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I can't believe the boats that some people try to take through there.
A lot of the boats in the video were not blue water worthy, coupled with Darwins for captains...I wonder if the owner/operators were boat show people..

They go to a boat show and buy a Bayliner or something without ever having been on the water before..

Some of the boats shown had $200K in engines alone hanging off the stern..

The only time I experienced seas like that big with no rhyme or reason, was in Buzzards Bay, RI.. it was so nasty that my father a man who never showed emotion was visibly scared... I remember the anchor being dislodge from the bow and flying in an arc away from the boat..one lost anchor..

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what makes the Haulover Inlet have such extreme waves?
Orientation to the prevailing seas, rapid changes in depth, time of the month, wind pushing water up into the shallows.. lots of variables

I saw a bunch of people who had no business operating a boat
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