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Erkin-am
thanks for dropping in!
posted by
Nautikos
on April 13, 2007 at 6:52 PM
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posted by
Rosetree
on April 13, 2007 at 6:35 PM
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Corbin,
...trying to keep my nose above all this water...
posted by
Nautikos
on January 22, 2007 at 11:28 AM
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How ya Doin, Naut!
posted by
Corbin_Dallas
on January 20, 2007 at 5:03 PM
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richinstore
thanks for dropping in! It's surprising to me, but I have had people tell me the same thing when they looked at these pictures on my screen - that they get a feeling of seasickess - amazing...
posted by
Nautikos
on January 20, 2007 at 4:41 PM
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mysteria
thanks for your comments! It's true, the sea can be overwhelming, and often is literally so...
posted by
Nautikos
on January 20, 2007 at 4:39 PM
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Joe Love,
I've had pretty rough conditions even on Lake Ontario, and even here ships have sunk...
posted by
Nautikos
on January 20, 2007 at 4:36 PM
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nautikos,
I am beginning to feel sea sick already. Its awesome.
posted by
richinstore
on January 19, 2007 at 7:39 PM
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This is a heck of a post with heck of photos about a heack of a place
WoW! The power of nature is incredible. I amazingly did feel a real twinge of sea-sickness looking at those photos. I have been fascinated by Lk. Superior since I learnt about the Edmund Fitzgerald. Its story and those similar have a strong draw. Thank you for the informative blog.
posted by
mysteria
on January 18, 2007 at 8:51 PM
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I would have never guessed that Lake Superior was considered
a dangerous body of water by anybody! To say that many sailors claim it one of THE most dangerous bodies of water kind of astounds me. Interesting pictures, by the way.
posted by
Joe_Love
on January 18, 2007 at 8:48 PM
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Whinge,
what was it you didn't mean - the drawing, or being horizontal...?
posted by
Nautikos
on January 18, 2007 at 4:16 PM
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Oooh, ooh, not what I meant!
posted by
CringeintheUSA
on January 18, 2007 at 10:04 AM
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No Naut, no that's one former life I won't be tearing to the head of the
queue to own up to.
Sides anyhow, I'm March 6th, 1975, and share my birthday with only one famous person that I admire, Michelangelo. We both like drawing and being horizontal.
posted by
CringeintheUSA
on January 18, 2007 at 10:03 AM
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I guess it's pretty obvious I'm not a sailor...
posted by
muser
on January 17, 2007 at 2:21 PM
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Whinge
She went down on 10 November of that year, at around 7PM CST. If you were born then, maybe you were a bulk carrier in your previous existence...
posted by
Nautikos
on January 17, 2007 at 5:47 AM
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Corbin,
yep! Properly battened-down hatches are important on any ship or boat (Unless it's a dinghy, lol)! Incidentally, now that simply means tightening them. In the past it meant applying a strip of wood (the 'batten') and caulking it!
posted by
Nautikos
on January 17, 2007 at 5:39 AM
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bel
I remember a beautiful beach near Ashland, some August a few years ago. I went for a swim, and the water was very pleasant...
posted by
Nautikos
on January 17, 2007 at 5:31 AM
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muser
this ship is a 'Laker' but also an ocean-going vessel, and these photos were taken on the Atlantic...
Terrified? Sailors are used to this sort of thing. And if they have a tendency to get seasick, as even some sailors have, they get their sea legs after a few days, and the symptoms disappear...
posted by
Nautikos
on January 17, 2007 at 5:29 AM
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Julia,
funny, I love the water even though I 'drowned' in
this life. That is to say as a kid I went through the whole drowning experience and was 'gone', as far as I was concerned. That someone pulled me out in the end I only became aware of later...
posted by
Nautikos
on January 17, 2007 at 5:20 AM
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Ironic that a Fitzgerald was sunk in 75, and another one born in it.
Let's just say it was my maiden voyage (I was born) and my maiden name, one which I am very proud of as my married name is rather Germanic sounding (that clue you'll struggle for).
posted by
CringeintheUSA
on January 16, 2007 at 1:15 PM
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Superior is a very unforgiving water
and the coldest damned lake you have ever seen! Even in the summer it's often to cold to really swim unless you are a polar bear.
posted by
bel_1965
on January 16, 2007 at 9:34 AM
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This certainly makes you better understand.......
and appreciate the term
"Batten the Hatches"........
posted by
Corbin_Dallas
on January 16, 2007 at 6:44 AM
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First, Naut, I am always amazed that a storm like the one in the photos can
occur on a lake...it looks like an ocean storm! As for the crew, I can't believe that every one is not sea-sick...or terrified!
posted by
muser
on January 16, 2007 at 5:58 AM
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nautikos--
I may have overstated the "green" thing. It wasn't seasickness so much as it makes me uncomfortable. When I was little I was deathly afraid of going over a bridge in a car, and it still makes me feel strange and uneasy. Now, I know you don't believe in reincarnation, but I do think I may have drowned in a former life. I had some very vivid dreams about it.
posted by
Julia.
on January 15, 2007 at 10:04 PM
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Nana,
like you, I enjoy rough seas. What I can't stand is the
cold...
posted by
Nautikos
on January 15, 2007 at 7:50 PM
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Naut
I luckily share your inability to get seasick... I love any kind of on the water condition, the rough water is especially fun! Great photos!
posted by
Nanaroo
on January 15, 2007 at 6:21 PM
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Julia,
This is
very interesting! Are you actually serious when you say that you are affected by these pictures?
posted by
Nautikos
on January 15, 2007 at 6:18 PM
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Nautikos--
whoa, those were amazing! I am feeling a little green...so apparently I'm not as blessed as you are regarding seasickness, lol.
posted by
Julia.
on January 15, 2007 at 5:52 PM
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Jeannie
excellent! So you're going to have a
real sailor in the family, congratulations! I'm sure he'll love it!
posted by
Nautikos
on January 15, 2007 at 5:45 PM
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Wiley,
The Brits have seawater in their veins, but even they need to be able to see. Of course, mistaking rocks for seagulls could have been the result of having mistaken his rum for his tea...
posted by
Nautikos
on January 15, 2007 at 5:37 PM
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OTA,
LOL! I don't know about 'sailor of old'! I'm strictly an amateur, a holiday - and weekend-sailor, with a bit of Wednesday night club racing thrown in! A
real sailor wouldn't even give me the time of day...
posted by
Nautikos
on January 15, 2007 at 5:31 PM
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Nautikos
Marvellous pictures my friend, you have been around. I did cross the Atlantic twice, and have done a wee bit of sailing years ago in Québec with a British sailor who had bad eyesight.lol
We nearly tore the bottom off the boat when he mistakenly thought some rocks sticking up out of the water were perching seagulls. Alas, he contributed to my quitting drnking alcohol actually. I did so love that dark rum though.
posted by
WileyJohn
on January 15, 2007 at 5:30 PM
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Thanks for sailing by
Thank you for sailing by my post, and the well wishes to my son. My second oldest son has joined the Navy. He's waiting for his congressional nomination to be accepted into Annapolis. I'll have to show him this post. He
LOVES the water... way more than his momma does! Beautiful to see photos of, but I'm a land lubber.
posted by
jeanniezer0
on January 15, 2007 at 5:28 PM
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OFFBEATS
someone with sea legs is welcome on board any time, I knew you were a woman after my own heart...
posted by
Nautikos
on January 15, 2007 at 5:15 PM
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Whinge,
have a tot, here's mud in your eye, my dear...
posted by
Nautikos
on January 15, 2007 at 5:13 PM
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Naut.. what an interesting post
your telling of the different bodies of water and memories of waters you have sailed, have me picturing a sailor of old, telling wonderful sailing stories. Those pictures are awesome! Thank you.
posted by
Blue_feathers
on January 15, 2007 at 5:06 PM
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Naut
I too have sailed many an ocean, but only a couple of lakes. I never get sea sick...never have, guess I have good sea legs. Those pictures are incredible..Imagine the size of that gale to cause those waves...Awesome my friend...
posted by
Offy
on January 15, 2007 at 5:05 PM
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blackcat,
this ship is an ocean-going vessel as well as a Laker, and these shots were taken in the Atlantic. But the lakes can get pretty rough too. I have experienced 15' waves on Lake Ontario.
posted by
Nautikos
on January 15, 2007 at 4:57 PM
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TAPS
sorry to hear that you're one of the 'afflicted'. Actually, I have a good friend who went to sea for years,
and who was seasick for a couple of days at the start of each voyage! Shortly after he got his captain's papers he gave up on all that, and he is now with the Canadian Coast Guard, inspecting all ships docking in Halifax...
posted by
Nautikos
on January 15, 2007 at 4:52 PM
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Looks like a nice day out, would you join me for a snifter on the bridge?
posted by
CringeintheUSA
on January 15, 2007 at 2:34 PM
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I grew up on boats on the ocean and never have gotten sick (knock on wood)
but that is some rough sea... are you saying that's on a great lake? I never knew they had such surf! It's always seemed odd to me that a lake can look like an ocean...
posted by
-blackcat
on January 15, 2007 at 12:13 PM
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Nautikos
I love this post. From the time that I was a kid I read books about and yearned to go to sea. As a child I read every Howard Pease book about adventures on tramp steamers and every pirate book I could find. How disappointed I was, when I first got out of the land-locked midwest to find that mal de mer would keep me from ever really enjoying a sail on the sea.
posted by
TAPS.
on January 15, 2007 at 12:04 PM
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