Offshoreonly.com - Your in big water when...........................

Page 4 of 4

Show 40 post(s) from this thread on one page

Offshoreonly.com (https://www.offshoreonly.com/forums/)

- General Boating Discussion (https://www.offshoreonly.com/forums/general-boating-discussion-51/)

- - Your in big water when........................... (https://www.offshoreonly.com/forums/general-boating-discussion/335750-your-big-water-when.html)

TURBO JET

03-27-2016 09:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 1989mach1 (Post 4421495)

I know they r good but has anyone else noticed that it is always the same 6 or so apache videos that get posted up. These are wave killers so lets see them kill some different waves for once.

There out using them there's just not always a helicopter following them around.

http://youtu.be/DrzW26TC1J0

f_inscreenname

03-31-2016 12:05 AM

This is sick! Wont catch me out there even in the SuperNova.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGorxfRfyGY

payuppsucker

03-31-2016 12:44 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by f_inscreenname (Post 4422901)

This is sick! Wont catch me out there even in the SuperNova.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGorxfRfyGY

Should've constructed it in a 3D printer. No cracks, no worries.

phughes69

03-31-2016 06:45 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by f_inscreenname (Post 4422901)

This is sick! Wont catch me out there even in the SuperNova.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGorxfRfyGY

When the waves are taller than your boat is long, that is when to call it quits.

badmonkey

03-31-2016 07:41 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by f_inscreenname (Post 4419997)

I live on the Chesapeake Bay which is thousands of square miles of water but most of it is shallow so it don't take much to stir things up. This is me coming home from the blue angles in my 19' boat. You have to build them tough to last around here. Mine happens to be build in 1972 and still around so it fits the bill.

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b2...nname/1_17.jpg

I remember this day. It got very sloppy leaving inner harbor.

kreed

03-31-2016 07:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SS930 (Post 4420101)

I logged on and just saw you posted in this cock measuring contest... I thought for sure you were going to post about how rough it is between Portland and Glildersleeve Island! :drink:

Hey, I have seen white caps near the Cromwell boat launch....it gets snotty in there!

Wobble

03-31-2016 10:46 AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPy2DHHnlqQ The North Sea, I spent 4 days on a 400' supply vessel on my first trip out to the Rig.

Weather was so bad it took 2 days longer to get to the Ninian Central platform. Boat took a major beating and I threw up for 2 days.

This is not the actual video but very similar to what I experienced then and on one other trip

f_inscreenname

03-31-2016 12:51 PM

It kind of takes the wonder out of why according to an annual analysis from insurer Allianz, 94 ships (over 100 gross tonnes) were completely lost in 2013.

Indy	03-31-2016 04:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by f_inscreenname (Post 4423084)

It kind of takes the wonder out of why according to an annual analysis from insurer Allianz, 94 ships (over 100 gross tonnes) were completely lost in 2013.

Wow...that's pretty disturbing.

Wobble

03-31-2016 05:26 PM

North Sea supply vessels tend to run in the 800+ ton range, built for the worst seas in the world.

Belleair302

04-01-2016 02:52 AM

I have good friends in Aberdeen Scotland and they sailors who supply the rigs see some seriously big waves, often close to 80 feet in mid winter. Yet from May until Sept the north sea can be stunningly calm. It is deep, open and very exposed to winds and fast changing weather.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ar79VQSa6xQ

Not sure anybody would enjoy this for days at a time.

Belleair302

04-01-2016 03:12 AM

You know you are in big water when you watch these clips.....wow...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axW2XUhrjbo

Wildman_grafix

04-01-2016 07:06 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Belleair302 (Post 4423342)

You know you are in big water when you watch these clips.....wow...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axW2XUhrjbo

I want to know what was doing the filming?

Belleair302

04-01-2016 09:46 AM

The warship is a French Frigate leaving the French Coastline near Brittany. Bay of Biscay sees some seriously bad weather. I am guessing either a helicopter or something similar. Boat was undergoing sea trials so it is revealed. Us Floridians are spoiled in the Gulf, even in bad weather such as last July the waves are tiny in volume when compared to the Atlantic or Bay of Bengal off of the Indian continent.

Rambunctious

04-01-2016 10:04 AM

Lake Michigan - Holland

http://www.offshoreonly.com/forums/a...vel-zoomed.jpg

phughes69

04-01-2016 11:15 AM

I wonder how much stress is exerted on the legs of the platform. Not somewhere Id want to be during a storm

Quote:

Originally Posted by Belleair302 (Post 4423340)

Wobble

04-01-2016 02:56 PM

2 Attachment(s)

[ATTACH=CONFIG]553349[/ATTACH]

This is the rig I worked construction on. Sits in 400' of water in the upper North Sea. It sits on a solid concrete column that was floated out to location. During the early days on-site after the ballast tanks were flooded and the central column pumped out you could climb down to the bottom of the North Sea and stand near the sea bed. When the field is played out it could be re-floated in theory.

http://movingimage.nls.uk/film/5973

The lowest cellar deck is nearly 100' above sea level and it was not unusual to get spray down there.[ATTACH=CONFIG]553350[/ATTACH] This a picture of it floating and being towed

985' from base to the top

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1jOnSQA2so We used to fly out in Chinooks back in the day. Worked two winters out there and never saw a day like this one.