Heavy Weather

[commanderpete]

I don't have anything in my files regarding sailing through a volcano blast. For a really big one, I'd go with bare poles and trail a drogue.

On the positive side, the blast should strip off all the old paint and varnish, saving much elbow grease on a restoration project.

I like the anchoring idea. With an all-chain rode, you could probably get by with 5,000:1 scope.

Might not be practical for a 1,700 foot wave.

http://www.drgeorgepc.com/Tsunami1958LituyaB.html

[Theis]

I flew over Latuyu Bay at a low level during the summer in the mid 1990s.  You could still see the displaced tree line at the reported 1,700 foot level (above us).  Apparently everything was stripped by the tidal wave (I have a book on it).  Quite a site.

But getting back to heavy weather, it is important to note that one boat and its occupants did not survive, but two other boats did.  They were anchored in shallow water, but fortunately must have done something right.  No one that I know has reported what they did, other than were hidden behind the island - fortunately.

But a volcano in the middle of one of the Great Lakes is something else. I could find nothing about what people did on previous occasions.  Were you more successful?  Lake Superior was supposed to have been formed by a volcano.  There must be some literature written by people that witnessed that event, wouldn't you think?

[commanderpete]

I don't know Theis. I've placed some calls to the World's top Volcanologists and am awaiting a reply.

Salt water sailors face another threat--attack by a Giant Squid.

Farfetched you say? Not so!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2661691.stm

For self defense, I plan to boil up some oil on the Sea Swing stove.
Pour the boiling oil on the beast and ignite it with a flare gun.

Any Calamari which remains on deck will be served with some Marinara sauce, crusty bread, a simple green salad and Chianti Classico. Yum.

[Mike Goodwin]

Anyone know whose boat this is?

[Mike Goodwin]

That photo was shot in Indian River Fla. this morning BTW.

[mrgnstrn]

poor guy....

of course the worst part is not the damage (owing to the extreme stregth of  A/C 's) but he has to get somebody to upright the girl, put her on a trailer, and stick her back into the water.  What a Pain!

-km
Ariel #3

[commanderpete]

Yowza. That'll get your attention

[commanderpete]

Think I need a bigger boat

[commanderpete]

Even Bigger

[commanderpete]

Maybe I'll just stay home

[george copeland]

In my NAVY days, we did some of this exciting cruising into the gaping jaws of death. I particularly liked the day a bunch of forktrucks broke loose in a forward cargo bay. Made great pinballs. Big 10,500-pound pinballs. :eek:  My idiot division officer told me to take a bunch of boatswains mates foreward and order them to hold down and re-gripe these playful trucks. I offered him the honor of being the first one to lay-hold of one of our hopping, drunken leviathans--because I was certain some of the men might have doubts about their own abilities to accomplish the thing. The physics of the situation seemed to suddenly and subtley insinuate itself into his planning. He decided we needed to be somewhere else for a while. Nothing quite like a heaving ship to teach you about g-forces transferred through a deck plate.
Can't blame the division officer, though. His degree was in Animal Husbandry.
Arrrrr.
GWC
Houdini (A-407) :cool:

[commanderpete]

Funny stuff. Maybe not too funny at the time.

Last pic

Blub Blub

[george copeland]

Question: if a fellow in a small sailboat is busy taking these pics instead of heaving-to or otherwise reducing sail how likely is it that he is sane? Anybody out there ever sail a Commander or Ariel that hard? Results?
GWC

Houdini (A-407)

[commanderpete]

I think that photo was taken by an Australian racer, so he could be crazy for two reasons.

I sure wouldn't want to sail my boat that way. I remember the first time I took a wave over the deck. It lifted up the forward hatch and dumped a bunch of water below. Bit of a shock. You want to dog that hatch down.

I wouldn't want to try this either

[mbd]

:eek:

That's one way to overcome the limitations of a displacement hull!