Reminds me of the time........
I surfed down the 'mother of all waves'. But this time, it was not the size, it was the length of the wave.

The wave is in the Guiness Book, for the longest wave. It was on Chris Greens' old HObie 18 magnum, in Galveston Bay, about 5-7 years ago.

Long story short, we were reaching to cross the HOuston Ship Channel, when a huge tanker was coming inbound. The wave is propagated by the bow wave, the displacement wave, and the shallow shoals, just outside the channel.

We caught the wave just as you would on your surfboard, turned down the face, and kept the boat on the face with the tiller, going from the bottom, to top, and diagonally inbetween. The wave was going downwind, and in light air, we were close hauled via the apparent wind of the wave pushing us.

We stayed on the face of the one wave for over three miles. This was the mother of all waves for me, certainly not the biggest wave I've negotiated on a catamaran, but certianly the most memorable.

I hope Chris chimes in on this one, Chris?