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Three-Dimensional Wave Breaking

by wawayanda on 9/19/24, 2:32 PM with 3 comments

  • by evilgeneralist on 9/19/24, 3:45 PM

    I didn't read this becuase it was a bit of a wall of text. :)

    But as an avid sea kayaker, I can say I experience this all the time. And it's super wacky when you've got rebound waves coming off a rock wall, and 6 footers coming in from the North Atlantic.

    Effectively , everything becomes unpredictable. You are sitting on the crest of a wave and go to put your paddle in and... there is just no water there. So you put force into a stroke and there is no resistance at all causing some tippiness and what not.

    It's a lot of fun, but it's also WEIRD feeling.