Wake pics

Your wake can tell you a lot! Before flow scans, load indicators, GPS to the 100th degree, the old timers watched their wake, a lot. Show us your wake. I borrowed the top shot off the internet. Lower image is our 1952 William Garden double ender at 9 knots. The smoothest, quietest boat I've ever driven. The lack of wake, with no cavitation or vibration tells me all is good..
AT 9-10 knots, how's your wake?

It dosn't look as smooth as yours.

Not sure why it posted sideways.

7.5 kts. the blow boat I was towing without an engine put out off more of a wake than I did.

magna 6882 said:

Not sure why it posted sideways.

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This site likes landscape rather than portraits. I took the liberty of cropping the top and bottom.

Choose the right speed for the boat...and.....

I think this is at about 12 kts....

I can live with with this.



That's what a 28" prop on a 45' boat at displacement speed with do for you.

Ted

This is my boat at 5.5 kts, 6.5 kts, and 17 kts. My usual slow cruise is 6.5 - 6.7 kts, so wake similar to or slightly more than the middle picture. 9-10 is solidly in the no-go zone between about 7 and 15 kts on this boat, so I don't have any pictures at that speed. If I'm going 9 kts, it's because something has given me a very good reason to.


For perspective on the pictures, camera height is about 10 feet above water in all of them.

First picture is the fastest we've ever gone at 11.5 knots under the Fox Island bridge. Of course, as you can see by the bridge piers, the current is going with us at 5 knots. The second picture is our normal 6.5 knots.

A nice day on Lake O at 6.8 knots.

Here are a few pics I took on our trip to Seattle. The first one was taken as we cruised the lower part of the Columbia. We're cruising at our hull speed about 9.8 kts.


This is right after we got out into the Pacific, heading NNW at about 13 kts.


Still in the Pacific, moving NNW at about 15kts. The wind and waves had picked up and we had moved under a cloud cover.


We're in the Strait of Juan de Fuca, moving about 15 kts and just leaving the cloud cover


An awesome sunset and wake shot. At this time we were in the Strait of Juan de Fuca. I had taken over the helm, stepped up the speed to about 17 kts as we were trying to make up some time headed to Port Angeles.

I estimate 6" at 7 knots.....

https://vimeo.com/440323890

Here's the very beginning of our wake...at the stem of the boat. When somebody says the water is as smooth as glass, this is what it looks like.
The last one, you can count each turn of the prop.

O C Diver said:

I can live with with this.

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That's what a 28" prop on a 45' boat at displacement speed with do for you.

Ted

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Either you have one sweet handling boat, or you have your autopilot tuned like a piano. Or both. It looks like it's running on a rail.

First two @6.5 knots, waterway cruising speed. Last one about 8 knots.

9 knots seemed to be a fan favorite

Don't think my boat will go 9.5knts unless downhill.

this is likely around 7.5knts

Over Driven w 4hp
Only about 2hp is actually used.
You can see the following wave well behind the stern.

36 kts. Small wake, eh?

Crossing the Albemarle.

One is at 26 Knots and the other is at 54 knots.

About 7 knots...just digs a deeper hole at the arse end with more power.

Telemark Canal - Southern Norway

O C Diver said:

I can live with with this.

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That's what a 28" prop on a 45' boat at displacement speed with do for you.

Ted

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That's really a great picture. So calm, you almost feel bad about driving over it - like walking on a field of fresh snow!

Our five-year old twin boys call this "Train Track Fast" since it looks like a train track behind us at 10 knots.

This is my hellacious death wake, which has brought misery and suffering and devastation to uncounted millions of wretched souls. I make about 7.5 knots at 1800 rpm.

I usually don't slow down to pass kayaks or SUPs, and am too boring for most dolphins.

magna 6882 said:

Not sure why it posted sideways.

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Because you phone was sideways when you took it. The correct orientation doesn't get passed to all programs. The way to fix it is open it on your computer, rotate it (even if it looks right) and then rotate it back to the correct orientation and save it. Then it will work for everything.

Electric Wake

Me @ 6 knots in my Duffy

Codger2 said:

Me @ 6 knots in my Duffy

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Electric propulsion makes a much smaller wake than a diesel.