New England Photo Thread

[fmoore]

Only one tuna shot for me, but a few of some scenery.

You guys know this is New England photo thread and not tuna photo thread right?

[Fishypantsmagoo]

Waterspout

[backman]

Yes - I do recall that day and that sight Its not one I want to ever see again from < 1 mile.

I was a bit busy tightening up my gluteus muscles and seeing how fast an Ocean 45 could go from troll to plane while the poor owner was pulling in the riggers with lightning bolts in that same 1 mile ring. I had us at 22 when he took over. At which point deckie in the cockpit yells up "Hey Larry - did you get any pictures of that"?

Yeah sure....

[hotreels jr]

[chumtini]

That pic gives new meaning to the words "fishy pants" LOL Holy crap!!

Was that Aug 4 by any chance? Saw this beauty roaring past Nantucket that afternoon.

[backman]

Friday 8/15; ~8 AM, 200 fathoms south of Middle Ground.

The picture does not do it justice - from the "hey look; its a waterspout" to the realization that yes; it was a waterspout a couple miles away on our stern and it was heading in our direction was a couple seconds. That was then followed by a look to starboard and a worse realization that there was one over there, inside a mile, you could see both the rotational wall of water going up into it, but even worse the white squall of wind whipped sea in front of it. As I watched the spout started leaning and veering as if it was deciding how best to come after us. It quickly went from almost vertical to a 45 degree angle from wind sheer from what had been steady 15-20 knot winds.

That was an honest 3-5 offshore day and the spout and squall turned that 3-5 into a steady stream of square 6' seas marching at us in wind whipped cornrows in an expanding arc in front of the spout. Why square? Because the 40+ knot wind in front of the spout had blown the tops right off. the spout was easily moving at 20 knots angled to pass close off our stern.

I fortunately got the boat going away from the spout fast enough that by the time the lightening started coming down with it we were close to a mile away up on plane and surfing away from the biggest of the seas.

How intense was the rain? All our deck boots were neatly lined up in one corner of the cockpit. Later that day when I grabbed mine I found them 1/2 full of fresh rain water.

Magooster: Was that on Damon's boat the day he thought he got hit?

[Tuna Meltdown]

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[fmoore]

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Danny - Why were you fishing again? You seem like a smart guy. Should have found something better to do.

[Tuna Meltdown]

Danny - Why were you fishing again? You seem like a smart guy. Should have found something better to do.

Those two were the fish that unfortunatly got away.