Let's go cruisin', ladies!

[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"

[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.

[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

[Gargamel]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

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

As one sailor is puking his guts out, the other says, "Hey, be glad your not on one of ours escorts!"

[krashkart]

I wonder how much extra maintenance had to be done on the chopper after that.

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Gargamel

As one sailor is puking his guts out, the other says, "Hey, be glad your not on one of ours escorts!"

Good point. I served on one of the escorts.