On Wed, 16 Aug 2006 09:40:38 -0400, "Bill Kearney"
wrote:

a rowing shell, scull or the like deserves a bit of caution. But the
folks operating those boats are likely to be making their own efforts to
avoid areas with wakes anyway. In the few cases where they do need to
traverse a channel it's not unreasonable to cut 'em some slack.

I once ran into an interesting situation with a rowing shell in
Nantucket Harbor. Seeing the shell ahead, I cut back to "no wake"
speed, somewhere around 5 1/2 kts. At that speed the shell was able
to keep ahead and showed no sign of slowing down to let us by. Not
wanting to follow for 30 minutes we eventually gave a couple of toots
and eased by at "minimum wake" speed.