HK wrote in
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Scotty wrote:
"Wayne.B" wrote in message
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On Sat, 10 Nov 2007 10:31:14 -0500, "Scotty"
wrote:
I heard he was trying 'to wake' a small sailboat and ran
too
close to the edge.


Do you really believe that people run around on the water
deliberately
trying to wake sailboats?


Some do, it's a fact. Ask the GC.


SBV




I've seen plenty of guys in floating RV-Condo boats coming down the
ICW,
oblivious to their wakes. They didn't give a damn they were damaging
shell banks, or rocking the hell out of small boats along the way.
Justice arrived when some of them ran aground on a sandbar a little
south of where we lived near St. Augustine.


I wrote a trip report (http://www.geoffschultz.org/Log_Page.php?id=980)
talking about a spot just S of St. Augustine where we watched a small
power boat go aground at full speed on a sand bar and then the couple
proceeded to beat the crap out of one another while calling each other
every name in the book. We called the marine patrol, but they never
showed up.

In that same report I lamented about travelling on the ICW on weekends.
I complained about:

Tons of boat traffic

Jet skies that use you as a slalom course

Boaters who don't know the rules

Boaters who know the rules and just don't care

A special case of the above is the Sports Fishing boats who have
important places to be and pass close by throwing up 4' wakes

Boaters who think that they're doing you a favor by going along at a
slow pace, but their speed is such that their stern is as deep in the
water as possible throwing up the maximum wake. I guess that falls under
#3.

Boats pulling skiers or people in tubes who fall right in front of you.

Too many people drinking and boating

-- Geoff
www.GeoffSchultz.org