locodave Posted February 5, 2017 Share Posted February 5, 2017 Did any raiders get caught in the storm at Lake Mac on saturday night? It was a crazy storm, I will post more later, just want to see if anyone else was out there! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
locodave Posted February 6, 2017 Author Share Posted February 6, 2017 It was a beautiful afternoon. I could see the storm in the foreground but looked like a small storm. That was storm number 1 though. Was small. Checked the weather and said chance of rain no mention of storm. First storm came through, no problem. However i could see a second storm brewing and looked bigger and looked like it was going to hang around. Everyone was still out fishing so we thought we stay out too as we just got in the water. Late start in the day for us. The storm arrived and was ok until it went into beast mode. We were anchored close to shore on the main channel, soon as the wind hit it got crazy. The anchor couldn't hold and i was drifting straight to a barge. Somehow we had to get the anchor up while bouncing like a cork, had the boat in forward with a bit of force and the boat wasnt moving with the strength of the waves and wind. Got the anchor up and we were on our way to the ramp. Got to the ramp with the aid of the gps at night with just noise everywhere, made everything harder. Got to the ramp and there was a bloke pulling up so had to wait could only go on one side of the jetty, was worried it was going to be a crash landing with a 6m boat! Boats were starting to come in and i knew etiquette will go out the window, so i gunned it and beached it close to the jetty, lucky that went smoothly. By then other boaters arrived and we all helped eachother. This guy said he was at wangi wangi side and had to go through 2m waves. It was rough in the channel, it was unbelievable how it changed. Poor girl in in the other boat was dying to get off the boat she must of been pretty scared. This storm easily lasted an hour+ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrsswordfisherman Posted February 6, 2017 Share Posted February 6, 2017 It is sure scary and it changes very quickly . I remember being in Glenbawn Dam years ago and a huge black cloud approached and we outran it almost. We had about 5 mins of huge waves and chop till we got to the ramp. We were glad to get back to land! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rickmarlin62 Posted February 6, 2017 Share Posted February 6, 2017 not out on Saturday but got whipped by the southerly buster on tues arvo...5 miles off redhead when it hit..then got to run allthe way down the lake into 30 knots of wind to get back to summo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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