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Worst ride while in a boat?


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Whats the worst boat ride you have been in?

1)When I was 17 and new to boating I was talked into a ride on an old Glastream speed boat. I thought I was going to die that day fellows.The driver was showing off in the inlet jumping waves and I was getting pounded bad.Then he stuffed a wave and swamped the boat.I swam back to the jetty in Fort Pierce and walked to a phone.

2)Saber Cat boat. I recently rode in one and thought the driver was going to kill me.I was scared more because I had back surgery 18 weeks ago and the thing was pounding.

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JFK ......

75 footers ......

Bluewaterpirate - Been there, done that on the USS Semmes DDG-18. Wasn't 75 footers, but it was 40 - 50 footers. Took water over the brige. We all joked we should get submarine pay for that trip. We stuffed our boots under the side of our mattresses as well as keeping the straps up to keep us from falling out of our racks.

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JFK ......

75 footers ......

Roger that!!

I flew over to meet the Indy in 77 and she tore off about 150' of the catwalk on the way over. Glad I missed that ride.

Worst that I ever rode out was some solid 50s in the North Atlantic aboard the Ike. We used to go through 10-20 footer with only a few degrees of pitch or roll and look over to see our escorts take 30 degrees or so.

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JFK ......

75 footers ......

Roger that!!

I flew over to meet the Indy in 77 and she tore off about 150' of the catwalk on the way over. Glad I missed that ride.

Worst that I ever rode out was some solid 50s in the North Atlantic aboard the Ike. We used to go through 10-20 footer with only a few degrees of pitch or roll and look over to see our escorts take 30 degrees or so.

I spent 31 years in the Navy .... my first ship back in 1966 was the USS Wedderburn DD 684 (Fletcher Class 5 5" single mounts). We spent most of our time under water rock and rolling.

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Many fishing trips I took with my father growing up on our 17' Mitchell skiff would qualify as a bad day on the water. The Mississippi Sound gets pretty choppy and that POS would beat your guts out and soak you to the bone. He would cuss all the way in as wave after wave would pound and soak the two of us. We would trawl for bait before the sun came up and head to the Louisiana marsh with all the big, new, deep v boats. Man I was envious of them, but some of the best memories from my childhood are of those trips with him on that skiff. He's 83 now and too old to get out there, and I've never had, nor probably never will have another fishing partner like him. We talk about those trips all the time and he always says what a great little boat that was. Time has a way of erasing the pain.

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