waves

See too the article by Rusty White on the IPMS USA website

http://ipmsusa.org/Reviews/How_To/Sea_of_Hard_Knox/Sea_of_Hard_Knox.htm

See the articles by Jeff Herne and Rusty White on SteelNavy

http://www.steelnavy.com/water.htm

http://www.steelnavy.com/Whitewater.htm

While there read the article by Don Simon on the physics of wake patterns
http://www.steelnavy.com/WavePatterns.htm