75 miles offshore in a 21' boat?
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Who runs offshore in their little boat?.... with your wives? My wife is a bad ass and loves to fish. Makes this lifestyle a lot easier if the better half loves it as much as yo do!
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05-13-2019, 02:45 PM
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I won't comment on the OP, if he's right or wrong. He's living life and kudos to that.
I've come to a place in life where I believe I'd rather drown 75 miles offshore doing something I love than spend years wasting away in a nursing home in my own piss and vomit not knowing my family anymore.
I've come to a place in life where I believe I'd rather drown 75 miles offshore doing something I love than spend years wasting away in a nursing home in my own piss and vomit not knowing my family anymore.
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Fully restored 1972 hiliner 222. New f200 80 gal fuel. Gunnels are a little low due to raising the deck to a good self bailing level. Hasn't been an issue so far.
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In my opinion coming from someone who has spent a lot of time offshore, as beautiful as your boat is, you don't have enough dead rise or beam width to handle an unpredicted change in the weather for a 21 foot boat to be 75 miles from shore. A stronger than forecast wind against tide, a nasty ground squall or a severe thunderstorm can ruin a blue bird day in a small boat. An inlet can be dangerous for larger boats. Great pictures BTW.
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In my opinion coming from someone who has spent a lot of time offshore, as beautiful as your boat is, you don't have enough dead rise or beam width to handle an unpredicted change in the weather for a 21 foot boat to be 75 miles from shore. A stronger than forecast wind against tide, a nasty ground squall or a severe thunderstorm can ruin a blue bird day in a small boat. An inlet can be dangerous for larger boats. Great pictures BTW.
Well said, at the very least team up with a bigger buddy boat. You are either careless or unaware of what the ocean can dish out. Protect that awesome wife.
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My buddy has more hours offshore than 99% of us. He felt safe. He runs a 23 parker with 15000 hrs on it. Mates on multiple charter boats so im not just jumping I in blind here. I have everything safety wise but a life raft. This boat is foam cored and not going to sink. With an eperb even at 75 miles your only an hr or two from coast gard rescue tops. I live a life of adventure sorry. I'm not careless either In my opinion.
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great restoration-- boat looks beautiful. If you have an eprip (and a life raft) I see no reason to do what you are doing. What are those white and orange storage things in the transom?
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Nice looking boat!
At 16, I was taking a 19' boat 55 nm out of Charleston...sounds like some nancies on this board.
At 16, I was taking a 19' boat 55 nm out of Charleston...sounds like some nancies on this board.
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And I'd carry two extra 5 gal cans of gas on the boat trying to get to the fabled Georgetown Hole, but never could make it.
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My buddy has more hours offshore than 99% of us. He felt safe. He runs a 23 parker with 15000 hrs on it. Mates on multiple charter boats so im not just jumping I in blind here. I have everything safety wise but a life raft. This boat is foam cored and not going to sink. With an eperb even at 75 miles your only an hr or two from coast gard rescue tops. I live a life of adventure sorry. I'm not careless either In my opinion.
"Everything but a life raft" nuts to be 75 miles offshore in a 21 foot boat without a life raft.
"The boat is foam cored so it won't sink" great you can watch it float away after you can't hold on to it in the 10-15 foot seas that came with the unexpected weather.
"Only an hour or two from coast guard rescue tops" if the EPIRB deploys properly, works, etc. then hell your only risking our coast guard for your foolish acts. Also you can die in minutes it does not always take hours....
"Mates on multiple charter boats" this way of thinking is most likely why he is not a captain.
Look I'm not trying to be a prick but bad stuff happens, it's food for thought. Like I said before at least consider a bigger buddy boat. You have a very nice boat but it's not intended to fish 75 miles offshore. YOU are responsible for your passengers safety, NOT your EPIRB and the coast guard, they are designed to be last resort options......
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My buddy has more hours offshore than 99% of us. He felt safe. He runs a 23 parker with 15000 hrs on it. Mates on multiple charter boats so im not just jumping I in blind here. I have everything safety wise but a life raft. This boat is foam cored and not going to sink. With an eperb even at 75 miles your only an hr or two from coast gard rescue tops. I live a life of adventure sorry. I'm not careless either In my opinion.
Your unsinkable boat could be smashed to pieces in a couple of waves and when you swim through the gasoline filled choking water to reach the floating debris, provided you could climb up and balance yourself on what remains of your hull, the next wave only washes you back into the water until your so exausted you can't even muster the strength to hold on along side or maybe your afraid to because the wave action is rolling your boat over and over and moving it 40 yards every 7 seconds and now you can't even catch your unsinkable boat.
Im not trying to rain on your parade but there is a lot you have not considered. One hour is a life time when your life is in peril. To be honest, you would not have posed the question if you didn't think it was risky. Someone else may have to risk their life to save you because of carelessness and the first question anyone would ask is why is a 21 foot anything 75 miles offshore. Just saying.
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He's been fishing for quite a while...as have I. I'd be willing to bet that at my age (33), I have more hours "captaining" a boat than you did at that age, but hey...we're all keyboard commandos here so take it for what it's worth.