{"id":5250,"date":"2021-06-24T12:23:24","date_gmt":"2021-06-24T16:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/?p=5250"},"modified":"2021-07-10T16:23:56","modified_gmt":"2021-07-10T20:23:56","slug":"crossing-the-bar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/?p=5250","title":{"rendered":"Crossing the Bar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>December of 1985 I went on a three day fishing trip with Captain Terry Saunders aboard the 80 foot trawler, <i><strong>Richard Wayne<\/strong>. <\/i>Based in Wanchese, he was going offshore, dragging for winter flounder. For two days, productivity was moderate with calm seas.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/TC.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5251\" src=\"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/TC.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"592\" srcset=\"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/TC.jpg 400w, http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/TC-270x400.jpg 270w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That night, lying in a forepeak bunk I felt changes in the tempo of the waves. By early morning the wind had freshened from the northeast making for some choppy conditions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/stern.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5253\" src=\"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/stern.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/stern.jpg 600w, http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/stern-400x263.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stevie Daniels\u2019 <strong><i>Bailey Boy <\/i><\/strong>fished nearby.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/starboard.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5252\" src=\"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/starboard.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/starboard.jpg 600w, http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/starboard-400x266.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The captains discussed navigating the narrow shoaling channel at Oregon Inlet before conditions deteriorated further.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/crossing.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5254\" src=\"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/crossing.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/crossing.jpg 600w, http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/crossing-400x266.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>They decided to cut the trip short, head back and not take unnecessary chances, crossing the shallow bar into the inlet. I shot <strong><em>Bailey Boy<\/em><\/strong> heading over the shoal as it followed us home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December of 1985 I went on a three day fishing trip with Captain Terry Saunders aboard the 80 foot trawler, Richard Wayne. Based in Wanchese, he was going offshore, dragging for winter flounder. For two days, productivity was moderate with calm seas. That night, lying in a forepeak bunk I felt changes in the tempo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,39,26,4,6,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commercial-fishing","category-fishing","category-outer-banks","category-people","category-sea","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5250"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5269,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5250\/revisions\/5269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}