Ya think you boat in rough waters?????

:wow: .. That got me a little woozy watching it. :smt101
 
I am what you call a "fair weather" boater. Can't imagine being out in swells like that... WOW!
 
"I wonder what would possess a crew to be out in those kind of conditions short of a war?"

Money. In the form of long, silvery, slippery things they catch in their nets and sell to us. I think much of that footage was filmed in the North Atlantic and along the European coasts. Them boys been fishing the North Atlantic for many years, and that's just the way those waters are for part of the year.
 
Now you know what the windscreen wipers are for :wow:

It is really rough weather - but once or twice a year we got storms like that on the Danish West coast. Some of the larger trawlers keep fishing. It ain't weather for me to be out in.

But weather is also about perception and what you are used to. When I did my "type rating" for Piper Malibu in Vero Beach - one day we had 15-20 knots crosswinds while doing landing exercises. We ended up being the only plane flying landing rounds - because in Denmark - that is normal to land with 15-20 knots on the side plus some gust. But NOT in Florida. People called us crazy - since 2 instructors with students had already landed and skid of the runway. But we reached our limit at 22 knots and called it a day. It is quite tiring to do crosswind landings after 30-40 of them. :smt043 But the controllers in the tower loved it. And since there was no one else doing training - we got through all our landing training in 1/2 the time that Piper had allocated.

So weather is like all other things in life - a question of personal "experience" and perception. One persons calm day is another man's storm.
 
That's some wild weather. Someone mentioned wipers but I've always wondered what those round things are on the windows of some boats. You can see them in a couple of the shots.
 
I don't know... looks like Whaler weather to me.:grin: Really I can't imagine being out in that. but impressive as he!!.
 
I started getting a little seasick watching that one...
 
sfergson727 said:
While the above may be true, even my airline cancels flights when the weather gets to the point of a potential hull loss. (I fly, or used too until I lost my medical, a MD-11 and Boeing 767) In weather as depicted, a hull loss would not be unexpected, and is therefore a bit irresponsible IMHO.
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In Denmark you will not get your license unless you can land the plane in 17-19 knots crosswind - because that is expected landing conditions. Even in a 172 which is much more "hard" to handle in a crosswind. Low wing planes are easier since the ground effect offsets part of the crosswind. But it is not an expected hull loss event.
 
Zorba said:
That's some wild weather. Someone mentioned wipers but I've always wondered what those round things are on the windows of some boats. You can see them in a couple of the shots.
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They are Clear View screens that rotate very fast so water and ice is "thrown" off - and they come in both heated and non heated versions. Most fishing boats have them where I come from.
 
Scott, Is that you in the last plane. :wow: . :grin:

[video=youtube;iYuV1QvdXp4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYuV1QvdXp4[/video]
 
I have never seen a video that I needed to take dramamine before watching until now! :smt101
 
Coming in for a landing with crosswinds like that = pucker factor of 8.6!
 
Here is my contribution. Nothing at all like the first video. This was taken just outside the mouth of the Vermilion river , last May.

Sorry about the wind noise, I used my phone.[video=youtube_share;Q-AzpeCw2Ms]http://youtu.be/Q-AzpeCw2Ms [/video]
 
Here's one of mine from our trip to Portland at the end of June. 4' waves, nothing real bad at this point.

[video=youtube;WRVlgGbH9U4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRVlgGbH9U4[/video]
 
Damn, I was in 3-4'ers on Friday with my 250 and with the wind direction I was getting soaked so I came back in, Put it in a slip & cracked a cold one.

LK
 
I have been in seas like that in the North Atlantic. At 2:58 and 3:16 show a military ship plowing thru. I've seen waves breaking over the bow of an aircraft carrier, while I was aboard a Cruiser(CG-53 USS Mobile Bay). Sea state was like 100-110ft! EVERYONE onboard was sick! It's very humbling and incredable to see. The 560ft ship was being tossed around like a tin can! The bulkhead between Aux space 2 and Main Engine room 2 split open and fuel was leaking into the bilges. I was scared crapless, but at the same time it was exciting!
As the ship rode over the waves, if you stood in the passage way you could see the boat flex. The watertight doors at the end of the passage way would seem to float around. I made the bad mistake of opening the hatch to the weather deck (you weren't supposed to) and a wave broke on the fan tail and flooded the stern. The water pushed the hatch open and knocked me down and 1000's of gallons of water poured in! I finally got the hatch closed and without slowing down pumped out the water. I guess no flooding alarms went off before I got it all pumped out, because I never said anything about it till I got it all cleaned up. haha
 
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