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Originally Posted by karibear
That's true, too. When I first got to Kodiak, I made a couple trips on a local crabber as a passenger, just to see the sights. It was way cool, laying back on the top of a pile of crab pots, just like being in a hammock.
And it also helps, being on a fishing boat of any kind, if one is young enough not to feel their own mortality.   |
Yeah, when waves are breaking over the bridge at two AM, the decks are awash and the ship shudders like a scared dog, you never realized that when you were 19 years old, it didn't bother you then.... Now in later years, it really grabs your attention....
I was taking a 200 foot crab boat to Ballard Washington from Dutch Harbor last summer and when I cleared the island and to out into open water, the storm hit so hard the bridge went completely under water a couple of times during the night. It hit the window in front of me so hard, it blew out the gaskets halfway around the window. The ship was on Autopilot, so I ran down to the engine room and strung an air hose to the bridge with a couple of buoys (big orange floats you see the crab pot marked with) so that if the windows blew out, I could stick the buoy in and inflate it to stop the water from flooding in. Didn't need it and the next day it was flat water all the way to Ballard without a cloud in the sky....
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