On Sun, 11 Nov 2007 20:22:00 -0500, " JimH" ask wrote:

"That said, wakes happen. Get over it, buy a bigger boat, or stay away
from where the big boys play."

Sorry if you were offended.

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"Eisboch" wrote in message
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Sorta raises a question though. What is the purpose of the ICW? Is it
an inland waterway for boat traffic or is it a private fishing channel
for locals?

Eisboch


I say........both.


I say ...... you're wrong.

You certainly are entitled to go fishing on it, but you have to accept the
fact that it is primarily an inland waterway for both commercial and
recreational boat traffic that can become very busy at certain times of the
year.

Eisboch

On Sun, 11 Nov 2007 20:27:18 -0500, "Eisboch" wrote:



Ok. But I must say that these wake issues is why I will boat in a Mac
26X/M or a Carolina Skiff.
12-16 inches draft. Lead the big boys onto the shoals and oyster flats
when they try to
wake me. Might get a Sea-Tow referral sideline set up to defray
gas costs.

--Vic


Delicious.

Humorous, but not reality. No one in a big boat is going to follow you onto
a shoal or oyster flat purposely trying to wake you.

Not that I would do it, but it's not unknown for inattentive,
sheep-like drivers of boats - and autos - to follow another
into a hazard.
I'm not proud of it, but I did once sucker another driver into a
speeding ticket.
I had noticed that no matter how fast I went on a lightly traveled
section of highway, some lady just insisted on passing me.
I kept increasing my speed, and backed off just before the crest
of a hill where I knew a state trooper often waited on the other side.
He was there, waiting.
Hey, I didn't force her to be doing 90mph over that hill.

--Vic

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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

HK wrote in
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It would have been really funny for you if someone in his boat had
drowned.


What a stupid sanctimonious statement!!
There was NO harm NO foul!!! He had a good story , we had a good
story....get off your asshole high horse!!

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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

On Sun, 11 Nov 2007 21:05:46 -0500, "Eisboch" wrote:



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.

ICW Rage.

--Vic

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"Wayne.B" wrote in message
news On Sun, 11 Nov 2007 16:51:08 -0500, "Eisboch" wrote:

Wayne's comment is not arrogance. It's realism.
Thank you.

There are a lot of wake whiners out there. :-)
Yep, especially when you were slammed by one in a 20 footer. Bigger
boat does not relate to bigger dick Wayne, although it may compensate
for it in your case.


Children, children! My experience is I'd rather a power boat go by full
blast. They make smaller wakes of shorter duration going full blast than
when they slow down trying to be polite. Any sailor whose sailboat can't
take a powerboat wake without stuff flying off the shelves needs to get
his act together.

Wilbur Hubbard


Really? Interesting, because when I come off plane and slow my boat way
down, there's no visible wake. There are bubbles. That's been true for
all the boats I've ever owned.

Duh. Are you dumb or something? Let's say the sailboat's motoring along at
six or seven knots. You need to be going about ten knots in your powerboat
in order to get around them in a timely manner. At ten knots your
powerboat is "plowing." That is it's making a big, slow, rolly wake. This
slow wake is worse than a high speed wake which has smaller waves at a
higher frequency.

You're welcome.

Wilbur Hubbard

Yeah...as if that mustard yellow Coronado 27 could keep up a six or seven
knot cruise without shaking apart.

"Wayne.B" wrote in message
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These sportfish were moving fast however, and coming a lot
closer than
you'd really like. No blood, no foul. It gets
interesting if I'm
capsized however. They are resposible for their wake, we
all know
that. What about my quesionable judgement however (too
small a boat),
and failure to negotiate a dangerous wave in a seamanlike
manner. Life
is complicated sometimes.


What Wayne is saying, Jon, is that everybody should be
required , by law, to own a boat larger than 40' so he can
act irresponsible and not cause any serious damage.

SBV

"Wayne.B" wrote in message
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On Sun, 11 Nov 2007 10:54:08 -0500, "Scotty"
wrote:

Acording to someone on this group, it's his God given
right
to wake a smaller boat and you should just deal with it,
or
get off ''his'' waters.

Not sure if he falls under #1 or # 2.





That said, wakes happen. Get over it, buy a bigger boat,
or stay away
from where the big boys play.



see what I mean?