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Old 10-13-2010 | 12:24 AM
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Is this 3' to 4's or what? Pictures are from destin.





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Old 10-13-2010 | 01:23 AM
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always looks smaller in a picture but I am going to say 1-2's
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Old 10-13-2010 | 06:39 AM
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Hard to tell without scale but 3s in the top pic.
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Old 10-13-2010 | 06:40 AM
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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.
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Old 10-13-2010 | 06:57 AM
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to me they look like about 2' rollers.
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Old 10-13-2010 | 07:06 AM
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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.
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Old 10-13-2010 | 07:17 AM
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If you were telling a story about racing a guy in them and winning........they'd be 6s.

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Old 10-13-2010 | 07:22 AM
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Originally Posted by offshoredrillin
to me they look like about 2' rollers.
Agreed with 2'
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Old 10-13-2010 | 07:23 AM
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Originally Posted by catastrophe
If you were telling a story about racing a guy in them and winning........they'd be 6s.

Funny, but TRUE
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Old 10-13-2010 | 07:27 AM
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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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