12/12/2010 Lake Michigan Huge Waves

As the extreme winter storm moved off to the east, in it's wake it brought high winds to Lake Michigan where BNVN Weather Paparazzi and Captian Eric Treece of the Wilfred Sykes was anchored in Milwaukee Harbor. Eric brought the ship in during a winter storm. Video shows misc scenes with waves smashing into the Milwaukee Harbor Lighthouse and Breakwall. The lighthouse in the video is 61' high and the waves were easily clearing the top of that as they crashed into it. Highest wind gust on the Sykes was 60 Mph.

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• sailing
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• science
• boats
• huge waves
• tropical storm force winds
• Wilfred
• Sykes
• Great Lakes Sailing
• Lake Michigan
• crashing waves

[panos11995]

holy........

[MrSeabeemike]

this storm did not effect my 30 foot sloop ,not in the least, it had been on the hard since the end of Oct ,I just had a feeling that it would be the best for this old sailor to not be out there in Dec. on a sailboat, I am retired Navy and I have been out there in that kind of weather and I would just as soon not do it again----Mrseabeemike