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Pick a mid Raritan Bay spot. You have large tidal currents from 1- Shrewsbury/Navesink, 2- Upper NY Harbor, 3- Arthur Kill, 4- Raritan River and 5- cats and dogs of Keyport/Morgan creeks also dumping into Raritan Bay.

A LOT of moving water. Add even a 10 knot wind as factor #6.

And factor #7. what the ATLANTIC OCEAN send in/takes out with a 5-7' (Cheesequake is over 7 feet on a moon tide) tidal drop moving all that water four times a day.

If you like a lake, don't come here. Albeit Sunday was weird. I ran up into NY Harbor and back to Highlands and the whole trip was less than a foot both ways. But hot as hell- NO WIND. That's rare.

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Originally Posted by Gerry Zagorski (Post 454580)

Yes wind against tide. We have a 5 to 6 foot tide swing since the bay is open to the ocean. That volume of water moving against the wind will stack up the chop.