I think this looks far more dangerous to the inexperienced operator than it actually was. The factory probably powered over the swells a bit more than was actually necessary to get good film but I certainly don't think they did anything that was actually dangerous. These look like about 7' swells at about a 10-11s period. While these are not my ideal conditions, the boat can certainly be operated safely in such seas (repeatedly, no luck involved). I passed by that very spot several times this year - almost always in conditions that were much nicer than this. I did however cross the bar a couple of times in conditions that were similar to this. I was never in danger (IMO) but I did have to go slowly and I did have to make a fairly wide swing around the shallow waters of Peacock spit.Foggy":3kwwbgpf said:
Agree. I'd bet that on that day the Coast Guard had the bar restricted to boats over 16' (a common restriction) or even unrestricted. The waves/swells were not breaking in the video so the danger level is actually pretty low, especially if you know what the predicted currents will be throughout the crossing and thereafter. Where some people get themselves into trouble is by assuming that what a given location looked like a little while ago is what it will look like now. With the big tide exchanges we get up here (big relative to the E and southern coasts, small relative to Alaska), spots that were fairly calm an hour ago can now have breaking waves and vise versa. After some number of bar crossings and bar viewings correlated with the known and predicted current and swell data, one can develop a pretty good sense of what the conditions will be like a spots previously visited.PaulNBriannaLynn":afi57pur said:
Foggy":3k901nom said:
