A wave by any other size....
 

In article , "riverman"
writes:


I can't generalize for ALL east coasters, but it was on the right coast
where I first encountered this. Some fishermen were on a raft trip, and
estimated what I called a 6 foot wave as being a '3 foot wave'. I figured
they just had poor spatial sense, but they explained that other fishermen
also rated the sea swells from midline to peak. I've watched this happen all
over, but never knew where it originated.

--riverman



Myron - Been gone for a bit. Did Life in the Congo (Part IV or V) ever get
posted?
At one point it was hours away from being on the net.


Blakely LaCroix
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
RBP Clique member # 86.

The best adventure is yet to come.

A wave by any other size....
 

"Blakely LaCroix" wrote in message
...
In article , "riverman"
writes:


I can't generalize for ALL east coasters, but it was on the right coast
where I first encountered this. Some fishermen were on a raft trip, and
estimated what I called a 6 foot wave as being a '3 foot wave'. I figured
they just had poor spatial sense, but they explained that other fishermen
also rated the sea swells from midline to peak. I've watched this happen
all
over, but never knew where it originated.

--riverman



Myron - Been gone for a bit. Did Life in the Congo (Part IV or V) ever
get
posted?
At one point it was hours away from being on the net.


Hey railtramp: Good job keeping track of the episodes! Its actually is
Part V, and I've been accidentally mis-labeling it because I posted Part IV
right off the screen the night of the mugging and forgot to save a copy to
my HD and my own files are therefore incomplete. But Part V is almost ready
and will be posted Monday. Its about my first road-trip to the interior that
took place last year, and I'm contrasting it to the same road trip I took 2
weeks ago.

"Hours away"....grin. Manana, mon...

--riverman

A wave by any other size....
 

"riverman" wrote in message ...
"Brian Nystrom" wrote in message
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riverman wrote:

No, you're right. NOAA uses the same standard as river runners: trough
to
peak. But surfers (specifically Hawaiin surfers) have their own formula,
and
since a lot of the surfer terminology follows the fad, surfers worldwide
tend to follow the Hawaiian model. Which leads to a lot of non-surfers
also
following the model, which leads to the confusion. Check out
http://surfing.about.com/library/weekly/aa042001.htm

Ah, that explains it, but that sure is a screwy way of measuring waves. As
for
East Coasters doubling the wave height...it's BS.



I can't generalize for ALL east coasters, but it was on the right coast
where I first encountered this. Some fishermen were on a raft trip, and
estimated what I called a 6 foot wave as being a '3 foot wave'. I figured
they just had poor spatial sense, but they explained that other fishermen
also rated the sea swells from midline to peak. I've watched this happen all
over, but never knew where it originated.

--riverman

This one got my attention. I called Environment Canada and the weather
folks. They finally replied.
Sea State Forecasts for wave height are trough to peak. It is the
whole range that hurts ships.
I was fairly sure that is how it was done but the posting had me think
again.
Now looking over my shoulder and up at a four foot wave that is about
to clean the water bottle and flashlight of my front deck as it
crashes over my head that thing seemed to be 8 feet , but it was only
four, Perhaps that is where the confusion is.
I will forward the email from Environment Canada if anyone wants it.