On May 24, 4:52�pm, Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Thu, 24 May 2007 18:52:56 -0400, Jack Goff wrote:
On Thu, 24 May 2007 19:43:53 GMT, "JoeSpareBedroom"
wrote:

You may be right about their interpretation, although I hope not. Every time
I'm there, I see stoopids approach the no-wake signs at high speed, throwing
wakes that are clearly inappropriate for the surroundings. 20-30 feet before
the signs, they cut the throttle. Their way of thinking (or lack of it) is
pretty obvious, which is what the cops are responding to.

Agreed in general, but with one exception. *Some boats have a much
larger wake at half speed than they do at "high speed". *So they'd
have to either idle up to the markers, or approach fully on plane,
then cut the throttle.

If the no wake zone is truly being damaged by boats on plane outside
the markers, then the markers are poorly placed. *Move them out
further.

I agree with Jack on this one.

In fact, I think the whole issue is misunderstood.

If you are running up to a No Wake zone and slow down, the wake
doesn't continue straight - it forms a V at the stern of the boat. So
the fact that you slow down right before the No Wake zone shouldn't
have any effect on the No-Wake zone itself if the markers are properly
placed. *Even running up to the marker WOT, the wake will still
dissipate with minimal intrusion into the No Wake zone.

And before we get the arguers in this, I do it all the time and my
wake doesn't affect anything.

Sound like over zealous cops and shoreline owners to me.- Hide quoted text -

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I agree with you, Tom. I can't see how approaching a no-wake zone at a
high speed and then slowing down is going to introduce a wake to the
zone, *if* you are aproaching the zone head on. The only scenario
where this makes any sense, (if it does at all) would be if he boats
in question were running parallel to the boundary of the no-wake zone,
and in a case like that the markers would need to be put *way* out
from shore. Few small lakes will be wide enough to allow wake-
producing speeds anywhere and then expect to have no effects of that
wake apparent along a shoreline.