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| - | ==== Rogue Wave ==== | ||
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| - | **Reivers Dustin** \\ | ||
| - | 06/21/08 #4555 | ||
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| - | This morning was a flat one. Nice to have warm temps. Just at\\ | ||
| - | straight up nine the whale watch boat blasted off. Morris and I got\\ | ||
| - | out there quick enough to catch some runners. Its fun for 15 seconds\\ | ||
| - | then you run past the wave. | ||
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| - | The pack of us headed for Eliza, but Morris turned back to support\\ | ||
| - | the WOW event. I kept on for another fifteen minutes or so, then\\ | ||
| - | turned back. The guys said, "be safe" as I peeled off. I've been\\ | ||
| - | out there so many times on my own it just seemed like another droll\\ | ||
| - | paddle home. But way off to the south I could see a tug headed up to\\ | ||
| - | B'ham Bay. | ||
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| - | So I thought about what I could see and decided that the hat trick\\ | ||
| - | would be to get across the tug's path so I could be on the shore side\\ | ||
| - | of his wave. It's kinda hard to judge relative speeds especially\\ | ||
| - | when you're near the line of travel. So I put some hot mustard on my\\ | ||
| - | paddle and turned toward Dot Island to be way clear of the tug's\\ | ||
| - | line. Once I was certain I was clear I turned back north to crab a\\ | ||
| - | little closer to the tug. It seemed to take a while for them to get\\ | ||
| - | by me enough for the wake to show up. | ||
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| - | It was worth the wait. I let the steep rollers go under then would\\ | ||
| - | turn to catch them straight on. Once I got speed (shit ahoy!) I\\ | ||
| - | could edge hard and milk the ride for a long ways. I would get maybe\\ | ||
| - | a 90-120 second run, then would outrun the wake. Because the water\\ | ||
| - | was so flat except for the wake, I could point up really close to\\ | ||
| - | broaching without loosing my ride. After a run I would slip back\\ | ||
| - | behind the big rollers and go for it again. I didn't have my GPS,\\ | ||
| - | but pretty sure this is the fastest I've travelled on a 'ski. | ||
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| - | The fun lasted from about the end of the wall to just a little before\\ | ||
| - | the shallows there near Post Point. I was hoping the shallows would\\ | ||
| - | stack the waves again so I could ride all the way in. But the waves\\ | ||
| - | were flattening out and getting faster and harder to catch. | ||
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| - | Shawn and LG were talking about finding a rougue wave without a\\ | ||
| - | source boat when they came back from Eliza. These big waves on flat\\ | ||
| - | water are very different from our normal slop n' chop. It's much\\ | ||
| - | easier to figure out what works when you're not getting slapped\\ | ||
| - | around. | ||
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| - | Great stuff | ||
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