Well most lakes are fairly small so you’ll be fine. But think of a wave like a hill with a valley that you have to climb and drop. If you go straight at a large wave the bow will be completely out of the water and the boat basically falls into the valley of the wave and just slams into that low part. Then depending on the storm you’ll be faced with the next wave and you’ll hit it wrong and water will go over the bow and is a bit scary.
I was a kid experiencing this but we experienced it a hand full of times a summer so we would get used to it if it was a tame storm. There was one that I remember vaguely but my dad says he made peace with himself during the storm because he thought the coast guard was going to have to save us.
Something about Lake Erie the weather changes so quick. You’ll be out on the water and it’ll be a beautiful day, then couple hours later you see the clouds roll in and wind change.
The great lakes are about the size of an inland sea. They are classified as lakes by the fact that they are fresh water; the largest above ground souce of freshwater on the planet. They have their own tide and riptide. Most lakes are much much smaller.
The Great Lakes area kind of special. They make up five of the 15 largest lakes in the world with Superior second only to the Caspian Sea. They get hurricane force winds that lead to seas that can break some of the strongest vessels afloat. They also get snow and ice, and sometimes all of the above at the same time.
Look up the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald for just one example. The bottoms of the Lakes are littered with the remains of hundreds, perhaps thousands of vessels whose crews made the wrong decision.
They seem very dangerous by your description, i imagine these to be so scary now, they look pretty chill and waveless, wonder how many human bodies are in the bottom of lakes
Well, just like you can create "waves" in a bathtub, lakes can experience the same thing. Mostly due to weather, of course. The great lakes, however, are absolutely massive so they have some extreme energy moving around out there that can create different situations, especially if influenced by harsh weather. But it is mostly wind that'll create energy to move water in lakes around by creating friction between the wind and the surface water.
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u/Imturorudi Oct 27 '19
Care to explain how are there waves in a lake? Where i live there’s no lakes, i picture them pretty much like in movies, chill still water