Random Picture Thread

Now, this is sailing...

(From thre June edition of Yachting World magazine)

 

"Incrediable Washing Machine", the chop from hell more like it.

 

Crazy picture of a person got concussion from too many bad rep

Seeing is believing, his friend was nice enough to redeco the fainted guy....... too many bad rep does make faint possible........

 

And here are his kids....

 

If you look real close,
I think you will notice that the older one has rather skillfully drawn a boat right in the middle of the younger ones forehead. (bowsprit, short mast and a fishing line out the back with a shark snagged on from the belly- dah..)
like I said on http://boatdesign.net/forums/showthread.php?t=11598

Medusaboat.
Take note..

 

LOL ....... Lucky to have creative kids....... beautiful children...... is it yours?

 

No - mine are all grown up and producing grandchildren. The ones in the pic belong to a friend from a mountain-biking group. Lucky soul...

 

"No - mine are all grown up and producing grandchildren."

Now there's a good trick, medically speaking

 

You know what I meant, Wally (why am i so tempted to replace that "a" with an "i"?.....)

 

Storm surfer

Crazy surfer, look at yacht in last seconds of movie:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9220230963738964724&q=wave

Is it real?

 

Thats some crazy footage SeaSpark.

Now I am not exactly a well experienced sailor, but I am most definately a well experienced surfer. While I do not know boats from head to tail, what I do know is wind, waves, and salt water, and how they interact.

If I was to have to say whether that footage was real or not, then I would say that it is either real, or it has been rather well faked.

If it is real, as the wind speed and direction and degree of heeling of the boat seem to tindicate, being parrellel, then it is a most remarkable peice of film.
What I would like to see is the next 30 seconds of footage when the next wave in the set would properly catch the boat, dump it and beach it.

Either this or it has been rather well faked. While there does seem to be some sort of dogy pixel stuff going on around the boat, the real conditions that would surround a thing that big in that swell and foam, would explain this also.


So my vote,
yes.
It is real.

but either way that surfer is both crazy/stupid and brilliant/lucky...

 

No, I don't think so. The moment that massive wave fell over him, only two things could have happened:

Either the weight would force him way down and rolling widely with the water turmoil, or he would have been projected immediately out of the wave and have flown, falling some meters in front of the wave.

What the film shows is that he is some seconds in that turmoil and then he manages to go out of it. I don't believe it would have been possible with all those tons of water falling over him.

 

There is a third option.

Vega,
the two options you mention are probably the most likely when a wave breaks upon you.
The first option, getting pushed down, is when it lands on you and squeezes you back and down,
the second option is where it lands on you, so that when the pressure and water bounces back up, it picks you up with it.
There is also another option, and it is what I think has happened here-
when the lip lands on or just behind you, but instead this time when the pressure and water bounce back up it only just hits you- not directly enough to launch you in the air, but with enough force that it propels you forward rather than up.
When this happens you sort of have to lean back into it so that it doesn't push you over forward, but not too much back so that it lifts you up.
If you get it right then it practically jets you forward, and if you haven't made it clear back onto the face of the wave yet you have the chance to do the same at the next bounce up of the white wash. Waves don't just break once- at least in terms of pressure and energy impact.
this happens like this \/\/\/\/\, (the comma is the surfer about to get jetted foreward again)
On a wave this size then it is not surprising that he remained invisable for a while. Anywhere near the impact there is a lot of finer spray that will cover everything, especially as there was a howling onshore (part sideshore) wind.

It is this bouncing that needs to be understood if you want to surf big waves. I used to surf what I consider big waves- at least once third the size of this one- and even in my peak you could not have paid me to paddle out in surf that big- let alone catch one that size.
If you time your duckdive under the wave (dipping and pushing the nose of your board under an oncoming white wash and following with your body, down then under and up) then even a 10ft plus wave may feel like nothing. If you time it wrong then something like a 3ft wave will smash you like a sledghammer, possibly giving you a free neck and back adjustment at the same time. CRAckcruch...
Both have happended to me many times.

Personally I have no doubt that the surfing footage is real.
What was more doubtfull to me was whether the boat in the background was real or not.
What made me think it was real was that the boat was heeled over in the correct direction as to what the wind, waves, and spray indicate it should be.

So thats my bit.
Hans.

 

I don't know Hans, it seems to good to be true, but doesn't matter.

Take a look at this one:

It is not needed a big boat to sail fast.

video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2026225189941762547&q=surf (no longer active)

Or this one, small cats going fast...and crashing

video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5911305540688731161&q=surf (no longer active)

 

It seems every crash the front dug in and tripped the boat. How could that be fixed? Sam