We are talking about whirl pools right? I have been caught in them with my old 6ton sailboat. Current traveling past some obstruction visible or not, we are warned about them in books like Chapmans.
This is a big problem along the mid-rift islands in the Sea of Cortez, and I am sure many other places where current is rapid enough. Many shrimpers boats have succumbed to these things.
Kevin Pemberton
On 08/19/2010 12:03 AM, Bob Noble wrote:
I guess I need to weight in here too.
My boot is twelve and a half feet long and the tonnage with me in it, is
about 260 pounds.
A kayak.
The main thing is I am more intimate with the water than large boats. I can
feel more of what is going on. Oh, I also kayak the Lower Russian River
almost everyday, all year long for the last eight years or so.
Now, it's interesting, this discussion. I've experience an effect that I
just couldn't quite figure out until you guys started talking about it.
I'd be going along the shore line parallel to it, maybe three to ten feet or
so from the shore. All of a sudden, my boat would turn away form the shore,
forcibly.
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