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Originally Posted by BroadHopper
Evenstar's favorite boater, Mr Family Boater, became a major bonehead Sunday around 3 PM. I was approaching the Hole-in-the-wall from the South watching a jetskier appraoching on my port and a Boston Whaler on my starboard. They were ahead of me so i idle down to allow them to line up in front of me. All of a sudden, Mr Family Boat in a 20' pontoon loaded with people came up from behind. This is a no wake and I was signaling to him to slow down. He ignored me and cut in front of me. He cut off the jetskier and the Boston Whaler. Miss the jetskier within inches. On the North side there were kids swimming and jumping off an inflatable trampoline. Mr Family boater motored by within a couple of feet! Then he took off rocking a nearby canoeist with his wake.
So the lake is safe with Mr Family Boater.
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NWZ, Multiple Violations
150' rule, Multiple Violations
Video cameras ought to be mandatory for anyone ****. Obviously, the do gooders and feel gooders aren't going to solve anything. I've seen enough dangerous boaters this summer to provide fulltime work for a fleet of MP's. These people need to be stopped, and I guess it's up to us to stop them. Sure, there are some idiots that are either drunk or just brazen idiots out there, some in GF boats as well.
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Originally Posted by Chris333
We live on a small cove on the lake and have watched, over a period of 40 years, the change in attitudes and boating styles in the cove. Once people were careful and kept the wakes down. Now no one seems to care, they speed around in the cove pulling children on rafts and tubes and the wakes are destroying the shoreline at many of the cottages. The waves lap against the shore all day and we have lost our beach land even though we put up a rock wall to lessen the erosion. Further, there used to be canoers and kayakers and small sailboats in the cove; but they get swamped by the large boats. Should there be a "low wake zone" in the small coves where the erosion effect of the waves is so great???????
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People that do that kind of thing in small coves are weenies, afraid of every ripple in the water, unless it's their own wake. I'll just bet most of them do it in someone else's cove, but go absolutely hooppy if people do it in front of their places.
As long as their are people masquerading around as do gooders that sit on their legislator's doorstep to lobby against a group they don't like, nothing will get done. Common sense in not to be expected. Right of way means nothing today, you have to assume everyone is an idiot and act accordingly.
People need to take matters into their own hands. No, I don't mean hostile confrontations on the water. Videos, interviews with TV crews. Take the TV crews out in your boat, have Captain Bonehead on the Nightly News. Show the world how silly and selfish groups tied up legislators with their silly speed limits and such, while daily danger exists, and is rarely mentioned. This is the approach I'm going to take.
It's time we stopped paying attention to people with kayak math, taking up time debating what the meaning of Too Fast is, and actually get people involved. Front and center on the TV could show Mr. idiot pontoon boater, PWC, and best of all, Mr. dangerous tuber. Perhaps we could get some shots of dark kayaks in the middle of the lake, and Mr. idiot stargazer in the middle of the lake with no lights, my personal favorite.
If the people want to be Truly Informed, let's do it to it.