"Chehalis Jeff" wrote in message
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Yesterday on Mayfield Lake here in Washington, I could've used a few of
these.

At one point, there were so many PWC's swarming around the boat launch
(at full speed in a "no wake" zone, mind you) as I tried to get away
from them, several of them came at me head on - but from different
angles. There was nowhere to turn, so I simply stopped and waited for
them to pass, which they did, all within 15-20' of my boat. At that
moment, had I been equipped with a nice shoulder-fired-missile or two I
might have used them and not felt terribly bad about it. Good thing I
kept my cool and moved on.

Jeff




Yesterday we took the boat to the beach for some relaxing in the water. We
anchor in 5 feet of water and back the boat towards the beach until we are
at 2 1/2 feet at the transom (outdrive raised, then put in the trailering
position). We always attach a stern anchor to keep the boat from pivoting
off the bow anchor. 3 jet skis spent the afternoon buzzing in front of us
at high speeds. Our friends joined us later in the afternoon. Coming into
towards the beach one of the 3 jet skis ran port to stern across his bow
with no care in the world. These dummies finally left at about 5 p.m.

Coming back to the dock I ran the river at 900 rpm.....no wake, running just
under the speed limit. From my port I was passed by 25 foot boat driven by
an adult and having 8 to 10 kids aboard. The captain was obviously drunk as
he raced up the river causing a good sized wake and could not keep the boat
running straight. He finally turning into the public docks at a fair speed,
never really slowing down. He hit the dock and I saw pieces of the boat go
flying into the air. What he did on the river was bad enough but it really
****ed me off to see that he put these kids in danger by not only
overloading the boat but piloting it drunk. I only hoped the dockmaster
called the police.

We stayed home today to work on putting our once flooded basement back
together, leaving the Lake to the idiots.