| Author | Message | ||
     Newfie_buell |
These were taken from one of the Canadian Coast Guard Vessels off Cape Breton, Nova Scotia!!!! Yikes         | ||
| Newfie_buell |
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| Darthane |
Damn...vessels ave been lost because of less ice than that. I should go dig out my 'Tales of the Great Lakes' books and read them again...interesting stuff. | ||
| Fly |
Fair weather sailor, I am. This would scare the shit out of me if port was still two days away. | ||
| Fullpower |
my dad fished king crab in the bering sea.. in january. they used 8 pound hammers to break ice. | ||
| Dullorb |
Good God that's gorgeous. | ||
| Davefl |
Looks like they need a nice Florida vacation  | ||
| Daves |
Flame thrower Ride to the edge! Dave Iowa HD/Buell (Buell Cycle Center) | ||
| Newfie_buell |
The shot taken at night looks as if the boat is on the bottom and lit up with a mini sub. | ||
| Awprior |
Maybe I'm nuts, but that looks like an awesome time! | ||
| Newfie_buell |
Alex, Back in 1996 myself, my wife and another couple decided to travel 12 miles to St. Pierre (a small french controlled island off Newfoundland) and it was the roughest time I was ever on a boat. I actually turned a paste green color and when I dis-embarked I lay down on the warf and thanked God for sparing my life. I never fed the sea gulls though!!!! If you have never experienced sea sickness you never ever want to. That day when boarded the boat we should have figured out something was up when the crew locked down the water tight sea doors and got out the mops and buckets. I can honestly say the bridge of the boat was under water at times. It is one hell of a ride. We had caught the tail end of a hurricane and the sea was still pretty angry, two days later on the way back the sun was out, calm sea and it was beautiful. On every trip this past year or so I have made on the Gulf Ferry - the one to get to Newfoundland - I have always booked a sleeper unit, made the reservation for 12:00am and slept, the mild rocking of the boat makes for one great rest as if your in a hammock. The funny thing about last summer when I was in Wisconsin is that when I came out of the hotel in the morning and took a deep breath I did not get that fresh cool scent of the salty sea air I get here in Newfoundland. It wierd the things I take for granted but I of all the things I missed that was one of them. There is nothing better than being able to stand on the cliffs overlooking the ocean and just inhale as much of that air as you can, so fresh and clean it almost hurts. | ||
| Awprior |
Newfie, I can't wait to smell that smell (Hoo rah for the Skynyrd song) this summer. The best hurricane story I have is of hurricane Dean, returning from a Sailing High Adventure trip at the Boy Scout camp I worked at(on the Chesapeake Bay in MD), docking my boat, the Nina (of the Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria) and calling out on the radio to see how the other sailboats were doing, which were to dock right behind me. One response was, Pinta is docked, the other was "Columbus is gonna be pissed, I'm on the Pinta, the Santa Maria is fucked." One of the truly cool things I've witnessed, watching a hurricane roll inland up the Bay. The camp is located right on Eagle Neck Peninsula, right at the beginning of the bay. All of the campers were sent home on a Thursday night, instead of Saturday. We ended up spending our entire time off (noon Saturday to Noon Sunday) fixing and repairing some 200 wall tents that were knocked over and/or ripped in the storm. One cool thing that I saw, and I wish I had pics of, was lightning striking on tree, and traveling though the sand, and rolling up another tree. The lightning strike pretty much made glass in it's tracks. Alex |
