Bigg J

31 degrees, that had to suck.

Bigg J

I appreciate the replys fellers, really enjoyed readin'em

grumendboat

HAD ASTEARING CABLE BRAKE IN BAY TOOK HOURS TO RUN SMALLROPE IN ITS PLACE AND WHEN I WAS DONE THE BOAT TURNED THE WRONG WAY WRAPPED THE CABLE ON BACK OF WHEEL WRONG WATCHING MY SON DRIVE THE BOAT ON THE TRAILER WAS THE BEST TIME I HAD THAT YEAR HE WAS 14 AT THE TIME MAY HAVE BEEN THE FIRST TIME HE SAID SOMEBAD WORDSIT WAS ALSO VERY WINDY AND BOAT IS 16 FT ALU. SO IT BLOWS OFF AT THE LAST SECOND ANYWAY TIDE RUNS FAST IN THAT AREA TO SO HE HAD SOME REAL FUN THAT NIGHT.

Genesis

Ok, worst one...

Diving trip on Gigabite (45 Hatteras I owned until May of last year), offshore Destin about20 miles.

Routine deal. Four of us on board, two-by-two on the diving.

First two guys go in, come back, no problem.

I suit up with the other guy. I'd noticed that there was a line of storms right near the beach on the radar, but it wasn't thick and there was nothing on the WX about anything serious.... figured no big deal.

We splash and do our dive. When I come up the guys on board say to me "uh, you better look at the weather." Come to think of it, it DOES look a bit cloudy....

Ok, so I doff the tanks and trundle up the bridge ladder. There is a wall cloud - a ROLLING ONE - heading straight for us!

Oh oh. We get the anchor up; there's no way we're going around this thing; its from one end of the scope to the other, and oh, Gig will only do 25 kts and this thing is barreling down usat 30+ - no way to outrun it either- so we decide we've gotta head into it and make the nasty last for as little time as possible.

I tell everyone to get their ass below and put on a life jacket, and don one too.

Seas go from flat-and-nice to about 8-10' in a couple of minutes. Its raining so hard I can't see the anchor pulpit, and the radar is useless - totally blacked out from the precip.Several waves break on TOP of the foredeck (!) Then the WX alert on the radio goes off - tornado warning!

They call the coordinates - basically right where we are. That ain't good. I can't see DICK, but I can hear it. Its basically a crap shoot at this point, so its "steady as she goes and hope that bastard isn't right in front of us!"

Needless to say it missedbut that's about as close as I want to get.... I don't mind 'nados but when you can't see the damn things it SUCKS.

Bigg J

nice one genesis.

Diverrite

Diving out of PC on a friends Parker 26, we anchor up on the inshore stage. Weather off shore so we (3) splash while my wife, 3 girls and one other small girl stays on top. We dive, shoot fish and come upto an empty gulf. Bobing around can't see anything and just then a bass boat comes out of a swell. We get their attention haul up on the bass cat and ride to our boat about a mile away.

Make the swim over to our boat, my daughter thought they had drifted off because the numbers had changed on the gps. We make our way back to the spot to pick up diver 3, he just now comes up and doesn't know anything hashappened.

The wind came up and pulled the anchor off the structer and took her away. I gave my fish to the crew who saved the day (year/life) in the bass cat.



Sea ya,

Belton

reel stripper 29

I got cought in a bad storm 60 miles out of dauphin island in the alabama deep sea fishing roedo. Lighting hit the vhf antenna and it killed every thing including the engines. We had one spare fuse for one of the engines. The coast guard flew over in a jet and dropped us a hand held vhf and EPIRB. It took us 10 hours to get in all we could do was 5 knots. It was pretty scary:banghead:banghead:banghead