WOW! Ya don't see LIS conditions like this
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Agree, take a look at the bouys off the coast
http://seaboard.ndbc.noaa.gov/Maps/Northeast.shtml notably 44017, 44008 and it looks like the eye hit 44004 Jim S/V Java
http://seaboard.ndbc.noaa.gov/Maps/Northeast.shtml notably 44017, 44008 and it looks like the eye hit 44004 Jim S/V Java
Yep thats what happens with a Noreaster'
The wind just whips down the "relatively" shallow LI Sound for miles and miles and it gets worse when its opposes the tide Now I know 5-10 feet don't sound like a lot (and it really isn't) but notice the 5 second interval between swells. At that rate the wave are very vertical & its like hitting a square wall of water ever few seconds. Bam ! Bam !! Bam !! Over and over again. After an hour of that you need your fillings checked.
The wind just whips down the "relatively" shallow LI Sound for miles and miles and it gets worse when its opposes the tide Now I know 5-10 feet don't sound like a lot (and it really isn't) but notice the 5 second interval between swells. At that rate the wave are very vertical & its like hitting a square wall of water ever few seconds. Bam ! Bam !! Bam !! Over and over again. After an hour of that you need your fillings checked.
Already on the hard...
but plan to go out on several friend's boats for the next couple of weeks.
but plan to go out on several friend's boats for the next couple of weeks.
What Wimps!!!
You guys haven't seen anything! 5ft @ 5 sec? We see that all the time when we in the Calif Delta cross "The Bays" with wind opposing tide in Suisun or San Pablo Bay! (Big, open bays, maybe 10NM x 15NM, lots of fetch, maybe average 8-10ft deep, with lots of area less than that, and prevailing wind coming off the infamous SF Bay.) I've had boats pounding into it alongside me say they could see the bottom of my keel, while bow & stern were supported by the wavetops! It's just a normal summer delivery to us. (Although I must admit we don't seek out these conditions!) BOATS WITH DODGERS ONLY! Or try 9-10 ft. at 4 secs off Pt. Reyes like we saw last year! WASHING MACHINE AND A HALF! (Just kidding, that is really ugly stuff, especially outside LIS!)
You guys haven't seen anything! 5ft @ 5 sec? We see that all the time when we in the Calif Delta cross "The Bays" with wind opposing tide in Suisun or San Pablo Bay! (Big, open bays, maybe 10NM x 15NM, lots of fetch, maybe average 8-10ft deep, with lots of area less than that, and prevailing wind coming off the infamous SF Bay.) I've had boats pounding into it alongside me say they could see the bottom of my keel, while bow & stern were supported by the wavetops! It's just a normal summer delivery to us. (Although I must admit we don't seek out these conditions!) BOATS WITH DODGERS ONLY! Or try 9-10 ft. at 4 secs off Pt. Reyes like we saw last year! WASHING MACHINE AND A HALF! (Just kidding, that is really ugly stuff, especially outside LIS!)
last summer
Hey Peter, I wish that I could have talked with you last summer. My first trip to the Delta. On the way home I spent the night at Antioch and then thought I would get a good start at 4am the next morning and run back to the San Francisco bay with the outgoing tide. That morning the wind had been blowing all night from the Carquinez Straight at about 20-25 knots. Man did I get pounded. I have a 33 foot sailboat with a 30 HP Yanmar. The engine was turning 3000 rpm and I was making about 2 knots over the ground with a 2 knot tide. The waves were slamming me backward. My son threw up... my wife sneared at me. These waves were easily 6 feet tall and they were 6 feet apart. Once we got to the Benicia Bridge things flattened out because the water is 80 feet deep. Then we were making 10 knots over the bottom all the way to the San Rafael Bridge. Other than that we had a fabulous time at Three River Reach.
Hey Peter, I wish that I could have talked with you last summer. My first trip to the Delta. On the way home I spent the night at Antioch and then thought I would get a good start at 4am the next morning and run back to the San Francisco bay with the outgoing tide. That morning the wind had been blowing all night from the Carquinez Straight at about 20-25 knots. Man did I get pounded. I have a 33 foot sailboat with a 30 HP Yanmar. The engine was turning 3000 rpm and I was making about 2 knots over the ground with a 2 knot tide. The waves were slamming me backward. My son threw up... my wife sneared at me. These waves were easily 6 feet tall and they were 6 feet apart. Once we got to the Benicia Bridge things flattened out because the water is 80 feet deep. Then we were making 10 knots over the bottom all the way to the San Rafael Bridge. Other than that we had a fabulous time at Three River Reach.
Sometimes
Conditions like that don't happen in Long Island Sound much. We've gone out the last two weekends because we're hauling out on the 29th. The 16th was a beautiful day of sun and clouds - typical Northwester weather here. We hoisted a single reefed mainsail in about 20 knots of breeze, and set off on a romp. The wind then shifted about 30º and increased to a steady 40. (The Hinman Team Racing Trophy was being run in Larchmont that day, and THEY had comments about the wind.) Waves in the quarter-mile fetch from shore were about two feet high. We reached off towards Long Island for a bit. The waves obviously got bigger as we moved further offshore in the Northerly. When the spray kicked up from the bow wave started to drench the cockpit, we decided to scoot back to flatter water. (The foul-weather gear was all below.) Once there, we headed dead downwind, back towards the harbor. We watched the speedometer climb, then steady at 12.5 knots while droplets from the bow wave made rainbows under the main boom. What a ride!
Conditions like that don't happen in Long Island Sound much. We've gone out the last two weekends because we're hauling out on the 29th. The 16th was a beautiful day of sun and clouds - typical Northwester weather here. We hoisted a single reefed mainsail in about 20 knots of breeze, and set off on a romp. The wind then shifted about 30º and increased to a steady 40. (The Hinman Team Racing Trophy was being run in Larchmont that day, and THEY had comments about the wind.) Waves in the quarter-mile fetch from shore were about two feet high. We reached off towards Long Island for a bit. The waves obviously got bigger as we moved further offshore in the Northerly. When the spray kicked up from the bow wave started to drench the cockpit, we decided to scoot back to flatter water. (The foul-weather gear was all below.) Once there, we headed dead downwind, back towards the harbor. We watched the speedometer climb, then steady at 12.5 knots while droplets from the bow wave made rainbows under the main boom. What a ride!
Yup Jim ,Peter, I was checking 44017 and others.
Check out the wave history at 9:50am. 22.3ft is big at any period. Been there Tom even on a "normal day". I'm in Fisher's Island Sound and the current really rips through there. With opposing wind on a long fetch even less than 3 footers really wack me around especially when passing over a lifting bottom feature. I am only 22ft (Oday 222) Scott, looks like a winner Sunday. Have a blast. I'm away this weekend and being hauled Monday.
Nice chatting with ya gang. Rob
Check out the wave history at 9:50am. 22.3ft is big at any period. Been there Tom even on a "normal day". I'm in Fisher's Island Sound and the current really rips through there. With opposing wind on a long fetch even less than 3 footers really wack me around especially when passing over a lifting bottom feature. I am only 22ft (Oday 222) Scott, looks like a winner Sunday. Have a blast. I'm away this weekend and being hauled Monday.
Nice chatting with ya gang. RobEverything is relative, some more so...
Would you consider this big? How about 105k knot winds and 25 ft seas just 2 weeks ago off Nantucket. Picture doesn't do it justice but you will notice those mountains on the horizon - no, not land!!
Would you consider this big? How about 105k knot winds and 25 ft seas just 2 weeks ago off Nantucket. Picture doesn't do it justice but you will notice those mountains on the horizon - no, not land!!
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Hey, isn't modern technology samfrantastic? Who would of thunk, ten years ago, that we could get real time conditions from weather bouys over the internet? Technology doesn't help me with my pickle. I live on the Farmington River, and flooding is back up to last weeks level. I hope to get into my Winter marina this weekend on the CT river without getting crushed by debris. Wish me luck. What an odd Autumn this has been.
Hey, isn't modern technology samfrantastic? Who would of thunk, ten years ago, that we could get real time conditions from weather bouys over the internet? Technology doesn't help me with my pickle. I live on the Farmington River, and flooding is back up to last weeks level. I hope to get into my Winter marina this weekend on the CT river without getting crushed by debris. Wish me luck. What an odd Autumn this has been.
105KT winds?
Never heard any weather reports with that sort of intensity of wind two weeks ago in this area. Was this way, way off of Nantucket where some of these hurricanes may have pathed?
Never heard any weather reports with that sort of intensity of wind two weeks ago in this area. Was this way, way off of Nantucket where some of these hurricanes may have pathed?
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