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Originally Posted by Slipknot
Holy crap 32 feet! that is some serious seas  |
After college, i crewed on two sailing deliveries, one from Ft. Lauderdale to NY and we were in seas very close off Hatteras in a 52 footer, not sure the captain had the weather intel todays captains have. We were standing two man watches for two hours max due to the beating, during a night watch the storm jib broke loose and we clipped in our harnesses after relief came up and went forward to pull in the sail, lets just say if not for being clipped in, plowing through a big breaking wave would have taken us overboard. I don't think I ever experience rain that hurt like a needlew and I don't think I dried out until we docked in NY. True balls adventure, jumped on a flight back to FL and started my next one from Ft. Lauderdale to San Fran. CA.