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this is why everyone else is at port
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That was a monster storm, and you showed some great sailing skills.
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That is a great area, I am located in the Ore-coast mtns - we get the tail end of some 100 mph storms every few years. This coast can be nasty.
I may be going South to look at a 38' Gaff rig - San Dgo. I really like multi-hulls also, and have looked at them or having one built (in The Philippines) - great value, and nice island life while your boat is being built ! Friendly pretty girls everywhere...
Happy sailing, Scott -
Hello, I just found this channel and then notice the Columbia river - so you set course from Oregon to HI - so cool !
I'm native Oregonean , and had the same plan or course to sail ....
Really appreciate your navigation tips and understand being part of nature.... well bro sooner or later that tough enough 'honey' will come along... break it to her gently ....
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Sad as at most perhaps once a year I experience such vs 364 days of tropical bliss. Women don't seem to appreciate a hard core sea vessel hence boys always at port. Real men go!
Extreme storm sailing Aulani Aloha with ships as monster storm explodes in early winter storm. West Coast shuts down with Columbia River Bar and California as Storms the freaks of nature show their power. Mature storms are the most powerful events on the planet. In one day unleashing the equivalent force of the world's nuclear arsenals. Given time these loose canons on the ocean's deck give quarter to no vessel. These sea battles never decide who's right only who's left. As sailors in little boats the size of life boats. We don't have the luxury of hiding 100' up in comfy enclosed watertight wheelhouses. Or lounges on 1,000' ships manned 24/7 on all decks. We are literally part of the storm itself. Seemingly lost in between swells dealing with the waves and ripples there. We are in the trenches battling a monster that never sees us. Even when we have crew it's most always a solo operation. How we strategically navigate prior to the monster's arrival. Then keep on thru the dark night wrestling the beast will determine just how soon and if we live to see another day. How do we get here? Over the years we get a little dinghy and go for a stroll in the Pacific Ocean. The Columbia River bar reopens after being closed to an early winter storm. At most I have a 3 day window to voyage South clearing the rugged stormy terrain of the Pacific Northwest. That's impossible. Omens and Tell Tales of a Monster Coming Your Way: The Calm, Snowy White Owl, Barometer Begins It's Plunge, Mackerel Sky, Ill Winds, New Swell, Wind Speed Begins It's Rise Subscribe to keep up on the upcoming episodes unfolding an odyssey with more twists and turns than one might imagine. https://www.patreon.com/oceanmaverick https://www.facebook.com/jehu.wood https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRCGVSyEhjQP5WWWF-8T25g website coming soon with your help Thanks Mate Captain Jehoo (like Yo Hoo)