Puget Sound and other saltwater boaters

[PNWbrit]

a 900-horsepower pontoon boat.

Has to be in the South.

Somewhat less than ideal for puget sound.

[BmillsSkier]

Somewhat less than ideal for puget sound.

Pfft. What's the worst that could happen, it could flip?

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Only half a mil

[warthog]

Well you're a little on the OCD side then man. My boat often sits in the slip for a week or more at a time, the only time I really worry is if tropical weather is coming up the coast and I'm far away.

Missed this first time around.

Yeah, probably a bit OCD.
It is usually in high and dry. When we come in late, or are going out early, it sits tied up to the dock about 20 min. from my house. Thing is, there are no "slips". There is dock space for about 5-6 boats depending on size. If more boats come in, they raft up to yours. You never know what they might do when they are walking across your boat.

When you leave it in all the time, you get used to it. The few times a year I have it sitting in the water, I have flashbacks to the many boats I have seen sink due to faulty bilge pumps.
It doesn't just rain here. It comes down in buckets. If your pumps fail, or drain your battery, the boats go down quick. Happens a lot here. We get "tropical weather" conditions just about every day in the summer for an hour or so.

If you are leaving it in, I hope you have 2 bilge pumps. One on manual(or an auto on manual), and one on a float. Don't trust the manufacturer to have it rigged right either. They are notorious for putting undersized pumps in. Most of them can't keep up with a major failure, like a thru hull failing. Again, it happens all the time down here. Of course, our boats are in all year, not just 3 months.

[BmillsSkier]

Jimmy, you find a boat yet?

[Chugachjed]

If you need somebody to teach you how to fish whatever boat you get I leave for Seattle today.
I heard there's a late run of kings and silvers down there and my freezer needs a little help. 250lbs of mostly halibut is ok but salmon is what I need.

[BFD]

If you need somebody to teach you how to fish whatever boat you get I leave for Seattle today.
I heard there's a late run of kings and silvers down there and my freezer needs a little help. 250lbs of mostly halibut is ok but salmon is what I need.

chitna run July 26th first day since May 17 sonar below 10,000 should stil be good

[Chugachjed]

If only I was going north instead of dumb south

[Chugachjed]

I know. Was just sad to not be going home.

[Timberridge]

This whale watching is dangerous stuff.

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-34640345

"Another whale-watching boat operated by the same company capsized in 1998, killing two people, including the boat operator and a tourist from Germany. "

[XXX-er]

Looking at the hull of that tour boat it doesn't look like much of a seagoing vessel for the water out on the west coast of vancover island

Fortunately some 1st nations watermen were fishing close by otherwise there would have been many more fatalities