Me and seedtick went on a 3 day logging trip on thursday the 26of june and boy did we get some memories. it started out a beautiful day, sun, no wind, flat seas. I was taking the big boat (42" x 40 foot pontoons, ~15 ft.wide)about a mile into the lake (lake Maurepas ) and droped anchor (1500-lps.). meanwhile tick was finding logs and marking them, then picked me up and we marked some more. the weather started to get bad so we went back to the big boat. it started raining hard and harder, oh we had a pull camper( ~20 footer on the boat tied down). the next thing, you couldn,t hear your self think, our 40 footer thuned side ways, trying to turn over, we were about 25 to 35 degrees on the floor holding on, every thing in the camper was flying around and then it let us go. our 18 ft skiff was sunk, but stilled tied on, everthing that was on deck and in the skiff was in the water, ice chest, generators (2), air compressor, a ton of chains, scuba equip. we were alive, wet and cold and then we started the recovery. tick can tell you of the aftermath. later keith
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I hate to hear about you guy's losing your gear but it can be replaced or recovered. The major thing is that you both made it back safe , shooken but safe and that is what counts. 
Chuck.
Chuck.
Friend keith,
Glad we didnt read bout that on the front page of the Bayou Times. Sinker Geezers Sunk! :wink: Ya'll gwine ta pull them generators back up? Mebbe ya'll oughta try shrimpin'? :mrgreen:
regards
bearridge
People who are willing to give up freedom for the sake of short term security, deserve neither freedom nor security. Benjamin Franklin
Glad we didnt read bout that on the front page of the Bayou Times. Sinker Geezers Sunk! :wink: Ya'll gwine ta pull them generators back up? Mebbe ya'll oughta try shrimpin'? :mrgreen:
regards
bearridge
People who are willing to give up freedom for the sake of short term security, deserve neither freedom nor security. Benjamin Franklin
k
Dayamn !
Glad to hear that y'all are OK.
Gear can be replaced.
Hope you can salvage some of your stuff.
Dayamn !
Glad to hear that y'all are OK.
Gear can be replaced.
Hope you can salvage some of your stuff.
It's like I've been saying for years. Excitement aint always good. Good luck on rounding your stuff back up.
Bob
Bob
Things can get damned interesting in a hurry on big water. I have a tale to tell, but it can rest for now.
I thank God y'all are still breathing air, and I hope you can recover all your equipment.
Good luck!
I thank God y'all are still breathing air, and I hope you can recover all your equipment.
Good luck!
The day started out real nice...
friend Keith navigated the barge through the narrows
somehow the scenery looks different when you look back at the picrtures
first log coming up, BTW that's the end of a 42" diameter pontoon that's buried in the water
first log up
Like Keith said we marked about 6 logs before the weather hit us. Don't have any pictures of that, but fortunately we saved the side scan sonar and, once we got the skiff upright and the outboard out of the mud and running, we could find the big expensive stuff - like generators. Small stuff like batteries, chains and cables we had to leave to the fishes
I've been on that lake ever since i was a little bitty kid and that was the worst weather i ever saw. They always said the good Lord protects fools and drunks so I guess we fit in one of those categories.
BTW we did try shrimping several years ago but that was work
friend Keith navigated the barge through the narrows
somehow the scenery looks different when you look back at the picrtures
first log coming up, BTW that's the end of a 42" diameter pontoon that's buried in the water
first log up
Like Keith said we marked about 6 logs before the weather hit us. Don't have any pictures of that, but fortunately we saved the side scan sonar and, once we got the skiff upright and the outboard out of the mud and running, we could find the big expensive stuff - like generators. Small stuff like batteries, chains and cables we had to leave to the fishes
I've been on that lake ever since i was a little bitty kid and that was the worst weather i ever saw. They always said the good Lord protects fools and drunks so I guess we fit in one of those categories.
BTW we did try shrimping several years ago but that was work
Seedtick,
Although, I am please you and Keith survived, and y'all have resigned yourselves to what can be saved and what is lost(It took me 40 years to reach that point!).
But that last picture makes me laugh, inappropriatly, I guess.
About 40 years ago, I was having lunch in a semi outdoor cafe some where around Bayou Gauche.
A horseman rides up to the cafe, and ties his horse to a tallowberry tree, and comes in for a meal.
He had the Resitol straw hat , a bull rider shirt,(for those uninformed, that is a loud , silk, or something that looks like silk shirt. Long sleeved, buttoned at the collar, and at the cuffs) 501 Levi's. The inside of the legs, and the crotch of the Levi's were white- this was a working cowboy!
What happened next does not alter my opinion, but it makes me laugh to this very day- he was wearing some fine silver spurs, well made, medium rowled, strapped round some white shrimper boots!
Ya gotta dress for the occasion!
Although, I am please you and Keith survived, and y'all have resigned yourselves to what can be saved and what is lost(It took me 40 years to reach that point!).
But that last picture makes me laugh, inappropriatly, I guess.
About 40 years ago, I was having lunch in a semi outdoor cafe some where around Bayou Gauche.
A horseman rides up to the cafe, and ties his horse to a tallowberry tree, and comes in for a meal.
He had the Resitol straw hat , a bull rider shirt,(for those uninformed, that is a loud , silk, or something that looks like silk shirt. Long sleeved, buttoned at the collar, and at the cuffs) 501 Levi's. The inside of the legs, and the crotch of the Levi's were white- this was a working cowboy!
What happened next does not alter my opinion, but it makes me laugh to this very day- he was wearing some fine silver spurs, well made, medium rowled, strapped round some white shrimper boots!
Ya gotta dress for the occasion!
ye, we went back with the skiff kind of sick ( we changed the oil and pluge we,ll get the filter next time). we got to the lake put the sonar on and found our anchor track and marked it with floats. we dragged the anchor about a mile in a z or maybe a 7 pattern. i think the wind and hail pushed us and then the water spout / tornado fliped us around, remember we'r on the end of that anchor flying around around almost going over ( we're on the floor trying to get to the top side so our weight will push the barge back down, as if). anyway after we maped our trail we started looking for stuff. we found the generators, air compressor, compass, bilge pumps. then the weather started getting dark and we told our wifes" if the weather gets bad we'll come in", so we'll get the rest another day if we can. later keith
Guys,
I' sorry for all your troubles, but I do admire your modern astronautical type instrument panel. Looks like it adhears to the tried and true KISS principal.
Bob
PS. What was the pucker factor?
I' sorry for all your troubles, but I do admire your modern astronautical type instrument panel. Looks like it adhears to the tried and true KISS principal.
Bob
PS. What was the pucker factor?
If you guys saved that last log, and make a boat of it, an appropriate name for the boat would be Titanic.
glad you like that high tech instrument panel
hetre's the backside of it, with me driving
wiring diagram ? we don't need no stinking wiring diagram
all those red handled valves are for switching the controls upstairs to the flying bridge
yep, that's a cab off a firetruck. When they made friend Keith, they threw away the mold then went out and beat the tar out of the mold maker
hetre's the backside of it, with me driving
wiring diagram ? we don't need no stinking wiring diagram
all those red handled valves are for switching the controls upstairs to the flying bridge
yep, that's a cab off a firetruck. When they made friend Keith, they threw away the mold then went out and beat the tar out of the mold maker
Bein's I'm somethin' of a redneck my own self, dang! I like y'all's style! 8) 8) 8)
Sure glad y'all made it back OK.
Mike
Sure glad y'all made it back OK.
Mike
Did anyone notice the cup/can holder over on the drivers Port side of the Captains Control Console ?
Chuck.
Chuck.
One word:seedtick said:
AWESOME!
We've been having some crazy wicked bursts of weather lately. A friend from work had his house struck by lightning last Wednesday. Made the paper. There wasn't much left to save. Shame.
Last weekend, we had the top half of a pear tree break off. Same day, a house around the corner had the top half of a pine tree go through their roof. Katrina flashbacks :evil: