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.

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

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