Mel said: >Fortunately, all of the PWC drivers I have been close to (in TX during >the past year & 1/2) have been courteous and slowed to avoid causing a >wake if they were in a channel with me or close. I guess those Texans >are pretty good folks. Unless it's a really small channel, I fell the motorboats should just stay on plane and keep going. Most of 'em, when they drop off plane, create a much larger wake. Does anyone else feel the same way? A good buddy of mine is a motorboater, and he said he slowed for some kayakers last summer on a local lake, and got flipped off. Fortunately, he didn't get PO'ed and went on his way. I told him my opinion about the wake getting bigger off-plane. It would be nice if we could come to some sort of consensus so we could let the motorboaters know how to act around us, in general. (I'm not advocating making laws, or changing the Rules of the Road, just thinking that there's possibly some sort of general courtesy information we can provide to others). Speaking of the kayakers who flipped my pal off, I'd like to find them and give them a piece of my mind--they're not making things easy for the rest of us, that's for sure! Shawn Who personally would prefer big boat wakes all the time, to play and surf on, but doesn't want to advocate that for everybody! Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Wed Apr 18 2001 - 08:27:20 PDT
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