Heck, I've sailed in the Carib with waves we looked up at. And that was
mild weather.

"John Cairns" wrote in message
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You need to read the posts more carefully. As high as the freeboard? I've
sailed in conditions like that on LAKE ERIE. Hint-how high is a typical
freeboard on a heeled sailboat of 30'-50' feet in LOA. So, the long and
short of it is, you agree that "lifelines" are an "important" safety
feature
on sailboats. Another hint-when referring to wave height, waves are
measured
from what two points?
John Cairns
"JAXAshby" keruffled
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Racko-Nos, you said "rough" conditions. On one occasion, waves as high
as
the
freeboard were reported by other crew on the boat I was on (heading
offshore,
btw, after ducking into a port to let the Norther against the Gulf
Stream
pass)
as "six feet" and by another boat not 10 minutes behind us as "20 feet"
(water
too shallow to support much above 6 foot waves)

You are a putz, like the lately departed Neal pointed out constantly. I
was
offshore last November, and you can prove you were offshore when? Just
as
I
thought. Typical AOLamer.Waves as high as the freeboard?
bwahahahahahhahahahahaha
John Cairns
"JAXAshby" bleated balefully
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That is where I learned it. Racko-Nos, are you suggesting that should
you
happen someday to get offshore you might learn some other way to go
forward in
waves as high as the freeboard?