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Originally Posted by Dave R
I did not mean to imply that those boats are the real problem, I have no idea what the real problem is, just wanted to point out that there are places on the lake where natural 3 foot rollers are simply not possible.
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1) Here,
wakesurfing hasn't been much of a concern with regard to wakes hitting the shoreline. However, Monday, passengers willingly reclined over the transom to increase the weight
aft to make the "surf" greater.
2) In the decades we're lived here, we've never seen a wake run over the top of our dock—until yesterday! (Sunday). I expected a passing cruiser to make a big wake, and took a photo of the culprit for posterity.
I was a bit slow in getting the camera ready, so it shows only the middle of the wake crashing against our shoreline. Note the height of the spray passing in front of the camera lens and the sand being roiled. Later, grasses floated by having been uprooted by this wake.
I'd placed a cement block to record strong wakes, but that same cement block appearing in this video had been moved by a previous, and
unseen boat's wake.
The short video appears below, and "works-for-me":
http://vid70.photobucket.com/albums/...ps1e542765.mp4
The dock's height is presently 20-inches above the water—so, measured from trough to peak—that makes it a 3-feet, 4-inch wave when it accelerated near shore, and struck the dock.
The photo attached below shows the edge and top of the soaked dock.
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