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Show 4358 Loper- D 2378 " V". At the end of that " V" is where the wave starts; they are the biggest at the end of the " V". You can cut across the line of the " V", probably, and get into short waves four or five feet high. Mr. Russell got in the habit of cutting across those " V" lines and getting into the five- foot waves, which smothered his boat; it got so he was water logged in pretty near every rapid he went over. Q I don't believe I understand why it is not better to pick the smaller waves than the larger once. A If your boat is sixteen feet long and your waves five feet high and ten feet apart, your boat is up on one wave when you hit the other wave, so being up on this wave will naturally make you get under the next wave; that is what smothers you. If you have got waves eight feet high and sixteen feet apart, your boat will ride them all without taking any water. Those waves twenty feet high, in No. 4, i never took a quart of water. Russell's boat was logged because he was afraid of the big waves. I don't mean to say he didn't have as much nerve as I did; just poor judgment, maybe, something like that. We lost five thousand feet of picture film, anyway, by him doing that. |