Wayne.B wrote:
I call it someone in a heavy displacement boat trying to get
somewhere.

And forcing other people to go out of their way to avoid
possible injury, and risking damage to other people's goods.

In other words, no consideration to others.


At today's fuel prices, wake production is getting very expensive.


Why do so many people do it so prodigiously then?

Wayne.B wrote:
Wakes are funny things, one man's ripple is another man's tsunami.

True, but there is also a very quantifiable scale for wakes.
Not long ago, I videotaped a big sportfisherman going thru
the Adams Creek cut at 8 knots or so.


Do you live on Adams Creek?

No.

... It's one of my favorite areas of the ICW.
Not all of it is a no wake zone however.


True!


.. pulling a wake that
was literally rolling up over people's docks & bulkheads.


I have seen docks that were built too low for the type of exposure
they encounter. Who do these people yell at with storm waves?


In Adams Creek? Get real.

In any event, how they built their docks is their business.
If your wake damages it, that is your business.

It is the same as if you fired a gun, you are responsible
for where the bullet goes.

Why is this so hard to understand?


Over the radio, the skipper insisted that he was obeying the
"no wake" signs.


Some people are truly oblivious.

I will reduce my wake for canoes, kayaks, small open boats, or
anything else that looks like it might be endangered.

That phrase "anything else" covers a LOT of territory. How
about anchored boats? Boats tied to docks? Shorelines
subject to erosion?


It depends. Endangered yes, discomforted no.


If you are unwilling to exert at least some effort to avoid
causing possible harm and certain discomfort/inconvenience t
others, who are doing nothing to bother you, then that makes
you... what, exactly? I believe I defined it earlier quite well.

Fresh Breezes- Doug King