"Q" wrote ...
My good friend Jim who works Mississippi river barges, calls PWC's
'gnats'. He tells stories of gnats riding the towboat's wake, riding
dangerously close to the side of barges -- AND crossing in front of
the tow!!! These gnats are endangering themselves!!!

Well, it's unlikely that the PWCs will do any damage to the barges even if
they were to hit one, so it's probably not that big of a deal... Let them
have their fun over there away from the rest of us... If they screw up,
they'll be just like a gnat -- they'll be swatted...

"Law of Gross Tonnage -- He who has the most gross tonnage has the right of
way"