Tom, anticipating that you were about to post pictures of your stern
wave, I took a few of my own last Sunday. The one below was taken
about a mile west of Sanibel Island while traveling about 2 knots over
theoretical hull speed in a 60,000 pound boat. If you look closely
you can see two dolphins swimming in the wake which I estimate to be
about 3 feet in height at the stern of the boat.

http://tinyurl.com/3pgfr

We were definitely not on plane, but were cooking right along for a
big heavy boat.

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On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 18:09:33 GMT, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:

This morning, while burning some old gas in the Ranger, I took the
following sequence of pictures at various speeds.

The first is at idle - putting along.

http://www.home.earthlink.net/~tomf123/Idlestern.JPG

The second is with power applied - 1k rpm. Notice the increase in wave
height.

http://www.home.earthlink.net/~tomf123/onekstern.JPG

This is 1.5K. The shape of the wake is changing.

http://www.home.earthlink.net/~tomf1...tfivestern.JPG

This is 1.5K bow wave - this is where the bow wave starts to appear.

http://www.home.earthlink.net/~tomf1...fivebowave.JPG

2K stern - the shape of the wake is starting really change here.

http://www.home.earthlink.net/~tomf123/twokstern.JPG

2.5K - the shape of the wake is fully formed, but we're not quite
there yet.

http://www.home.earthlink.net/~tomf1...tfivestern.JPG

3K - this is the transitional stage where the boat comes fully up on
the planing surface. It doesn't happen in short bursts on this boat -
it literally goes from 3K to 4K all at once and your on plane. The
planing wake shape is now fully formed.

http://www.home.earthlink.net/~tomf123/threeKstern.JPG

Notice the lack of bow wave.

http://www.home.earthlink.net/~tomf123/threekbowave.JPG

3.9K

http://www.home.earthlink.net/~tomf1...ineplaning.JPG

Up on plane at 3.9k - wake fully formed.

http://www.home.earthlink.net/~tomf1...planestern.JPG

WOT.

http://www.home.earthlink.net/~tomf123/WOT.JPG

Wake WOT.

http://www.home.earthlink.net/~tomf123/WOTplane.JPG

Cruise and Cruise wake:

http://www.home.earthlink.net/~tomf123/cruise.jpg

http://www.home.earthlink.net/~tomf1...iseplaning.JPG

Hull shape bow and stern:

http://www.home.earthlink.net/~tomf123/hullshapebow.JPG

http://www.home.earthlink.net/~tomf1...shapestern.JPG

I'm not sure what all this proves, but it shows that most of this boat
is out of the water, on top - gliding if you will. :)

Phew....glad all that's over with.

Now, bring on the politics!!!!

Er.......forget I said that.

Take care.

Tom

"The beatings will stop when morale improves."
E. Teach, 1717

On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 23:31:35 -0500, Wayne.B
wrote:

Tom, anticipating that you were about to post pictures of your stern
wave, I took a few of my own last Sunday. The one below was taken
about a mile west of Sanibel Island while traveling about 2 knots over
theoretical hull speed in a 60,000 pound boat. If you look closely
you can see two dolphins swimming in the wake which I estimate to be
about 3 feet in height at the stern of the boat.

These are the kinds of wakes I just LOVE to run into on Narragansett
Bay in my Ranger.

LOOOOOOVE them.... :)

Later,

Tom

On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 11:42:17 GMT, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:
On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 23:31:35 -0500, Wayne.B
wrote:

Tom, anticipating that you were about to post pictures of your stern
wave, I took a few of my own last Sunday. The one below was taken
about a mile west of Sanibel Island while traveling about 2 knots over
theoretical hull speed in a 60,000 pound boat. If you look closely
you can see two dolphins swimming in the wake which I estimate to be
about 3 feet in height at the stern of the boat.

These are the kinds of wakes I just LOVE to run into on Narragansett
Bay in my Ranger.

LOOOOOOVE them.... :)
=========================================

Yeah, you could get some serious air on that wake. Given what it
costs me to produce it, I should charge admission :-)

As it is I give everyone one free jump. If they annoy me in some way
and make a turn for a second pass, I just slow down a couple of knots
and take the fun away.

On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 13:38:42 -0500, Wayne.B
wrote:

On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 11:42:17 GMT, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:
On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 23:31:35 -0500, Wayne.B
wrote:

Tom, anticipating that you were about to post pictures of your stern
wave, I took a few of my own last Sunday. The one below was taken
about a mile west of Sanibel Island while traveling about 2 knots over
theoretical hull speed in a 60,000 pound boat. If you look closely
you can see two dolphins swimming in the wake which I estimate to be
about 3 feet in height at the stern of the boat.

These are the kinds of wakes I just LOVE to run into on Narragansett
Bay in my Ranger.

LOOOOOOVE them.... :)
=========================================

Yeah, you could get some serious air on that wake. Given what it
costs me to produce it, I should charge admission :-)

And I should charge for the back and ankle pain caused from landing
after one of these sneak attacks. :)

As it is I give everyone one free jump. If they annoy me in some way
and make a turn for a second pass, I just slow down a couple of knots
and take the fun away.

I bet those lunatic PWC riders really enjoy it too.

All the best,

Tom
--------------

"What the hell's the deal with this newsgroup...
is there a computer terminal in the day room of
some looney bin somewhere?"

Bilgeman - circa 2004

On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 21:16:06 GMT, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:

I bet those lunatic PWC riders really enjoy it too.

===========================

Oh yes, they get their one free jump also. The old Bertram was a PWC
magnet. Normally I would slow down after one jump just to get rid of
them, but we had a couple of guys on the Hudson River once that were
so good that I let them play for a while. They were literally making
triple wave jumps. If you figure the crest distance to be roughly the
water line length of the boat, that implies jump distances of around
90 feet or so. They followed me for over five miles and never got
quite close enough to make a nuisance of themselves.