Any of you guys seen this?

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/20...es-getting-bigger-and.html#ixzz15MTrbj7Y

"Using buoy data and models based on wind patterns, scientists say that the waves off the coast of the Pacific Northwest and along the Atlantic seaboard from West Palm Beach, Fla., to Cape Hatteras, N.C., are steadily increasing in size."

Looks like tough may be getting tougher.

I believe it (yesterday):

http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/Kna1Vz7P8bT6WyK0Z9Ib4s3v7NovcLugnp2-wGCSMwE?feat=directlink


In all seriousness, the waves yesterday at Flagler were pretty big. Not big enough to make me sit a leg out but big enough to make me apprehensive about launching if it was an onshore breeze. The wind yesterday was a good 7-10 from the NNE which would have made for a nice reach off the beach.

Good thing we don't need to walk across the tramps.

Damn Tad,
What, are you new?
The true grace of a ballerina or maybe a pregnant yak.

I tripped on the leash.

I have large feet.

A laugh at my expense is welcomed... I do it everyday.

I don't know.. looks to me like you just fell over

Someone yelled "timber" off camera.

Its an autonomic response. I can't help it.

So what's the largest wave a T500 sailor has ever had to deal with?

A few years back, in W. Palm Beach maybe, a rogue wave completely washed over the beach and the sea wall!

For the T500 it was Jupiter start 2007 probably.

For the Worrell, Jesnsen Beach.

Here's some video of the Jupiter launch:
http://commerce.senate.gov/public/i...amp;MonthDisplay=11&YearDisplay=2010

Maybe not.

Maybe not what?

This is news video clip from Singer Island yesterday. The vid is near the top right corner:
http://www.wflx.com/Global/story.asp?S=13503300

On another note: Thank god I had my boat anchored well. The high tides/swells picked up the backend and moved it over so my boat was sideways on the beach. I have access to an online beach camera I use to check up on my boat.

You posted the wrong video.

The video is correct. It is a video showing rough/bordline rouge waves in Palm Beach area. I was making a second statement about my boat that lives in between where these tow videos were taken. About one mile North of where the fishermen were washed off of the inlet. I access the webcam via VPN. Can't post that info because you can move the camera around.

Tad's video.

HAHAHA oops.

Tells you what I've been reading lately!

http://www.adventureonline.tv/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=90:aotvtybee500chaos2007part3&catid=34:sailingvideos&Itemid=19

There's the link you need

Sorry Pete.

I can't see that video but the waves in Jupiter weren't really THAT large. It was the high frequency of waves combined with the lack of any significant breeze that was problematic.

After that start (or lack thereof), however, I feel so much more better equipped to handle that stuff after realizing how our approach was wrong...I want another whack at that kind of stuff.

Go to www.adventureonline.tv. Click on "Sail" on the left hand side. Then scroll down to "Catamaran Wipeouts" There are 4 episodes. The third makes me cringe the most because thats my boat Mischa takes a broadside on.

Hi Pete,

Did not have time to click on his link. You could have been referring to mine as well. I clarified it anyway.

It's not that I can't find them...I can't view them from work. Internet blockers and all that. Besides, it's still vivid in my mind. Frank hanging on for dear life laying on the bow hanging onto chicken line and spin pole while I tried to make ground outbound on the surf. Both of us completely gassed from two attempts and nearly made it the second time. I wish I had been more knowledgeable about that stuff at the time.