Lake Superior surf trailer

[AirlayLeekoh]

always wanted to surf the great lakes. how clean is the water?

[wizzolf]

:31 nice slash!

[finboarder]

thirsty when surfing you can just drink it:D

[ninjagong]

@finboarder lol thats some nasty water

[aquaboy232008]

is it an ocean or a lake why is it call lake superior?

[coyotelarry]

@aquaboy232008

Technically, Lake Superior is an inland fresh water sea. It is named Superior because it has the highest elevation of the Great Lakes. The Ojibwe call the lake Gichigami, meaning "big water."

[crusaderpat]

@coyotelarry no, geologically its not a sea. a sea is a body of water that has an input of water, but does not have an outlet, therefore all seas are will be saltwater. But i know what you mean, Its big, REALLY big for a lake.

[punchingwildlife]

sick video. where are the breaks on lake, like stony point?

[punchingwildlife]

sweet trailer, is there a surf forecast link somewhere online?

[christof139]

mvallin, Yeah, I can't find that link again either. I think I have it on one of my other computers.

[christof139]

Here is a youtube vid. of 20ft. or so, give and take, rollers coming in near Duluth: Lake Superior Movie

[mvallin]

Wher is a vid of 20 footers?

[christof139]

Search for 'Lake Superior Movie ', then you will have a lot of further searching to do since that title is used by other videos. If I remember right this video is in black & white, & the wave front in the left of the video is ~6-8ft. or so & rises towardr the right of the video to a height of between 20 - 30ft. or so, it is hard to tell but easily 20ft. 20ft waves are not rare along the Canadian, Minnesota, & Upper Penninsula of Michigan's Lake Superior shores.

[mvallin]

I couldnt find that vid anywhere

[christof139]

@mvallin, I found that black & white video of the big waves coming onshore in Superior: Search for ' Lake Superior Waves', & the poster is jdhaly24.

At about 50-sec. the view of the wave starts & pans right where it is a good 20-ft. tall.

[christof139]

Avafors contd: Her radar had gone out after two especially big pounders. When the pilot house door was ripped off, the Swedish captain turned to Captain Woodard and gasped: "We've got no business out here." But by that time, Captain Woodard knew it was too late; there was no turning back.

[christof139]

Avafors contd: As night fell, the Avafors was taking a terrible pounding. The wind was screaming, blowing half of the wave tops right off. The sea was not just big rollers, but practically straight walls of water. The waves were slamming the ship so hard that the people on board could barely stand on their feet. In 8 hours, the big Swedish freigher had managed to travel only an estimated 12 miles into the head seas. For 2 hours, she had not gained a ship's length.

[christof139]

The Swedish ship was the Avafors. An excerpt from the book 'In the Teeth of the Northeaster': The ship's pilot, Captain Cedric Woodward, was growing concerned as the upbound Avafors entered Superior to the east. He advised the Swedish captain beside him on the bridge: "We sure as hell have got no business out here." A veteran sailor who had braved the North Atlantic, the captain could barely hold back his contempt.

"Pilot," he said, "it is only the lakes."

[christof139]

IOTW, don't knock the Great Lakes because they will knock you. Sea going ships have had their pilot house doors ripped off and Saltie sailors have near crapped their pants, such as on the night the Edmund Fitzgerald went down. It was a Swedish saltie and the captain turned white as the steel door 30 to 35-foot above the water line was rippred off and his ship was battered by wave after wave of 20-foot plus waves moving at 20 or so miles per hour. Winds reached 100mph.

[forallmoods]

00:16 holy crap are you SERIOUS????????

[christof139]

Of course 'all those waves' are from Superior, and they get much bigger than that, up to at least 35ft. and possibly 50 to 60ft. in a very bad storm with high winds of up to 100mph, but they are vertical or square waves as some Lakes' sailors etc. call them and when they are that big they are impossible to surf.

[bruddahdouglas]

sorry but 60ft faces only exist in waimea bay, and other towin spots... soo

[yarsinc]

you don't know shit shardafukup!

[christof139]

Yes, 60-foot surf doesn't occur on the Great Lakes, but 60-foot waves do in stroms that blow for a day or two or three out in the Lakes. With a sea of 26-feet 56-foot rogue waves can occur, and possibly up to 70-feet as survivors of the Great Storm of 1913 etc. claimed. Do some reading. Surf of near 20-foot or so does occur on the Great lakes. And Waimea Bay is not the only place in the world that gets 60-foot surf.

[choice1378]

Were all those waves from lake Superior?

[Jackle61]

quadfin1234; Maybe that's not how you speak down under, but, it's perfectly acceptable here in the states, even when we aren't trying to sound intelligent. Why get so excited about how someone speaks? Afterall, you haven't made much of an example with your little rant.

That was a rhetorical question,,, that means I really don't expect an answer.

[rbbroncoman]

and i thot san diego was cold in the winter...

[Deango2]

seriously.

[rbbroncoman]

and i thot san diego was cold in the winter...

[RosanneCornwell]

i know really

[drail80s]

Very nice. Wind surfing and surfing in the winter time on Lake Superior. Those dudes actually will draw large amount of people watching them out there

[surferkevman]

Cool but to short - I was in Ontario for a few yrs surfed Ont- Erie- Huron- missed a couple EH

[lmlittleman]

are you in duluth? cause i seen people surf on park point cool vid 5 stars

[RyanKennyproductions]

not bad. check out my trailer for me surfing film coming out in sept 07.

[SueBR]

I didn't know one could surf on a lake... very cool!

[inventoryking]

No there is no sharks, its the Great Lakes. Miles away from the ocean. Come on man.

[8allistic]

any sharks?

[MilwaukeeMark]

Those waves were freakin huge. Good stuff, good stuff.

[stuckinohio]

nice, those waves are sick!

[sw3dishprinc3ss]

what?? i've lived in im my whole life and i didn't know ppl could surf on l. superior! i thought it was too dangerous.