Live Stoners Live Stoner Chat - Jan-Mar '21

[420Forever]

ppp

 

[Jpkindbud]

Oh yes it gives me chills. I have been in 20ft seas on a ship with a blown gearbox on one drive. If we lost the second my story would have ended the same - at the bottom of Davey Jones Locker.

Wow

 

[Jpkindbud]

MAN, getting 17 yr old boys up for school during this COVID crap is truly stressful! They are off so I am gonna get a little relaxed with some Pineapple!

 

[WildBill]

Oh yes it gives me chills. I have been in 20ft seas on a ship with a blown gearbox on one drive. If we lost the second my story would have ended the same - at the bottom of Davey Jones Locker.

North Sea or Rounding The Horn in South America, both are Black cold death waiting to happen,

 

[Jraven]

 

[Green Hornet]

Local lore for me

 

[Mañ'O'Green]

North Sea or Rounding The Horn in South America, both are Black cold death waiting to happen,

That was about as scared as I have been. The 90 foot boat The "Admiral" out of Santa Barbara CA and Virg's Fishing would have the the bow and the stern out of the water at the top of the swell and then would dive down into the trough and plow into the coming wave with a shock that was like being hit by a punching bag and 3 or more feet of water washed the entire deck. Then the ship would chug uphill with its one motor sounding like it could barely make it. Then as the screw would come out of the water as we topped the wave the engine would go eerily silent. I would think to myself shit it quit . It took 11 hours to get out of that rough water and travel about 80 miles.

I found and old picture of the vessel. I have fished from every one of these boats!

 

[WildBill]

That was about as scared as I have been. The 90 foot boat The "Admiral" out of Santa Barbara CA and Virg's Fishing would have the the bow and the stern out of the water at the top of the swell and then would dive down into the trough and plow into the coming wave with a shock that was like being hit by a punching bag and 3 or more feet of water washed the entire deck. Then the ship would chug uphill with its one motor sounding like it could barely make it. Then as the screw would come out of the water as we topped the wave the engine would go eerily silent. I would think to myself shit it quit . It took 11 hours to get out of that rough water and travel about 80 miles.

I found and old picture of the vessel. I have fished from every one of these boats!

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Damn! 11 friggin' hours! None of those boats look like they much of a draft.
I felt really bad for the guys in a brand new Arley Burk class destroyer that was our escort on homeport change from the East coat to West. We were a day or two out from rounding the Horn. I turned on the tv to the forward facing flight deck camera and saw waves crashing over the flight deck all the way forward. It took a bit to actually SEE the ship behind us when I switched to the aft camera. You could see lights disappear between the swells! The carrier rocking and rolling a little, but it was far from the Cadillac ride it normally had. It made for some fun in the galleys with how most of the crew were green asses!
Those guys in the destroyer had to wipe the walls of footprints when it was all over. They had to pull into the port at Valparaiso, Chilie to do some repairs to the steering. I've never seen or knew water could beat and bend piping like it did on the carrier.

It all goes back to the days of Magellan and "Wooden ships and Iron men. I can't begin to imagine what it took to do what they did.

 

[420Forever]

Up The Ironz! ppp

 

[Mañ'O'Green]

One of my brother-in-laws was in the coast guard 20 years and worked both North Atlantic and North Pacific before his final station in Iceland (in my mind I think Iceland but it may have been some other actual place like Greenland? where ever it was it was wicked cold.) anyhow he had chilling stories of rescues or recovery attempts at sea. When I asked him how he did it his answer was he did not even think about it because he was working the problem. He said he fell apart after it was well over.

Seamen that have sailed the capes in wooden sailing vessels deserve to be legend. Just imagining that is a nightmare.