You might need a tough duckboat

Brad Bortner

Brad Bortner

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NAME LAT/LON TIME WIND WAVE PRESSURE TEMPERATURE AWL DIR SPEED FEET OBS TEND AIR SEA KEY
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BERING SEA 57.1/177.8 1304 AKDT 230 38G50 28 993.2/29.33 R MM MM

38 Knot Winds with gust to 50 knots and 28 foot waves!
 
Your right Eric. And I'm a Bay Dog owner that build a tough boat! Not to mention I'm not real bright.
 
So, what does it say? I get lost about half way through...
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It says "38 Knot Winds with gust to 50 knots and 28 foot waves! "

You might need to put up your spray screen on your layout.
 
So, what does it say? I get lost about half way through...
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It says "38 Knot Winds with gust to 50 knots and 28 foot waves! "

You might need to put up your spray screen on your layout. Nahh,The spray shield will just flare them with the shadow so dont take that risk, put it down and be a real man , lol jk . That some pretty huge waves out there.
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Reminds me of a day I spent at the mouth of a river near Grays bay a long time back.

I had a 15 foot aluminum duckboat and 2 hounds
an incandescent lightbulb in a coffee can with a saran wrap splash guard
and a young mans dumb luck.

I walked into the market near the launch and said "Looks like a good day to hunt ducks"

a couple of the old boys looked at me funny and said "looks like a good day to die"


we launched anyway into a swollen river
it churned debris and there were log jams and a terrible driving rain

I was in about 1/2 the boat i should have been in
had 2 incorrigible dogs
and my light bulb took a breaker off the bow and busted


we lashed ourselves to an island with some berry bushes and a single alder tree and left the boat in the lee of the storm



ducks swarmed the mouth of the river, divers, sprig, goldeneyes, even sawbills.
I couldn't hazard a shot.

the tide was ripping out with the flood current
The little motor might have started, but I risked losing my hounds in the fray


my dogs went ballistic watching all of the birds ripping past us at 15 yards


the storm passed after a few hours and the wild waters tamed themselves


We got a sawbill and a crow

My hounds came back when I called

it was a great day
 
GUYS I"M JUST HEADED OUT THE DOOR,,,,,,,, I'LL GIVE YOU A REPORT ON THE STORM WHEN I GET BACK.

28 FOOT WAVES,, RUN THROUGH IT LIKE CHOPPED LIVER


FRED
 
GUYS I"M JUST HEADED OUT THE DOOR,,,,,,,, I'LL GIVE YOU A REPORT ON THE STORM WHEN I GET BACK.

28 FOOT WAVES,, RUN THROUGH IT LIKE CHOPPED LIVER


FRED
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Fred, if we can find your new boat afterwards, can I have it? Or anything left of it?
 
The news reporters are relying on locals in Kotz, Nome, and Unk using skype to give reports on what is happening up there. No one wanted to go up and watch it hit shore. Wonder why Al Roaker is not up here. They do it for Gulf Coast storms. Must be that negative wind chill keeping them at bay.

The news folks keep saying "if this storm was in the Gulf Coast it would be called a hurricane." Very low pressure.

Here is some local news paper on the epic storm.

http://www.adn.com/...epic-bering-sea.html

Here is an on-line media source with some interresting articles.

http://www.alaskadispatch.com/index.php

Next summer I am going to have to head out there to inspect one of my sights to see how much washed away. Might have to go this fall, but I would rather not.
 
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