[wysiwyg]

Kevin Fujii / Chronicle

John Benson, left, and Peter Davis catch a wave created by a tanker navigating in the Houston Ship Channel Friday morning in Galveston Bay. A group of local surfers has mastered one of the more unusual ways to catch a wave, piggybacking on a Texas "natural" resource -- tankers along the Ship Channel.

[wysiwyg]

Like, really cool dude.

[Leisler]

Americans will try to ride anything. God bless'm.

[thoughtomator]

But they don't have 133 candidates for governor!

[isthisnickcool]

I've "flown" Hobie Cats by sailing over those wakes in the ship channel. Lot's of fun.

In some areas in Galveston Bay you can "beach" a Hobie Cat by sailing up to the "islands" next to the ship channel. Then as the ships pass they displace all the water. Suddenly you are looking out over several 100 yards of sand as the water gets sucked away from where you are standing (make sure you hold on to your sail boat). The water does come back though and that can get interesting.

I've heard about the wake surfers but I've never seen them. Looks like fun.

After reading this I would not be surprised to see the "personal watercraft" types with the SeaDoos, etc. start jumping these wakes after they read this. If they are not already. Some of those guys are real crazy.

[raybbr]

I think someone ought to write the Olympic commitee and see if it can be considered as an Olympic Sport.

[anymouse]

Bay ping