On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 09:27:56 -0500, Wayne.B
wrote:

On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 06:47:55 -0500, "Reginald P. Smithers III"
wrote:

How often have you been boating on the Bay with very little wind, yet
the bay is very choppy from everyone's wake.

It happens all the time, just about everywhere there is boating
activity. Wakes rebound off seawalls and the shore, and keep bouncing
around for a long time.

Whe I worked for Texaco, I had a really neat "wake" experience.

I was coming back from a rig along with a crew changeover and when we
hit the dock in Venice, the crew boat captain came at the concrete
pier at a prett good clip - half throttle at least.

At the last possible second, he throttled back to zero, spun the wheel
and the damn boat hit the bow wave coming back off the pier and came
to a perfect dead stop exactly six inches from the wall.

Simply amazing. :)