Trawler surfing; Oz style...

To begin with ... that video was not made on the Columbia River Bar. It was made in NZ.

Secondly, if you can find a single "self-righting" fishing boat in the Washington/Oregon commercial fishing fleet, I will donate $50 to Carl's favorite charity. There might be a lot of dead fishermen alive today if such a thing existed.

Thirdly, the Bar and most of the other river bars in the PNW are relatively calm probably 90 percent of the time. There is a huge recreational salmon fishery at Bouy 10 on the Columbia River Bar and hundreds of little outboard fishing boats with a couple of shoe salesmen go out there every day during the season.

I spent an entire Summer working on a dredge in the shipping channel crossing the Bar several times a day to the spoil area and most of the time the seas were calm enough that we didn't have any problem dredging.

Timing

I've crossed the bar several time at 5 knots in my 29' Gulf pilothouse sailboat. It's all a matter of timing for weather and tides. Never had any issues.

Hi,

THIS IS THE VIDEO.

Greymouth River Bar , West Coast of South Island, NZ

FISHING BOATS NEARLY CAPSIZING ENTERING THE GREYMOUTH BOATS 02 copyright.mp4 - YouTube

There are quite a number of fishermen and others who have met Davey Jones unexpectedly here and on other West Coast bars over the years

Here is another one that occurred 150 yrs ago this year - I was actually in Auckland on the anniversary.

Sinking of HMS Orpheus - NZ's worst shipwreck | NZHistory, New Zealand history online

Kiwi is correct that is the Greymouth bar on the west coast of South Island filmed last year this is a notoruios bar which has claimed its share of fisherman and should be taken lightly in any conditions, these baots are extremely sea worthy and well built and as you can see are built to handle the Tasma Sea

And THAT is why New Zealand produces some of the greatest boats and seamen in the world.

Take into account the population of this small country and then compare the proportion of great names in the industry to that and I doubt there is another country that can compare. Except the mainland, Australia

It is a mixture of the Dutch, Scots, Maori and good beer in the genes.

Hi,

You better get a new Atlas, you are on the West Island over there not the Mainland.

Size matters!