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keycocker
Joined: 10 Jul 2005 Posts: 3598
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Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2017 1:03 pm Post subject: Forty foot waves |
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Forty foot faces predicted for Maui to day. |
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makaniman
Joined: 03 Oct 2005 Posts: 22
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Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2017 2:25 pm Post subject: |
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Yeah right? Wave inflation, take whatever they say on the news and cut it in half ... still big, but 40 feet = no way. |
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dllee
Joined: 03 Jul 2009 Posts: 5329 Location: East Bay
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Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2017 2:35 pm Post subject: |
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Winter is big wave season, EVERY year, so we should expect big waves at least 3 times, for up to 3 days each, every year. Some years less, some years more.
One winter day in the mid '60s, the waves breaking at South Patch in SF stretch solidly from occasional closeouts at the GGate channel to Sharp Park with NO break in the whitewater.
It happens, it's winter. |
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chophop
Joined: 16 Apr 1996 Posts: 230
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Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2017 6:16 pm Post subject: |
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You are so right about that!
Every winter the Pacific flexes it's muscles and you don't really know how awesome it is until you see it from the water.
We have already had one xxl swell this Fall. |
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dllee
Joined: 03 Jul 2009 Posts: 5329 Location: East Bay
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Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2017 7:24 pm Post subject: |
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In early '84, I sailed my 9' Seatrend out until Mt.Diablo fully disappeared, N wind and planing. Heading back in, the N wind started to die as I made the old Taraval Buoy. Sitting on the buoy, waving and smiling as several fishing boats headed towards the gate past, I prepared for the derig and 1.5 hour paddle in.
LOUD gongs, almost at threshold.
But a S wind came up and subplaned to an outer bar wave got me my 1st ever portside (me goof) wave ever, from around Ulloa to almost Santiago St., really long port left all the way in to step off.
Would have loved ro head back out, but discretion and a rising swell kept me happily on shore.
That Taraval buoy washed in 3 years later, anchored in e5 feet of water. |
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jingebritsen
Joined: 21 Aug 2002 Posts: 3371
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loopless
Joined: 30 Jun 1997 Posts: 426
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Posted: Thu Dec 14, 2017 11:56 am Post subject: |
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Whatever the arguments about actual wave size, according to WindAlert the wind is going to be nuking today with some pretty big waves at Hookipa. Wish there was a web cam! |
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fxop
Joined: 13 Jun 1998 Posts: 202
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swchandler
Joined: 08 Nov 1993 Posts: 10588
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Posted: Thu Dec 14, 2017 1:38 pm Post subject: |
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What's with the bald guy going out on the red board with no fins? That totally insane. |
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keycocker
Joined: 10 Jul 2005 Posts: 3598
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Posted: Thu Dec 14, 2017 9:03 pm Post subject: |
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Just gusting in the low forties at Kihei, but over fifty on Oahu. |
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