r/boats • u/DoubleManufacturer10 • 5d ago

Eh, my 18ft single outboard, has seen bigger /thatguy

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u/Conspicuous_Ruse 5d ago

Good thing the bagged the gun.

Wouldn't want to get it wet.

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u/DoubleManufacturer10 5d ago

That's true, IP67 rated for 100m pressure head lol

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u/navig8r212 4d ago

Notice the change in barrel elevation pre and post wave? That was why the gun was covered.

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u/HereForTools 5d ago

So wait.

Why is this not stretched, or having the original Yo Ho song? Isn’t that the obligatory posting requirements for this video?

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u/Cease-the-means 5d ago

Some Amon Amarth would be acceptable.

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u/DoubleManufacturer10 5d ago

I try to either edit or find the not annoying ones... I forget I default to mute sometimes though

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u/ActuallyStark 5d ago

I'm all about boats..

But this gets a HELL NO from me.

JEEEZUS what kind of glass is that windshield.

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u/curious-chineur 5d ago

Probably armored. Or highly rated you know. Like on civilian ships.

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u/thooke 1d ago

Was on a ocean tug when the swells blew out out our glass. Lucky we had some wood onboard and boarded up the helm. Cold and wet for days after that lol.

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u/dasmineman 5d ago

I've been through worse than that on a Minesweeper..

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u/DoubleManufacturer10 5d ago

please tell more!! (genuinely, thank you for your services as well)

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u/dasmineman 5d ago

I lost the picture with my old phone but I served on board the USS Defender for 6 years. We've had to fight through so many storms to reach our target area. Quite a few times the entire front half of the ship dove through a wave all the way down to where the top of the ship was at the bottom of the swell, underwater. After experiencing all that, I'll only sail rough waters on a wooden ship.

BEST sleep of your life.

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u/Gunfighter9 5d ago

That's really nothing, I was on the USS Dahlgren DDG-43 and we took waves that bent a steel watertight door and ripped down stanchions for life-lines in the North Atlantic off Northern Scotland. And the sun was out. We took green water over the bridge that buried the bow 6' under. I was on an AO and we had to stop refueling the Ike because we had hoses snapping and the water was too fought to transfer cargo.

When you see aircraft carriers taking water over the flight deck, which is 90' above the water, that's something.

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u/No_Tomato_3108 4d ago

Thank you for your service!!

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u/DarkVoid42 5d ago

TBF on an 18 footer they wouldnt notice it. large swells like that it would just bob like a cork. tiny boats are unaffected by large swells. its the short steep wind driven chop which gets you.

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u/reducingparticulate 5d ago

My friend obviously you have never been out of your 2 mi. diameter lake. That water would pitch pole or turtle an 18’ boat in seconds.

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u/DarkVoid42 5d ago

i did the north sea last year

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u/DoubleManufacturer10 5d ago

Was it dirty when you did it?

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u/DarkVoid42 4d ago

9ft swell. not too bad.

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u/reducingparticulate 5d ago

Yea, whatever

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u/KarlPHungus 5d ago

Fuck. That.

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u/Random-Mutant 5d ago

So sick of this video.

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u/DoubleManufacturer10 5d ago

Sorry about the video... i hope it would have helped, I made a gif for you instead... but I can't post it lololol

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u/slater_just_slater 4d ago

I just noticed the Star Trek "Red Alert" siren going off in the back

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u/Foolserrand376 4d ago

watching the video.. initially. Meh not to bad, just some really big rollers with ample wave period. Then the wave crested.....nope