paulswagelock
Well-Known Member
Our boating is river boating in the Pittsburgh area. The rivers are wide and deep here. It is quite common for groups to be rafted up together along the shores and still hundreds of feet of water width left.
The wake surfing popularity is lost on me, but that is a different rant. What fires me up is the rudeness of many in this group that do not care what wake they throw or the havoc it causes.
Yesterday, I was anchored within 20 feet of shore. My wife and I were floating behind the boat on a raft. There was easily 400’ of river remaining. A cruiser was beginning to anchor just up from me, so he dropped his anchor and was backing towards shore. A wake surfer decided his surfer’s fun was more important than safety and dragged his surfer behind the cruiser and within 30 feet of my bow throwing a 4’ wake. I was on the tube waving him down or over but he was too busy looking backwards to pay attention to what was coming. His wake tossed us around heavily. If we were tied up to another boat, guaranteed damage. These idiots can stroke the $140k check to buy the boat but not able to spend 45 minutes learning basic seamanship. Ugggg.
Rant over.
The wake surfing popularity is lost on me, but that is a different rant. What fires me up is the rudeness of many in this group that do not care what wake they throw or the havoc it causes.
Yesterday, I was anchored within 20 feet of shore. My wife and I were floating behind the boat on a raft. There was easily 400’ of river remaining. A cruiser was beginning to anchor just up from me, so he dropped his anchor and was backing towards shore. A wake surfer decided his surfer’s fun was more important than safety and dragged his surfer behind the cruiser and within 30 feet of my bow throwing a 4’ wake. I was on the tube waving him down or over but he was too busy looking backwards to pay attention to what was coming. His wake tossed us around heavily. If we were tied up to another boat, guaranteed damage. These idiots can stroke the $140k check to buy the boat but not able to spend 45 minutes learning basic seamanship. Ugggg.
Rant over.
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