El Capitan
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- Jul 9, 2014
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- Boat Info
- 1970 SRV 180 w 2.5L Mercruiser.
2000 Ford Expedition Eddie Bauer
- Engines
- 120HP Mercruiser
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I don't know what it was but I know it was not spray. We'd been battling spray for much of this trip and what hit the windshield was green water, and it hit hard enough that it knocked me off my feet onto my butt on the seat.Wow. I would not have been so calm. That definitely is a pucker moment.
She did cut through well. I think what hit the windshield was actually the spray from your bow entry cutting the swell.
I think on that wave that came over the bow that I had stuffed the bow into a larger than normal wave. You can see the bow rise up more than it had been on the prior wave, then when it came down into the trough it stuck the bow into the next one.
Makes for an interesting day on the water.
12 miles before getting the inlet must feel like an eternity.
If you watched the video I posted above and watched those other three, in each of them I was doing right at 10kts, not on plane obviously, and not pushing a heck of a lot of water. This boat weighs enough that it takes a LOT of wave action to push her around. In those first two videos with the wind on our stbd beam, the boat wasn't bouncing at all and the autopilot did just fine.Still would like to know what you diesel guys would do...what choice you would make...I chose to stay on plane, meaning I had a min. cruise of 15-16kts (If memory serves I was doing about 17-18kts)...Otherwise, if I came off plane, I can do maybe 7-8 without pushing too much water...I would have liked to either have been able to do around 12kts off plane or had the confidence that I could adjust quickly getting off plane and back up on plane again...Though in those conditions, I wasn't sure if I brought her down, how easy it would have been to get back on plane...