Such a huge accomplishment.
Are you just using standard open canoes you'd use on a lake (potentially with some air bladders to keep from swamping?), or something special for this?
> Don't think of these waves like the ones you encounter at shore. Open ocean waves are moving mountains.
> It isn't this: /(
> It's this:
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This vid shows off the canoes on a small ~4' wave: https://youtu.be/deIpUyBp_6Y?t=251, but the mechanics are the same.
1. that 15m one was the most fun I've ever had on a wave, ever. Think of it like going down a ski slope in a canoe, except the ski slope moves with you for miles.
2. we had one of the motorized lead boats sink that year due to them. Interestingly, you're more safe in the canoes on them than you are a standard boat.
Surfing is just sliding down the rise in water caused by a wave at the pace as the water rises behind you as the wave moves (in the case of standing waves, I mean moves relative to the reference frame of the water).
Looks and sounds like a blast!
A 10ft swell on a 30 second period is nothing, a 10ft swell on a 5 second period you're going to have a bad day.