shari
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BIG swell hits Bahia Asuncion overnight...pangas destroyed.
I got waken up before sunrise to go down to the fishing cooperatives boat launch area with my camera. Before coffee....really?
Stunned fishermen lined the cliff watching their boats being destroyed and others being rescued. I was shocked to see enormous waves snapping boats
off moorings, flipping them over and sinking them. There were 8 pangas in various states of ruin that made me sick to my stomach to see.
Luckily Juan convinced his brother to beach both their pangas in the protected from the south cove by our place...and it was these pangas that were
used to rescue the pangas anchored further out that were still on their moorings.
This panga was hauled up the cliff with the crane.
Yesterday was a beautiful calm day so the coop thought the swell wasnt coming and even scheduled abalone fishing this morning. I just couldnt believe
they didnt beach the boats last night as weather sites said it was going to build fast overnight...and it did.
It is a bad loss for the coop that is already foundering as it is. Hopefully the insurance will cover it and so glad nobody was injured that I know
of.
I wouldnt want to be the person who made that decision not to beach the fleet.
a few hours later a couple locals surfed the spot....one took off a wave and I thought was going to get snagged on a hookah air hose in the water.
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chippy
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Damn! Thats hard to look at. I hope the coop/gov can give them cheap loans on pangas and motors like they do down here.
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woody with a view
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Someone should be fired! Maybe demoted to master baiter would be sufficient? Unnacceptable decision, it wasn’t going to get big? Bruto!
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BornFisher
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Dang, that`s crazy! Very sorry for the fishermen and community.
"When you catch a fish, you open the door of happiness."
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Paco Facullo
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Juan is one smart cookie........
Sorry to hear of all the losses though ....
Since I've given up all hope, I feel much better
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Alm
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Or - hired. Like a school teacher. Weather and hurricane watch sites have been fairly accurate lately. Probably the remnants of Fabio.
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BajaTed
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Heading to San O tomorrow
BTW Shari, nice letter about your place in the July letter section of Latitude 38
Es Todo Bueno
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motoged
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That's tragic....hard times are hard enough...:
Don't believe everything you think....
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rts551
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saw more pictures on facebook. All the boats here were pulled up because of the forecast for a 10 foot swell.
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elgatoloco
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that sucks
MAGA
Making Attorneys Get Attorneys
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BajaBlanca
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oh Shari....awful to see....I now understand the seriousness of really paying attention to the weather report. I am so sorry.
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shari
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the fiberglass workers at the coop are working hard to get the pangas repaired....motors are being washed out in hopes of getting them working and
divers still cant dive to try to recover the outboards on the ocean bottom in the anchorage as the visibility sucks.
local surfers enjoyed riding waves on the town beach.
[Edited on 7-7-2018 by shari]
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DeMinimis
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Thanks for posting Shari.
You gonna eat that?
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