"(PeteCresswell)" wrote in message
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Per GEO:
Past stern-wheeler wake-surfing experience has made me dream of floating
down to New Orleans and then trying to "hitch-hike" back upstream.

Geeze!... How high are the wakes on those things?
--

I don't know about stern-wheelers, but I once surfed the bow wave of a ferry
through the ship canal from Lake Washington to Puget Sound, for a distance
of about a mile. I could keep my spacing from the vessel at about 15-20
feet, and the bow wave was about 4 feet tall and clean. It was just a case
of laying on a nice low brace and smiling at the people.

--riverman