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Default Cruise Ship Runs Aground in Atlantic ICW - Obstruction Blocks Traffic


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When you have powerboaters like Wayne B., who says,
"That said, wakes happen. Get over it, buy a bigger boat, or stay away
from where the big boys play," then you don't have to wonder whether
there are ill-mannered guys out there who don't give a damn about the
havoc their wakes cause."

I have seen plenty of powerboaters who do not give a tinker's dam about
their wakes. I've seen it in the ICW, and I see it out on Chesapeake Bay,
and I have seen it on the Patuxent River and its tributaries.


Isn't that the point Wayne is making? If there are boats, there will be
wakes, big and small.
I've often been out on my little 13' Whaler navigating over a big (to it)
wake from a passing large boat a mile away. I don't stand up, waving my
one fingered hand, shouting curses at the distant or not so distant boat.

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

Eisboch


 
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