Reply With QuoteHaulover Inlet, and others in Florida can have nasty pressure waves on outgoing tides. But with no swell. But still not as bad as East Coast Australia bars, where you have outgoing tide and incoming swell.
Check out 3min 30 sec roughly, looks like some nice pressure waves.
Haulover Inlet, and others in Florida can have nasty pressure waves on outgoing tides. But with no swell. But still not as bad as East Coast Australia bars, where you have outgoing tide and incoming swell.
Not a lot of difference to a good a run out tide at the southern end of the pumice stone passage with wind against tide. Or for that matter the northern bay at times. Had some narly times crossing the northern bay when conditions aren’t favourable.
So much for coming in on the back of a wave
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Yeah, it can be a bit hard when the distance between the waves is shorter than the length of your boat.
I'd imagine the bigger american boats are due to there poor economy a 32 footer centre console reconditioned is 100k here u would be lucky to buy a Bar Crusher for that with a few extra's and only 18 20ft
they are cheaper for many reasons
$14 per hour labour
no shipping on the outboards, import taxes gst added here
just a bigger market overall
Here's a question from a bar novice. Do pressure waves actually move? We had to turn around (carefully) trying to get out past the cape one morning due to dangerous conditions. (I will never trust my son to check weather conditions again. He took me out).
Sat on the back of a big wave and hardly made any headway. Shat myself for a long time in the dark and haven't been back since. Lol
The Brisbane river mouth can be all that and more with a NE against tide.
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You crossed a bar at night? you have bals of steel, I donno if thats a thing to do but if u cannot see the waves how on earth do u predict your run?Originally Posted by TheGurn
It depends on how fast the tide is running. Yes, they can be stationary, meaning if you want to go home you have to punch over every one of them - carefully.
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A bit more cautious now. From memory it was a moonlit easter king tide...run out. Saw the breakers which the kid tried to convince me was the reef. I knew we weren't that far and then they were all across the horizon and behind us. Convinced him I wanted to live and turned around and sat on the back of one big mother and seemingly went nowhere for a long time. Had to move across it to get off it into somewhat smaller waves which we could drive over. Balls disappeared from fear of broaching and haven't seen them since.
Would have loved to have been in a big yankee boat.
I don't live near a bar but i gotta say that's the first i've heard of someone crossing a bar at night, it would have been hell scary!! can imagine if it went pear shaped the amount of resources that would have been deployed to find you guys, crazy
even that 32 ft was getting pushed around, cant imagine that it be that light weight, some serious volumn of water in that bar rushing out,
Noosa bar and wide bay bar get crossed over quite regularly at night up this way just need to pick your days!
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