out of the way of the
hurricane and had engine failure. Coast Guard attempted a rescue of the 28
crew members, but had to call it off due to high winds and weather.

This may be another major weather disaster in the making. Hope not, but it
doesn't look good.

Eisboch


"The Perfect Storm".........hitting at high tide, a storm surge of
20~25 feet above that and being an extremely large storm with
sustained 100+ mph winds expected to last 10-12 hours.

On Sep 12, 2:43*pm, "Eisboch" wrote:
Watching the news and it sure looks like some of those poor people in Texas
are going to get clobbered.

Also, a 500+ foot freighter, hauling crude petroleum, is dead in the water,
100 miles offshore. *The captain tried to get out of the way of the
hurricane and had engine failure. * Coast Guard attempted a rescue of the 28
crew members, but had to call it off due to high winds and weather.

This may be another major weather disaster in the making. *Hope not, but it
doesn't look good.

Eisboch

Not counting fuel prices jumping over 30% in hours this morning