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12-29-2010, 09:21 AM | #1 |
Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2010 Posts: 101
| What's the worst... What's the worst experience you've had on water? I've had a few near-drowning experiences, devil-may-care youthful energies put me in harm's way a few times: finding myself trapped under a dock half-plastered on booze at dusk wasn't one of my finer moments (even if it was almost 30 years ago). |
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12-29-2010, 09:25 AM | #2 |
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| That'd be a toss-up between hurricane-force winds and a 42-foot sailboat, and putting said boat aground on an unmarked reef and watching it lean over 'til the sides were in the water and the bottom sideways in the air: we had to wait hours for the tide to come back up and float the boat off the rocks again. Discovering that a 10-ton boat can 'surf' in high winds wasn't my idea of a good time, either, but I did learn that the sailboat could take more than my nerves could. |
12-29-2010, 09:28 AM | #3 |
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| Hurricane-force winds? Heck, I don't like to be outdoors when it's blowing hard, and you were on a sailboat? The very idea makes me shudder, more so than my own misadventures. |
12-30-2010, 03:25 PM | #4 |
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| I messed up, I didn't check the weather sats before we left, and made an assumption that the weather was going to do what it had become a pattern of good/bad breaks; a "good" break in the weather found us in a narrow, deep sea channel under clear skies and winds of 55 knots coming up our aft-end. We had to run with it for 2 hours before we could safely get out of harms way, and what an adrenaline rush. The Cape Scott weather Station measured winds over 110 kilometers an hour at points. That storm blew for 4 days. It was a very interesting few days spent with deer and a lone family at a postal outstation. |
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