Downside of having a scoop for a bow..

 www.thehulltruth.com/boating-forum/934447-jupiter-inlet-no-mercy.html

 

Video of a big CC cat sticking the bow under at the notorious Jupiter Inlet. Always worries me looking at Western Whalers and CC cats with no wavebreaker--just a giant scoop waiting to fill you up.


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Looks like an outgoing tide against the swell

Tue, 2018-05-29 14:02

Commonly known as stuffing the bow, and yeah the bilge pumps would have been busy.

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That's what the yanks call it.

Tue, 2018-05-29 14:41

 Standing waves, or pressure waves, are the worst. I don't know if his bilge pump would have come into it, boats like that don't tend to drain the deck back into the bilge. He probably lost half of it getting very bow high when he turned back out with it, when it went back out over the transom 

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Dealt with standing waves

Tue, 2018-05-29 18:18

Launched my old boats in the estuary at Australing and attacked the cut for years, had a few hairy moments going out in the dark with close outs and coming in against the outgoing  tide. Now I've got a boat that can handle it alot better I just launch either at Casuarina or Stirling St. Old age and the estuary being to shallow will do that to ya.

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In a blink of an eye

Tue, 2018-05-29 16:55

 From a good day out to a lucky escape in a blink of an eye, by a good day out I mean no undue stress or incidents.

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Tue, 2018-05-29 18:06

There is a vid further down the page of a guy in a panga, he wasn't so fortunate ...... oops!  

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Lets go back and do it again!

Tue, 2018-05-29 18:20

 

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 Some scary shit there. You

Tue, 2018-05-29 18:48

 Some scary shit there. You realy would be better on a tide the other way and plan you trip to coinside with the tides. 

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 There would be mud for

Tue, 2018-05-29 19:53

 There would be mud for sure. 

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That is a 32 footer.

Wed, 2018-05-30 06:03

 Gives some idea of the size of those standing waves

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It is quite concerning some

Thu, 2018-05-31 07:39

It is quite concerning some of the comments on that forum on how people would get out of that situation, or further, people asking how and why it happened.

I guess with my boat, in any sort of short chop, I need to ride the throttle constantly which I sort of enjoy and from a sailing background, you never sail straight down a wave into the next one or you lose momentum (always on an angle) so it is a stupid mistake in my mind.

Easy to write from a desk overlooking kings park ultimately.