http://gcaptain.com/perfectly-dangerous-a-spectacular-waterspout/?1150 Wed, 10 Aug 2011 07:11:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://gcaptain.com/perfectly-dangerous-a-spectacular-waterspout/?1150#comment-20639 Weather « tugster: a waterblog Mon, 22 Jun 2009 21:42:48 +0000 http://gcaptain.com/maritime/blog/perfectly-dangerous-a-spectacular-waterspout/#comment-20639 [...] Hmm.  “Weathering storms”  . . . now that phrase puzzles me.  Storms are weather.  Metaphorical storms that need weathering like illness or loss   . . . what does it mean to “weather” them?  Be a hurricane to a gale and outlast it?  Be an anticyclone to a cyclone?  Uglyships’ very own Zeebart sent these fotos along from the North Sea.  Here  gCaptain writes about waterspouts. [...] [...] Hmm.  “Weathering storms”  . . . now that phrase puzzles me.  Storms are weather.  Metaphorical storms that need weathering like illness or loss   . . . what does it mean to “weather” them?  Be a hurricane to a gale and outlast it?  Be an anticyclone to a cyclone?  Uglyships’ very own Zeebart sent these fotos along from the North Sea.  Here  gCaptain writes about waterspouts. [...]

]]> http://gcaptain.com/perfectly-dangerous-a-spectacular-waterspout/?1150#comment-7032 John Denham Wed, 20 Feb 2008 22:11:14 +0000 http://gcaptain.com/maritime/blog/perfectly-dangerous-a-spectacular-waterspout/#comment-7032 As an Ensign USNR Merchant Marine Naval Reserve my first USS was the Allagash AO97 in the Atlantic. Tthe skipper was a medalled WW11 officer of exceptional experience. In 1940 in command of a 4 piper destroyer in Panama he was tasked to penetrate a water spout and report the results. The destoyer was buttoned-up for battle except a single port in the 6 by 6 foot chartroom. The old destoyer barely survived having lost a motor whaleboat and all topside canvas , but more surprising, every chart in the four drawer chart desk with over a thousnad charts were sucked out through the 8 inch port. JGD As an Ensign USNR Merchant Marine Naval Reserve my first USS was the Allagash AO97 in the Atlantic. Tthe skipper was a medalled WW11 officer of exceptional experience. In 1940 in command of a 4 piper destroyer in Panama he was tasked to penetrate a water spout and report the results. The destoyer was buttoned-up for battle except a single port in the 6 by 6 foot chartroom. The old destoyer barely survived having lost a motor whaleboat and all topside canvas , but more surprising, every chart in the four drawer chart desk with over a thousnad charts were sucked out through the 8 inch port. JGD

]]> http://gcaptain.com/perfectly-dangerous-a-spectacular-waterspout/?1150#comment-13463 John Denham Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:11:14 +0000 http://gcaptain.com/maritime/blog/perfectly-dangerous-a-spectacular-waterspout/#comment-13463 As an Ensign USNR Merchant Marine Naval Reserve my first USS was the Allagash AO97 in the Atlantic. Tthe skipper was a medalled WW11 officer of exceptional experience. In 1940 in command of a 4 piper destroyer in Panama he was tasked to penetrate a water spout and report the results. The destoyer was buttoned-up for battle except a single port in the 6 by 6 foot chartroom. The old destoyer barely survived having lost a motor whaleboat and all topside canvas , but more surprising, every chart in the four drawer chart desk with over a thousnad charts were sucked out through the 8 inch port. JGD As an Ensign USNR Merchant Marine Naval Reserve my first USS was the Allagash AO97 in the Atlantic. Tthe skipper was a medalled WW11 officer of exceptional experience. In 1940 in command of a 4 piper destroyer in Panama he was tasked to penetrate a water spout and report the results. The destoyer was buttoned-up for battle except a single port in the 6 by 6 foot chartroom. The old destoyer barely survived having lost a motor whaleboat and all topside canvas , but more surprising, every chart in the four drawer chart desk with over a thousnad charts were sucked out through the 8 inch port. JGD

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