Wave height- of interest

[knotman]

http://www.guillemot-kayaks.com/guillem ... ave_height

[tee]

very interesting - but of course you would use your deck-mounted, self-levelling, gyroscopically-stabilised, lasar-ranging (with optional doppler-shift correction) theodolite to measure wave height, speed, time to impact and probability of making your roll on the first attempt.

or is that dave walsh I\'m thinking of?

[Dave]

the angle of looking up depends on the distance from the object. So if you\'re clever do the roll before the wave hits you. PS there are a number of kayaking companies out there who will teach you how to stay upright, then you won\'t have to roll.

[DaveWalsh]

Excellent stuff Knotman, you are truly the Brendan McWilliams of Irish kayaking, just as Gerry would be the Professor William Reville, and Carraher perhaps the Popeye Doyle. The more people learn (and practise) to read everything around them and to think things through, on the hoof, the more they will take out of small boating. With practice, you can estimate all sorts of important things, such as distance off, for instance by whether you can see a house, or count its windows, or see waves breaking on the beach ahead, all sorts of tricks.
Hit the “next” button lower down the wave-height page and go to a discussion of “natural ranges” – what we call transits - and there are even moving parts to make it all clear. To be highly commended, like a Jack Russell at a dog show.
Estimating wave height, by the by, can easily be done on the beach. Surfers do it all the time. Go to the waters edge and crouch until the horizon becomes uneven. That is the height of the distant waves.
And anyway. Why do Reville and Doyle automatically think of their rolling technique once the wave height hits six feet ? Very Freudian that.
DWalsh

[Dave]

To Mister (O\'Master) Walsh. What height was the wave that you sent Evelyn over to off Turbot. The poor girls still having nightmares. (About the wave, not me).

[tee]

Dave wrote:

the angle of looking up depends on the distance from the object. So if you\'re clever do the roll before the wave hits you.

that is unless you want to surf the wave...

PS there are a number of kayaking companies out there who will teach you how to stay upright, then you won\'t have to roll.

is that the same company that offered to teach you how to paddle efficiently in a straight line?

DaveWalsh wrote:

Why do Reville and Doyle automatically think of their rolling technique once the wave height hits six feet ? Very Freudian that.

where did this idea come from and what does a man who was possibly a little too fond of his mother have to do with it?

[MOFarrell]

Enlightening stuff from the anals of the Four Masters.
One to introduce the topic,
another to add verbage, and
two more to stir!

I note that only two masters considered rolling in 6 ft waves.
That carry on would worry most paddlers.

Michael O\'F

[DaveWalsh]

Right enough, as Carraher says, there was a humongous boomer wave off Turbot Island last month, far bigger than anything we are talking about here, big, threatening and frightening in its appearance and the way it came at us suddenly and unprovoked, but fortunately it had little in the way of curly bits up top.
Evelyn wasn’t one bit phased.
Evelyn is well used to big, threatening and frightening, but she knows perfectly well that’s all harmless where there’s a certain deficit up top.
DWalsh

[Dave]

Looking forward to Greenland

[DaveWalsh]

The apparent heinght of a wave coming at you, in my experience, increases after a feed of drink the night before, and decreases if you are wearing a dry-suit, especially if the rest of the group are in short sleeves.
DWalsh