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Originally Posted by John Doe
I saw an article on that in Coastal Living magazine a couple of years back and have always wanted to try it. Don't they have boat ramps up there? I've done similar in a Zodiac with an outboard, but not on waves that big.
On surfing, have ripped havoc in SW Costa Rica and many, many pre-hurricane breaks on the East Coast. Indescribable.
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We were trawling for Hake along the Washington/Oregon coast. One of the processor guys lopped off his thumb, so we needed to run him into the ER--stat. I don't think a flexible hull Zodiac would've survived the break at the crest of those waves. The deck boss had to feather the throttle on that Volvo turbodiesel, or we'd bust through at the crest and drop the full thirty feet, straight down. It was hairy.