On Wed, 07 Nov 2007 20:53:32 -0500, Wayne.B wrote:

A lot of it is a perception issue. People in larger, faster boats are
percieved as being arrogant, particularly if they are well dressed or in
the company of good looking women. If they inconvenience or discomfit us,
they are percieved as being ignorant. Take that same person and put him
down on your level in a sailboat and all of a sudden he is an educated,
well spoken, all around nice guy.

Perceptions.

I think Wayne that you want to advance the idea that there are classes of
boaters...and to a certain extent I'll agree but not in the way you'd
like. There is a class of considerate boaters who abide by the rules of
good seamanship...and then there are the assholes...and some of them drive
ragbaggers too. This thread started about a dumbass who passed too
closely to a sailboat at speed while the capt of the stinktub is reported
to have offered up the international handsign that announced his IQ. You
shouldn't feel compelled to defend the undefendable.