Heavy Seas Boating

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All,

A friend sent me some amazing photos of a boat in high seas. I put them in my album (C-Hunt). Not a C-Dory (mercifully so) -- makes you wonder about the other guy in the boat with a camera...

Karl
 
I have been in seas documented at over 45 feet--and some of these seas appear to be more than those. (We were going down wave/wind--and took one roll of 90 degrees--45 degrees to 60 degree rolls were common)--Sleep very difficult--very noisey, as well as having to squeeze into a lee cloth bunk.
 
Karl - Those pictures made me nervous. Back in 1953 enroute to Korea on a troop carrier around 800 feet long, we experienced a terrible storm in the north Pacific. It lasted a long time, and the ship had to slow down to 5-7 knots to maintain steerage - the crew said we were jogging. Recall how the ship would shudder when the stern lifted exposing the twin screws to air. The waves looked as high as these, but the wave lengths were much longer.

I have often wondered what would happen to a C-Dory if the cockpit were secure from water and lying a hull.

John
 
Karl - After reading your post, I went to my nautical books and plucked out Kotsch and Henderson's "Heavy Weather Guide." The pictures show what big waves can do to carriers. No wonder starcrafttom was pleased to see the uss belleauwood sunk.
John
 
Just a note on Lake Superior and the night the Edmund Fitzgerald sunk. The seas that night were (ONLY) running 30'. What is not commonly recognized is that when the big nasty gitchee goomie is running 30 foot seas, roag waves can easily reach 90'. It was most likely one of those monster waves that lifted a large portion of the big freighter out of the water and broke the back of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
 
localboy":3byng6bx said:
OMG! Where's the puking emoticon?
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Here
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Mostly looks like a day on the rail on the Northwestern (see Deadliest Catch :wink ) during King Crab season, Tuesday nights in our neighborhood.

Harvey
SleepyC
 
The most recent thoughts on what sunk the Fitzgerald is, that it was in shallow water and rode a wave up and on the way down slammed the rock bottom and that broke its back.
 
:idea: How about one of you folks with graphic skills take one of the photos in the first post and superimpose a C-Dory into the photo to get a relative scale as to how a 20-some foot boat would look out there along the 100 footers and those waves? :shock:

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Joe. :wink: :thup
 
Yellowstone":2ekxr8rx said:
I have often wondered what would happen to a C-Dory if the cockpit were secure from water and lying a hull.
John
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I believe your martini would be shaken and stirred... :cocktail
 
I think I read somewhere that it happened to a owner and the boat righted itself again immediately because of the bouancy of the cabin (door closed).
 
Some day, when I'm not working or playing on 'Fan-C-Dory' I'll get in my old office stuff - How about a picture of a 130' (peak to trough) taken from a semi sub in the North Sea ? Been there done that, NEXT ?
 
Sea Wolf":3o6pc80u said:
:idea: How about one of you folks with graphic skills take one of the photos in the first post and superimpose a C-Dory into the photo to get a relative scale as to how a 20-some foot boat would look out there along the 100 footers and those waves? :shock:

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Joe. :wink: :thup
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I'm guessing the draft of this baby is close to the LWL of C-Dory 22. :lol:
 
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