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Old 11-19-2009
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Originally Posted by imagine2frolic View Post
In theory while standing on my old mono. My eyes were approximently 10-11ft. off the water. While rounding Point Conception under a handkerchief. I was standing at the mast.
I was completely overwhelmed in the beauty of being swallowed by waves, and looking nearly directly up to see the sky. Within a moment being up on top of the world with mountains in the distance.

When I noticed at one point I was looking at the bottom half of the waves when I was in the bottom of the trough. This gives me a rough idea of the wave heigth, but not exactly. This was in 50+ mph of wind near shore.

I am not saying Omatako is right, or wrong. I do agree with him that the video does not show me 90ft. waves. What the pilot saw I have no idea. I was not there. I do believe the overwhelm factor does tend to exxaggerate height.........i2f
Waves always look 50% smaller on video and 80% larger on deck.

Hence the common Youtube critique: "Those waves aren't that big! Why'd they abandon ship?- bunch of pussies!"
I'm lousy at guessing heights but my test is if the sail goes slack in the trough and it's screaming on the crest, it's a big wave.
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