Horrific, we had a similar passage last year. My mouth went bone dry. I just focused on each wave at a time. Never ever again. Go ahead and call me a coward but I love my boat, and my life. Not to mention my girlfriend and our pets. Respect to you guys. Well done.
Cool video! Always rougher than a video shows. I would love to see the video of the return trip...Nothing scares me more than a bar crossing with a big following sea!
Back in 82 to 85 while I was in the Coast Guard I was at the old CG station on the Pea Island side. The channel was always constantly changing. Had a permanent Army Corp dredge there to clear out channel.Was there for the F/V Lois Joyce. Some pretty hectic cases at that inlet.
I'm from MD, and the Oregon Inlet is no joke, and isn't to be taken for granted...I've been on quite a few charters there, and it will make you religious real quick. This vid looks like it was on a good day. Thanks.
My buddy and I just came in the OI two days ago at 5am from heavy seas after sailing from Yorktown VA thru the night on a Beneteau Evasion 32 with a 4.7 draft. It was hairy as hell. Seasoned captians at the fishermans center called us stupid straight to our faces multiple times, not "be careful doing that" or "wow, you guys are lucky"....just "you guys are stupid" and we are not little wimpy guys... my buddy goes 325 6'4 and I'm 6'1 220 and kinda mean look'in. These guys were just being sincere and apparently that's was the most appropriate way to address what we did. We really didn't get offended either. Nobody sails through the OI with a draft like that. Apparetly noone sails through the OI at all. Never again.
Well done. I spent a month on the Oregon coast. I don't remember a single day of calm seas. I hope the fishing is good because it's a naugctical nightmare. I've wave jumped Jetskis in several inlets and that's a sketchy one.
Great job of crossing that bar sir with skill, care and thought for the comfort and safety of your crew and the integrity of your boat. Plenty of keyboard "experts" on here as usual who clearly don't understand why standing waves occur and have clearly never bottomed their boat out in the shallows beneath them. I'd go to sea with you over them any day.
great video, looks like a rough ride. i love all the people who commented how thats nothing and they been through worse but none responded to lets see the video. so many people have to one up everyone instead of just enjoying the video. STAY SAFE!!!! I was shocked that it was only 8ft to 12ft i think i saw on one of your posts. how far out till it starts getting ocean deep. i have only been out in the ocean once we went 9 miles out leaving San Diego on a whale watching boat. that was a rough ride. so i dont know anything about what you were in but it looked and sounded like u guys were taking a pretty good beating to your boat. STAY SAFE!!!!
@@CharterFishing it looks shallow and im sure its the reason for the waves and currents also. So the deeper water is around 15’ or so. Then how deep is it at the whitewater there? It looks even shallower! Its gotta be intense when it is windy!
Fairly normal day for botany bay to head north to sydney harbour or south to port hacking, Sydney Harbour entrance with a south easterly following sea , always "fun"
GREAT job. In those conditions, I don't see a 42' boat doing it any 'gentler'. Had just the right speed. Perhaps, Captain, you should tell the skeptics here that Oregon Inlet ALSO has notoriously fickle and ever-changing shoals. Which a LOT of boats.....even driven by experienced skippers........manage to 'snag' in rougher conditions. That's, perhaps the most dangerous part of Oregon Inlet. Kudos, sir. (p.s. I'm just an amateur driving a 21' Carolina Skiff. No old sea-dog tales to tell.......lol).
Yea I live here on hatteras island or the outer banks where this video is filmed oregon inlet and hatteras inlet are the toughest inlets on east coast for sure even on calm day it's pumpin
many years ago we were exiting a bar at Jones Beach , piloting a Chriscraft . My Dad timed it poorly , and we took 2 huge breakers that broke on the forward deck and came over the windshield. luckily the scuppers handled the first wave pretty well. By the second wave , we were nearly swamped and barely made the 3rd wave of the set. A truly scary situation as we would have been dead in the water with subsequent waves beating the small vessel to bits. Inlets and bars are places to exercise extreme caution...
i came here to see this inlet in action. sadly the captain from wicked tuna charlie griffin just passed away coming into this same area. be safe out there.
I would go out on this person's boat. It is hairy, where they are going but the guy is throttled way back, keeping steerage & bow into the waves one by one by one, watching each one for additional dangerous crests etc. They sound weirded- out ( which I would be) but they sound SOBER. Well done.
The varied angles of the waves in the inlet were the major problem, not wave height. You see the boat get pushed a bit to the port side by one angled wave, where it meets the next wave at an angle and rolls a bit. This is the action that is so problematic at places like this.
For sure that’s a tough navigation task. Been through a few times and I am NOT a professional. Scared the crap outta me. I wouldn’t have tried it with that combo of wind/tide. Butt pucker for sure. Well done
joe woodchuck there are a few, but it mostly has to do with tradition and fish ability. I know I would love to have an enclosed bridge with a sliding rear door.
Your boat handled it extremely wellwhat is it and what type of power better than most at haulover especially the submarine bowriders i see well done greetings from australia 😊😊😊😊😊
I have to swim worse than this just to check my mail every day!. Lol. I'm messing around, but this is a great video of a shitty day. Almost makes you wish you'd gone to the outlet mall with the wife! Almost...
Couldn't imagine running over that bar...my sailboat draws 5'...ain't going there! BTW folks the camera ALWAYS shrinks the size of those waves...good job capt'n!
I’ll be heading through the inlet again on August 2nd. I’ve fished the Marlin Mania this year out of Teachs Liar (Hatteras) and I will be fishing with Patrick “Little Clam” in two weeks and have fished them waters before they are no joke to get out that inlet...
How far east of the Bonner Bridge is the bar? I've been across that bridge a hundred times but never seen the inlet like this. I am reluctant to trailer my boat down there for fear that the inlet will be too dangerous to attempt.
When they call for marine forecast to be around 2ft and turns out to be 25 knt and kicks it up to 4 to 6 thru the inlet, with seas following then from port rear quarter. Throttle behind a breaking swell and throttle back or have even backed down to miss the breaking wave, be blown to the beach lose sight of the channel markers in a 20 ft cc was at or past my peak of years of experience in the marine industry. Can’t imagine being in a deeper draft snaking the bottom in a trough and lose power steering or knock the shaft out the hull and sink. Beautiful day fishing can be scary 20 min getting back in
I'll do that in my 18 ft bass boat no problem. Don't have a go pro but I've never stuffed a wave or had one come over the bow 4+ footers. All you have to do is look at the wave following the one you're on and look for a clearing.
Nick Edwards Oregon Inlet is one the world's worst and most dangerous inlets. It's where the Graveyard of the Atlantic Starts. I have a 20ft bay boat i never go near that place. Too many baits have sunk they built a dam coast guard station there because of it.
I live on the west coast of Canada and near the mouth of the Fraser River. Standing waves and Sandbar Runs are common. This is moderate but, still warrants concern. Keep the Nose into her as the 45 rule can cause more problems than its worth. Sandbar runs are normally short so course is not an issue if course becomes and issue 45 and light tack works. Just a enough power to move but not enough to bury the nose.
The camera really makes things look ALOT easier than it is , for instance you can see someone on a mountainbike ride down a REALLY steep hill and you can hear them screaming like they re on the worlds worst roller coaster or something but when you look at the hill they re riding down it looks like its nothing at all but still you kinda understand how bad it is when you hear professional mountainbikers screaming like little girls almost . Greetings from Norway
I went out of new river inlet in my 20 ft sea ox cc. I say 4-6 ft breakers, It wasn't my brightest day, I was betting it flatten out or roll and that wasn't the case. Plained up stayed back side of the crest and surfed in. Quick boat trip could been my last. Glad I had experience that could been bad, loss power, submarined rolled. Who knows. Last time been out in that bs
Not smart trying to punch out of that inlet when it’s breaking all the way across. You said it best “this ain’t good “. Glad you made it. Plenty have not
Oh please. When I was stationed aboard the Point Brown, an 82 foot Coast Guard cutter at Oregon Inlet in the 80's we would go across the bar to 15-25 foot seas during a storm.
And also, coast guard station oregon inlet is nestled away just beside the oregon inlet fishing center, and does not, and has never had a berthing for a cutter. I doubt a United states coast guard cutter has entered the oregon inlet in the last 40 years, but if you say so.
Wow, what a ride! I'm curious, when you got to the area where the waves were breaking, is that because it got shallower? What is the depth? What was tide, incoming with on shore wind to create such heavy surf? The worst I've ever done was Ponce Inlet near Daytona Fl, and it was hairy, but nowhere near as bad as what you went through.
Stuart Kidder it's the mouth of a small inlet with a large bay behind it. Tide was coming out of the bay and the waves are breaking on the shoals outside inlet.
Whole crap that would’ve been nerve racking. The rise and fall between the sets was up there. The skip knew exactly what he was doing by taking it easy and pointing straight at the waves as that’s the safest way. If he went to fast it’d be a serious calculated danger and that is not water I’d want to try & stay afloat in for longer than 1 minute.
Sorry I don't have any videos but if you think that is hairy, your dreaming, I cross coastal bars on a regular basis as skipper of a rescue vessel and believe me that's nothing, must comment on the way you approached the sets, excellent, slow and steady.
Dude I was in water worse than this in the Tar Heel fishing boat. John Bayless was the captain before he started building boats. Was on the boat with my dad John Lockhart JT and there was 15 to 20 foot swells the boat was damn near swallowing up in the swells and hitting the sandbar it seems like. We were the only boat to try to go out and then we returned. We could see the fish swimming by when we were at the bottom of the swells. I got seasick like you wouldn’t believe. I was praying to God LOL. I thought we were going to capsize or the boat was going to get beat to death. On the other side it was slick as glass and we couldn’t even make it another few hundred feet. That was crazy we probably have a video somewhere my brothers or my stepmom.Have a video somewhere
Not only is this inlet rough but very shallow, must have good knowledge of the channel and sure local knowledge is great as well. That being said for the opportunity especially that never experienced this place try running aground in these conditions sure the tough guys would be crying for mommy!!
Be through that inlet many of times and it's never a dull moment. That inlet is no joke, I have watched a 30 some ft boat get completely swamped as they where following us out. That place can get balls deep in a matter of seconds. This video really does not give the real feel of actually crossing that bar!! 😥😥😲😲
Came in the Willapa bar a few years years back on early June salmon opener on board a 50 foot crab boat and I thought we're going to flip that thing I would have my life jacket on ready to go under it was the most terrifying experience I've ever had in my life
I've been in 6ft seas in lake tahoe in my 24 ft searay. Looks very similar to what you were experiencing in 12 ft in your 42ft craft. Same cold water, same pounding, same taking a few over the bow....same shot of adrenaline! That's why we keep doing it!! Btw nice video.
I've been at the helm for decades oceans, lakes and rivers.... Tahoe is a beautiful lake and been on it many times but it's nothing like the ocean.... Ya don't have tides vs the wind to deal with.... Be Well.
Closest to this I’ve witnessed is going out of hateras and that is scary shit especially at close to low tide I saw those big ass breakers crossing the bridge
i have watched quite a few of theese videos and have to say just because somebody can do something doesnt mean they should . i have my own boat just a 22 ft with a big 4 stroke and i kind of know its limits but that doesnt mean i need to push it that far . theese guys and there boat did well ............ boats are made not to sink , and i realise bad stuff happens but i would bet most boating accidents are not from waves .
The helmsman did a good job. A lot of people panic and put too much power or steerage into play during these situations. It was a bit of a pucker for sure, but that boat could certainly have taken on more head seas. You get really concerned when the water coming over the bow or hitting the forward windows is green, white foam is not bad. Not trying to minimize the experience, I'm sure it was an ass clencher and I would have been there tensed up like anyone else. I've spent a lot of time in the Gulf of Alaska in rough weather and I can tell you that when you film waves you can look at them later and feel like the camera shrunk them to 10% of their size, so these waves looked a lot bigger to the guys on the helm. One of the hardest things to do when at the helm during rough weather is try to keep a calm head and see the waves like the camera would.
Anyone who has never fished it has no idea. And yeah. Haul over gets bad sometimes too. But oregon inlet is bad for miles, not a couple hundred feet, and the water at haul over never gets down to 38 degrees Fahrenheit like during this video. If you end up in that 38 degree water, you are dead.
@@CharterFishing no question man. Agree 100%. I’ve been through that inlet a bunch of times. I think the anticipation of having to come back through it once you are out there might be worse than the trip out lol. At least for me
Horrific, we had a similar passage last year. My mouth went bone dry. I just focused on each wave at a time. Never ever again. Go ahead and call me a coward but I love my boat, and my life. Not to mention my girlfriend and our pets. Respect to you guys. Well done.
You handled that perfectly! Your speed was spot on! Stayed squared up. Well Done Captain!
Cool video! Always rougher than a video shows. I would love to see the video of the return trip...Nothing scares me more than a bar crossing with a big following sea!
Two minutes, fifty-one seconds is theeeee longest I've ever held my breath. Damn boys, gettin' her done!
Back in 82 to 85 while I was in the Coast Guard I was at the old CG station on the Pea Island side. The channel was always constantly changing. Had a permanent Army Corp dredge there to clear out channel.Was there for the F/V Lois Joyce. Some pretty hectic cases at that inlet.
You did good, Captain! I’d be giggling, too!
I'm from MD, and the Oregon Inlet is no joke, and isn't to be taken for granted...I've been on quite a few charters there, and it will make you religious real quick. This vid looks like it was on a good day. Thanks.
My buddy and I just came in the OI two days ago at 5am from heavy seas after sailing from Yorktown VA thru the night on a Beneteau Evasion 32 with a 4.7 draft. It was hairy as hell. Seasoned captians at the fishermans center called us stupid straight to our faces multiple times, not "be careful doing that" or "wow, you guys are lucky"....just "you guys are stupid" and we are not little wimpy guys... my buddy goes 325 6'4 and I'm 6'1 220 and kinda mean look'in. These guys were just being sincere and apparently that's was the most appropriate way to address what we did. We really didn't get offended either. Nobody sails through the OI with a draft like that. Apparetly noone sails through the OI at all. Never again.
Old timers and grizzled vets don't mince words lol yall handled it like grown men !! And ya made it to hear em !!
Well done. I spent a month on the Oregon coast. I don't remember a single day of calm seas.
I hope the fishing is good because it's a naugctical nightmare. I've wave jumped Jetskis in several inlets and that's a sketchy one.
Oregon Inlet is in North Carolina.
Great job of crossing that bar sir with skill, care and thought for the comfort and safety of your crew and the integrity of your boat. Plenty of keyboard "experts" on here as usual who clearly don't understand why standing waves occur and have clearly never bottomed their boat out in the shallows beneath them. I'd go to sea with you over them any day.
Danny Boy thanks. Yeah they just don't get it
Agreed 💯%.... Keyboard warriors, LoL.. but true.. be well.
I'm not a water person that would scare the shit out of me ...well done hoss
What really scares me is taking on those seas on the BEAM, or worse, at NIGHT!
Strong work Skipper. Steady as she goes.
great video, looks like a rough ride. i love all the people who commented how thats nothing and they been through worse but none responded to lets see the video. so many people have to one up everyone instead of just enjoying the video. STAY SAFE!!!! I was shocked that it was only 8ft to 12ft i think i saw on one of your posts. how far out till it starts getting ocean deep. i have only been out in the ocean once we went 9 miles out leaving San Diego on a whale watching boat. that was a rough ride. so i dont know anything about what you were in but it looked and sounded like u guys were taking a pretty good beating to your boat. STAY SAFE!!!!
Wow that's a crazy set of waves to take on!! Nice work keeping the boat head on for all them
Amazing how it smooths out like that.
When the boat gets to the whitewater @ 1:26, how deep is the white water there compared to the darker water before it, and after it?
At no point in this video is the water deeper than 15 feet. This is a very shallow area and it's made even more dangerous because of the shallowness.
@@CharterFishing it looks shallow and im sure its the reason for the waves and currents also. So the deeper water is around 15’ or so. Then how deep is it at the whitewater there? It looks even shallower! Its gotta be intense when it is windy!
I live on coast in SC and been in similar conditions and it’s no joke. Video doesn’t do justice! Good video fellas!!
Good job running that boat, no waves over the bow.Looks like they crossed a sandbar.Nasty place.
Fairly normal day for botany bay to head north to sydney harbour or south to port hacking, Sydney Harbour entrance with a south easterly following sea , always "fun"
That was awsome.. Good work guys
GREAT job. In those conditions, I don't see a 42' boat doing it any 'gentler'. Had just the right speed. Perhaps, Captain, you should tell the skeptics here that Oregon Inlet ALSO has notoriously fickle and ever-changing shoals. Which a LOT of boats.....even driven by experienced skippers........manage to 'snag' in rougher conditions. That's, perhaps the most dangerous part of Oregon Inlet. Kudos, sir. (p.s. I'm just an amateur driving a 21' Carolina Skiff. No old sea-dog tales to tell.......lol).
I live in grey mouth I love fishing but I’m to scared to go out of the bar
I've got a couple thousand hours on the ocean. Waves always look smaller on video then they do when you are there. That looks pretty damn rough to me.
Freaking scary
Considering the boat is 42'.. yea wouldn't want to try that in a 20'
Yea I live here on hatteras island or the outer banks where this video is filmed oregon inlet and hatteras inlet are the toughest inlets on east coast for sure even on calm day it's pumpin
@@darrenhooper2207 damn , that’s a 42’? Yeah that’s some large water for sure.
Ain’t that the truth! Video doesn’t do it justice!!
Can we see the trip back in?
Didn't film it lol
AWESOME video. You guys have BALLS. Damn.
The best part of your video was you at the end. That smile you had on your face and your laugh. You made me feel it. Thanks!
mrdave2112 that's what it's all about man!
Boat handled it nicely, smooth. Good vid.
One badass boat, and a good captain and crew!
thanks
+Matador Sportfishing "oh fuck... this is not good".. I died laughing...
+Matador Sportfishing awesome video and boat tho you guys are awesome
Smoothed it... Nice read
Well handled, committed and controlled the boat nicely. Text book crossing rough bar.
Axeman thank you
Looks shallow too, that's rough, steady and slow you did good.
Most spots along the way out is only 5’ - 6’! I’ve fished out of there before. They don’t call it the grave yard of Atlantic for nothing!!!
WOW! You guys have stainless steel balls!
I know about Oregon Inlet. That stretch of water is no joke. You better be on the job running through there!
many years ago we were exiting a bar at Jones Beach , piloting a Chriscraft .
My Dad timed it poorly , and we took 2 huge breakers that broke on the forward deck and came over the windshield.
luckily the scuppers handled the first wave pretty well.
By the second wave , we were nearly swamped and barely made the 3rd wave of the set.
A truly scary situation as we would have been dead in the water with subsequent waves beating the small vessel to bits.
Inlets and bars are places to exercise extreme caution...
1978 I was on the Columbia Bar with 20 ft swells. The bar was closed as the roughest day of the year while we were only half way out.
Venora Dobrowolski that's scary stuff.
I would have shit my pants - good job Capt. You should show some video of coming back in!
That is crazy watching a 42' boat get tossed like that, unreal!
nice video but when o was a little kid it was the Stuart inlet in Florida bigger waves and a smaller boat keep up the good work
i came here to see this inlet in action. sadly the captain from wicked tuna charlie griffin just passed away coming into this same area. be safe out there.
I would go out on this person's boat. It is hairy, where they are going but the guy is throttled way back, keeping steerage & bow into the waves one by one by one, watching each one for additional dangerous crests etc. They sound weirded- out ( which I would be) but they sound SOBER.
Well done.
The varied angles of the waves in the inlet were the major problem, not wave height. You see the boat get pushed a bit to the port side by one angled wave, where it meets the next wave at an angle and rolls a bit. This is the action that is so problematic at places like this.
I sailed this stoned on mushrooms
For sure that’s a tough navigation task. Been through a few times and I am NOT a professional. Scared the crap outta me. I wouldn’t have tried it with that combo of wind/tide. Butt pucker for sure. Well done
Thank you.
I wonder why there aren't any enclosed cockpits at the helm position. Comfort? Safety?
joe woodchuck there are a few, but it mostly has to do with tradition and fish ability. I know I would love to have an enclosed bridge with a sliding rear door.
Your boat handled it extremely wellwhat is it and what type of power better than most at haulover especially the submarine bowriders i see well done greetings from australia 😊😊😊😊😊
Thanks Lee!
Awesomeness! Well done guys
Was up in North Carolina two weeks back. It looked like a lake then. Smooth as could be.
That's the thing about North Carolina. If you don't like the weather, wait a day because it'll be completely different.
That was a nice one @ 1:43
I have to swim worse than this just to check my mail every day!. Lol. I'm messing around, but this is a great video of a shitty day. Almost makes you wish you'd gone to the outlet mall with the wife! Almost...
Good job Capt.
Couldn't imagine running over that bar...my sailboat draws 5'...ain't going there! BTW folks the camera ALWAYS shrinks the size of those waves...good job capt'n!
Check out the columbia River bar, take lots of to!
That looks like fun.
Nice work lads
thanks guys.
Been there, done that. Don't ever want to do it again.
I’ll be heading through the inlet again on August 2nd. I’ve fished the Marlin Mania this year out of Teachs Liar (Hatteras) and I will be fishing with Patrick “Little Clam” in two weeks and have fished them waters before they are no joke to get out that inlet...
I've run that inlet many times. It gets crazy very quickly. When too bad I shoot down to Hatteras inlet to come home.
Nice job!
Coming back should be fun!
Wow that was an amazing video. You guys got some spray on the foredeck! OMG
How far east of the Bonner Bridge is the bar? I've been across that bridge a hundred times but never seen the inlet like this. I am reluctant to trailer my boat down there for fear that the inlet will be too dangerous to attempt.
1 or 2 miles
Good job. Looks like good fun :)
Nice job.
that´s crazy. what´s the water depth there?
8 to 12 feet
Can't Catch'um from the sofa Captain...!!! well done Sir.....* thumbs up from
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Lake George, NY
There's good reason its known as the Graveyard of the Atlantic.
Good work getting out through those waves. But I should think coming back in would be more serious. Perhaps easier when the tide is slack?
Nice job on taking the rollers. My concern would be bottoming out when you hit the hole on the backside.
What kind of boat is that? it did a great job.
Is it worth putting the boat through that?
Nothing happens to the boat...
Go get em boys. I’ve never been in rough waters like that but it looked pretty fun
It’s fun until it ain’t…then it’s fun again in the telling!!
Wow! You guys are nucking futs!!
Threading the needle!
Nice work.
When they call for marine forecast to be around 2ft and turns out to be 25 knt and kicks it up to 4 to 6 thru the inlet, with seas following then from port rear quarter. Throttle behind a breaking swell and throttle back or have even backed down to miss the breaking wave, be blown to the beach lose sight of the channel markers in a 20 ft cc was at or past my peak of years of experience in the marine industry. Can’t imagine being in a deeper draft snaking the bottom in a trough and lose power steering or knock the shaft out the hull and sink. Beautiful day fishing can be scary 20 min getting back in
Well done navigating those swells!
I'll do that in my 18 ft bass boat no problem. Don't have a go pro but I've never stuffed a wave or had one come over the bow 4+ footers. All you have to do is look at the wave following the one you're on and look for a clearing.
Nick Edwards please go do it. I'd love to see the video.
Nick Edwards Oregon Inlet is one the world's worst and most dangerous inlets. It's where the Graveyard of the Atlantic Starts. I have a 20ft bay boat i never go near that place. Too many baits have sunk they built a dam coast guard station there because of it.
Bass boat lmao good luck
I live on the west coast of Canada and near the mouth of the Fraser River. Standing waves and Sandbar Runs are common. This is moderate but, still warrants concern. Keep the Nose into her as the 45 rule can cause more problems than its worth. Sandbar runs are normally short so course is not an issue if course becomes and issue 45 and light tack works. Just a enough power to move but not enough to bury the nose.
The camera really makes things look ALOT easier than it is , for instance you can see someone on a mountainbike ride down a REALLY steep hill and you can hear them screaming like they re on the worlds worst roller coaster or something but when you look at the hill they re riding down it looks like its nothing at all but still you kinda understand how bad it is when you hear professional mountainbikers screaming like little girls almost . Greetings from Norway
I went out of new river inlet in my 20 ft sea ox cc. I say 4-6 ft breakers, It wasn't my brightest day, I was betting it flatten out or roll and that wasn't the case. Plained up stayed back side of the crest and surfed in. Quick boat trip could been my last. Glad I had experience that could been bad, loss power, submarined rolled. Who knows. Last time been out in that bs
Good job!
Great video IT looks really bad on video but I know from experience how much worse it is when you are in the boat !!!! AWESOME !!!!🇺🇸
That was pretty awesome
Not smart trying to punch out of that inlet when it’s breaking all the way across. You said it best “this ain’t good “. Glad you made it. Plenty have not
Oh please. When I was stationed aboard the Point Brown, an 82 foot Coast Guard cutter at Oregon Inlet in the 80's we would go across the bar to 15-25 foot seas during a storm.
This is after a winter storm, the inlet has changed since the 1980s, and it's not an 82' boat.
And also, coast guard station oregon inlet is nestled away just beside the oregon inlet fishing center, and does not, and has never had a berthing for a cutter. I doubt a United states coast guard cutter has entered the oregon inlet in the last 40 years, but if you say so.
How do these rough inlet passings not damage these boats? Cracks Etc.
It does sometimes.
This makes my knees and spine hurt just watching it.
Wow, what a ride! I'm curious, when you got to the area where the waves were breaking, is that because it got shallower? What is the depth? What was tide, incoming with on shore wind to create such heavy surf? The worst I've ever done was Ponce Inlet near Daytona Fl, and it was hairy, but nowhere near as bad as what you went through.
Stuart Kidder it's the mouth of a small inlet with a large bay behind it. Tide was coming out of the bay and the waves are breaking on the shoals outside inlet.
Got plenty of that around Tasmania 👍
Whole crap that would’ve been nerve racking. The rise and fall between the sets was up there. The skip knew exactly what he was doing by taking it easy and pointing straight at the waves as that’s the safest way. If he went to fast it’d be a serious calculated danger and that is not water I’d want to try & stay afloat in for longer than 1 minute.
We’re going to need a bigger boat. Mayday mayday chief Brody
Sorry I don't have any videos but if you think that is hairy, your dreaming, I cross coastal bars on a regular basis as skipper of a rescue vessel and believe me that's nothing, must comment on the way you approached the sets, excellent, slow and steady.
Dude I was in water worse than this in the Tar Heel fishing boat. John Bayless was the captain before he started building boats. Was on the boat with my dad John Lockhart JT and there was 15 to 20 foot swells the boat was damn near swallowing up in the swells and hitting the sandbar it seems like. We were the only boat to try to go out and then we returned. We could see the fish swimming by when we were at the bottom of the swells. I got seasick like you wouldn’t believe. I was praying to God LOL. I thought we were going to capsize or the boat was going to get beat to death. On the other side it was slick as glass and we couldn’t even make it another few hundred feet. That was crazy we probably have a video somewhere my brothers or my stepmom.Have a video somewhere
Not only is this inlet rough but very shallow, must have good knowledge of the channel and sure local knowledge is great as well. That being said for the opportunity especially that never experienced this place try running aground in these conditions sure the tough guys would be crying for mommy!!
Adam Lewandoski and this time of year the water is usually around 35 °f. There is no room for error.
YouFishing Channel yes did not touch on that this time of year all that fish thus time of year knows the water is damn cold
Be through that inlet many of times and it's never a dull moment. That inlet is no joke, I have watched a 30 some ft boat get completely swamped as they where following us out. That place can get balls deep in a matter of seconds. This video really does not give the real feel of actually crossing that bar!! 😥😥😲😲
Came in the Willapa bar a few years years back on early June salmon opener on board a 50 foot crab boat and I thought we're going to flip that thing I would have my life jacket on ready to go under it was the most terrifying experience I've ever had in my life
I've been in 6ft seas in lake tahoe in my 24 ft searay. Looks very similar to what you were experiencing in 12 ft in your 42ft craft. Same cold water, same pounding, same taking a few over the bow....same shot of adrenaline! That's why we keep doing it!! Btw nice video.
I've been at the helm for decades oceans, lakes and rivers.... Tahoe is a beautiful lake and been on it many times but it's nothing like the ocean.... Ya don't have tides vs the wind to deal with.... Be Well.
It does get mighty rough out there. Imagine the challenge they'll have when they build the new Bonner Bridge.
Closest to this I’ve witnessed is going out of hateras and that is scary shit especially at close to low tide I saw those big ass breakers crossing the bridge
i have watched quite a few of theese videos and have to say just because somebody can do something doesnt mean they should . i have my own boat just a 22 ft with a big 4 stroke and i kind of know its limits but that doesnt mean i need to push it that far . theese guys and there boat did well ............ boats are made not to sink , and i realise bad stuff happens but i would bet most boating accidents are not from waves .
The helmsman did a good job. A lot of people panic and put too much power or steerage into play during these situations. It was a bit of a pucker for sure, but that boat could certainly have taken on more head seas. You get really concerned when the water coming over the bow or hitting the forward windows is green, white foam is not bad. Not trying to minimize the experience, I'm sure it was an ass clencher and I would have been there tensed up like anyone else. I've spent a lot of time in the Gulf of Alaska in rough weather and I can tell you that when you film waves you can look at them later and feel like the camera shrunk them to 10% of their size, so these waves looked a lot bigger to the guys on the helm. One of the hardest things to do when at the helm during rough weather is try to keep a calm head and see the waves like the camera would.
Doesn't seem bad to some folks here BUT when a 42 footer is tossed around like a 21 foot Boston Whaler you got some serious seas under you.
is that a 20 ft boat?
No. 42 feet.
You darn right it’s dangerous man. Used to work on the no sweat out of wanchese. That inlet is no joke
Anyone who has never fished it has no idea. And yeah. Haul over gets bad sometimes too. But oregon inlet is bad for miles, not a couple hundred feet, and the water at haul over never gets down to 38 degrees Fahrenheit like during this video. If you end up in that 38 degree water, you are dead.
@@CharterFishing no question man. Agree 100%. I’ve been through that inlet a bunch of times. I think the anticipation of having to come back through it once you are out there might be worse than the trip out lol. At least for me