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there's a reason we live in the Interior Vernesto


landlubbers


I've had some fun in PWS butt fishing and stuff


but those big seas????? fugghedaboutit, you can have em

That's gives a new meaning to a Flying Gaff.

Size I can deal with as long as they are far enough apart . If you told me the period was 5 seconds I'd tell you about this nice restaurant to get a meal that day.

Dixon Entrance to Cape Decision- 400 am akst sun Dec 18 2016
...Gale Warning today through late tonight...

.Today...SW wind 30 kt becoming S 35 kt. Seas 21 ft. Rain. .Tonight...SW wind 35 kt. Gusts to 50 kt. Seas 24 ft. Showers. .Mon...SW wind 30 kt. Seas 25 ft. Showers. .Mon night...S gale to 35 kt. Seas 25 ft. Rain. .Tue...SW gale to 40 kt. Seas 26 ft. .Wed...SW wind 25 kt. Seas 23 ft. .Thu...W wind 25 kt. Seas 17 ft.

A little bit lumpy.

I am booked on the ferry to Kodiak on Tues - it looks like a wild ride .

I do not envy you that, but good luck on that ride... many years ago I made the run back from Kodiak and the Tusty had to jog in place off the Homer Spit for almost a full day. It was mighty nasty. The puke was sloshing in the restrooms and I have never seen so many green people... thought I was on Mars there for a while.

Show-off!!!!!

First time I rode the Tusty I remember the signs clean up after yourself please!

Ferry just wallows for the pleasurable 12 hr trough ride.

You can get a prescription for a motion sickness medication. But honestly a dose of Benedryl or any antihistamine will help almost as much. Bring a barf bag. Someone will need it!

It's fishable, just not on the outside. I should have posted some from the storms we had earlier. I had 9 lines on the boat and I was still up at night worried. Several storm force warnings this winter with winds topping 80 mph. And our harbor is a blowhole.

The first day last year I fished the Glory, it was gusting 50+ and stupid me left the harbor with nothing in the hold. Never again! She leaned pretty good, but always came right back. Now I've got 6 55gal plastic drums filled with water in the hold for winter fishing.

I turned green on a Tusty ride. Held my lunch, but had to do laps on the deck. Could stand to be inside or still.

The first time my wife visited me up here in Alaska.. She took the ferry back to town with 70 mph winds on the way home. I believe the text read "I think I am going to die" as she rolled across Clairence Strait. She was so sick she couldn't even stand up.

She's toughened up.

race ipsa loquitur.

When I was a merchant seamen, if we waited for flat/calm seas. We would only work a few days a year.
I had a college instructor that was 3rd watch stander on the Salvage Chief that towed the Exxon Valdez to San Diego. He told our class about running a tug and barge from Oregon to Hawaii and hitting (his opinion) 90 ft seas. I personally only worked in 40-50 ft. swell.