The
reality is that the choice to buy a gas-guzzling, loud and somewhat
unstable vessel for the purpose of blasting by small sloops with the
rap cranked to 11 indicates a certain mindset that I am willing to
deem "idiotic". The same people frequently roll their SUVs on the way
to the boat because "the rest of the traffic wasn't going fast enough
for me to get to the beer store". (Yes, that was a quote from a local
paper).

I would add to that drunks on a sportfisher going by at high speed laying
down a 4' wake about 30 feet from us and standing us on beams end. The boat
had a for sale sign on it and one can only guess that it was a broker
showing off what it could do. The first pass by us we saw him coming and
could maneuver to lessen the effects of the wake. When he came back from
astern, we didn't see him coming until he was almost abeam as we were trying
to navigate in a narrow channel.

Leanne
s/v Fundy