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On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 09:27:56 -0500, Wayne.B
wrote:

On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 06:47:55 -0500, "Reginald P. Smithers III"
wrote:

How often have you been boating on the Bay with very little wind, yet
the bay is very choppy from everyone's wake.

It happens all the time, just about everywhere there is boating
activity. Wakes rebound off seawalls and the shore, and keep bouncing
around for a long time.

Whe I worked for Texaco, I had a really neat "wake" experience.

I was coming back from a rig along with a crew changeover and when we
hit the dock in Venice, the crew boat captain came at the concrete
pier at a prett good clip - half throttle at least.

At the last possible second, he throttled back to zero, spun the wheel
and the damn boat hit the bow wave coming back off the pier and came
to a perfect dead stop exactly six inches from the wall.

Simply amazing. :)

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Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 09:27:56 -0500, Wayne.B
wrote:

On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 06:47:55 -0500, "Reginald P. Smithers III"
wrote:

How often have you been boating on the Bay with very little wind, yet
the bay is very choppy from everyone's wake.
It happens all the time, just about everywhere there is boating
activity. Wakes rebound off seawalls and the shore, and keep bouncing
around for a long time.

Whe I worked for Texaco, I had a really neat "wake" experience.

I was coming back from a rig along with a crew changeover and when we
hit the dock in Venice, the crew boat captain came at the concrete
pier at a prett good clip - half throttle at least.

At the last possible second, he throttled back to zero, spun the wheel
and the damn boat hit the bow wave coming back off the pier and came
to a perfect dead stop exactly six inches from the wall.

Simply amazing. :)

I wonder if that was his first time docking the boat.

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Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 09:18:44 -0500, Wayne.B
wrote:

On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 12:43:30 GMT, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:

I've stayed out of this mostly because I have a different view.

Which I am NOT going to share. :)
=================================

Why should you be different? :-)

PS, If you are concerned about your low wake, get a bigger, heavier
boat. It will make all the difference. :-) )

The odd thing is that I couldn't make a decent wake if I tried. :)

You probably wouldn't get invited to one, either.

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On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 09:39:18 -0500, " JimH" ask wrote:

"Wayne.B" wrote in message
.. .
On open water small boats should have no
expectation of wake avoidance. If you go out there, accept the risks
without whinning.

Huh? Is that how you operate?

When I go out on open water with a small boat? Absolutely. Why
should I expect other boats, running where they belong, to lower their
wake for me? I deal with it, that's all. It's part of boating in
congested waters. You see a wake, adjust your speed and course as
appropriate, go through the wake and move on. No big deal, it happens
all the time.

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On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 11:06:48 -0500, HK wrote:

This little thread has been very revealing about Wayne.

And you too Harry. Who would have thought you were such a wake wussy
whiner?

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Wayne.B wrote:
On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 11:06:48 -0500, HK wrote:

This little thread has been very revealing about Wayne.

And you too Harry. Who would have thought you were such a wake wussy
whiner?


I don't have problems with wakes caused by inconsiderate boaters, but I
have seen small boats swamped and overturned by arrogant a**holes in big
boats.

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On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 11:59:07 -0500, "Reginald P. Smithers III"
wrote:

Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 09:27:56 -0500, Wayne.B
wrote:

On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 06:47:55 -0500, "Reginald P. Smithers III"
wrote:

How often have you been boating on the Bay with very little wind, yet
the bay is very choppy from everyone's wake.
It happens all the time, just about everywhere there is boating
activity. Wakes rebound off seawalls and the shore, and keep bouncing
around for a long time.

Whe I worked for Texaco, I had a really neat "wake" experience.

I was coming back from a rig along with a crew changeover and when we
hit the dock in Venice, the crew boat captain came at the concrete
pier at a prett good clip - half throttle at least.

At the last possible second, he throttled back to zero, spun the wheel
and the damn boat hit the bow wave coming back off the pier and came
to a perfect dead stop exactly six inches from the wall.

Simply amazing. :)

I wonder if that was his first time docking the boat.

He received his license that morning. :)

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On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 15:36:53 -0500, HK wrote:

I don't have problems with wakes caused by inconsiderate boaters, but I
have seen small boats swamped and overturned by arrogant a**holes in big
boats.

You'll be glad to know that I don't do that.

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HK wrote:
Scotty wrote:
" JimH" ask wrote in message
...
"Wayne.B" wrote in
message
...
On open water small boats should have no
expectation of wake avoidance. If you go out there,
accept the risks
without whinning.
Huh? Is that how you operate?


Thank God his type is only a small percentage of real
boaters.




This little thread has been very revealing about Wayne.

When was the last a container ship or tanker slowed down to no-wake
speed coming up the channel of the bay. It doesn't take long for the
wake from the bib behemoths to get to either side of the bay and work
the way into the exposed tributaries.

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On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 15:11:53 -0500, " JimH" ask wrote:

In any event is certainly looks like you need to learn the rules of the road
and common boater courtesy Wayne as you somehow think the guy with the
bigger boat owns the water.

Not true at all. I am saying that if you take a small boat onto open
water that you need to be able to deal with all of the hazzards out
there. Wakes are one of those hazzards and they travel a long way.