Paul Montgomery wrote: > I looked in one dictionary and did not find "clapotis". Another lists > it as a French word meaning "wash". Wikipedia to the rescue: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clapotis "In hydrodynamics, the clapotis (from French: "lapping of water") is a non-breaking standing wave pattern, caused for example, by the reflection of a traveling surface wave train from a near vertical shoreline ..." Worth noting is that Wiki claims "pure" clapotis does not involve any horizontal motion of water particles (read the entire citation to understand what they mean). The crashing waves we body surfed out from the cliffs in Solana Beach would not, strictly, be clapotis by this definition. -- Dave Kruger Astoria, OR *************************************************************************** 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 Jun 17 2008 - 07:24:26 PDT
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