Mike, I guess Michigan Lake has significant fetch on a northerly or nor'easter wind. Buoy 45007 is north of where the incident took place. Sharon said that waves are typically bigger closer to shore (south of the buoy) and that there is a time delay when comparing wave heights near shore to the further upwind (in this case) buoy. She felt the two paddlers were fairly accurate in their guestimates (let's face it, that's usually the case - a guestimate), especially given the Chicago Police marine unit reported similar wave heights. I think she rounded up to 10 feet in part of here subjective comments, which may have been slightly higher than fact, although we all know the odd wave set can be a little higher than the average significant wave height. Sounds like she did her homework. Still, not a bad job, given she didn't appear to be a paddler or knowledgeable with respect to marine navigation experience. I'll see if the two fellows have anything to say about the leak issue. I know for me, as crazy a paddler as I seem, there are three fundamental considerations to a safe paddle I look at seriously. They arbitrarily include the paddler, the boat, and navigation. Sounds like the boat part and the navigation part may have been compromised for the crossing attempt. I'll often compromise the navigation part in the interest of finding a challenge close to my thresholds or slightly more in - staged degrees. Doug L > Ooops, I need to print a retraction. I made an error in converting UTC to > CDT when I said the wave hts that day were about 4-4.5' at the South lake > Mich bouy. It was pointed out to me back channel thatfrom 7pm to 8pm CDT > the wave hts from the data file were 7.4 to 7.7 feet. So it appears the > hts reported in the article are pretty close, 6-8' and then 10'. I'm very > sorry for the misrepresentation. > -mike *************************************************************************** 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 Wed Apr 04 2007 - 17:05:43 PDT
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