[quote=Edchris177]I don't see the big deal about it, (as long as there were not a bunch of swimmers in his path), most of what he landed on was grassy.
A few years ago in the Caribbean, I watched an H16 get driven up onto a soft sand beach, as fully powered as that one was, a dozen times a day, for days on end.
I asked the resort guy about damage, he just shrugged, said they do it all season. It appeared they just painted some resin on the bottom when required, & they weren't to careful about the cosmetics of it. I wouldn't do it with the more fragile hulls, but the H16 has a lot of material on the bottoms.
I saw a fleet of European Hobies (15'?) at a resort last year. They had an orange strip of plastic attached to the bottom, about 1" thick. They rode them onto the beach all day long, albeit in gentler conditions.
I also don't believe the title, 40kts. I call BS.
40 kts is 46mph. You can see at the very beginning there is a decent fetch, yet there are only a few small whitecaps. In front of my house, if I have even 30 mph wind the lake is completely covered with whitecaps, though wave height is small due to a short fetch. Once outside the point, the long fetch gives waves of 6'-8'in a 30mph wind.
I have a video,(trying to figure out how to post it), I took crossing Cook Straight,(between N & S Islands in New Zealand)a few weeks ago. Winds started at 30kts, built to 40. Wave heights were 14'-18'. Hours after we pulled into Wellington, the buoy in the Straight showed Beaufort 11, winds of 55-62kts, with waves of almost 12 meters,(38'). The skipper berthed in Wellington, & we stayed there for day.<!-- editby --><em>Edited by Edchris177 on Jan 27, 2017 - 02:17 PM.</em><!-- end editby --> [/quote]
