Running Skookumchuk.on a 96' Landing Craft, the 'Inlet Raider' (power barge) AVI

Heading out of Sechelt's Porpoise Bay, (where we tie up next to the Lighthouse Marine Pub), back to Campbell River. The tide, and associated Current Velocity is not always in your favour. This is time to use 'local knowledge' to gain atvantage with back eddies. These 'back eddies' circulate and flow the opposite way of the tidal flow and if you know how to ride the edges, the push off the points and shoals and the locations of the hard spots, these eddies are crucial to getting anywhere!
If you don't use them you'll use a large amount more of fuel and maybe not even be able to buck it at all. Ging backwards is not usually an option or accepted
But itis known to happen

[@VE3UET]

This is Great, I wish you would post more videos

[@davidotness6199]

Thanks for the show and the memories of my own fifty + yrs of doing the same and similar all the way up to the Mackenzie.

[@TheLarrytwo]

Nicely done, I've towed barges through here, but never that hole, nice to see it thanks.

[@ricklorion]

need to buy one of these.

[@cq7415]

Thanks.

[@BananaJSSI]

Awesome! Two thumbs up!!

[@janner2121]

Superb video , would love to work and live there

[@ha1jo2]

We have seen these folks on the coast,they know how to get the job done for sure,We say mount a GOPRO cam on the mast,now that would rock.

[@gangesexcavating]

Great video! now this is why I like watching KZbin! There is a great photo of this Inlet Raider landing barge taking a load of Concrete trucks on board at Gulf Coast Materials Ltd. office on Saltspring Island, BC.

[@BCparrothead]

Way to work those back eddies Cap'n Bob - you rock, Dude!

[@coastsafe]

@gangesexcavating Hey thanks for that! Yes, Gerald is a gem on there for sure! The crane had a manufactuers defect and toppled on us doing a job! It's being dealt with by the insurance now

[@mushroomstone]

I live on my boat at the dock beside the boat ramp in C.R. I've seen him come in at night time in a strong south easter and bring the Raider into the boat launch and make it look easy. Sometimes he wakes me up when he comes in hot and turns around with lots of thrust though, then I ain't so keen. lol

[@mattm597]

All of those boils represent a huge boulder just under the surface. That barge must have an incredibly shallow draft. If I had been the owner of the boat or the auto, I would have been $@!++ing myself. :-)

[@chucksmith9772]

Just upwellings

[@Meownold]

Winding out them kitty Cats. Meow!!!!

[@FirstLast-ml7yf]

Dumb question...why not wait four hours and go with the current? Boat like that must use a lot of diesel!

[@aunikapeers9414]

schedules

[@wolfwing1]

hehe just caught this today in photo :> kinda neat, especially the jolly rogers :>

[@Graveltrucking]

About time somebody gave Gerald a chance to prove his stuff. Where is the other crane LOL.

[@MultiTruther]

can I havethe onstruction plans for your boat? i'll pay a reasonable amount and I wont sell/give them to anyone else...thinking about a forty foot or so landing craft.

[@anoymousjoe5957]

MultiTruther I believe this barge is simply a Second World War era landing craft that has been lengthened. You should be able to do a bit of searching about WW2 landing craft and find full technical drawings.

[@m.rezasyamsul7149]

Let's going to Samarinda, we often to build landing craft

[@homersimpson6176]

Good driving !