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Originally Posted by Acres per Second
At some point, the other boat would have been 150' away. At 300', you might have sounded five blasts on your air horn. (To signal "danger".) That should elicit some response, unless those boats have "lesser" captains than the Mount—who is the best.  |
They may signal back, but all of them will keep going ahead on their normal route, and speed. The Mount chugs along pretty well between Eagle and Governors as well. When I rode on it, boats ahead of us had to speed up, from headway speed in the NWZ, to avoid becoming fish food
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If you have the room, moving away from a wake is a really good idea. (Which is why I've long maintained that powerboats should direct their passage (and wakes) behind a sailboat).
I had an occasional this season where I had to surf a huge wake in order to save my powerboat and passengers from a certain swamping. I never did see the boat that made it, and it's likely that the wake originated from the other side of the Broads. 
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I always try to route behind sailboats for that reason, plus it makes it easier for both boats to stay on course and speed.
Large cruiser wakes will definitely travel quite a ways, and remain pretty large. For this reason, and many more, including being in the Northeast, I haven't owned a bowrider for years. I believe someone in a new Cobalt found that out the hard way
