A tropical storm suddenly appeared off Charleston, SC USA overnight and drifted over Tybee Island by morning. Half a dozen of us took this as a sign to mount up and went out long boat surfing into the infamous Tybee Triangle. We had fun get rained and gusted on while sliding down 4-5 foot sloppy waves. The waves had some serious power and shoved us fast and hard for quite a ways. One nice thing about most of the Triangle is if you think you are going to drown stand up. Its pretty shallow yet surrounded by powerful river mouth/ocean currents which is a big part of why the water can be so wild. If you paddled a short boat or waveski out there you could really have a blast. To try something like that on fun condition days would be a battle royal. Jim et al *************************************************************************** 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 Sun May 20 2012 - 18:28:42 PDT
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