Proof I can walk on water.

[SnoKing]

I was going through old pictures looking for a picture of the door stickers on my old 2001.5, and ran across these pictures of old boating friend Sven and I walking on water.

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[Crank]

Proof. Hey Snoking, what lake is that?

 

[Deleted member 995608]

I hate to hit the underground mountain in my boat. Do they mark that so people don't run into it?

 

[SnoKing]

It is Sky Pilot Rock in Desolation Sound in BC Canada. It is out in the middle of no where and is only marked with bottom paint and propeller strikes. It is a couple hundred feet deep all the way around it.

A friend hit Stacy Rock which is 6 miles away and also unmarked, only showing at lower tides.

https://mapcarta.com/24644104

 

[Deleted member 995608]

It is out in the middle of no where and is only marked with bottom paint and propeller strikes.

Ouch

 

[SnoKing]

I ran the last boat we owned (19 years/bought new in 96) on auto pilot most of the time. I had an integrated nav system. Used a Laptop (receiving GPS position data) that had charting software sending nav directions to the auto pilot and displaying the go to way point on the radar screen also. Given that I ran the same courses year after year or created a new course ahead of time, I figured my chance of hitting a rock were greatly reduced. I had a saying "If the channel is 6 miles wide I ran 3 mile off the shoreline". We operated boat of those 19 year and never dinged a prop. We put 2700 hours on the twin Cummins 4B150's during ownership.

 

[BoeingDiesel]

Nice setup Snoking...that would have been a great size cruiser for day fishing on the Eastcape Baja Sur.

 

[Crank]

Cool boat. Where's your riggers?

 

[SnoKing]

Boat turned into the 2015 RAM on Sept 18th 2015. Never left the bank. Got the boat money and wired John Elway the money for the truck.