It's the mid 1930's, along a section of coastal Norway with straight cliffs. A 15 yr old son and 13 yr old sister are taking their mom to a Saturday afternoon social. She is in a fine dress and carries a parasol. Large swell crash on and reflect from the cliff. The teens are concerned that the confused waves will capsize their rowboat. Mom tells them to row a quarter wavelength from the cliffs. Although waves break around them everywhere, they pass through the dreaded area on relatively calm water. Nowadays, the fellow paddles a 15 ft rowboat near his home in the Nantucket - but this week he is working/vacationing in Chincoteague, VA. Sometimes Eric tells me a few tales during breaks from his wave research. Another story was about a fellow who entered an unheated Norwegian cabin in winter. He took a sip of brandy and died immediately from a frozen gullet. The quarter wavelength idea seems interesting. Any comments? bye bye bliven *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced/forwarded outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Mon Oct 02 2000 - 16:40:26 PDT
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