Anyone Heading Out?

[fountain17]

Leaving Sunday AM maybey towards the Dip for a day troll...hopefully will get a better sst shot later today...will be on 68 "Final Frontier"

Don

[backman]

wait for stable weather!

I was on a larger boat blown out of Block, Middle Ground by storm cells with thunder; lightening, waterspouts and 40+ knot micro bursts generating 6' square waves that had the top blown off by the wind.

We fortunately had Sirius radar; watched a line of storms come out of no where and got out of Dodge at 25 knots with the storm chasing us at 20+.

[fountain17]

Originally Posted by backman

wait for stable weather!

I was on a larger boat blown out of Block, Middle Ground by storm cells with thunder; lightening, waterspouts and 40+ knot micro bursts generating 6' square waves that had the top blown off by the wind.

We fortunately had Sirius radar; watched a line of storms come out of no where and got out of Dodge at 25 knots with the storm chasing us at 20+.

Wow..glad you guys made it back OK! Was this yesterday?

[backman]

yesterday; all day. we tried to drop in at the tip of Block at 6 AM, got chased off the spot by 1 cell; eventually after continuing to try to go S and E to get away from the line ended up in the Dumping Grounds below 1000 fathoms below Block. Ran N and W up towards Middle Ground; had to troll E to stay away from the line; took a close look at Sirius weather at 2 and saw the line was now a solid mass the size of R.I. less than 20 miles below us.

I'm not a grizzled expert but my canyon trip count is in the 60-70 range and this pure explosion of storms out of an unstable front was a real eye opener. I'll take "scattered thunderstorms" entirely differently from this point on when 100 miles from the dock.

[fountain17]

Wow that's some really scary stuff. Great job getting back around it! One thing I look at also is this bouyweather.com. U can place a virtually buoy any where on the ocean and get a approximate estimate of sea conditions, wind direction, wave height and rain.thunderstorms potential.

Here is the forecast for the tails for 8/17 Im still waiting for the afternoon update this was as of 06 zulu

BUOYWEATHER.COM NAM Weather Forecast
Location : 40.0N 71.21W
Time Zone: GMT - 4 hours
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AIR DEW WIND WIND PREC
TEMP TEMP RH% SPD(KTS) DIR SLP LI CP CLD% PREC TYPE T-STORMS
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8/16 5am 72 66 81 5 - 7 SW210 1014 -1.6 4 100 0.07 RAIN POSSIBLE
8/16 8am 73 66 78 7 - 9 WSW259 1013 -2.2 4 100 0.04 RAIN PROBABLE
8/16 11am 72 66 80 7 - 10 WNW288 1014 -2.1 4 100 0.01 RAIN PROBABLE
8/16 2pm 72 67 83 6 - 9 WNW292 1013 -3.7 6 100 0.00 RAIN PROBABLE
8/16 5pm 72 68 87 6 - 9 WNW286 1012 -5.5 10 10 0.00 SEVERE
8/16 8pm 72 65 79 9 - 13 W271 1011 -4.4 9 0 0.00 PROBABLE
8/16 11pm 73 66 77 11 - 15 W270 1012 -3.8 10 0 0.00 PROBABLE

8/17 2am 74 65 74 11 - 15 WNW283 1013 -0.1 2 9 0.00 POSSIBLE
8/17 5am 73 62 67 11 - 15 WNW290 1013 3.0 0 0 0.00 UNLIKELY
8/17 8am 72 63 72 8 - 11 WNW282 1015 2.7 0 2 0.00 UNLIKELY
8/17 11am 72 63 73 9 - 13 W277 1015 2.0 0 53 0.00 UNLIKELY
8/17 2pm 73 63 72 9 - 12 W263 1015 1.7 0 100 0.00 UNLIKELY
8/17 5pm 73 65 73 9 - 12 WSW237 1014 1.0 0 13 0.00 UNLIKELY
8/17 8pm 74 65 73 10 - 14 SW217 1014 0.2 0 0 0.00 UNLIKELY
8/17 11pm 74 66 74 12 - 16 SW214 1016 -1.1 3 0 0.00 POSSIBLE

8/18 2am 75 67 78 13 - 17 SW221 1015 -1.9 7 0 0.00 POSSIBLE
8/18 5am 75 68 79 13 - 17 SW227 1015 -2.3 9 0 0.00 PROBABLE
8/18 8am 75 68 80 12 - 16 WSW233 1016 -2.9 9 73 0.00 PROBABLE
8/18 11am 75 70 84 9 - 13 SW220 1017 -3.4 14 100 0.00 PROBABLE
8/18 2pm 75 70 85 9 - 13 SSW201 1016 -3.8 14 100 0.00 PROBABLE

Sunday 8/17
Morning
Light winds with a slight chop. Small short period wind waves.
Winds: WNW 7 to 9 knots
Seas: SE 3 feet at 10 sec.
Afternoon
Light winds with a slight chop. Small short period wind waves.
Winds: W 9 to 12 knots
Seas: SE 3 feet at 10 sec