Thread: Surfing the Skookumchuck

I just posted this on the kayak forum because they were discussing "surfing" the Skookumchuck narrows ......but this is a surf video so people here are going to be stoked by it too.It's pretty sweet.

http://www.coastalbc.com/surf/image...okumchuck99.wmv

The driver in the vid is Steve:


How fast does the Skookumchuck move? Like how fast are you going to tow him into place?

Steve: you got to do about 20 miles an hour to keep still. The actual waves are so big that we had trouble. The rope goes through the wave and I couldn't see Eli. The waves were so big that I couldn't tell when he was on the wave. We were lost over the hump. We needed a longer rope so I could climb up the next wave and be able to see. So I could see to get him into the right spot. I put him into the right spot about six times but it was pretty tough to stay in that spot. I was on an angle actually. The main waves go straight across but the tubesteak wave is on an angle so it's a really tough spot to get into and stay on. Eli could only make a couple of turns and then he'd get washed down.

CoastalBC: I've seen so much film of Skookumchuck narrows and have heard about all the people that I been drowned in it.

Steve: It's killed 13 people over the past 11 years.

Link ain't working, FLEX. What the hell does Skookumchuck mean, anyway?

There are so many Skookumchucks around BC.

Originally Posted by splat

Link ain't working, FLEX. What the hell does Skookumchuck mean, anyway?

There are so many Skookumchucks around BC.

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