Columbia Bar insanity

[ckcpony]

This is beyond insane. A few rough words so turn your volume down.


http://www.youtube.com/embed/ByGSMmenPDM?rel=o

 

[rogerbum]

That's not the Columbia River bar but rather the Grey River bar near Greymouth New Zealand.

 

[ckcpony]

Well I guess I was duped. The accent of the narrator should have given me a clue.

 

[Chester]

That is a great video. I have watched it several times. :shock:

 

[localboy]

Every time I see it, I cringe...

 

[lloyds]

Looks like they are trying to run in on a full ebb. Must have been some reason for the risk.

 

[ckcpony]

Just wondering. Does the Columbia River Bar ever get that wild?

 

[T.R. Bauer]

I would prefer to not be in that. Honestly, it reminds me of parts of Cook Inlet with the 30 foot tides. All one needs is some wind, a good storm, a good strong spring tide, and it gets really stupid with the shallow bottom to accentuate everything. Like the person filming, I prefer to watch it from shore.....

 

[Captains Cat]

Just wondering. Does the Columbia River Bar ever get that wild?

That bar is where the USCG does 360 degree rollovers, my nephew has done it.

The answer is YES,

Charlie

 

[lloyds]

Agreed. The columbia can get like that if the wind and tide is right. I tried to enter a few years ago in my sailboat but missed the tide by about a half hour and got caught off clatsop spit. The breakers washed over my 30' boat and I had to turn around and go back out and sit it out behind the pilot boat that was waiting to pick up a pilot.

 

[Chester]

Just wondering. Does the Columbia River Bar ever get that wild?

While crabbing in calm water near buoy 21 I've seen standing breakers clear across the bar.

 

[bridma]

I got caught up in snot like that on a small minesweeper when we got hit by a hurricane in the Indian ocean. I was on the wheel and the only order I received from the captain was "keep us afloat". We were only supposed to do 30 mins each on the wheel because steering was so tough. The kid in front of me puked all over the wheel and collapsed on the deck. I grabbed the wheel with all this puke running down my hands and making the deck all slippy. I stayed on the wheel for nearly two hours as all the reliefs were too sick to take over. When I got off the wheel I smoked about 20 cigarettes one after the other. Then changed my undies.

Martin.