New Bill Regarding Wake Surfing?

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Originally Posted by Descant

This seems to parallel the process for a group to get together to ban PWC's a long time ago, in certain coves and some lakes. Mostly, PWC's don't make much wake. but they were very noisy. Not so many years ago, the Winni speed limit was passed. Part of that issue was, again, noise. If you can get the wake surfers to turn off their amplified music, there will be fewer objections. Nobody surfs near me, so that isn't an issue, but I hear the noise (music) from miles away.

The newer PWC's are 4 stroke and quieter. Well, at least they were until a few years ago when the manufacturers started putting stereos on them.

To me, the difference is, a PWC will go by once and may pass by on the way back home. The wakeboats, with their loud sound systems, sometimes blasting "music" loaded with F bombs, set up in one area and repeatedly go back and forth until everyone on the boat has a turn. I am amazed that the operators of these boats have so little regard for the damage they do and the number of shore line residents that are negatively impacted by them.

Many time I have had to close the windows and turn the TV volume up just to hear it over the noise generated by the wakeboats, sometimes boats that are a mile away. The large waves generated wash over the retaining wall onto the lawn.

I would love to see this bill pass but I am sure the marine trades groups will be agressively fighting it.