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Ruby Red Lip
 
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| Left Perdido around 8:00 am Saturday and the Sea's were almost perfect. Cruised out to Yellow Gravel and didn't even get the first bite. Unfortunately, while running out, I noticed that my main Northstar unit was originally set up on Eastern time and I promptly reset the unit to Central (daylight) time. Never found any structure on the gravel, let alone , any fish and have now learned that changing the time may have affected my position in relationship to waypoint data. Quite frustrated, my wife starts laughing only to tell me that we were only in 4.5' of water...................great, now my bottom machine is giving false readings. It's done this before but usually when I reverse quickly and throw a lot of air in the water, but it usually comes back within ten minutes. This time, it lasted well over two hours. I unplugged, re-powered and neither of my interfaced 6000i's would get a correct reading. By this time we were almost due south of pensacola and I could tell that the clouds were building to the north and we had a steady west wind that would have made the run back to Alabama Point uncomfortable and decided to enter the canal via Pensacola. We trolled a good bit of the way and landed a couple of nice mac's. Finally, I made the decision to move on only to put ourselves in a horrible storm. My questions, if anyone has the time, what do we do in such tremendous lightning storms. I dropped power to all my electronics, lowered the antenna's and outriggers but made steady inshore. Is that necessary? Is there a better option other than heading back out to sea? I run a 27'Outrage with twin 225's but I am unclear as to what a direct hit may do to us while underway. Secondly, if anyone has any idea on the bottom readings and how one can suddenly be in 4-5' of water sitting 33 miles south, I would appreciate the insight.
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Grouper
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I can't go out that far but avoid the lightning and i would sugest a new bottom machine. I just bought a new one and in the book it says not to leave it in the car and to keep it at a steady room temp while it is being stored. thats something I did not know and I used to leave all my electronics in the truck during the week not good in the Fl sun.
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Ruby Red Lip
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GONU (7/28/2008)
I can't go out that far but avoid the lightning and i would sugest a new bottom machine. I just bought a new one and in the book it says not to leave it in the car and to keep it at a steady room temp while it is being stored. thats something I did not know and I used to leave all my electronics in the truck during the week not good in the Fl sun.Unfortunately, these twin units are mounted in the boat and, they are less than a year old. thanks, Flopps
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Trigger
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[quote]Floppy (7/28/2008)
I am unclear as to what a direct hit may do to us while underway.quote]Knock a hole in the boat, fry electronics, reverse polarity, kill someone ..... nuthin good.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Luck is where preperation meets opportunity http://youtube.com/watch?v=cDAq5tyfk9E
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Snapper
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| It is real handy to have a backup handheld Garmin gps on board. You don't have to get the fancy color ones with all the bells and whistles. Take some spare batteries and you can find anything. They will get you to 10 to 15 feet from your spot. I have been on some nice boats where that little handheld saved the day! On a boat as fine as you described it is surprising they didn't install a radar. That would have let you find your way around the storms. As long as the storms were tracking down the beach like they sometimes do I think I would have just stayed out of harms way.
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Mingo
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| A Captain buddy of mine told me to keep the outriggers up, hook a jumper cable to the outriggers and drop the other end of the jumper in the drink. Obviously would not work very well if you are under way but it does make sense that the lightning would go to ground. I don't want to try it or find out if it works but I guess it would be better than doing nothing.
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Snapper
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Mellow Yellow (7/28/2008)
A Captain buddy of mine told me to keep the outriggers up, hook a jumper cable to the outriggers and drop the other end of the jumper in the drink. Obviously would not work very well if you are under way but it does make sense that the lightning would go to ground. I don't want to try it or find out if it works but I guess it would be better than doing nothing.It sounds like that suggetion should be followed with...."Hey ,ya'll watch this shit!'
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Ruby Red Lip
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wrightackle (7/28/2008)
It is real handy to have a backup handheld Garmin gps on board. You don't have to get the fancy color ones with all the bells and whistles. Take some spare batteries and you can find anything. They will get you to 10 to 15 feet from your spot. I have been on some nice boats where that little handheld saved the day! On a boat as fine as you described it is surprising they didn't install a radar. That would have let you find your way around the storms. As long as the storms were tracking down the beach like they sometimes do I think I would have just stayed out of harms way.
Ok this is a newbie question on Radar. Sorry to derail this thread but I have to know. I have a Raymarine E-80 with Radar. Will it show the storm cells or do you have to have a subscription to XM or Sirius weather? If not why do you need Sirius xm?
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