Jupiter inlet

[marlin magnet]

Holy Smokes

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[Jack Hexter]

This is the inlet my son uses most of the time. Jupiter is one of the 10 most dangerous inlets in the US.

Here's an explanation of Jupiter:

The problem with Jupiter is how it all comes together. If you look at the inlet pictures even from yesterday it didn't look all that bad. What happens though is a whole pile of things coming together to make it real bad, real quick.
On the outgoing tide, first you have water running against you. No secret there. There's a bar basically across the mouth that that running water hits causing a "standing wave". Sometimes small and sometimes big. On a larger boat you have to kind of skirt that bar which exposes you to some trough to line up on the chute. Now not only do you have that upwelling standing wave but you have swell or other sea condition that is moving. You get you bow starting to carve through that standing one when along comes another that's moving fast and cresting. This creates a hole that effectively swallows you. The bow digs, the stern gets pushed around, you're in the trough and she isn't responding till that cycle is over.
To complicate tough inlets you have other things that can make it worse. Small boats drifting on the calm side right where you want to wind up after shooting the wave set. Sometimes its a jet ski crossing your bow to get a good "launch". So much can go wrong so quick and people often just don't know. Things come together, all wrong at once