Shawn Baker wrote: > > 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? I do, unless I'm fishing or teaching. Unless the motorboater is working at flipping the kayaker, as in Wes' case, most boat wakes are negotiable and provide some good hip swivel practice. Motors also smell better wide open than they do idling. > > 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. <portion relocated>> > 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! Give 'em a piece of mine, while you're at it. Not that I have any to spare. > 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. This would be welcome, but what's good for kayaks isn't so good for jon boats. It may be be too much to ask motorboaters to distinguish various types of craft. Or even people: "That's Shawn, give it more throttle, but then slow down for Charlie up there." -- Steve *************************************************************************** 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 - 09:29:17 PDT
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