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The new PWC?
Shortwave Sportfishing wrote: I was down in Mystic yesterday and as is my custom, I head down to the Mystic River bridge while the wife and relatives visit to watch the clown show. I have, quite arbitrarily and completely unfairly, decided that kayaks, their owners, renters and users, are the new PWC. If I had a dime for every kayak that did something dangerous, as in turn in front of a boat, get caught in a eddy and slam into the bridge pilings, etc., I'd have about two bucks more than I have now, but still. So, there you have it - kayaks are the new PWC. Not at all. The PWC crowd *loved* to have other boats on the water. Everybody else was out there just to generate wakes for those fools to jump (or so they thought). Make no mistake about the attitude of most kayakers: they can barely tolerate sailboats and see powerboats as Satan's spawn. The fact that we don't always reduce our wakes to a ripple when within a mile or two of a kayak only aggravates their sentiments that we are "defiling Gaea". If you want to draw a parallel between kayakers and some other group, I think those bicyclists who pedal down the middle of the lane at 5-10 mph in a 45 mph zone and flip off every motor vehicle that dares to pass them would be closer kin than PWC'ers. There's room for everybody on the water. I always try to slow down around kayaks or other unseaworthy small craft.......(how seaworthy can something actually be when a key part of the training course is how to recover after the frequent and fully expected capsizings?)....and I wish them well in their chosen recreational pursuit. To the exact degree that a portion of kayakers would love to drive powerboaters completely off the water, I have little use for that portion of them. |