On Jan 4, 10:58*am, wrote:
On Mon, 4 Jan 2010 08:29:16 -0800 (PST), Joe
wrote:





On Jan 4, 8:55 am, wrote:
On Mon, 4 Jan 2010 06:49:10 -0800 (PST), Joe
wrote:

On Jan 3, 11:53 am, "Wilbur Hubbard"
wrote:
"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.

You have not sailed anywhere but a back woods mangrove swamp at best.

Here is 11 ft seas Nellie:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lC2AGQZtsvM

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Yes,

We had 11 fters for 4-5 days out of the NE. Again it's hard to
determine wave height from video's but thats what they were. They were
spaced a good 100 ft, it's not like they were splashing over the
wheelhouse, more like a slow rise and fall, a nice ride infact.

Joe

Oh... ocean swells. That makes more sense. We get that on calm days
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Not the same.

From Wikipeda: (taken from Boditch most likely)

When directly being generated and affected by the local winds, a wind
wave system is called a wind sea. After the wind ceases to blow, wind
waves are called swell. Or, more generally, a swell consists of wind
generated waves that are not — or hardly — affected by the local wind
at the same moment. They have been generated elsewhere, or some time
ago.[1] Wind waves in the ocean are called ocean surface waves.

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Since they were from the NE with onl;y 5-600 miles fetch it precludes
any "ocean swell". If they were swells they would have been Gulf
Swells, but I contend they were "Wind waves"

Joe