Airborne at South Straddie!!.

[DR]

I'm with blaze, "rogue wave" is a term used too loosely by "journalists". Rogue waves are ocean waves. At least they've stop calling every large wave a "freak wave", for me that term raises images of idiot waves running around the ocean yelling and screaming at everything.

i agree 'journalists' use too many words in the wrong situation. a classic was last week with the train accident, read in a paper & heard a newsreader refer to the injured as 'the wounded' give me a break.. is it any wonder i think they are bottom feeders, down there with dodgey used car salesmen & solicitors

also, the report says a 4mtr boat.. looks a bit bigger than 4 to me..

[Fish Guts]

gee he was lucky to get out of that one. i think the only damage could be a gearbox if the prop was out of the water at high revs.

good to see no one was hurt.

cheers

fish guts

[SCOTTYGC]

todays gc bulliten reads a little different then yesterdays

i cant find a link to todays paper

but it says after an interveiw with the boat driver

it was a five meter boat and he had been over at sth straddie surfing when he noticed his boat was drifting of its anchor

he swam back to his boat tied his surf board to the back and than ony just had time to get over the wave before it swamped the boat

might be a different story agian tomorrow

[Noelm]

airbourne like that will be a miracle to damage anything on the motor, the only possible drama may be a dunking when it landed (if it landed still near vertical) and if he did not give it some power in impact, but all in all pretty exciting but hardly going to wreck anything, anyone who has done a lot of bar work will have done that or at least close to it heaps of times.