"Bob" wrote in message
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I looked at the other compelling videos JoeS Butcher posted on
youtoub.

The one that really gave me a laugh was the one Joe titled, GIANT
MONSTER WAVES !

http://www.youtube.com/user/JoeSButc.../1/EomTf3hczco


Bwahahahahhahahahahh! I thought that one was a riot, too. It's as if he were
being facetious or something but he was dead serious. He clearly has never
experienced a real 25 foot sea on a small sailing yacht. I have, and they
are NOTHING like the 'chop' in that video. I've sailed in the Gulf Steam
many a time during small craft advisories during cold front passages just to
see what it was all about. I've sailed such big seas out there that
close-by, large bulk carriers were completely lost from view behind 25-30
foot seas which were heaped up because of the north set of the Stream. No
picnic but doable. Certainly nothing to abandon ship about.



Dear joe if those are an example what you call giant or monster waves
please stay in port with Bruce, Willbur et al.



Hey, that's uncalled for comparing Joe's fraidy-cat ineptitude with my
sailing skills. I've sailed more ocean miles than Joe and have taken little
ole fifteen foot, cold front generated seas in stride. No one ever saw me
claiming 10-15 footers were 25-footers. No one ever heard a call from me on
the VHF crying like a baby and requesting a helicopter rescue.


From where I come from those conditions are considered, snotty and
uncomfortable but certainly not M O N S T E R........ But being from
the oil patch i guess its all relative. I think its time you took a
god look around and see what other people are doing........ I think
you might just learn somthing.

Good luck,
Bob


Joe needs to get his eyes checked and he needs to understand that viewing a
10-15 foot sea from his pilot house when the bow is facing the trough gives
a very misleading estimate of wave height. The senses end up giving one a
false horizontal where the size of the wave becomes exaggerated by a factor
of two. But, every actual seaman knows this. This is why I say that Joe is
no seaman.


Wilbur Hubbard