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Its national Bring Your Boat To Work Day

Wired, you've got some great pics!

If you keep posting these up, I can see a BOTM winner or two coming your way. :thumb:

-Chris
 
Awesome pics, BOTM FOR SURE:bigthumb:

what do you use to keep the boat from pushing up onto the rocks? It wouldn't take but a soft breeze to push into those rocks and end up with a chipped gel coat...
 
hotdaddy27 said:
What do you do for a living?

What a crazy shoreline!

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I am an engineer working as the maintenance manager for a company that processes cherries for ingredients in pies, fillings, stuff like that. It just happens that the facility I am working at used to be a barge building operation. Their old dry dock got blocked in and is now our waste water pond. Out back they had a couple of docks that went out into the Columbia that have long since washed away but the stairs are still usable...or at least many of them are. That river behind the boat is around 240 deep in the channel and has absolutely brutal currents.
 
wired said:
Within 15 foot of shore its 140 foot deep.
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and you dropped an anchor???:eyecrazy: I guess youve got one heck of a rope on that thing!! LOL

that second photo is sweet, what lense do you use to get that point of view like that?
 
Gotta be some fish in there so huge I'd be afraid to jump in..............:surf:
 
JW said:
Gotta be some fish in there so huge I'd be afraid to jump in..............:surf:
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I was tooling around a few weeks ago before I put the new 140 in it and I threw the 23 pitch prop on it to see how fast I could go with the old 90. I started under the bridge where the current is absolutely brutal at around 6 mph in 250 foot plus water and got the boat up with about 54 miles an hour when I saw this big silver 7-8 foot long sturgeon launch itself about 4 foot in the air right in front of the boat. Damn near ran into the thing. I could just see getting killed on a river by a damned sturgeon.
 
I drove my boat to work one saturday. I launched it here in town and headed downriver. I looked over to the east and seen a large plumm of smoke rising. Thought it was a tanker vs train accident. So I pulled in a marina, docked it and ran a few blocks in my trunks and flip flops. Found it was a welder that set a warehouse on fire. They sent me to get my gear and I was on scene axp. 8 hrs. Once I got back to the boat it was dark and I missed one of the last nice saturdays of season. But that six pack of Michelob that was on ice the whole time was about the best ever, to bad it only lasted 30 minutes. :D
 
Reminds me of a guy I knew who used to do all kinds of specialized diving, and did a lot of cleanup/plumbing work for that kind of waste water pond. He had some amazing stories, one about working on a meat processing plants pond where he had to cut through the solidified fat on top with a chainsaw etc, but said the worst he ever did was a dive at a cherry processing factory where between the cherry pits and whatever else the whole time they were there, these huge bubbles of bacterial gases that were eating the cherry waste would come up and it was some of the worst hes ever smelled.


Also, cool pics!
 
teamhart2 said:
Reminds me of a guy I knew who used to do all kinds of specialized diving, and did a lot of cleanup/plumbing work for that kind of waste water pond. He had some amazing stories, one about working on a meat processing plants pond where he had to cut through the solidified fat on top with a chainsaw etc, but said the worst he ever did was a dive at a cherry processing factory where between the cherry pits and whatever else the whole time they were there, these huge bubbles of bacterial gases that were eating the cherry waste would come up and it was some of the worst hes ever smelled.


Also, cool pics!
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I tell people that if I ever fall into that pond please do not try and pull me out. Let me go. I don't want to be haunted by that memory the rest of my life. As long as the aerators keep going its OK. Once they stop and the pond goes anaerobic the bad bacteria take over and it will make you vomit. .

Its the nematodes that give me the willies.
 
I get the feeling this bring your boat to work thing might go on for a while.

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