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| I always go north. We pack everything best possible and go to the hunting camp. I bet there are some cool stories out there of the bad storms some of you have been through without leaving. As I mentioned, we pack and leave. It doesn't have to be a hurricane, but it may be a boating trip turned bad. But, we have all been there. Once at Crooked Island my oldest son, myself and my best friend beached a Hewes Flats boat and took cover up the beach. We covered in raingear and when it was over the Hewes was on Dry Ground. A tornado had passed within 200 yards of the spot we chose to ride it out. Not just in a boat, but anywhere. I am sure there are some that stayed through Ivan, Katrina, Opal and such. We went north. What is the worst weather you have ever rode out?
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| 10 to 12 foot seas coming back from a wreck 30somthing miles out of p'cola. it was kindof exciting but two weeks earlier i had my nuts clipped. the stiches busted so i had fish guts, saltwater, and sweat just brewing in a opening that is pretty sensative. infection another doc appointment and i was all better. it must have took. no more kids yet. lets go fishing
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Tuna Man (6/26/2008)
My absolute worst trip, bar NONE (and I have been in a typhoon where waves were over 60 feet high, coming over the bow) was one February, a buddy of mine from Mississippi and I went to Venice, LA to hit the lump. Our trip was to last a week, which it did. On one of those days we went out Tiger Pass during the daylight and got caught out on the water as time was approaching darkness. Well I was unfamiliar with the whole area and decided to come in the SW Pass (Mississippi River main pass). As we turned to head basically North into the pass a rogue wave (just one) came out of nowhere and we went airborne, well if that wasn't enough a winter thunderstorm, a mother of thunderstorms moved in. I was lucky enough that two days earlier I had navigated down the Mississippi and had my track saved on my GPSS. As the storm moved in it was raining so hard that I had to cup my hand over my eyes and look through the cracks in my fingers (we could do only about 5 Kits). From the mouth to Venice is TOTAL darkness, NO shore lights. Here I am navigating by GPSS saved track only, thunder and lightning all around us and all of a sudden I hear the loudest horn I've ever heard in my life. I do a quick look over my shoulder and what do I see but a DAMN LARGE cargo ship coming upriver, and directly on my ass. My first thought was how far can I move to the East without running into something like rocks, rock dikes and or pilings that are stuck out from shore, and If this SOB doesn't hit me I can tag him back into port. Since I only tracked down river, my track was on the West side, and I didn't have enough time, speed and distance to move to the west side. By the grace of GOD two things happened...he didn't run over me and I didn't hit anything. Good..now to tag his ass back to port. I kicked the pig and was doing quite well, only to think (I have many hours on the upper Mississippi) what should happen if this cargo ship should kick up something, and we run over it. See, trees have been known to be holding below and all of a sudden release and come airborne, large ones at that. So with that I had to back off. It took us about 3 hours to get from the mouth to Venice, and as we pulled off of the SW Pass and into the small pass to the marina the sky broke open. No kidding aside, if I was in a car driving I would of pulled off the road and waited for the storm to pass it was that bad. Pucker factor..... 8.7 on a scale of 10. Pulled into the marina and my buddy says to me "damn you did good getting us back in" ......I replied "no worries man" and didn't say another word till we tied up.
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Tuna Man (7/12/2008)
Tuna Man (6/26/2008)
My absolute worst trip, bar NONE (and I have been in a typhoon where waves were over 60 feet high, coming over the bow) was one February, a buddy of mine from Mississippi and I went to Venice, LA to hit the lump. Our trip was to last a week, which it did. On one of those days we went out Tiger Pass during the daylight and got caught out on the water as time was approaching darkness. Well I was unfamiliar with the whole area and decided to come in the SW Pass (Mississippi River main pass). As we turned to head basically North into the pass a rogue wave (just one) came out of nowhere and we went airborne, well if that wasn't enough a winter thunderstorm, a mother of thunderstorms moved in. I was lucky enough that two days earlier I had navigated down the Mississippi and had my track saved on my GPSS. As the storm moved in it was raining so hard that I had to cup my hand over my eyes and look through the cracks in my fingers (we could do only about 5 Kits). From the mouth to Venice is TOTAL darkness, NO shore lights. Here I am navigating by GPSS saved track only, thunder and lightning all around us and all of a sudden I hear the loudest horn I've ever heard in my life. I do a quick look over my shoulder and what do I see but a DAMN LARGE cargo ship coming upriver, and directly on my ass. My first thought was how far can I move to the East without running into something like rocks, rock dikes and or pilings that are stuck out from shore, and If this SOB doesn't hit me I can tag him back into port. Since I only tracked down river, my track was on the West side, and I didn't have enough time, speed and distance to move to the west side. By the grace of GOD two things happened...he didn't run over me and I didn't hit anything. Good..now to tag his ass back to port. I kicked the pig and was doing quite well, only to think (I have many hours on the upper Mississippi) what should happen if this cargo ship should kick up something, and we run over it. See, trees have been known to be holding below and all of a sudden release and come airborne, large ones at that. So with that I had to back off. It took us about 3 hours to get from the mouth to Venice, and as we pulled off of the SW Pass and into the small pass to the marina the sky broke open. No kidding aside, if I was in a car driving I would of pulled off the road and waited for the storm to pass it was that bad. Pucker factor..... 8.7 on a scale of 10. Pulled into the marina and my buddy says to me "damn you did good getting us back in" ......I replied "no worries man" and didn't say another word till we tied up. you did do a damn good job getting through all that. i have been up and down from vinice through SW pass a few times. those ships haul A$$ through there and they cannot move from the center and cant slow down. i can just imagine what must have been going through your mind with all of that. my pucker factor would have probably been a little higher then yours lol.
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Not just on a boat, but at home, work, in the woods.
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Garbo (7/12/2008)
Not just on a boat, but at home, work, in the woods. At home- Hurricane Ivan We rode it out in Edgewater, on Bayou Chico. It was pretty scary when the eye was coming by and you could actually feel a strong breeze circulating through the house. Our house is kind of old, so it was making all kind of noises. I thought the roof was going to blow off at one point. Camping out without power after the storm was fun though.
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