Re: [Paddlewise] Waves, Weather & Wonder

From: Doug Lloyd <douglloyd_at_shaw.ca>
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 17:58:40 -0700
My old Nordkapp - as long as it didn't hit anything solid and had the 
cockpit hole sealed up, could take those seas. Me, not so much.

I was talking to Dan Lewis a while back: there was a huge storm at Long 
Beacv (VI) back in the 80's. Surferes/yakkers were just playing in the foam 
soup - that was it. Waves were initially breaking miles out to sea. In 
places where the swell could run right up to land in deep water againt the 
cliffs, the spray way making the sky rain. When the seas/surf really up, the 
ego is way down. When it's like it is the the video, well, what ego? What 
even of thought of a man?? Just a grain of sand at that point.

DL

> James Farrelly wrote:
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNpH5tx4Pu8&feature=related
>>
>> Very beautiful footage of the power of the sea.
>
> I think I saw Doug Lloyd in one of those shots.
>
> Steve
>
> -- 
> Steve Cramer
> Athens, GA
> http://www.savvypaddler.com
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