Surfing Waves

So many things wrong with this video. I get mildly annoyed when there are jetskis a mile away, but I would lose my $h!+ if a power boat plowed through a surf line-up.



Also he missed a great opportunity for an off the lip floater.

This happens at one of the surf breaks I frequent. The best part is the news crediting friendly surfers for providing rescue.

Looks like it caught a rail....

Isn't it like boating 101 that you never allow the side (port/starboard) of your watercraft to get parallel with an incoming wave? In other words, always turn the bow of a boat into a wave. Anyway, just another weekend in the recreational boating world.

What I was trying to say in my previous post is this happened at a break I sometimes surf at. It's in Ventura, CA. The friendly surfers mentioned by the video reporter are from Ventura.

Fast Facts: 'Ventura" is a nickname for the official City of San Buenaventura. Spanish explorers met Chumash native Americans living at this location sometime between 1750 and 1770. Around 1782, the Spanish government built the San Buenaventura Mission here. About 1920, a serious petroleum production boom commenced.

RinkyDink wrote:Isn't it like boating 101 that you never allow the side (port/starboard) of your watercraft to get parallel with an incoming wave? In other words, always turn the bow of a boat into a wave. Anyway, just another weekend in the recreational boating world.

Yup, he probably got his license taking away and fined + who's gonna pay for that boat damage

And we had our first decent swell of the season this weekend around Ventura-Santa Barbara. Bad time to ignore boating 101... especially as a parent. Poor kids are probably traumatized from this incident.

It doesn't look like an accident to me, it looks like this guy was purposefully trying surf a wave with a boat, not just returning to the harbor using a shortcut and getting caught up in a wave. I'm not familiar with the area, but certainly the boater knew not to navigate the boat at high speeds towards surfers and a SUP in breaking waves on a beach break, unless he was trying to impress his kids.

Namu wrote:It doesn't look like an accident to me, it looks like this guy was purposefully trying surf a wave with a boat, not just returning to the harbor using a shortcut and getting caught up in a wave.

I wouldn't doubt it. There are a lot clueless recreational boaters out there.



I couldn't resist posting this photo. It's a Photoshop masterpiece.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ntMluaKA_c