Ever Wonder What The Ocean Looks Like w/ 50 Knots of Wind On It?

Wonder no more!  It was gusting into the 60 mile per hour range here last couple days.  Took some pics just for the heck of it & here they is!

I saw liquid smoke out there a few times but couldn't get a shot of it.

PJ

Yowza!!  Cool pics, PJ.  Talk about a rapid death...  To be in that water would be the end.

are you sure abking?  I'm pretty sure i see greg out there chasing threshers 

ya, PJ probably took those shots right before he launched!

Yowza!!  Cool pics, PJ.  Talk about a rapid death...  To be in that water would be the end.

I dunno. Looks like it might be kind of fun if you had the skillz, gear and a bailout plan. Heck, I've windsurfed in winds approaching 40 mph. Didn't feel like I was taking my life in my hands...

Well, crabbing at midnight at the Eel Estuary in 30-40 knots was fun, but only because I wasn't on big open water and the wind was pushing me back toward the truck.  You go in the ocean when it's like that and you truly do have some kind of death wish.  I guess it does tickle my brain a bit to consider paddling my hardest up over a ripping windwave only to have a gust push me and my yak up and into a backflip, but you'd never get back on the boat in shit like that, much less make any kind of headway.  It would be a miracle to even get your bow pointed into that maelstrom!  (yes, talking about it is making me want to do it...   )

No thanks...

Thats some serious white water.

Yowza!!  Cool pics, PJ.  Talk about a rapid death...  To be in that water would be the end.

I dunno. Looks like it might be kind of fun if you had the skillz, gear and a bailout plan. Heck, I've windsurfed in winds approaching 40 mph. Didn't feel like I was taking my life in my hands...

I hear you Scott, I've windsurfed in gusts to 40+ too.  It's pretty nasty.  There's no way anyone could maintain any kind of course in that.  The most you could do is float downwind.

I did once have an experience @ Jalama where I broke my sail & boom in gust to 40 with side-off conditions (prevailing wind direction would've carried me offshore).  I jettisoned my sail, mast & boom & paddled the sailboard on a reach down the coast about a half mile.  Eventually I made it in but the most I could do was fall-off from perpendicular to the wind, a beam reach I believe.

I was pretty concerned as where the group of firefighters watching from the shore!!!

PJ

I guess it does tickle my brain a bit to consider paddling my hardest up over a ripping windwave only to have a gust push me and my yak up and into a backflip, but you'd never get back on the boat in shit like that, much less make any kind of headway.  It would be a miracle to even get your bow pointed into that maelstrom!  (yes, talking about it is making me want to do it...   )

I'm thinking Brit style sea kayak, so no "getting back on". And you darn well better not need to get back in. Storm paddles. Drysuits. A group of 3-5 skilled paddlers. Wind blowing onshore to side on.  Any properly designed kayak is going to weathercock, so pointing upwind will not be the issue, it's the transition from upwind to downwind when you have the chop abeam that's going to be interesting.

No one died during this filming:
[youtube=500,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fftJUKvcBA[/youtube]

Big swells and rocks scare me much more than wind chop.

Regards,
Scott

P.S. All those Tsunami boats are fiberglass. So much for being brittle....

Your Dilithium Crystals didn't work, Mr. Scott, but I cut and pasted and saw the Psycho-Tsunami Rangers - very impressive.  But I didn't see any 40-50 knot winds...   

I've made forward progress against 30kt headwinds and 3-4ft windwaves in a closed-deck kayak and it was slow going....every paddle stroke had a name.Hard to imagine paddling in 40kt sustained gusting to 50kt.
I was working in Moss Landing on Tuesday the 14th and the wind was plain scary. The four mile buoy out of Monterey registered sustained 35kt wind and an 18ft swell. If you capsize and lose contact with your boat or paddle in these conditions you're done.Even the Tsunami Rangers take CALCULATED risks!