How Many Have Sailed Offshore

[captain58sailin]

I have a few recipes for python or anaconda. Favor .12 ga pump for close work, with an M-14 to keep them off you aways, and tried & true 1911 .45 for when things get stupid.

[captain58sailin]

Gun thread! Gun thread! I'm telling the teacher you tried to start a gun thread!

[Blue Crab]

Originally Posted by captain58sailin

Gun thread! Gun thread! I'm telling the teacher you tried to start a gun thread!

Nickle says that's exactly how we're seen by the mods!

I started screwing around with the python idea when a poster a couple of years ago mentioned going to my favorite anchorage in the Glades. I was after dissuasion but really, the mossies are fearful enough. Now I've thought about it so much I am skeered. About the time I forget it, a python eats a croc, or gator, or elephant or some dang thang.

The anchorage is well within 200nm, ergo no sailors. Jes me n dem pythons.

[SimonV]

Originally Posted by weavis

HI Simon
I know I can be a bit thick, so I read your post a couple of times.
Sadly I still dont understand the thrust of your comment or observation.
Would you mind explaining it to me?
Gary.

Yeah Gary..I re read the post and was not sure exactly what I was writing. I think I was saying that the biggest critics where those that remains anonymous with little or no information on there profiles. If you wish to criticize at least have the guts to give us information as to your expertise relating to your experiences. That's just my opinion but I was sitting out a predicted cyclone in a narrow insect riden Creek.

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[weavis]

Originally Posted by SimonV

Yeah Gary..I re read the post and was not sure exactly what I was writing. I think I was saying that the biggest critics where those that remains anonymous with little or no information on there profiles. If you wish to criticize at least have the guts to give us information as to your expertise relating to your experiences. That's just my opinion but I was sitting out a predicted cyclone in a narrow insect riden Creek.

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Them insects in the creeks are as big as a Moreton Bay Bug.
Dont envy yah.

[SimonV]

Originally Posted by weavis

Them insects in the creeks are as big as a Moreton Bay Bug.
Dont envy yah.

All's good planning on heading out to Lady Musgrave island 12mn Tuesday.

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[weavis]

Originally Posted by SimonV

All's good planning on heading out to Lady Musgrave island 12mn Tuesday.

Good luck with the trip.
Im gonna try and convince more people here to video their boat and journey.
hint hint.

g

[deckofficer]

Originally Posted by reefhunter

Working right now. Have two drill rigs in tow to Africa. Be there in 18 days.
Used to work in the GL with my brothers on fish tugs. Miss the sweet water and my Frers.

I've been on the other side of that tow line. Noble Paul Wolff GOM to Brazil. 32,000 ton

[Blue Crab]

Originally Posted by SimonV

...That's just my opinion but I was sitting out a predicted cyclone in a narrow insect riden Creek.

Sure love to read a good thread about hiding from cyclones/hurricanes ... hint hint.

[TeddyDiver]

Originally Posted by weavis

brag?
I never said I mastered it. I pointed out the veracity of newts post. Sheesh!

Never meant to hit you, misfired sorry.. BR Teddy

[weavis]

Originally Posted by TeddyDiver

Never meant to hit you, misfired sorry.. BR Teddy

no worries. I forgot about it..
now if only I could remember where my keys are.........

[reefhunter]

I take it - this was before it tilted?

Originally Posted by deckofficer

I've been on the other side of that tow line. Noble Paul Wolff GOM to Brazil. 32,000 ton

[deckofficer]

Originally Posted by reefhunter

I take it - this was before it tilted?

Not quite. It is a dynamically positioned semi submersible, so all I do is ballast up for tow and ballast back down for the field. Here it is at transit draft, notice the thruster domes are clear of the water line. 32,000 tons with (6) 5000 hp electric thrusters to hold position or transit in the field.

[Terra Nova]

Nice photo. What camera/lens?

[deckofficer]

Originally Posted by Terra Nova

Nice photo. What camera/lens?

Thanks, but all pictures were taken with the very first Sony digital camera that used a floppy (remember those 1.44 mb), so res is very low.

Yours truly...