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Short Wave wrote:
If you look at the video, you are relatively motionless as compared to
the shore.
The waves are coming at you and passing you from the stern.
Unless it's some kind of optical delusion that I can't parse. :)

I'm not the video poster, but looks the current is running one way and
the wind/waves are going the other. Like this:

West--------- Wind & Waves -------East
---- - - - - - - Current flow - - - - - - -
----- - - - - - Boat direction - - - - - -

Rick

'Zacktly Rick!

Like I said we were idling and probably actually being carried backwards by
the current in relationship to the shore. The wind driven waves which had
been building all day were bucking the current and overtaking us. The
conditions this day were well within the capabilities of my low transom boat
but these are classic inlet/bar conditions that can be the cause of a
swamping.

Steve P.