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Posted By:
Hal Brown
Date Posted:
May 12, 2012
Description:
Can't get enough of that asymmetric paint job! Here's Rob, taxiing downwind, just about to turn and take off back toward us.
(This is a frame from a video, zoomed to 80x and too shaky to watch in motion. In the background, more than half a mile beyond Rob, is the Benjamin Harrison Memorial Lift Bridge over the James River, just east of Hopewell, VA.)
Date Taken:
May 12, 2012
Place Taken:
James River, downstream of Richmond, VA
Owner:
Don Maxwell
File Name:
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Category:
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Robert Charlwood Richardson - May 13,2012
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Don - very kind of you to host my visit. Learned quite a bit about tidewater seaplane ops.<br />Et al - take seriously Don's advice from his website about the tide. It was low tide and I was lucky not to <br />get stuck in the mud. The muddy water makes it a challenge,e to judge the depth.p
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Don Maxwell - May 13,2012
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We're glad you could splash in, Rob. Come back any time.<br /><br />Sorry my instructions for taxiing ashore weren't clear enough. I'll revise them right away.<br /><br />The tide was lower than usual yesterday--combination of a spring tide and a west wind that blew the river to Portugal. Normal low tide is nearly a foot higher.
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Jerry Ratcliffe - May 13,2012
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Rob, did you get a sense of what is the minimum depth you can operate in, with one on board?
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Robert Charlwood Richardson - May 13,2012
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I encountered two situations involving shoreline depth issues on my trip <br />north from FL. One at the Lakeside Inn in Mt Dora and the other at <br />Don Maxwell's. In both cases, I figured my plane's total weight was at <br />@1370 (plane 1005, me 225, baggage 40, 15 gal gas @100) Sitting in <br />the water or in slow taxi I needed about knee deep plus depth water or <br />2 to 2.5 ft. Step taxi/taxi about 1 to .5 feet. At Mt Dora between the low <br />water, the soft sand, and the weeds i could not power the plane thru <br />onto the shore. At Maxwell it was the 6' deep mud that bogged me <br />down. In the above picture I felt like I was powering myself thru the <br />mud, since I had to use power bursts to turn the plane. When I turned <br />around to takeoff and got up on step I had no issue. The unnerving part <br />was that the water was murky and I was worried about hitting a log.<br /><br />A couple things I took away from the experience <br />1) I plan to carry a 50 ft rope with a small anchor on trips. Both would <br />have been very useful at both locales.<br />2) can't use gear to lift you out. And I was lucky I could raise the gear <br />when I got stuck trying to power my way on to shore. <br />3) when one runs up on shore, gear up, it was fairly easy to turn the <br />plane around, manually, but I simply did not have the strength to <br />push the plane off the ground by hand. I had to crank up the engine <br />and power my way off the bottom to deeper water. <br />4) it is very hard to judge water depth from the air or taxing. The <br />closest thing to look for was how the power boats sat and the dock <br />looked. I need to work on this aspect of seaplane ops.<br /><br />
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Don Maxwell - May 14,2012
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Rob, you did well, especially considering how new you are to SeaRey <br />ops. When you departed, the channel was about 200 feet to your left. It's one wingspan off the ends of the piers. I'll revise the online instructions to make that clearer. (SeaRey wingspan, not C-5.)<br /><br />You just about can't have too many ropes. I always carry three 50' nylon ropes, plus on trips an aluminum danforth-type anchor with its own rope. Also tiedowns and their ropes. 100' ropes beat 50 footers, but you don't need the extra length very often in most places.
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Jerry Ratcliffe - May 15,2012
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How do you work this whole set up Don? Keep anchor in the nose or the back of the <br />plane? Do you have to swim round to the bow eye, or do you have some other <br />arrangement?
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Don Maxwell - May 15,2012
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Jerry, I often fly with about 10' of rope tied to the bow ring and the left strut. Tie the anchor or buoy to the strut end of that rope. No need to swim. There's more discussion somewhere on STS.<p>The Al anchor comes apart and stows in bags.<!-- >'"><br><font color=red size=6>' or > missing in user HTML. Please fix the HTML.</font> -->
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Jerry Ratcliffe - May 15,2012
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I think my concern was a metal anchor rattling around just behind my head, in the event of an arrival (as <br />opposed to a landing...).
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Don Maxwell - May 15,2012
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Well, you <I>could</I> put it behind the passenger's seat. But I lash it down pretty well behind my seat. Now that you've raised the question, I suppose it would be prudent to chain the thing to the pylon framework. Or maybe lash it to the strut. I hadn't thought of that before.But this discussion is getting a bit technical for Slash & Dash. Better to continue it over on STS.<!-- >'"><br><font color=red size=6>' or > missing in user HTML. Please fix the HTML.</font> -->
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