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CaptG

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Just could not find any one who wanted to go out with me. Something about not liking to "power chum". 11 footers on the big pond (Lake Michigan) Sat.
 

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down here in indiana we call those ripples!!!!!! on the monroe resevoir waves can reach 2 or 3 feet or better.......?????????!!!!!!
did you say 11 footers??? never mind.......bear
 
Gary,
Lets go! I can be there in three hours. I'll bring the sea doos!

Glenn, Sea-doo's would not have made it out down the channel. The sheriff boat couldn't make it, and turned around after just starting down the chanel between the sea-walls. The waves were so close togather that a seadoo would have just been flipped over. The seawall that you can see in the pictures, is about 8 feet tall at the left side of picture. The wind had switched direction and the waves were what we call "a confused sea", moving at two different directions and clashing hard. It is hard to see from the pictures just how tall those waves are.
 
That looks like fun. Every time we have a hurricane or a big storm come this way, I try to get my kayak out into Long Island Sound for the ride. What a rush!!!
 
If you did go out, you probably wouldn't catch much in those conditions would you?

No you would not. Boat control would be rough and you could not keep the lines from tangling. Fisherman would be hanging over the sides power chummin and in those seas one would probably slip and go over, and the Coast Guard really frowns on it when I come back with less customers than I left with.
 
Hey CaptG,
The roughest ride I've ever had was on the great lakes in a 30 foot boat. There is no way on this green earth you would get me to go out on a day like that.
 
With the song "The wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald" playing in the background ....
YOUR OUT OF YOUR FRIGGIN MIND :eek::tongue::biggrin:

Butch, I have a towing endorsement on my captains license and drive a tow boat for boat U.S. towing. Last summer on a day with the same weather conditions, the sheriff called and said a sail boat was in trouble 2 miles south of the pier and they were not going to go out in their boat, would I go get him... My tow boat is a 20 foot aluminum boat with enclosed pilot house and twin 90 hp outboards. I went. Got to his location and the wind and waves had pushed him 10 feet past the waterline on the beach, high and dry. He was standing next to the boat waving. I waved back and headed back in. Once you get between the seawalls, it is wakeless speed only. I ran full throttles all the way down the channel untill I cleared the slop, right on by the sheriff boat tied up at their slip. They just waved when I blew by. What a thrill ride. Two days later when it was calm, went back and pulled the sail boat off the beach and took it back to the owners dock. Some say I am out of my friggin mind.......LOL
 
Gary , When I was allot younger ...and braver???...I worked as mate on a charter boat (a converted PT boat) . One beautiful Saturday morning we went out on an overnight Bluefish charter , the weather said there was a storm coming up the coast but it would pass well to our east . We went out and were about 20 miles off shore when the darn storm took a turn west . Coming back we were hitting swells of over 12 feet before the storm hit , it just went downhill after that . You want to talk about power chumming ... When we finally got back to shore the wind and rain and the waves were so bad we couldn't even get into our slip , took us over an hour just to tie up .
That was the only time I ever saw the Captain worried and we had been out in a few bad storms before this one but this one was the last for me .
 
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