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How big is this wave??

Postby sinistapenguin » Fri Apr 23, 2004 10:47 am

OK, let's put this to the test.

How big is this wave?

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This should give us an idea of how we all measure waves! I won't prejudice anyone by putting my guess.......yet!

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Postby FLYBOY11 » Fri Apr 23, 2004 11:50 am

Im going to say 6-8ft high but i might be wrong because ive never done this before.
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Postby kieran » Fri Apr 23, 2004 12:13 pm

2ft
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Postby freaky_welsh_chick » Fri Apr 23, 2004 3:22 pm

2-4ft?
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Postby sinistapenguin » Fri Apr 23, 2004 3:28 pm

This is fun - I've had one person in the office (a surfer) say 3-4 ft and one (non-surfer) say 8 ft.

Interesting!
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Postby saffasurfer7 » Fri Apr 23, 2004 3:36 pm

2-3ft i'd say
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Postby sinistapenguin » Fri Apr 23, 2004 3:39 pm

I would say around 3 ft too.

How about this one, from a surfers point of view on the water!

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Looks very different from this angle!
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Postby freaky_welsh_chick » Fri Apr 23, 2004 6:42 pm

4, 5ft?
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Postby saffasurfer7 » Sat Apr 24, 2004 2:06 am

5 or 6ft i guess
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Postby Guest » Sat Apr 24, 2004 7:12 am

1 metre
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Postby eesalou » Sun Apr 25, 2004 3:44 am

for the first picture......ummmmmm....how about 3-5 feet?

and the second picture i would say 4-6 feet

eh, that's probably wrong, but oh well!
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Postby randagio » Sun Apr 25, 2004 11:57 am

both the waves are about one meters ,in foot about 3 or 4!in italy we sometimes use to size a wave double or truble the real size !ahhh those mad italians
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Postby sinistapenguin » Mon Apr 26, 2004 3:20 pm

I put it at around 3-4 ft (but I've seen the rest of the pics!!)
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Postby Dan » Wed Apr 28, 2004 2:39 am

The second one is around 5-6 Ft.
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Postby bbsura » Wed Apr 28, 2004 5:09 am

2 ft xxxxx
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Postby TokyotheKid » Wed Apr 28, 2004 5:21 am

no wayyyyy the first one isn't 8 feet im guessing its about 5-6 feet





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Postby nz girl » Fri Apr 30, 2004 4:25 am

the first one looks about 2 ft and the second picture looks about 3 to almost 4 ft.
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Postby tree_hugger » Tue May 04, 2004 6:49 pm

i reckon the first wave is 1 to 2ft and the second is 2 to 3ft.
thats my thrupence cheers.
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Postby Thewildething » Tue May 11, 2004 10:38 pm

The first WAVE height is 5ft ish, giving a 2-3ft SWELL and the second is 3ft SWELL, thus a 6 ft WAVE. I rekon, the wave height is roughly twice the swell height.
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Postby kieran » Wed May 12, 2004 12:09 pm

Do you know what your talking about thewildthing? :shock:
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