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redlinecat 10-13-2010 12:24 AM

Rate the rough water?
 
Is this 3' to 4's or what? Pictures are from destin.

http://i54.tinypic.com/i2ud1f.jpg
http://i53.tinypic.com/2bwuw5.jpg


Thanks

Audiofn 10-13-2010 01:23 AM

always looks smaller in a picture but I am going to say 1-2's

Indy 10-13-2010 06:39 AM

Hard to tell without scale but 3s in the top pic.

VetteLT193 10-13-2010 06:40 AM

no frame of reference, very hard to tell. I have pics that look like that and it was easily 3-5's. Other pics look the same and it's tiny 1 footers.

offshoredrillin 10-13-2010 06:57 AM

to me they look like about 2' rollers.

CigDaze 10-13-2010 07:06 AM

The perspective may be misleading me, but the first pic looks like they might be at most 1'ers - meaning 2' from trough to crest.

Catastrophe 10-13-2010 07:17 AM

If you were telling a story about racing a guy in them and winning........they'd be 6s.

:lolhit:

rchevelle71 10-13-2010 07:22 AM


Originally Posted by offshoredrillin (Post 3229288)
to me they look like about 2' rollers.

Agreed with 2'

rchevelle71 10-13-2010 07:23 AM


Originally Posted by catastrophe (Post 3229299)
If you were telling a story about racing a guy in them and winning........they'd be 6s.

:lolhit:

Funny, but TRUE:drink:

t500hps 10-13-2010 07:27 AM

I got in a long arguement on THT 6-7 weeks ago about wave heights on some pictures I posted. (42 Tiger at speed, out of the water, clearing 2 boat lengths). I called them 3, occasional 4 and everyone there swore they were 1-2's. That first pic looks very similar to the pics I posted.
Someone did finally say that wave height should be measured by the average 2/3rd's of the waves and from "level" to the top of a wave and not bottom of trough to top of the wave (1/2 of the total height we seem to measure).


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