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I do have a bit of local knowlege so I may be hard on the riffraff but
some people should stay at the dock
Two days in a row I came out of the Estero river and found someone
grinding mud 30 or 40 feet from the channel. The first guy had finally
given up and shut off his motor. I walk over in ankle deep water and
get him aimed at the only 14" deep spot withinn 50 feet and push him
over there. I get the stern in a couple feet of water and tell him to
back out clear then stay in the markers. Nope, He goes forward tried
to make a turn through the mud. I hung a rope on him and towed him
into the channel again, aimed him up the river and turned him loose.
10 seconds later he was in the mud again, 15 feet out of the channel.
I went the other way as he ground his way back into the middle. I
could hear the overheat beeper as I bumped it up to a cruise.
The next day I am coming out the river and I see a guy heading for the
same bar. We are both at idle speed and my wife hollars over that he
better get back in the channel. His arrogant answer "I have a depth
finder"
She asks, "what you got". He says "seven point two feet". She says
that is about 5.65 feet off". The next sound was that old familir
Thump Thump as the skeg drags through the mud and the prop is banging
the bottom. I won't even get started on folks who do not understand
the "stand on vessel" or that you don't have headlights on a boat.



Wife and I are kayaking Mission Bay, San Diego. Guy comes along and is
headed for us, we are peddling as fast as the Hobie Sports will go, and he
still clips the wife kayak. He is in the back, farting around and the other
two people in the boat are not watching. Just letting the boat go where it
wants to. Did not even apologize or check for damage, after I yelled at him
that he was an idiot, another boater witnessed it, could not believe the guy
did not stop after the collision. Good thing kayaks do not carry torpedos.