Name:   bluefish - Subject:   No-Wake Zones Date:   7/13/2015 1:40:03 PM

We have owned property on White Oak creek for 15 years and are here almost every weekend and occasionally weekdays.  Over the years boat traffic has of course increased due to more homes being built.  Since the development of Silver Rock Cove on Crooked Creek our boat traffic on White Oak has quadrupled.  We are on the upper end of White Oak where the channel narrows considerably and should be a no wake zone.  The boats from Silver Rock Cove just keep getting larger and larger and they are pulling wake boarders and even worst wake surfers which require the boat be configured to produce monster wakes. 

Sitting on our dock is next to impossible on a weekend or holiday like the 4th of July,  the boat are not only producing maximum wakes they come very close to our dock even with swimmers in the water, the occupants of the boats merrily wave to us oblivious to the mayhem they are causing.   I have spoken to several of the boat captains as they were picking up down wake boards and politely mentioned to them that their wakes were tearing up our boat docks and shoreline.  To their credit most have agreed to move to a wider part of the lake.  This leads me to believe that many boat captains just don't stop to think about their wake.  No wake zones may be the answer but perhaps a little education would help too.  Question is how do we get the word out?