markpierce
Master and Commander
- Joined
- Sep 25, 2010
- Messages
- 12,557
- Location
- USA
- Vessel Name
- Carquinez Coot
- Vessel Make
- penultimate Seahorse Marine Coot hull #6
Not a trawler:
Keith,
A heavy boat on plane can/will throw a huge wake. Only light boats or very slow boats make small wakes.
For a wide, flat-transomed boat like a GB turning into a big wake results in much less "shoving around" than turning away from it. We've tried it both ways and turn into the wake results--- in our boat, at least--- in far less rolling. Lots of pitching, of course, if the wake is high, but little to no rolling.
I don't alter course or speed and there's almost no effect of a wake on the Halvorsen 32.Lots of pitching, of course, if the wake is high, but little to no rolling.
Walt - I deal with a 65' Sunseeker almost every time I go out. Guaranteed to spill your drink.I don't alter course or speed and there's almost no effect of a wake on the Halvorsen 32.
Hmmm....unless the wake from a passing boat is huge, I turn the bow away from the wake at a 45 degree angle and take it from behind.. unless other traffic prevents it. Requires a less dramatic turn and time than trying to turn into a passing wake. Works for me.
Look at the original picture ...you can make a 90 degree course change and take this wakes on your bow?...Taking a passing wake on the stern @ a 45 degree angle? Not me...I much prefer to go bow first into passing wakes but still @ a 45 degree angle.