when traveling the ICW and
trying to properly pass a blow-boater who, after 10 minutes, continues to
ignore your radio calls and horn signals and continues to putt-putt down the
middle of the channel. Then, I wake the hell out of him.


Wayne.B wrote:
Yep, what else to do?


Pull up closer and give him the horn signal again. And as
somebody else mentioned, he may not be sticking to the
middle of the channel out of hoggishness, it may be a
necessity. Still, it is a very stupid ICW sailor who won't
slow and let you pass at a good low-wake speed.


And there are other guys who don't have the foggiest idea of what a
"slow pass" is all about or how it should be executed.


Agreed. We get this daily from people who call up and
probably think they're being very gracious & curteous to
slow to max-wake speed as they pass us about 5' abeam. For
this I moved over and slowed down???


We find ourselves constantly waving motoryachts and sportfish by us
because they feel obligated to slow down. In reality we've got the
stabilizers on and would rather they'd go by quicker, and with a
flatter wake.


You wouldn't believe how hard some wakes hit a 10 ton 36'
trawler. We've had stuff hurled against the lockers so hard
it busted the latches. At one point, we had an oncoming boat
leave a wake that came solid over our bow rail.

OTOH most people become amazingly careful and curteous when
you aim a video camera at them. I sent some pictures to
property owners along the ICW of a boat that sent a wake
rolling up over their bulkheads & across their lawns,
literally leaving a wake of destruction. It would be
interesting to see what that guy got.

DSK