Yes, I agree it is a very well written account especially for a non padder publication. Thanks Jim. But I wish they had given the day of forecast for south lake Michigan and their reasoning for taking off on a fifty miler that particular day. I like to do my great lakes crossings in July mainly because any amount of side chop, overtime translates into a huge energy drain. I like to keep track of predicted wave heights and actual lake surface conditions as a data base to draw on when it comes time to make the go no go decision. I'm disappointed but not surprised that the wave heights as discribed by the participants appear to be exaggerated. It's possible to review conditions for that day at the south Lake Michigan bouy at: http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/view_text_file.php?filename=45007h2006.txt.gz&dir=data/historical/stdmet It appears significant wave height for that evening around 7-8pm was slowly building to 4 to 4.5 feet with about 20-25 knot winds. No doubt they were in some bad conditions for a crossing of that length and had some very unfortunate gear failure but I wish these accounts would not exaggerate sea state conditions. It throws my correlations way off. -mike > That is probably the best-written account of a kayak trip, paddlers' > mentality, and rescue I've ever read. Thanks, Jim. > > Craig Jungers > Royal City, WA *************************************************************************** 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 Mon Apr 02 2007 - 11:49:18 PDT
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