On Thu, 16 Aug 2007 10:11:47 -0700,
wrote:

http://www.monkeybutler.com/boat/temp/Movie_1.wmv

These movies were taken while we were bucking an outgoing tide at the
entrance to the Cape Cod Canal. We were idling which usually gives us
around 3 knots. My GPS was indicating 1 to 2 knots SOG but in this
case I believe it was actually reporting our backwards progress.
Notice that the waves are overtaking us.

Help me out here.

You were heading into an outgoing tide at the Canal?

Because that doesn't make any sense.

"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Thu, 16 Aug 2007 10:11:47 -0700,
wrote:

http://www.monkeybutler.com/boat/temp/Movie_1.wmv

These movies were taken while we were bucking an outgoing tide at the
entrance to the Cape Cod Canal. We were idling which usually gives us
around 3 knots. My GPS was indicating 1 to 2 knots SOG but in this
case I believe it was actually reporting our backwards progress.
Notice that the waves are overtaking us.

Help me out here.

You were heading into an outgoing tide at the Canal?

Because that doesn't make any sense.

Not sure what you're getting at, is this a trick question ???

We were heading "up" Buzzards bay or "east" in terms of the canal in the Hog
Island/Onset bay area approaching the west end of the canal a around 4:30PM
on 7/7. The tide charts for that day show High Tide at the railroad bridge
as 2:42PM and show the current turning west at 3:28PM.

So here is a crappy ASCII art diagram of our situation:

- - - - - - - Current flow - - - - - - -
West - - - - - - - Boat direction - - - - - - East
- - - - - - - Current flow - - - - - - -

Steve P.

On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 09:20:06 -0400, "Steve P"
wrote:


"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Thu, 16 Aug 2007 10:11:47 -0700,
wrote:

http://www.monkeybutler.com/boat/temp/Movie_1.wmv

These movies were taken while we were bucking an outgoing tide at the
entrance to the Cape Cod Canal. We were idling which usually gives us
around 3 knots. My GPS was indicating 1 to 2 knots SOG but in this
case I believe it was actually reporting our backwards progress.
Notice that the waves are overtaking us.

Help me out here.

You were heading into an outgoing tide at the Canal?

Because that doesn't make any sense.

Not sure what you're getting at, is this a trick question ???

We were heading "up" Buzzards bay or "east" in terms of the canal in the Hog
Island/Onset bay area approaching the west end of the canal a around 4:30PM
on 7/7. The tide charts for that day show High Tide at the railroad bridge
as 2:42PM and show the current turning west at 3:28PM.

So here is a crappy ASCII art diagram of our situation:

- - - - - - - Current flow - - - - - - -
West - - - - - - - Boat direction - - - - - - East
- - - - - - - Current flow - - - - - - -

I understood what you posted - the video shows something entirely
different.

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. :)

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

wrote in message
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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.