"Jonathan Ganz" wrote in message
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After all... we're all BOATERS... and it's the right thing to do.

We are. You guys are just another hazard on the water.




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"j" ganz @@
www.sailnow.com



Well Jonathan.... I'm sorry you feel that way. It's a childish and immature
attitude, but it's yours to have.

But think what you may, by every classification except yours, we are
boaters.

Like almost all of the riparian property owners around here (riparian.....
as in owning property ON the lake.... not just having public or private
access) I happen to own a number of boats. Five to be exact. And like
almost all of the other riparian property owners, a couple of my boats
happen to be PWC's. I'm sure that you find my pontoon boat to be an
atrocity.... and I'll wager a small bet that you absolutely think that my
pleasure cruiser is an abomination.... and that my ski boat just absolutely
sucks because it doesn't sport a sail and can't perform the duties that you
apparently think are the only appropriate duties to be performed on the
waterways. But I don't much care.

You are a member of the (thankfully) small group of boaters that really
doesn't deserve to be accommodated by the others on what is absolutely a
shared common resource. If you complain about a powerboat causing a wake
that disrupts your tack.... I (and many others) don't care. If you complain
about a PWC generating noise that disrupts your quiet siesta..... I (and
many others) don't care. And if you complain about the frenzied activities
of others making it difficult for you to pursue your slow and monotonous
path along the waterways I absolutely and positively don't care. And I
don't care because it is completely asinine of you to think that other
BOATERS should or would afford you any courtesy or strike you any compromise
when it is so painfully clear that you are absolutely unwilling to strike
any compromise on their behalf or afford them the same courtesy. And you
reap what you sow.

Soooo skipper... have a nice sail. But you know.. the next time you find
yourself being annoyed by powerboaters and/or PWC's...... just stop and
think for a second. Maybe, just maybe these BOATERS are annoying you simply
because you're an ASS.

Giz