"D-unit" wrote in message
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"Big Mike" punisher5string@ !REMOVE! yahoo.com wrote in message
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Hi to all.... I'm Mike (Long Island Sound N.Y. - North Side - Very Rocky
Area)

Finally, finally, I figured out a really good reason why boat operators
do
this. I could never for the life of me understand why no matter where I
would anchor or drift, a good number of boats will buzz by me only a few
short yards away as if I'm a marker buoy.

snip


I thought I was the only one who experienced that.


db

Nah....same thing here in Lake Ontario and its tributaries. I was out in the
lake two weeks back, anchored with a few other boats on top of some
structure that occupies maybe 3 square acres. So, we were anchored pretty
close, but new arrivals were obviously being very careful while choosing a
spot. We're two miles offshore (on the Rochester side), and however far it
is to Canada on the other side. Absolutely NO reason for passing boats to be
anywhere close. But, of course, almost all of them had to get within 100
feet of the group as they passed.

I don't think the Power Squadron course would do jack **** for people like
that.

"Doug Kanter" wrote in message
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"D-unit" wrote in message
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"Big Mike" punisher5string@ !REMOVE! yahoo.com wrote in message
...
Hi to all.... I'm Mike (Long Island Sound N.Y. - North Side - Very
Rocky
Area)

Finally, finally, I figured out a really good reason why boat operators
do
this. I could never for the life of me understand why no matter where I
would anchor or drift, a good number of boats will buzz by me only a
few
short yards away as if I'm a marker buoy.

snip


I thought I was the only one who experienced that.


db

Nah....same thing here in Lake Ontario and its tributaries. I was out in
the
lake two weeks back, anchored with a few other boats on top of some
structure that occupies maybe 3 square acres. So, we were anchored pretty
close, but new arrivals were obviously being very careful while choosing a
spot. We're two miles offshore (on the Rochester side), and however far it
is to Canada on the other side. Absolutely NO reason for passing boats to
be
anywhere close. But, of course, almost all of them had to get within 100
feet of the group as they passed.

I don't think the Power Squadron course would do jack **** for people like
that.



I have a favorite fishing spot about 30 yards from the beach off Oak Island,
NC
where the Sea Mullet like to school on occasion. This is in 10ft of water
mind you.
For some reason, the passing yachts go between me and the beach at 30 knots.
Last time I checked, theres an whole ocean on the *other* side of me.

???

These same people must own jet-skis too.


db

Doug Kanter wrote:
"D-unit" wrote in message
...

"Big Mike" punisher5string@ !REMOVE! yahoo.com wrote in message
...

Hi to all.... I'm Mike (Long Island Sound N.Y. - North Side - Very Rocky
Area)

Finally, finally, I figured out a really good reason why boat operators
do
this. I could never for the life of me understand why no matter where I
would anchor or drift, a good number of boats will buzz by me only a few
short yards away as if I'm a marker buoy.

snip


I thought I was the only one who experienced that.


db


Nah....same thing here in Lake Ontario and its tributaries. I was out in the
lake two weeks back, anchored with a few other boats on top of some
structure that occupies maybe 3 square acres. So, we were anchored pretty
close, but new arrivals were obviously being very careful while choosing a
spot. We're two miles offshore (on the Rochester side), and however far it
is to Canada on the other side. Absolutely NO reason for passing boats to be
anywhere close. But, of course, almost all of them had to get within 100
feet of the group as they passed.

I don't think the Power Squadron course would do jack **** for people like
that.


I was thinking it might encourage them to carry and refer to charts as
they boated.