[Leica] The plight of The Judy and the Jetty
Jayanand Govindaraj
jayanand at gmail.com
Fri Oct 13 19:47:57 PDT 2023
Nice. Atmospheric.
Cheers
Jayanand
On Fri, Oct 13, 2023 at 9:55 AM Aram Langhans via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
wrote:
> while staying at the South Beach Campground by Newport, OR, we walked
> down to the beach at sunset and were greeted by a nice sunset
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> South Beach Sunset-1000308.jpg | Aram Langhans | Flickr
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> https://www.flickr.com/photos/24330215@N06/53253950556/in/album-72177720311903994/
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> My wife said something about a boat and I did not see it as I was
> looking out in the water. The boat was actually beached.
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> Beached Boat South Beach Sunset-1000309.jpg | Aram Langhans | Flickr
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> https://www.flickr.com/photos/24330215@N06/53253950716/in/album-72177720311903994/
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> We walked to it to see what had happened. Here are a few shots of the
> beached Judy.
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> Beached Boat South Beach Sunset-1000314.jpg | Aram Langhans | Flickr
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> https://www.flickr.com/photos/24330215@N06/53254300454/in/album-72177720311903994/
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> Beached Boat South Beach Sunset-1000315.jpg | Aram Langhans | Flickr
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> https://www.flickr.com/photos/24330215@N06/53253067022/in/album-72177720311903994/
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> Beached Boat South Beach Sunset-1000316.jpg | Aram Langhans | Flickr
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> https://www.flickr.com/photos/24330215@N06/53254300844/in/album-72177720311903994/
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> We were going to leave the next day but went down to the beach to see if
> it was still there. There had been long heavy lines strung out on the
> beach and was wondering what they were going to do. As we got close we
> were not allowed to the beach and saw a helicopter carrying the rope out
> to a tug boat off shore. You can sort of see the line in this photo. I
> only had my Q3, so at 28mm it was a stretch.
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> Beached Boat-1000321.jpg | Aram Langhans | Flickr
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> https://www.flickr.com/photos/24330215@N06/53253067262/in/album-72177720311903994/
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> Part of the crowd.
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> Beached Boat-1000322.jpg | Aram Langhans | Flickr
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> https://www.flickr.com/photos/24330215@N06/53254444025/in/album-72177720311903994/
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> As the tide rose, the water reached the boat.
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> Beached Boat-1000330.jpg | Aram Langhans | Flickr
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> https://www.flickr.com/photos/24330215@N06/53254444150/in/album-72177720311903994/
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> Beached Boat-1000334.jpg | Aram Langhans | Flickr
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> https://www.flickr.com/photos/24330215@N06/53254301344/in/album-72177720311903994/
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> Finally the tug was able to pull the boat through the sand and it
> started floating and was pulled off shore
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> Beached Boat-1000338.jpg | Aram Langhans | Flickr
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> https://www.flickr.com/photos/24330215@N06/53253067832/in/album-72177720311903994/
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> Cheers went up and we thought all was well. Then things went badly.
> For some reason, the boat headed to the jetty and a fairly high rate of
> speed. There must have been someone onboard who started the engines but
> for some reason had no control. I had thought the tug was still hooked
> up, but it had dropped the line and the Judy was on her own. It hit the
> jetty with a big boom, baked off and hit it again and almost capsized.
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> Beached Boat-1000340.jpg | Aram Langhans | Flickr
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> https://www.flickr.com/photos/24330215@N06/53253952126/in/album-72177720311903994/
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> Not a great photo as the 28mm is really cropped a lot. It hit one more
> time and then somehow backed away from the jetty and headed out past it
> and sat there for quite some time. We had to go, so that ends my
> story. I did find a video of the battle with the jetty taken with a
> camera that had a longer lens than I did.
>
> Judy hitting the jetty - YouTube
> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6bEefj7UKw&ab_channel=tonedeftony>
>
> I don't do facebook but I think there is more information there.
>
> Comments welcome.
>
> Aram
>
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> Aram Langhans
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>
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