This Sure Don't Look Like Kansas

[the fisherman]

Well, this is my first report from pretty dam far from home. We are located 472 mi. due west of Cape Flattery, we had tough weather all the way here, plus the usual ajustment to this enviorment. Musta' watched a 100 movies and ate half the food already. We have reached the inner edge of where we will probably fish. This afternoon we did find a few fish,so we will all sleep tonite with great anticapation. This is the first time I have ever tried to comunicate this way, I suppose Ali is editing these posts as she is a school teacher. I have done this job for over forty years and it's still as amazing to me as it was the first time I came out here. Today we passed a sea turtle the size of a volkswagen. All we need to do now is dial this big slab in, and we will. This is why they call me the fisherman. WISH YOU WERE HERE

 

[Tomas Tierra]

thanks for the report....hope you get 'em

 

[John D]

Fisherman, you are right. There is nothing quite like being at sea. I have posted two pictures taken at sea from our little 31 foot ketch in 1971. The seas were running about 20 feet. I took a picture of one coming up our stern. You can see the whip antenna with a loading coil for the amateur radio we had on board. and the camera is pointing up with the sea above the antenna. As you can attest, the blue dark water is seen only offshore. The second picture shows the sea starting to roll heavily. When the wind is strong enough to cause the sea to roll with big breakers, it is very rough. We were about a thousand miles out headed for Mauritius in the Southern Indian Ocean when I took these pictures.

 

[Marc]

John,

Those pics remind me of a delivery I did on a Santa Cruz 50 from Oregon to S. Cal. quite a few years ago. We had Force 7 to 8 winds the entire time along the Oregon Coast with some of the biggest swells I have ever seen. We were running a double reef in our main with a high cut # 4 and were making over 20 knt.'s and had a high of 28 knt.'s. It was actually quite an adrenilan rush untill you looked over you shoulder.

Fisherman,

Hope the seas lay down for you and the fishing is good. Be safe.

Marc

 

[chnlisle]

Ok Marc now you're dredging up memories of the Morgan coming down from Vancouver to The 'Nard. Never again.

 

[Marc]

I hear you Jay. I've sailed back and forth to Hawaii a number of times during the winter, did a season of Salmon Fishing in Alaska and still the sea state on that trip along the Oregon Coast was the knarliest I've been in. Thats why I never quiver at the price of good fish.

Marc

 

[HERR42]

i remember being in a big one off the grand banks...this was on a 563 ft DD. We had some 2 inch fire mains that were ripped out of the welded brackets. Its amazing what water can do.

Hold fast, hold fast.

 

[chnlisle]

Its all you can do to hold it together. I guess its good you're so busy you dont have a lot of time to think.