I'd say they were fortunate indeed to be picked up. They were about 100 miles from the nearest port in foreign waters. Lucky for them there was a vessel nearby that spoke English and was willing to help.

Without their exact location I don't know the odds of them seeing another ship, but they must have been somewhere near a shipping lane given it was a cargo vessel that assisted that close to land. That would mean the odds were relatively high.

This happened about six weeks after I left them. A month of that time they were just sitting in port.

Knowing them, they were probably drifting IN the shipping lane.
Glad they are ok and hope they take an airplane next time.

If you're on the shore, then you're sure not me-oh







Just left Honolulu, should reach Seattle in 17-21 days depending on weather.

Should have decent weather but I'll settle for infinite tuna. de captain thinks he can catch more tuna than I can eat, lol. Pretty sure I can eat my bodyweight in tuna sashimi any day of the week.

Looking forward to a few weeks of sick night skies, dolphins, and crushing yellowfin. Also brought a bunch of limeade cause damn son.


gonna fly this boat to the moon somehow

Bon voyage, and fair winds.

Chop,

I have the opportunity to purchase a 1986 Cross designed 38' trimaran for next to nothing. It was a friend's parents boat, located down in NC. Dad has died, Mom is not in good health, and the kids just want to dump the boat.

What am I looking at for delivery fees to have it crewed back to Michigan? The other thing I'm debating is just having it moved further south, and using it as my floating cabin in the Gulf.

Salmon! It's what I live for. You can catch Chinook (King) starting in June - August, if we get a season. Coho were supposed to be in bad shape this year, with no season for anyone inside of the ocean. That changed and only the "co-managers" (Treaty Tribes) are out gill netting. Generally Big Ocean going Coho are available mid August into October. Chum after that and on odd numbered years there are a billion Pink (Humpy) Salmon.

You can check regulations here - http://wdfw.wa.gov/fishing/regulations/

Crickets....hope all is well...weather today looks great in your area on windyty.

blue balls

Shouldn't chop be arriving in Seattle any time now? When do we need to call the coast guard and mount a rescue mission?

You're going to have a hard time driving that boat up Niagara Falls to get to Michigan.

de captain and I are confirmed alive

Just got internet signal, about 50 miles out from Seattle proper, passing Port Angeles now. Should be in Seattle in about 10 hours.



Took a little longer than planned due to weather & decapbro trying to make us eat a canned entire chicken but we should be good for arrival tomorrow afternoon, 24 days total if I count correctly. Definitely ready to annihilate a mother****ing pizza.

Glad to see you guys made it.

Glad to hear
That chicken looks pretty gross

Long crossing...glad you made it...let us know what broke,what went wrong,and if anyone cried like a bitch haha.

This is unlikely to be worth it even if they gave you the boat for free unless you can find a non pro delivery crew to take it on as an adventure, and you like throwing money in a hole in the water.

You've no idea.
It was purchased as a joke item for $4 in Hawaii. Consider the economics of that. A farmer fed and raised the chicken, a processing plant butchered, boiled, canned and labelled it at which point a distributor shipped it to Hawaii and a retailer took a cut. All for $4

It smelled and looked worse than dog food.

Not much went wrong. Standard stuff broke for a 2300 nm passage w/ heavy weather. Only exception was the autopilot broke. I spent a fair amount of time laying in the lazarette.

I've never had to hand steer on any deliveries ever until this one, but I guess when a new crew member shows up and the first thing he tells you is that the autopilot has broken on every boat he's crewed on you should expect to be working on the autopilot.

I didn't see any crying but I saw puking for the 1st time ever on one of our deliveries.

The trip was an off season delivery and the weather was not great, but owners don't pay you to make milk runs.

Of 23 days we had 4 days of < 20 kts wind. We had > 10 days with some moderate gale force winds and at least 4 days with some fresh gale force winds but I kind of stopped counting. Damage was quite minimal for the route and weather encountered.

I'm pretty sure it wasn't the experience Chop expected, and I can't imagine him being excited to do another delivery with us but he showed up, did his job, kept a pleasant demeanor, and stood his watches. that's all you can ask for, and is more than you get from some crew.

Just another day at the office. Some work days are better than others. Time to head back to Iowa and harvest the corn crop.

No idea what gale force winds are and what "heavy weather" really means on an ocean crossing. Like, are we talking huge waves that feel like you're on a roller coaster w/ the bottom dropping out from under you?

Yes.

Just add getting doused w/ salt water every 15 minutes and water coming over the top of the boat while living in a tiny leaky cabin rolling back and forth at 45 degree angles for weeks on end.

hahaha i'm glad i'm not the only person amazed by chicken economics:

in the winter I will frequently buy this:


a frozen chicken, about 1kg, raised, fed, killed, plucked, intestines removed, packaged, frozen and transported to the store. for 1.65€

how the **** is that even possible.

Did you guys buy that chicken at Don Quijote?

Well that is certainly less romantic than the sunset pleasure cruise all-you-can-eat tunafest that I had imagined.

You're not wrong. Sometimes work is an all you can eat tunafest pleasure cruise, often it isn't. Some days your job is amazing, a lot of days it sucks balls.

For me the option of working for a company or in an office is untenable. Trying to be "self reliant", while often uncomfortable, in a small leaky space 1000 nm from civilization, but on my own terms somehow works for me.

Skill,
I certainly hope, and assume, that tastes and smells better than a whole canned chicken!

Howard,
Sorry to disappoint. It came from the Marukai Market. I know because my brother expensed it so I actually purchased 1/2 of a chicken that smelled like dog food, that when thrown overboard even the birds that eat whale **** wouldn't come near. Best $2 I've spent in a long time.

While in Seattle, definitely check out the Diller Room. It's right near the art museum and is an old hotel. Josh is there every happy hour. He's got a beard and brown hair.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Diller_Hotel

what the hell is hanging out of that sink???

I know this isn't a general boating thread, but I figured I'd ask since this audience is probably skewed to water-folks.

My wife has suggested that we get a boat. I am a non-handy person, with limited boating experience. The upside is that we have some $ to burn, and if we end up not becoming "boat people" and take a loss it isn't a huge deal.

We are in New York on Lake Ontario, and primary use would be Lake Ontario, St. Lawrence River, and trailoring to some of the Finger Lakes.

It looks like a lot of the boat market is second-hand private party sales, but since I'm a novice that is a bit concerning vis a vis getting ripped off.

Any recommendations on a size/type/make of boat that would be relatively easy to manage, but not a pontoon boat or little fishing boat?

Cliffs: I know, don't do it, hole in the water to drop money into, etc.

Looks like you just missed some really truly crappy weather -
Offshore boaters warned of 'life threatening seas' possible later this week in twin storms

http://komonews.com/news/local/offsh...in-twin-storms