Mother Nature Kicked our Butt

I still just got my one lonely green one, what a guy have to do to get a set.:smt021
 
I pushed Gary into the 4 ball ranking. now if he looses two, he'll still have a set.
 
osd9 said:
Frank H's boat would have handled that storm like a sunny spring day....your GF would have been sitting right next to you sipping a cocktail while you made some final adjustments on the autopilot and rechecked the radar screen for any obstructions....Those big 'ol CAT Diesels would have purred and pulled you through the wind and current, all the time while sipping fuel from it's 335 gallon capacity fuel tanks with no worries of needing to refuel......should I go on?......feeling tempted?......:grin:
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hey, we aren't supposed to be drinking while boating.
 
TurtleTone said:
hey, we aren't supposed to be drinking while boating.
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Crew can drink all they want.....:thumbsup:...just don't send them up to the bow to handle the lines when you pull in to dock...!!!!!
 
Thanks guys I feel like a real man now that I've got a set. Boy talk about a thread going off topic.:lol::smt043:lol:



Doesn't matter... If my wife finds these, she'll take them away also.
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Hey Gary I thought you should still be getting treated like a king after your latest injury. I can usually get at least 3 days of royal treatment from my wife per injury.:grin:
 
My wife doesn't treat me special after an injury anymore... I think after about the 20th injury, she just gave up. I'm lucky if I can get her to give me a ride to the hospital now.
 
Ah! Hence the blue balls. Can't help you here with those, but you can be helped to green or red ones.

Best regards,
Frank
 
I used to get fed chicken soup when i got sick. Now I just get yelled at because the dog needs a walk. I'm not even married. married life must suck worse than ventilating props in following seas.
 
Hampton said:
Gary, bring me in to the 21st century. How are people getting internet on their laptops out on the boat these days? Is there a good, reasonably-priced solution when you are out of range from your marina's signal?
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John,
Gary gave you nice quick summary. You can also review a thread I had where I got lots of help from Gary and other members. You might find some useful stuff there.

http://clubsearay.com/forum/showthread.php?t=7496

Alex.
 
It's a rude surprise when you discover you're not making any headway and constantly getting turned around by the wind. Up the wave, turned by the wind and surf back down the same wave. You'll burn through a lot of fuel that way.

I've got the Sirius weather setup on my Raymarine E-80 (also available for the C-80) and it works wonders for avoiding precisely what you ran into. Besides just rain blobs you get wind and storm speeds along with storm direction tracks. Being able to see where the storm is going, and how fast (or slow) make all the difference in being able to avoid trouble. It's well worth the monthly service charge (and you can suspend it during off months).
 
Alex F said:
John,
Gary gave you nice quick summary. You can also review a thread I had where I got lots of help from Gary and other members. You might find some useful stuff there.

http://clubsearay.com/forum/showthread.php?t=7496

Alex.
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Thanks, Alex.

When went out into the Gulf fishing on our 250 when that storm hit Cancun (Wilma?). We didn't notice anything special on the way out, just big rollers. Out in the Gulf at 100 feet (15 miles out), the sand was blasting off the wrecks on the bottom and bubbling at the surface (big tidal movement).

On the way home, the waves were probably 20 feet, wind calm, and the peaks were at least 100 feet apart. I was able to get up on plane on the face of a wave and ride it at 35 - 40 mph SOG at an angle, with only about 3000 RPM. Occassionally, the wave would just fade away, and we'd have to find another. We couldn't make it up the back side of the wave in front. Unfortunately, this pattern left us SE of the pass about 5 miles. Our first indication that we were getting close to the beach was the unbelievable braking waves out front.

We stayed a few miles off shore to stay out of the breakers, but had to cross the incoming waves sideways. The only scary part was coming in the pass. The waves formed a bowl and rose up pretty good. We just have to be really aggressive and come in really fast on plane on the face of a wave.

The whole experience was surreal. Just my wife and I. Totally calm winds, high overcast clouds - kind of eery. On the inside as we were heading back to our marina, we could easily watch the waves breaking 1/2 - 1 mile away on the other side of the barrier island. At idle, you could hear the thunderous pounding of the waves on the shoreline. I'm just glad that that storm didn't hit us.
 
I have a 2005 Raymarine chartplotter and NO radar. Can I display the Sirius Wx on my screen, and how do I do it, and at what expense?
 
Hampton said:
I have a 2005 Raymarine chartplotter and NO radar. Can I display the Sirius Wx on my screen, and how do I do it, and at what expense?
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It depends on what chartplotter you have. If it's a C series, you need the Sirius SR50 Weather Receiver which Jim sells at a price "too low to show," but let's just say it might sell for around $481. If it's an E Series, you need the SR100 which could quite possibly sell for around $756 at BOE. They do not make wx receivers for their other units. There is a nominal activation fee and the service is $30/month (which can be suspended if you have an off-season).

There's a lot of debate about which weather service is best, but as Sirius came with my boat it's what I use and, for my purposes, I have been quite please with it and very happy that I have it. You can't have too many tools for situational awareness.
 
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