Re: [Paddlewise] more like "wave heights" but was pressurize the boat

Mike, when I contacted the writer of the story, I did give her full 
disclosure that while her article was well received on paddlewise we did 
have questions about the leakage issue and the wave heights (specifically 
that the latter is often exaggerated).

We had a link earlier for historical data that couldn't be opened with my 
browser. You have an example below of Michigan lake wave height forcasts, 
but I'd like to see the data for both the forcasted and the actual for the 
date of the incident. The story was issued April  3,2007, but the text 
indicated a different date for the actual trip:

"There was no reason to think that would happen this past October 9th, 
however. The weather was mild; the winds were calm; the two men were well 
equipped and up for the challenge."

I assume this was the fall of 2006.

I'd like to see the correct data for that time frame. I'm not sure what 
dates were referened in the other post.

BTW, I got the e-mail address of the two paddlers involved in the incident. 
If anyone has further questions, I volunteer to contact either Mike or Paul, 
rather than questions coming from multiple sources. These guys are probably 
embarrassed enough as it is.

Doug Lloyd


> Doug wrote:
> ....snip
>> paddler doubles their estimate and then a newspaper reported factors in
>> another doubling, well, it doesn't take long to have 20 foot seas on the
>> Great Lakes at half the needed 60 knots to really generate those seas. On
> ....snip
>
> Check out this forecast for the inshore waters south shore Lake Superior:
>
> NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARQUETTE MI
> 533 PM EDT TUE APR 3 2007
> FOR WATERS WITHIN FIVE NAUTICAL MILES OF SHORE
> LSZ241-242-040600-
>
> UPPER ENTRANCE OF PORTAGE CANAL TO MANITOU ISLAND MI-
> 533 PM EDT TUE APR 3 2007
> ...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS
> EVENING...
> ...GALE WARNING NOW IN EFFECT FROM 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING THROUGH
> THURSDAY AFTERNOON...
> .TONIGHT...NE WIND TO 30 KT INCREASING TO GALES TO 35 KT BY
> MIDNIGHT...THEN BACKING N LATE. SNOW. WAVES 4 TO 6 FT BUILDING TO
> 15 TO 20 FT.
> .WED...N GALES TO 40 KT. SNOW SHOWERS. WAVES BUILDING TO 20 TO 25
> FT.
> .WED NIGHT...NW GALES TO 35 KT. SNOW SHOWERS. WAVES 20 TO 25 FT.
>
> I can't find my wind speed/wave height tables but is this even possible
> with only 40 kt gales? I won't be out there in my kayak but I'll be
> looking for a protected cove with my surfboard.
> -mike
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