Shortwave Sportfishing wrote:
I was down in Mystic yesterday and as is my custom, I head down to the
Mystic River bridge while the wife and relatives visit to watch the
clown show.

I have, quite arbitrarily and completely unfairly, decided that
kayaks, their owners, renters and users, are the new PWC.

If I had a dime for every kayak that did something dangerous, as in
turn in front of a boat, get caught in a eddy and slam into the bridge
pilings, etc., I'd have about two bucks more than I have now, but
still.

So, there you have it - kayaks are the new PWC.


Not at all.

The PWC crowd *loved* to have other boats on the water. Everybody else
was out there just to generate wakes for those fools to jump (or so
they thought).

Make no mistake about the attitude of most kayakers: they can barely
tolerate sailboats and see powerboats as Satan's spawn. The fact that
we don't always reduce our wakes to a ripple when within a mile or two
of a kayak only aggravates their sentiments that we are "defiling
Gaea".

If you want to draw a parallel between kayakers and some other group, I
think those bicyclists who pedal down the middle of the lane at 5-10
mph in a 45 mph zone and flip off every motor vehicle that dares to
pass them would be closer kin than PWC'ers.

There's room for everybody on the water. I always try to slow down
around kayaks or other unseaworthy small craft.......(how seaworthy can
something actually be when a key part of the training course is how to
recover after the frequent and fully expected capsizings?)....and I
wish them well in their chosen recreational pursuit. To the exact
degree that a portion of kayakers would love to drive powerboaters
completely off the water, I have little use for that portion of them.