Hobie Adventure Island Experience (Crazy Waves)

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLSZYlV0n6A[/youtube]

The forecast prediction for this day was for one to two feet swells in the morning and increasing to two to three foot in the afternoon. It was calm in the channel until we hit open water, in the open water the swells were more like two to three foot, the winds were coming from the south at ten to fifteen mph. Jerron and Travis headed out first they were in Ocean Kayaks and were kayak fishing around the Surfside jetty and buoy areas. Jerron calls Daniel on the VHF radio and reports that he just caught a spinner shark, Daniel and Adam was headed out to a Rig located 4.5 miles south east Surfside Jetty, the time it took sailing out there was around 45 minutes. The winds gradually increasing with the waves, the Hobie Adventure Island handled the condition fairly well; When Daniel and Adam arrived at the Rig Adam hooks up to it and started fishing. Daniel decides to troll around that Rig and another Rig close by about one half a miles apart from each other. Daniel notice there still was a lot of sea weed in the water, and the water clarity was not as clear for trolling. A few hours go by and Adam calls Daniel on the VHF to report that he has a fish on, so Daniel sails over to see what Adam has, and he was still fighting this fish. It was reported to be a black tip shark not sure what the size was, but Adam did lose it due to a malfunction in his wire leader. After that the waves and winds start to pick up some more and it was looking real dangerous to be out there in a small craft, so we decide to sail our way back. While sailing back it seem like we were riding waves four to five feet in swells, there was a few times when the waves would hit the kayak brood side and it would feel like someone pushing you off sideways, in that case we leaned toward the wave held on to the handles and kept on sailing north, The Hobie Adventure Island handled these condition quite well. Daniel had no luck trolling but it was a blast to be out there.

crocodile-dundee-voice/Thats not a wave. This is a wave!/crocodile-dundee-voice


Only jokin mate (hope you watched crocodile dundee, coz the joke might be lost on you if you haven't).
Cool clip. Your AI was really digging in there. Its a buzz aint it?

Actually, you might have gotten better performance by reefing your sail just a tad. Your amas were digging in a bit too much actually, and as wild as it is, when this happens you're often more likely to find the sweet spot by reducing the amount of sail you have out, even if only by a small margin. Perhaps you experimented and found otherwise, but observing a GPS when I have done such experiments have often yielded higher speeds.

I dig the opening credits to your clips. Nice work - what video editor are you using?

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Get the Trampolines and try hiking out on them to level the boat more when the wind picks up. You will go alot faster too.

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2010 Hibiscus Adventure Island

Hi Josh, Thanks brotha.

I use 2 programs but the main video editing program I use is Sony Vegas.

Tight Lines!
~Daniel

yakass is that your AI in that swell? Would like to see more photos like that.