Boating on the Great Lakes, is it Offshore
02-25-2005, 10:25 AM
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Re: Boating on the Great Lakes, is it Offshore
FYI: The Great Lakes (all of them combined, including their connecting waters such as Detroit River, Lake St. Clare, etc...) have produced more shipwrecks than all the 7 seas combined since shipwrecks have been reported. Now, these numbers include sunken "boats" the settlers used to traverse the lakes with their supplies.... so many of the wrecks are boats we might not consider "ships." Go to the Great Lakes Shipwreck museum in the Soo some time... very interesting.
Just bustin, it can get as nasty as any ocean out there
02-25-2005, 10:29 AM
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Re: Boating on the Great Lakes, is it Offshore
Originally Posted by pull my trigger
oh yeah you can throttle but I agree they are very short bursts and you never seem to do more than 2 or 3 at a time.........doug
02-25-2005, 10:30 AM
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Re: Boating on the Great Lakes, is it Offshore
Originally Posted by Airpacker
Anyone who doubts what the Big lakes can throw at you should try the eastern end of Lake Erie with a 20 mph westerly wind. Can you say 15 foot tall vertical walls of water breaking at the top?
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02-25-2005, 10:33 AM
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Erie the scariest because it changes so quickly.
Never been on Ontario
Michigan and Huron are tough
Superior will kill you and keep your body.
Never been on Ontario
Michigan and Huron are tough
Superior will kill you and keep your body.
02-25-2005, 10:45 AM
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Re: Boating on the Great Lakes, is it Offshore
I've heard that about Superior. Thats because of the depth, correct? Something like you sink so far that the pressure doesn't allow the boyancy of your body to flaot back up.
02-25-2005, 10:55 AM
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Originally Posted by pull my trigger
...get a rythem going and 'hop' from wave to wave in and out of the throttle.........has anyone on the Great Lakes ever done that...
LM is large enuf and deep enuf to get pretty consistant waves up towards Grand Haven...Bit sloppier down at the bottom of the lake in Chicago...
Can't wait for the snow to melt and get back on the "pond"!
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02-25-2005, 11:23 AM
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They canceled our race in Buffalo in I think 2000, 12' to 15' crashing over the sea wall. Quite an amazing site. Jo
02-25-2005, 11:44 AM
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Re: Boating on the Great Lakes, is it Offshore
Originally Posted by JUSTONCE
I've heard that about Superior. Thats because of the depth, correct? Something like you sink so far that the pressure doesn't allow the boyancy of your body to flaot back up.
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