Alaskan Sea-Duction
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BingoSomeone lost situational awareness.
This is "inside" the Columbia so rouge wave? The only wave that size would be a wake from a ship.
I call it BS from this chair arm expert!! LOL
This will make you laugh..sort of.
I was involved in legal case a few
years ago where a 28' boat got slammed by a "wave" down in Sourth PUget Sound....near Olympia. A woman was quite seriously injured.
the defense case, in its entirety, was to produce an "expert witness" who testified under oath, that the cause of the incident was a Rogue Wave that came from no where and nearly capsized the boat.
Jury didn't buy it for a second....too many fisherman on the jury.
I suppose One person's "rogue wave" is another person's boat wake coming off a container ship.
Ten-knot ships don't make wakes.
When we were heading to Seattle last summer there were 3 ships en route to Tacoma going 20kts. Created a huge huge wake. VTS called them and told them to slow down they were in a "No Wake" zone. Scared the crap outta us and dang near rolled several other boats.
The rogue wave stuff started with post #2 by GFC.BTW, who claimed it was a rogue wave? I didn't see that in the story yet it keeps being mentioned.
I don't think it was a serious claim of a rogue wave. Seems to me it was a tongue in cheek statement. You'd have to ask GFC to know or sure.Yeah, those damn rogue waves. From the looks of the waves in the photo it's only about a 1'-2' wind chop. Nothing extreme for a 26' boat unless the person at the helm was hot dogging it.
Greetings,
There is also no mention of what the crew were doing or how and with what the boat was loaded with at the time of the incident. Perhaps they had a load of chain on board or some such other heavy piece(s) of equipment and were near the maximum load carrying capacity.
I wouldn't be so quick to question the professionalism of the crew. These guys do this for a living and work in all kinds of weather and sea conditions trying to keep us all safe. No lives were lost so it's simply an "oopsie" IMO.
Ten-knot ships don't make wakes.
Tongue was very firmly planted in my cheek.The rogue wave stuff started with post #2 by GFC.
I don't think it was a serious claim of a rogue wave. Seems to me it was a tongue in cheek statement. You'd have to ask GFC to know or sure.
We just experienced this ourselves a week ago while heading south between Marrowstone Island and Whidbey Island.
We got pinched between a fast moving freighter going 18 knots in the southbound traffic separation lane and the west side of Marrowstone Island.