Let's go cruisin', ladies!

[Skybird]

...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELDTy...eature=related

[Matador.es]

very nice footage.

I sail quite often, 1 regatta a week plus some additional long distance regattas or just deliveries. I have experienced how wild nature can be. Despite i have never seen a film, photo that comes close to these experiences. I never was able to film it, although we often assumed to do so. When the time comes and the **** hit the fence, there is no time for taking pictures.

[Gargamel]

Those are some big waves there!

I never was able to film it, although we often assumed to do so. When the time comes and the **** hit the fence, there is no time for taking pictures.

Unless that's what your there to do.

[Matador.es]

i am a bow man and genua trim

Das Boot:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjSY-wBxJEY

[Skybird]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dz_N6MG5tt0


Turnover-test of a new German sea rescue vessel.

The rescue cruisers of all classes of the DGzRS (German Maritime Search and Rescue Service) have been built from beginning on with this capability. Different to the German Coastguard, the service is not maintained by the state , and I think it lives by donations exclusively. It has around 50 bases and a fleet of around 60 so-called Rettungskreuzer, operating in the Baltic and North Sea. Some types of these cruiser designs set new benchmarks at time of their service entry, being copied by others. I know one man having served on these. Very special people.

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Alex

May I say I would not like to stand on the foredeck of this ship during a storm ?

Of course you wouldn't because you couldn't.

[krashkart]

Oooo, that looks absolutely nauseating in some of those shots.

I've never been near an ocean, but I have shot some rapids (7-inch peaks! *wheee*) on the Palouse. Aboard an air mattress, even.

[Matador.es]

Originally Posted by krashkart

...but I have shot some rapids (7-inch peaks! *wheee*) on the Palouse. Aboard an air mattress, even.

What is "but I have shot some rapids (7-inch peaks! *wheee*) on the Palouse"

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Alex

You appear to have a full fleet of unsinkable ones.

As far as I can say, yes. Even the dhingies the cruisers have aboard, can turn over 360°. Which may not be that surprising. What amazes me is that the cruisers themselves can do that.

Dhingy video

Sorry for the term "cruiser". But that's what we call them: maritime rescue-cruisers (Seenotrettungskreuzer).

I love these boats.

[Gargamel]

Originally Posted by Matador.es

What is "but I have shot some rapids (7-inch peaks! *wheee*) on the Palouse"

Basically this:




I always wanted to start crewing on bigger boats, I crewed and skipped FJ's (12 ft single mast, 3 sail), and I signed up to crew on a J30 something, but then I moved to WV and became a white water raft guide for the summer instead.

[The Third Man]

Sea sick.

[krashkart]

Originally Posted by Matador.es

What is "but I have shot some rapids (7-inch peaks! *wheee*) on the Palouse"

I was under-embellishing about a childhood experience.


These folks here are shooting some rapids:






And here is a good example of the rapids I shot on the Palouse river:








My apologies for the dry humor.

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EDIT: Gargamel has the right idea.

[Gargamel]

Originally Posted by krashkart

These folks here are shooting some rapids:



EDIT: Gargamel has the right idea.

As to the edit, why thank you


And that pic, is a group of people unsuccessfully shooting rapids. I can't tell if that's an oar boat, or just a regular raft. The guide's paddle/oar, and I only see one, must be perfectly level to the camera, so I think it's a regular raft. If you notice, the guide, who is usually seated on the stern, is flying through the air, about to pass over the paying customers who will get a good laugh out of it, and then tip the guide even more later.

It's called a guide ejector. It's when you take the boat down over a hydraulic, and into another one, but you snub the nose of the boat into it, causing it to fold up momentarily, kinda like a fish flipping its fin. This causes the guide to go flying.

While enjoyable to watch, trust me, as the guide, they're embarrassing. Usually the guide(s) that got ejected each day had to buy a round for the other guides. But like I said, the guests/sheep usually made up for it with a bigger tip at the end of the run.

[Sailor Steve]

And what happens when a truly big ship hits that kind of weather?
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x89...eavy-seas_tech

[Castout]

O God, Thy Sea Is So Great,


And My Boat Is So Small


Good thing there isn't a single soul as I'm fed up with people