In a similar vein, a group of us had been playing in surf and ledges when we came around a small island in Casco Bay, found a nice sheltered spot and quasi-rafted up for a water-granola bar break. In the shipping lane about 300 yards out, a substantial container ship was passing outbound. The wakes from these ships are sometimes large, but rarely problematic on deeper water. Somewhat unawares of the immediate underwater topography, we were hanging out right where the ledge abruptly becomes shallower than the channel. Therefore, the fairly innocuous wake I'd been watching roll our way, suddenly reared up to become a 4 foot dumping wave. A few of us yelled "incoming" and most got their boats pointed into the wave. One did not. It lifted him broad beam and threw his boat like a shot put across the bow of another paddler's boat who was facing into the wave. Fortunately, the paddler in the second boat was able to deflect both wave-surf and incoming kayak. All remained upright and uninjured, though slightly rattled and all the more wiser about paying attention to one's surroundings, above and below the water line. -W *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue Aug 05 2003 - 10:49:30 PDT
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