On Tue, 04 Sep 2007 07:49:03 -0400, HK wrote:

JoeSpareBedroom wrote:

I grew up boating on the eastern end of Lake Ontario and have seen a
few 6 and 7 foot waves from a too small boat. It wasn't pretty and
I'm lucky to be here.
What really fun is when the natural waves from from two directions at
once,
along with a couple of wakes from pea-brains who pass within 100' of my
boat.

One of these days....I'm tellin' ya...I'm gonna bring a .45-70 out there
with me. "Officer - I swear it looked like a buffalo". :-)


When we were along the ICW in northern Florida, not a day would go by
without a couple of overstuffed "cruisers" wallowing on by, tossing off
absolutely huge wakes that would wash up and over the marshes, erode the
shorelines, rock everyone's floating dock and, on occasion, flip some
poor fisherman's little boat along the edges. But we got our revenge, at
least with some of them: just north of St. Augustine Inlet, there was a
lovely sandbar that lurked just a couple of feet beneath the surface
except at dead low tide and managed to give a couple of the oblivious
"capitanos" a jolt.

Seeing boats run aground was a thrill for you, huh? Well, Harry, for most
people, that would be the sign of a psychological disorder, but for
you...well, it's just a 'foible'.
--
John H