I can help you.
Don't forget that you are an observer.
Now you are seeing it in the eyes of a third party, not as an observer.
The sea rises at an eye level to the observer's eye.
But the sea never rise at an eye level to the third party's eye.
Yes, I am the observer.
Now I'm seeing through the eyes of a third party, standing off to my right? With a side view?
The sea rises up to my eye, the observer, not the other me, the one off to my right, but the sea doesn't rise to his eye, I mean my eye, the other me, the third party's eye.
All that aside, quite simply, show how your model explains this:
Example A: 3.7m wave required
Example F2: 17.6m wave required
For reference, here's what waves look like: