On Sun, 11 Nov 2007 18:59:36 -0500, HK wrote:

Wayne.B wrote:
On Sun, 11 Nov 2007 16:12:42 -0500, HK wrote:

I have seen plenty of powerboaters who do not give a tinker's dam about
their wakes. I've seen it in the ICW, and I see it out on Chesapeake
Bay, and I have seen it on the Patuxent River and its tributaries.

Why should anyone worry about their wake on Chesapeake Bay? It's open
water. The freighters don't worry about their wake, the Coast Guard
doesn't, The US Navy does not, tug boats don't. Wakes happen. On a
windy day the naturally occurring waves are 3 to 4 feet out there.

Your transom is too low. Get over it, get a bigger boat, or don't go
out where the big boys play.


There are plenty of places on the Bay where very small boats congregate.
You probably don't notice them. There are guys out there in rowboats,
kayaks, canoes, not in the middle of the bay, but not far offshore, near
inlets, creeks, et cetera. Most boaters slow down anytime they get near
these guys, so they don't cause them problems. The arrogant ass boaters,
of course, don't.

I *always* slow down for rowboats, kayaks and canoes, even when they
are where they don't belong. Everyone else is a judgement call. I
don't believe we have ever endangered anyone with our wake but there
are lots of "wake whiners" out there who expect flat water where ever
they go. Some of them are in large sailboats which is kind of
comical.