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Eisboch

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"Wilbur Hubbard" wrote in message
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Traffic cannot be expected to look up every side-channel and slow down
in time if there's boats in them. They'd have to slow down for every
side channel because by the time they could see small boats in them
going at speed it would be too late to slow down. The burden is on the
small boat fishing to keep clear of dangerous wakes coming from the ICW.
Go fish someplace else. There is a rule that says fishing boats shall
not impede traffic in a channel.

Wilbur Hubbard

At some point in the Carolinas (I think South, but can't remember for
sure) we came upon a large fleet of small jon boats, anchored and
fishing, smack in the middle of the channel and along it's shoreline.
The guy ahead of us in a trawler tried to get around them to the left and
promptly ran aground.

After several minutes of deliberations, I started weaving my way between
the boats at idle speed on my 52' vessel. Despite this, we still got the
one finger salute from many of the boats along with references to certain
parts of one's anatomy.

Shuda waked them.

Eisboch

What is that saying about 'sticks and stones'?

Without going into detail, I had one guy on my boat who tends to get a
little hot tempered quickly. Fortunately, my brother kept him under control
because otherwise things would have become real ugly fast.

Eisboch