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Ron Spinner: "We did on one wave come close to pitchpoling
backwards. I was trying to work my way over a big wave, (about 80
feet/25m) but being almost vertical near the top, it nearly stalled
the boat, with about 10 feet (3m) of breaking water on top coming
at us, I pulled away (to leeward) to gain speed quickly so I could
then round up and drive through the breaking water over the top.
If you see some of those surfing videos where the board is riding
along the wave, weaving up and down and finally flipping over the
top, thatŐs what it was like, with the differences being that we
took the wave on from the bottom rather than the top and of course
we were travelling much slower. The big waves were travelling at
about 30 knots I would imagine, so our drift rate must have been
similar on occasion."
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