Quoting "Joyce, Thomas F." <TJoyce_at_bellboyd.com>: > Were the paddlers caught in the Devil's Island caves or some other > place? The Devil's Island are far off shore and, as I recall, leave > little head room even in flatwater conditions. As Dana said, they were probably heading for the Squaw Bay caves, which are nearest their put-in, and which would have been directly downwind. They never could have gotten anywhere near Devils Island in those conditions. I was once windbound on Sand Island by approximately 30-mph winds out of the NE. The radio said there were six-foot waves in the more open areas, though we saw nothing that appeared to be more than four. Nonetheless, waves were washing over the dock near the campsites. As I said in my earlier post, they were probably deceived by what must have been the small size of the waves at their put-in. The wind would have been coming diagonally off the beach, and with the point a short distance to the west (I forget its name), the waves could not have been very high at Meyers Beach no matter how strong the wind. The bluff above the beach would have given them additional protection from the wind until they got out to the middle of the bay. Chuck Holst *************************************************************************** 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 24 2004 - 09:58:15 PDT
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