http://gcaptain.com/piloting-heavy-seas/?1444 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:08:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://gcaptain.com/piloting-heavy-seas/?1444#comment-10441 Mark "Mullet" Robinett Fri, 25 Apr 2008 19:49:52 +0000 http://gcaptain.com/maritime/blog/?p=1444#comment-10441 Factor your draft FiRST it will let you know how much your roll will be X wind speed. Over 40 degrees is pushin it for most vessels less than 200 ft. Over 200 you may not be broached by anything less than anything less than twice your bridge hight. Sometimes it don't matter:( Had 2 go down on me. One lost her steering and laid down and one caught fire. Keep your bildge pumps and bildge CLEAN! Check the pumps every damn day. or else. It's no game out there you screw up you die. Factor your draft FiRST it will let you know how much your roll will be X wind speed. Over 40 degrees is pushin it for most vessels less than 200 ft. Over 200 you may not be broached by anything less than anything less than twice your bridge hight. Sometimes it don’t matter:(
Had 2 go down on me. One lost her steering and laid down and one caught fire. Keep your bildge pumps and bildge CLEAN! Check the pumps every damn day. or else. It’s no game out there you screw up you die.

]]> http://gcaptain.com/piloting-heavy-seas/?1444#comment-13777 Mark "Mullet" Robinett Fri, 25 Apr 2008 17:49:52 +0000 http://gcaptain.com/maritime/blog/?p=1444#comment-13777 Factor your draft FiRST it will let you know how much your roll will be X wind speed. Over 40 degrees is pushin it for most vessels less than 200 ft. Over 200 you may not be broached by anything less than anything less than twice your bridge hight. Sometimes it don't matter:( <br>Had 2 go down on me. One lost her steering and laid down and one caught fire. Keep your bildge pumps and bildge CLEAN! Check the pumps every damn day. or else. It's no game out there you screw up you die. Factor your draft FiRST it will let you know how much your roll will be X wind speed. Over 40 degrees is pushin it for most vessels less than 200 ft. Over 200 you may not be broached by anything less than anything less than twice your bridge hight. Sometimes it don’t matter:(
Had 2 go down on me. One lost her steering and laid down and one caught fire. Keep your bildge pumps and bildge CLEAN! Check the pumps every damn day. or else. It’s no game out there you screw up you die.

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