Re: [Paddlewise] wave height

At 09:18 8/29/98 -0500, Bob Washburn <whiterabbit_at_iw.edwpub.com> wrote:
>
>
>If true wave height is from sea level to the top of the wave, then us
>mid-westerners are paddling some awful big waves.  That makes that 18 inch
>chop yesterday a 565 foot wave. ;0
>>

i just surfed a 7500ft wave this morning then ;-)


>>Our weather man says the true wave height is from sea level to the top of
>>the wave and the vertical distance from the trough to the crest is twice
>>the height. But when are weather men or women right more than 50% of the
>>time or less?????
>>
>>Dana

mark

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