Screwed by the weather report

[piemma]

Originally Posted by Cohenfishin

You don't know till you go!!!! Im on the water hundreds and hundreds of hours a season and the forecast is wrong very often, sometimes better sometimes worse... If there's no small craft wake up and go. You can easily turn around and go back home.
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I'm stupid. I even go when they say small craft warnings. Usually it doesn't come up big in Narr Bay till afternoon. I have been caught but my boat seems to handle even 4' fine.

[Cohenfishin]

Originally Posted by piemma

I'm stupid. I even go when they say small craft warnings. Usually it doesn't come up big in Narr Bay till afternoon. I have been caught but my boat seems to handle even 4' fine.

Oh yeah I do the same. I don't turn around I can't help myself . I just don't recommend the casual boater to do the same. I'm usually good up to 25kt winds to get home, but that is in areas that I'm very familiar with where to avoid when it comes to tide relative to wind and rips.
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[bloocrab]

she was blowing today, ...came up fast n early too.
I must be watching DVR'd weather...the report I had seen called for 5mph...
Tomorrow says N 10-15 gusts to 20, should I expect a pond?

[Clammer]

today they were correct

[Cohenfishin]

Originally Posted by Clammer

today they were correct

Oh yeah they sure were it was blowin 25 kts... I took a beating out there this morning till about 1pm then it laid right down.
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[Cool Beans]

Was pretty windy early on. Was out in the kayak in the bay from about 10:30am. There was a special Olympics sailing event sponsored by the base going on, so I had to paddle (around them) out from the base to the bridge and then west along the bridge to fish for fluke around that small island with the giant dog house on it. On the way out it was very choppy, some 2 and 3 foot waves. Was a test of the outrigger pontoons for sure.

I got a little wet with white caps from the side, but never felt like I was going to capsize. She stayed very stable, bounced around like that for about 3 hours before the wind pretty much died out to nothing around 1 or 2 pm. I paddled back around 3:30 in calm seas.

[bloocrab]

Was out front this morning and the wind/water conditions made it very hard to find them....the birds were even flying around blind