TwoBallScrewBall
Lieutenant Commander
- Joined
- Sep 14, 2003
- Messages
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Went out yesterday morning, about 7:00am. It's misty out but you can see OK. We get to the inlet on the way out of the bay to our offshore (7mi) spot and the mist turns to pea soup. We get on the radio and hear that the fog clears outside the inlet so we decide to push on, slooowly. <br /><br />There are some breakers about 1/2 to 1 mile off the beach in the inlet. I always wondered how shallow it got but never wanted to find out. <br /><br />See where I'm going?<br /><br />So we chug along, and the previous track on my GPS is gone so I'm heading where I think is clear. Next thing I know the water goes from nice glassy rollers to large, scary, loud, scary breakers. I look at the FF and it's gone from 20ft to nothing. I mean nothing. Every trough we went down made the engine bog dangerously close to stalling from hitting bottom. And we were getting seriously tossed. I turn around and start to make the way back out but it seems like it's never going to end. And the fog is literally so thick you can't see 20 feet ahead, and all you see for that 20 feet all around are large breakers. After what seemed like 20 minutes (more like 2) I started seeing a reading on the FF again (2ft....3ft....4ft) and the terror subsided. I literally started to shake standing there driving once things calmed down. <br /><br />We finally got out there and I mention to the guys with me how bad that was. They tell me that they woren't worried because I made it look like there wasn't a problem. I didn't realize it at the time but they're right, I didn't panic I just immediately took the best course of action to get us out of the mess I got into. That made me feel a lot better but you better believe I have a safe track marked with waypoints now. 
