On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 18:48:29 -0500, BAR wrote:

Anybody with experience in areas where commercial traffic is heavy
knows that.

Who was talking about commercial traffic?

The Chesapeake Bay has a huge amount of commercial traffic. Head boats,
party boats, car carriers, container ships, LNG ships.

Yes, and they travel at 20+ kts leaving a pretty big bow wave that
travels for miles. Their wakes are substantially larger than any
sportfish, trawler or motor yacht that I have ever seen, and I've seen
quite a few. Anyone out there needs to be prepared. On a nice day
during the season there are literally hundreds of 20 something fishing
boats close to, or in, the main channel. No one with the possible
exception of Harry expects the commercial traffic to slow down, and
neither do they expect privately owned boats to slow down either.

This whole discussion has gotten rather childish in my opinion with
the rabble rousers chiming in with the wussy wake weenies to keep the
acrimony flowing. Good sport for an end of season discussion, lots of
sound and fury, but not much in the way of new information.