Boat wakes in synch?
As you might suspect from the name, I spend a lot of time on calm days trying to avoid waves and wondering where they came from. Bigger waives with deep troughs will wash over my bow and bring out a lot of heckles from my boat crew when they get soaked. Or could sink me.
On calm days, most short lines of a few waves that are breaking can be attributed to a boat nearby. (Not insightful, but I had to set the stage.) If the boat in not nearby, they arrive near me as rollers. The only other explanation is a combination of boat wakes that come and stay together in the right place and time. You can created them by doing tight donuts at slow speeds. I need to keep this in mind when I decide how fast to turn around to retrieve a fallen skier.
Yes a rouge waive, but likely manmade.
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