waves

where is the best place to catch waves in washington state and or vancover area?

Submitted by mulus on Sat, 12/15/2007 - 6:00pm



Hawaii Kai.


#1 Sun, 12/16/2007 - 3:16am


Surfing waves or downwind run waves? Anywhere on the Washington coast has tons of wind and surf all winter. I haven't done any paddling out there, but I bet Tokeland to Westport would be a killer run w/ the almost constant strong southerlies they have. About twenty miles, you'd have to make your way out of the mouth of Willapa Bay and negotiate the Gray's Harbor bar on your way in to Westport, taking note of the tide as it would be pretty tough getting in to the Harbor on a falling tide.


#2 Sun, 12/16/2007 - 7:31am


Aloha Mulus

The best waves in English Bay can be found most nights right behind
the paddlewheeler MPV Constitution. She lays out a fine set of about
30 waves in a train. I've ridden from Lion Gate into False Creek and
back out to the yellow buoy without hardly dipping a paddle.
Totally lazy I know, but a great ride!
She leaves Lonsdale about 7pm and goes right out First Narrows.
Worth chasing down if you see it.

The workboats leave some good wake rides off the North Arm
jetty near the western edge of Spanish Banks, Good with
a strong south-wester against an outgoing tide.

Real waves will be found out at Tofino - Ucluelet.


#3 Sun, 12/16/2007 - 3:21pm


I chase the seabus waves there great and work boats cruise ships waves at the foot of londsdale all the time. I should try to make it to Tofino now that would be a place to hold a race.


#4 Sun, 12/16/2007 - 3:50pm


Mulus

Catch the Sternwheeler on the columbia river across from Bobs beach Stevenson, Wa... You can ride that wave for a couple miles.

Pilikua


#5 Tue, 12/18/2007 - 3:55am


Stevenson, WA would be my suggestion.


#6 Wed, 12/19/2007 - 6:40am


Mike, (mulus)

in my humble opinion, some of the best places near the Vancouver BC area for downwind surfing are:

Flea Beach to Whiffen Spit on Vancouver Island ( Sooke area)
Bowen Island to English Bay ( again, need to take a ferry)
any time there's outflow winds from Howe Sound (like mid morning weekends) west side of Bowen island to Jericho

these spots have wind waves and swells that rival any Hawaii Kai Run ( jest hella colder this time of year..

PS - remember the last time you went surfing in winter in your dugout canoe? that yacht may not be out there this time! dress warm and wear a pfd!

cheers,

Roscoe


#7 Wed, 12/19/2007 - 7:07am


......... PS - remember the last time you went surfing in winter in your dugout canoe? that yacht may not be out there this time! dress warm and wear a pfd! ..........

Let's hear the story first hand Mulus, sounds like you were a naughty boy.

Cheers Rambo


#8 Wed, 12/19/2007 - 11:29am


Mike's first hand account....

http://www.canadianoutrigger.com/storsubj.cfm?sid=42


#9 Wed, 12/19/2007 - 1:09pm


Rival any Hawaii Kai Run? Ah C'mon!


#10 Wed, 12/19/2007 - 3:34pm


Ok Its not something I was proud of.

The last dugout race was in August and it was bumpy so we taped up by the way a dugout would be similar to a surf ski, dug out of a cedar log with no top. so we put a layer of Polly over the top in bumpy conditions. so a couple of months later I was in my apartment 3 blocks from the harbor and it was hot inside and sunny sky's so I put on my running shoes short &t shirt and went to the shed for a paddle . I could feel the worm breezy blowing and when I got out there the bumps were nice 2.5 feet. I rode them for 5 miles or so from on end of the harbor to the other it was great. when I got to the far end the waves were doubling back and hitting from both sides by that time they were closer to 3 feet. anyway I was fine then out of the blue I missed my Knob and over I went. The worst thing at the worst time. in this situation in a dugout race we flip the canoe raise it in the air flip it in the air as it lands on its belly. but it had the Polly on it and I could not empty the water out. This situation was new to me after a while I took the Polly of to get the water out . and got back in but the waves were allot higher than the canoe and it swamped me in a short while it was October and the water was cold and the air was still kind of warm I was in a predicament 20 min turned to 30 then 40 and I just could not keep the canoe up and the surrounding dock walls were the ships docked were 20 feet up so I had a distance to go for shore where I could get out. and it occurred to me I was being dragged under a bridge and this spot is swift 20 knots at times under there and I did not want to have anything to do with that. and 50 minutes had gone by and my hands were having trouble holding my paddle the place I had to go to was in the direction were the waves were over the bow and stern . it occurred to me maybe I could handle the waves from the side and headed cross wind its a lot further over the other end of the harbor but this was not working. also I was entering a shipping lane. I had to try this. I forget how many moor times I flipped. I was getting tired of this I remember thinking if I swamp on moor time I will just keep paddling the stern will drop and the bow will raise but Ill keep heading across town at this point over a hour had gone by and the currents under the bridge made the water even colder. And my back end dropped and I kept paddling and one last time I flipped this was tiring me out I was in the water and so tired I was going to rest for a minute. And I put my head on my canoe . I remembered that was a sighed of hypothermia. I thought of my daughters and wife. And it occurred to me is this were it all ends, and I was angry. who would watch them. I looked up at the sky and yelled God...
and a ship appeared. There was people with tuxedos and beautiful dresses with long glasses of Champaign. I started to flag them down. And I thought they were passing me by they turned around and came back . They dropped a rope ladder down to me and I could not grab the rope they pulled me up. And when we went inside the first lady I seen was well into there celebration. And she said is he the striper. I tried to say thank you but all that would come out was tha tha tha . They put me in the engine room where it was hot and brought me coffee. They saved me. also I was afraid to tell my wife so I waited for a couple of moths.
I got a wet suit for Christmas.

to see a dug out single Northvancanoeclub.com / Mike’s page
Mulus is one of my ancestral name by the way.


#11 Fri, 12/21/2007 - 8:15am


Mulus,
I checked out your dugouts and read through the web page. Great stuff! Really inspiring. What a great tradition...amazing to think about the connections... from one generation to the next. And here you are.
Much aloha to you and yours... Merry Christmas and happy new year!


#12 Fri, 12/21/2007 - 9:37am


Mulus, thank you for posting that link to your Clubs and your web site, you can feel the proud traditions of the Squamish Nation in all the photos. Some nice paddles and canoes on display also.

I look forward to spending some time on your Nations web site links and discovering more of that part of the world i know little about.

... and please don't go missing any more Knobs or pretending to be a "Stripper" in any future escapades, though it does make for entertaining reading ... hahaaa.

Merry Xmas to you, your family and your Peoples

Cheers Rambo


#13 Fri, 12/21/2007 - 8:14pm


Ya I should have been a writer, .Wasted talent.
….Stories…. Hmmm?
We have a race . Every summer. And one year we were on the starting line waiting for the 10 klm sprint and it was bumpy as hell . 5 feet or so from the side and the guy would not shoot the starting gun, and he yelled do you guys still want to race we were all yelling yes just shoot the gun. And the waves started to pick up they were 6 a little over 40 feet apart it was sunny and windy and we had the lead. And were staying far from shore. Half way to the corner I realized these were the biggest waves I had ever been on the were over ten feet and our canoes are about 52 feet long16 inches high and32 inches wide and 1 1/2 thick made out of red cedar log's and ama less we had 4 to 6 guys bailing at any given moment
canoes were going under everywhere our main competitors made the mistake of getting to close to shore and they came off a wave and the belly of there canoe cracked and a guys foot went through the bottom and got stuck and they flipped and you could see his foot sticking out of the bottom of the hull they got him out got to shore and walked home.
meanwhile the security boats had there hands full and one of them were picking up a crew that had gone down and one of there members had drowned and was floating downwards in the water and one of our chief councilors was on the security boat kicked off his shoes and went down and pulled that person back up. And saved that person.
Our crew was fine we had made it to the corner and began to try to turn . Up till that point the waves were hitting us from the side, but the minute we started to turn we went under and we rolled our canoe over and bailed and got back in again and again 4 times. and every time we would swallow water and drain energy. The last time we went under my youngest brother who sat in the seat behind me was holding the side of the canoe had to much .I told him get in and he said I cant and the bow man and I pulled him in. this was getting serious. we had finally turned our canoe around and the waves were hitting from the other side and behind. We were surfing at points I would be looking down at eight feet of air at times. I said to the bow man this is insane, he say yaaaa. We got back first they awarded the first place to a canoe that had not done the full course I was on such a high and so happy to be alive it did not matter. Four eleven man canoes we damaged and no one (thank god) was seriously injured.

how can you tell telling stories is a big part of our culture

check this out its that same corner on a average day


#14 Sun, 12/23/2007 - 4:36pm


Yey, more stories from the "Long House" please Mulus, lovin' them.

Rambo


#15 Sun, 12/23/2007 - 6:21pm


Another story

We went to a place called Tofino Canada B.C. a beautiful place renowned by Surfers and we went on a whale watching expedition and saw a gray whale and went to hot springs and the boat that took us there went close to open sea and I start asking about waves and asked what was the largest he had herd of he said that the men that were there when it hit, were on fishing boats and surfed it and they said they passed over top of the islands and looked down at the tops of the trees.

So I looked it up at
manulife financial

( Several tsunamis have been reported in the coastal areas of British Columbia and Alaska Panhandle. Most significant among these was the tsunami generated during a 1958 earthquake on the Fairweather Fault. A large landslide triggered during this event crashed into Lituya Bay generating 30 m (100 feet) waves that stripped trees to 520 m (1700 feet) elevation on the opposite shoreline.)

that wave removed the trees 1700 feet up. that’s a long way up I never met those fisher men but they are still alive from what I understand.

sweet dreams


#16 Sun, 12/23/2007 - 8:49pm


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