Nantucket Data Bouy

[buzzcutt]

Wow,

Those numbers look terible. Best of luck to those that must go out.

I feel really bad about complaining when it's in the sixties with a light breeze.

Buzzcutt

[ocuyler]

Gents,

Let me ask you a question. What would it be like out there with a 23'? Has anyone ever been there?
Is it posible without swamping (dying)?

Otto

Conditions at 44018 as of
(9:00 pm EST on 01/20/2003)
0200 GMT on 01/21/2003:

Wind Direction (WDIR): WNW ( 290 deg true )
Wind Speed (WSPD): 31.1 kts
Wind Gust (GST): 40.8 kts
Wave Height (WVHT): 12.5 ft
Dominant Wave Period (DPD): 8 sec
Air Temperature (ATMP): 27.7 °F
Water Temperature (WTMP): 43.9 °F

[jw]

From down maryland way, and as a charter boat captain, we would sum those numbers up as a whiskey front. [img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img]

[Hooper]

Found a link to the Nantucket Data Bouy which is 10nm east of Nantucket. Interesting information!

For those who fish the BB and the SE rips of Nantucket...

http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_pag...$station=44018

-Hooper

[Finster]

Otto, your used to the great lakes where numbers like that would mean you should bend over and start puckering. Those kind of sea's are pretty regular here and a NW wind isn't nearly as bad as a NE. Not that anyone with half a brain plans on going out in seas like that.

http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/rmd.shtml

[Hooper]

BuzzCutt

We are taking our 23 to Cape Coral in one week. Actually, my buddy is taking my rig down there and I will join them in Mid-February. How is the offshore stuff that time of year? I hear they do pretty well with King Macks from time to time...

-Hooper

[Matt1121]

Otto-

Next time a nor'easter (or hurricane) comes roaring toward New England from the Carolinas....is when you should really check the Nantucket or George's Bank buoys. Swell heights of 30+ feet are not uncommon. During the famed Halloween Storm in 1991 (aka Sebastian Junger's "Perfect Storm")....swells well over 50 feet were recorded.

In those weather conditions, I'll leave my boat tucked away thank you very much, but I will paddle out on my surfboard.

-Ed-

[buzzcutt]

HOOPER,

Cape Coral is too close to the mother in law. I stay way far away from that area.

Over here in Palm Beach County yesterday, the cobia were around near shore with nothing going on off shore.

There is a big Sailfish tournament starting Thursday and the boats were out trying to find bait and the sails. The radio sounded like whiners day. Nothing seen and nothing caught.

With a cold front expected tonight things should change.

Buzzcutt

[John R]

Hoop - you don't run all the way out there do ya? [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]

It's calm today, only 4 footers [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] in Buzzards Bay ... which is inshore from the Nantucket Bouy a ways

Here is a photo of a really calm day from the BB bouy:

Now other times, their are steep 15+ footers in here and you are almost surrounded by land just miles away in 3 directions...

[ January 23, 2003, 02:52 PM: Message edited by: John R ]

[Matt1121]

John R-

Is there an actual camera mounted on the BB buoy? Or did you climb on it and take that shot?

How cool would that be if weather buoys had cameras mounted on them? The fishing and surfing communities would be psyched...probably the only two groups of people who ever go on the NOAA website to read the buoy reports.

Ed