The biggest water you ever ran fast in?
01-16-2014 | 08:49 AM
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Point Pleasant 08 or 09(I think it was) after that storm came through saturday night was pretty big. It was a very unique situation where the wind was on shore at around fifty knots but spun around to forty knots offshore in the middle of the night. Kept the wave height big but knocked the span far apart. If I remember the coast guard said tens (and they were) but they were probably a hundred or two feet apart. Absolutly the funnest race ever! We could still touch a hundred and it was like running these big hills and valleys of water. You could launch and it seemed like youd kite down the other side like a ski jumper or something 
I've run in a lot bigger conditions though. :-)
Couple older vids;
http://youtu.be/ExbZfhvYlsA
http://youtu.be/RAnKgW8cQlA
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01-16-2014 | 09:02 AM
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Back to the original question Randy had. I experienced some big days living in Jersey that I ran it. There would be at least a few of those days each season. A majority of the time there would always be something out there. What was the largest??? I never got out a yard stick but there have been multiple times I could not see the horizon between swells so do the math.
01-16-2014 | 09:02 AM
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Big enough that BZ and I both broke fairings punching through waves on the run from South Haven Mi to Saughatuck Mi a few years ago.
Prob 6-8,,,, but that hole that caught us both had to be 10-12 from the trough to the top of the wave !!!
Prob 6-8,,,, but that hole that caught us both had to be 10-12 from the trough to the top of the wave !!!
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01-16-2014 | 09:09 AM
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il bet your back felt good after that ride!
01-16-2014 | 09:13 AM
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These were real life 2-3 foot (oso 6-8 with 15's thrown in) This is what happens when you run 115-120 in a 46 skater in real 2-3' notice the big gaps in spray behind the boat and how much we are getting bounced around.
http://youtu.be/c1Sepd-pc_E
http://youtu.be/c1Sepd-pc_E
01-16-2014 | 09:20 AM
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this was loto shootout 2012 in the 46 skater running in the 2-3 foot chop. in the rough parts of the video we were running around 80 mph in the smooth parts of the video 115-120 mph
http://youtu.be/25az-8JZgO0
http://youtu.be/25az-8JZgO0
