How to handle (or not to handle) waves

I will be entering through that inlet tomorrow.....and have used it on several occasions - I do not use it on an outgoing tide for the reasons pictuted - even in calm conditions you can see the wall of water....on an incoming or slack tide the inlet is fine...
 
that's a great youtube channel. I've been subscribed for a while. Some big SR's show up through there too
 
I've watched a hundred of this guys videos. Very entertaining. If I had to deal with that kind of abuse even half the time I wanted to get out and boat I'd think twice about ever leaving harbor. That seems brutal. And probably downright scary for a lot of the passengers.

Boats are built to take some abuse but can you imagine what a lifetime of in/out of this kind of channel does to a boat? Yuck...
 
What the video doesn't show, the beach there has one of the few legal nude sun bathing area. Just a trivia item I thought I would throw out.

During the couple of years we were in a Marina inside that inlet - I never observed any sun bathers, but will admit I did look a couple of times going through the inlet.
 
NorCal Boater said:
One question....Am I the only guy that pulls in fenders? I wouldn't be caught dead with fenders out while running the boat.
Shawn
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Love it!!!! The Captain that trained me called boaters with their fenders out "Rattlesnakes". Best to just stay away from them!!

Jaybeaux
 
Did you guys happen to notice that the only boats with people sitting on the bow were Sundancers? How stooooopid can some boaters get?
 
The Sabre cruised through there like nothing. If I put my wife or daughter in the front of a boat and bounced them through there -- that would be the end of my boating life!

And nothing like a nice shiny dark hulled boat will a bunch of fenders (AKA Bumbers) flapping around.
 
I've been boating for years and I'm still surprised at waves.

Some I roll through w/o issue and some hit me like a brick wall like it was my 1st time on the water.
 
NorCal Boater said:
I really loved the morons out on the bow with no life vests or a clue. One question....Am I the only guy that pulls in fenders? I wouldn't be caught dead with fenders out while running the boat.
Shawn
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All proper "sea sluts" run with their fenders deployed.
 
majoma said:
Educational video
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Wow my back hurts just watching this . I notice some good boaters on here running well like the guys in the little pontoon or the big jet ski. Seems the more expensive boats operators think they can just power through which is not the case. Surely a difficult passage to get out of on an incoming tide and no avoiding getting beat up a bit so why would any skipper let someone on deck is beyond me. A few ofbtgem list their fenders by the looks off the dangling lines . When I lived in Florida for A few years I'd go out channels like this in a 16ft trihull with a 9.9 evinrude to catch sharks and never ran into trouble adjusting the throttle as I created a peak to coast down while steering to come down at an angle helps a lot in avoiding the big smacks then squaring up at the bottom and hammering the throttle for the climb. Constant work but the only way to keep from getting a beat down lol
 
Did anyone see the woman get thrown off the seat on Pegasus, around 1:30 mark?
 
Man....you guys are giving me a complex on bumpers. There are occasions where I'm rafted in a cove and would like to relocate to a wall. Rather than pull-in the bumpers and then redeploy after a quick 20 minute no-wake trip I typically leave them in place.

Now I know I'm being judged by the elite boaters for trying to save myself some time...:)

I never "cruise" with them on the sides so maybe I'm one small fraction of a step above the sea scum mentioned above....maybe...
 
i occasionally cruise with the fenders out but only if i know i will be rafting up. without a walkthrough windshield it is a pain getting the front ones on and the wife will not go up there to put them on. that leaves me to drive the boat and put the fenders out on the front. she can drive the boat but not when pulling up to tie off to another boat. and the furthest we go to raft off is about 2 miles away so by the time we get going we have to get out there and put them back on anyway. we usually will tuck them up closer to where i can reach them then i can just grab it and drop it back over the side when we get close. i don't leave then dangling in the water but they are still tied to the rail or cleat.
 
Stee6043 said:
Man....you guys are giving me a complex on bumpers. There are occasions where I'm rafted in a cove and would like to relocate to a wall. Rather than pull-in the bumpers and then redeploy after a quick 20 minute no-wake trip I typically leave them in place.

Now I know I'm being judged by the elite boaters for trying to save myself some time...:)

I never "cruise" with them on the sides so maybe I'm one small fraction of a step above the sea scum mentioned above....maybe...
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Everyone forgets or leaves bumpers and ladders down at times for various reasons. No one is immune . When running water like this though we need to be diligent with regards to procedure and safety
 
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