Guess where we're headed boys supposed to be sliding right over our fleet on the bright side it's died down a good bit , think they said only 50mph winds 2' chop by the time it gets to Houston and honestly their probably gonna turn us around and send us back east

Wear your life jacket and stay away from the edge of the boat, Wolfie!

Avast ye scurvy dogs! All hands on deck!
Seriously be safe!

Watch your top knot. Will this be the biggest storm that you’ve been in?

A Cat2 is nothing to take a chance with. The Gulf is even warmer along the coast where the water shallows.

I'd get off that water!

Go ret a paraglider and ride er out.

Yeah gonna be my first hurricane. Now it it says a 1 or gets lower like it's supposed to I've been though about the same a moth ago. If it increases wellll....but like my lil bro says "$@#$ it we ball"

Yeah that's what everyone's ( with actual experience out here ) saying.

No avoiding the profanity filter......Suspend yourself from any meme contributions...

Don't forget to.channel your inner Lt. Dan.
And livestream.it!

Be safe. Lots can go wrong in the thick of it. I assume you do drills onboard. Knowing your station bill duties can make the difference. I’ve seen it blow over a hundred only 3 times while on a boat and the last time we all came home in a helicopter

2' chop on a barge sounds like a bad time. Hope all goes well.

Poor Ol' Seville's right in the path of that thing.
Ain't nobody thought about him? A kind word? Moral support? Anything?

Well, if you start to get "jammed" be darn ready to cut cables or hawsers!! . . . let that barge go!!!!

He’s busy eating hamburgers. He’s fine

We were in a "storm" in the GOM last October

90' boat and 8 footers were more than I cared for

Stay safe

Welp, end up getting told to tie up at here in Bolivar , gonna be helping the local fleet with some other boat making. Sure nothing breaks apart and runs off. Supposed to be topping out at 70 somthing mph gusts 3-9 foot possible tidal surge .....but hay you know what that say

Yeah y'all have the real storms up there ! But we do a lot of drills , I know mor when a few times I've been at my station ready to go before I really work up and knew what was goin on lol. On the bright side tho I work back watch so I'll be up for most of it

Hey wolfie. When they measure hurricane wind speed it's measured in sustained wind speed, not gusts, and it looks like where you are you can expect wind speeds between 75-85, sustained. Looking like it'll make landfall shortly after dark with the worst of it not until shortly before dawn.

https://zoom.earth/storms/beryl-2024/

And I get a bit green just watching them so no way I would do wolfie's job

I would expect wind and tidal surge would be the big issue pushing barges. Lots of sail area to push around likewise for storm surge pushing.

Don't know how those boats are ballasted but the ones I regularly dodged on the warrior were pretty much self righting with weight down low.

Taking on water though is never good for anything that's supposed to float.

Be careful and if something breaks loose steer clear. I've seen barges freewheeling down river on the flood that had broken loose from the port. Not much stops them until they pile up against something solid.

I was on the Coast Guard Cutter Unimak in 1967 and we went through 100 mph winds for half a night. Got thrown out of my rack. Boat was 327 feet long. Waves were so large that we would run down the back side of a tall wave and plow headfirst into the next wave. The second wave would completely engulf our ship, bow to stern. We went over one wave and under the next for hours. The ship shook but held together. Was a WWII seaplane tender the Navy transferred to the CG. Coast Guard used it as a high-endurance weather cutter and later as a training ship.

Red line down is what usually underwater if that helps any. As far as the barges we have another boat as a fleet assist boat Incase stuff gets a bit "western". We're on loads though she its only 6' out the water total where as the empties are 12-16 I think

LOL welcome to the coon man club,,,,
I am supersized there are not depth marks???/

That is a few tons of displacement,,....

Steady 40mph top gust of 50 something so far Looking about like 1.5' chop shes staying at more of a Cat 1 best pic I could get of one of the boats across the way I and apparently we got a good 50% chance of a tornado in the area lol.

Hang in there Wolfie! Thanks for the pics, you are our new River Birch. Stay safe.

So did you survive the night?

Yeah where still hanging on and putting it roll on through . Where doing good but the boats ride up on their sides are getting a hammered

So en d up maxing out at 68mph , lotta rain lil lightning ect every ones ok no barges brokes out the fleet as far as I know so

Did the fried chicken ..end up on the deck ? ...or was it Peanut butter and Jelly sandwiches for Dinnah ?

Steak today

Nice ! The ship steady enough to cook a nice meal