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Posted By:
Hal Brown
Date Posted:
Jun 22, 2009
Description:
'Waves: one foot' says NOAA's weather radio robot. SeaReys are said to handle 1.5 foot waves.
The waves in open water were almost exactly one foot high in this shot. I measured them, just to be sure I knew what one-foot waves look like from a SeaRey about to set down in them.
They were like this most of the day, and where there was a long fetch, more like two feet.
We stopped occasionally to chat with other folks on shore. Once the wind and tide ran us up onto the submerged pilings of a ruined dock, and we had to work for quite a while to get off. That was the one bit of excitement for the day. The rest was just relaxing fun, including firing off Tommy's plastic-pipe potato cannon.
We set sail at about 11 and got back just before sunset.
It was a fine way to celebrate the summer solstice, even if we never got up in the air once all day.
Date Taken:
Jun 22, 2009
Place Taken:
Lower James River
Owner:
Don Maxwell
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Don Maxwell - Jun 22,2009
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P.S. I can now report that Ziploc Double Zipper Multi-purpose Storage bags, quart size, really can keep water out of cellphones and wallets. (It's good to press out as much air as you can before zipping them shut.) That was something of a surprise to me yesterday, as in the past I had seen that ordinary Ziploc bags are only good at keeping water IN.
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Ed Irizarry - Jun 22,2009
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Well Don, if you get a realy good Zip bag and the Seary flips over you may loose the plane but save your cell phone.
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Daniel Paul Myers - Jun 22,2009
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Dont know if I would land on that with an A hull...Don, do you fly in central florida?
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Don Maxwell - Jun 22,2009
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I was there this past April, Daniel. This part of the James River is between Richmond and Williamsburg, Virginia. Most of it in that area is from half a mile wide to about three miles, with straight stretches of five miles and longer. So there's a lot of open water, and sometimes it gets pretty riled up, especially when the wind blows the length of a straight stretch. The C hull takes one-foot waves like these well enough, because the wave length is short. But one-foot waves in the form of boat wakes, with wavelengths longer than the airplane can dampen my enthusiasm fast.
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