markbarendt
Senior Member
I did a free online zoom group seminar with a local captain that teaches getting over the bar kinda as a specialty. He also focusses generally on smaller faster boats, basically for people day fishing off the Oregon coast.
The gist of it, after sorting weather and sea condition concers (which he did very nicely), is to get on the backside of the wave, just behind the crest, and then power up doing whatever it takes to stay there.
At that point it became obvious that I was outside his intended audience.
"Good info for how to handle my dinghy but that won't work on my 7.9 knot hull speed trawler" I suggested.
He suggested the possibility of using a drogue, which seems a reasonable thought.
So I'm here for your thoughts...
The gist of it, after sorting weather and sea condition concers (which he did very nicely), is to get on the backside of the wave, just behind the crest, and then power up doing whatever it takes to stay there.
At that point it became obvious that I was outside his intended audience.
"Good info for how to handle my dinghy but that won't work on my 7.9 knot hull speed trawler" I suggested.
He suggested the possibility of using a drogue, which seems a reasonable thought.
So I'm here for your thoughts...
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