offshore winds
Submitted by MALANA605 on Thu, 2017-12-21 12:25
I have been boating inshore for the last year or so and was wondering whether the easterly is stronger or lighter the further you go out
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Darren253
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Date Joined: 23/07/16
Stronger, way stronger... It
Stronger, way stronger... It was a mill pond when we left the ramp this morning, it was 600-800mm chop out past the islands.
opsrey
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Date Joined: 05/10/07
Reach
the more water the wind can blow across generally the bigger the wind chop.
And the East wind pushes against the swell, so the vertical face is steep on the chop.
I find dropping into holes which appear without warning is a shit. Then when you finally turn around and drive East it will feel worse.
Jackfrost80
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Date Joined: 07/05/12
Nothing like going off the
Nothing like going off the back of a swell to realise there's nothing behind it. Did that for 14nm in a 12kn NE and 1.7m swell with the old man outa Mindarie with him groaning like a porn star the whole way out.
Officially off the Pies bandwagon
tcarroll
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Date Joined: 17/12/13
Rougher
Not sure that it is windier, just rougher. The effect of the wind on the surface of the water multiplies the further you travel so what starts out as minimal to no chop close to shore accumulates to much larger chop further off shore.
MALANA605
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Date Joined: 25/11/17
ok thanks guys appreciate
ok thanks guys appreciate your input.
Rob H
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Date Joined: 18/01/12
Fetch
Its called "Fetch"
The distance over water that wind has to raise a chop.
Give a man a mask, and he'll show you his true face...
The older you get the more you realize that no one has a f++king clue what they're doing.
Everyone's just winging it.