Awesome video of the USCG on the Columbia River Bar

[Alaskan Sea-Duction]

https://youtu.be/qAa9sb1K7n8

 

[Comodave]

It is great!!! Looks like a lot of fun. I have driven a 47', but not in conditions like that.

 

[Fletcher500]

Those are some thick swells. A good recruiting movie for 18 year olds. Sign me up.

 

[Benthic2]

That looks like fun! ( as long as its someone else's boat!)

 

[porman]

How does that radar keep turning when they're rolling over?

 

[sbu22]

O-rings. Monkey ****.

 

[High Wire]

I like the almost backflip where the bow is up about 80 degrees (3:20). My mind wanders to question how the diesel oil pumps keep the bearings from becoming toast at those angles!

 

[Alaskan Sea-Duction]

I was interested in the way the pilot operated the engine controls.


I think I was out there this year when they filmed it! Or at least that was the way it looked to me.....NEVER EVER cross on an ebb......

 

[caltexflanc]

How does that radar keep turning when they're rolling over?

Furuno.

 

[Roamer Blue]

Great fun!
Now, to put a placid looking cruiser topside onto one of those competent hulls...

Need an interested lottery winner...

RB

 

[Pgitug]

Helped a guy take his 43’ Mason from Portland to Long Beach California. The morning we crossed the Columbia River bar I told him to wait for the flood tide. He was in a hurry and crossed an hour before slack low tide. Leaving Astoria just before sunrise the entire river was as flat as a glass mirror. As we made the final turn to SW the waves were 6-7’ and only 75’ a part. The captain was so sick he threw up for the next 18 hours until we got to Newport. Never cross on an ebb tide.

 

[GFC]

I'd give my left one to take a ride on a USCG boat on a day like that. What a kick arse ride it would be.


Thanks Tom!

 

[Ken E.]

Maybe even my right one.

 

[markpierce]

Except for the cresting waves, that's what happens on the eastern (down-wind end) of Suisun Bay when winds counter an opposing tide: steep, five-foot, quick-succession waves that nearly bury my boat's bow and sends spray over the entire boat.
...

It would have been educational to have observed the helmsman make throttle adjustments.

 

[FlyWright]

I love watching Pros at work!

 

[Benthic2]

They couldn't give those guys in inside helm station ???

 

[psneeld]

They couldn't give those guys in inside helm station ???

There is a lower station on the 47s, just most dont like operating from there.

Poor Mark will never understand that, particularly when the boat rolls over.

From Wikipedia.....

"Employing "fly-by-wire" control systems,[8] the boat can be operated from four different locations: two from the enclosed bridge, and two amidships from an open bridge.[3]"

 

[Paul Swanson]

There is a CG school at the Columbia that trains for surf conditions. Fly Wright is correct ...they are pros. See the film "the finest hour" ;" they have to go out, but they don't have to come back"

 

[BruceK]

The right side bar lists a number of videos by Drone Guy.