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fishoutaH2O
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Huge Waves
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5/29/2008 6:44:29 PM
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Just wondering why so many people ride around in their boats without planing off. These people act like they don't know that the waves behind them are 3 feet tall and sometimes taller.
Even the smallest of boats out there will make a huge swell if the boat is standing straight up, not to mention that fuel mileage is at its worst because the engine is in a strain the whole time. Generally the faster you go the smaller the wake. (not saying to ride around full throttle at all times!)
I just think that people should pay more attention to their own waves sometimes, especially while riding by a cluster of docks or other boats. I guess most people try to slow down in congested areas to appear to be safe but at the same time making a tidal wave behind them!! Oh well, I'll still be out there enjoying this beautiful lake as I have for 30 yrs.
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Summer Lover
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Huge Waves
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5/29/2008 7:17:15 PM
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You are absolutely right – there are two families that live towards the back of the slough we are in, both have boats in the 24 – 26 foot class. One is always crowded (hey it’s the lake) and when they are leaving their place they idle until they hit a spot where it opens up to about 400 yds. wide; then firewall it to get on plane and on down the way. The wake at our pier is substantially less than the other family (far fewer people on board) that runs just below plane from the back of the slough; then meanders away. I do not know if the second operator is ignorant, inconsiderate, or both.
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Pier Pressure
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Huge Waves
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5/29/2008 10:30:36 PM
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I found some pics from someones website where they posted themselves wakeboarding. I posted a pic of my boats wake Memorial Day Weekend. I was traveling at 3200 RPM 28mph in a 33 foot 16,000 lb "cruiser".
Wakeboard boat wake
http://www.chickyracing.com/Images/2007/Bags%20Cabin/IMG_1569.jpg
http://www.chickyracing.com/Images/2007/Bags%20Cabin/IMG_1601.jpg
http://www.chickyracing.com/Images/2007/Bags%20Cabin/IMG_1556.jpg
http://www.chickyracing.com/Images/2007/Bags%20Cabin/IMG_1541.jpg
Wake from my boat, Lake Martin, Memorial Day Weekend 2008.
http://img50.imageshack.us/img50/2874/dscn3523smallcc6.jpg
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| Name: |
Pier Pressure
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Stand Corrected
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5/29/2008 10:32:32 PM
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They were "Wakesurfing"....
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ALSCN
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Stand Corrected
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5/30/2008 9:17:53 AM
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PP you wrote... "I was traveling at 3200 RPM 28mph in a 33 foot 16,000 lb "cruiser"."
Didn't you mean to say " My awesome, beautiful, intelligent wife was driving the 33 foot 16,000 lb cruiser at 3200 RPM." ..
he he he.... LOL !
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Big D
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Stand Corrected
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5/30/2008 9:20:07 AM
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I think that it was Mark Twain who said that common sense ain't common. It's more true now than in his day. People don't use their brain while on the water for much more than soaking in the scenery and soaking in more alcohol!
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Pier Pressure
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Stand Corrected
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5/30/2008 9:47:33 AM
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Should I assume you are saying that I have no common sense, and that I am an alcoholic? Or am I missing something here?
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Pontoonfisher
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Stand Corrected
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5/30/2008 10:55:43 AM
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What else is there to do but soak in scenary and alcohol?????
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| Name: |
old blue chair
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Stand Corrected
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5/30/2008 11:01:32 AM
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I guess you can sing and wave too
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cg
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Stand Corrected
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5/30/2008 11:23:23 AM
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you tell him alscn!.................saw conner in the back seat.
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| Name: |
Big D
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Stand Corrected
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5/30/2008 3:02:23 PM
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No you shouldn't assume that. I was making a general statement about humanity [who can argue with Mark Twain?]. As we all know, or should at least, common sense is lacking in many to begin with. Put them on a boat and it goes out the window. Add alcohol and then we all have a problem. Most people who actually DO notice NO WAKE buoys only come off a plane but never go to fast idle. They are pushing the biggest wake possible and either don't know or don't care. Either choice is just as bad.
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Pier Pressure
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Stand Corrected
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5/30/2008 3:36:13 PM
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Couldn't agree with you more on that one. I am fully against people plowing. The State Law identifies Marinas as "No Wake Zones" but ours doesnot have buoys posted. It is the Marina's responsibility to post them. People ride past the docks "plowing" all day long.... Guess they really don't understand what "No wake" means....
BTW, although I don't like this, I have never had property damage from it...
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Big D
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Stand Corrected
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5/30/2008 4:15:27 PM
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That was kind of my point all along. Everyone who owns or drives a boat is supposed to read, know and obey the state boating laws. I'll bet that no matter what state it was, if you sat at a launching ramp and handed out a twenty question exam on the boating regs to everyone who launched for a whole weekend and said that you would pay $50 to all those who scored at least an 80%, you'd be less than $100 poorer when you left there!
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Aardvark
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Huge Waves
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5/31/2008 12:13:14 AM
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Most of them were probably never on the lake last year, or else they would know better than to go plowing. There were some boaters out there last weekend that I thought might catch some rocks that are now 6-7 feet below the surface because they were plowing so bad. I think that some people think that it looks cool to ride around with their boat at a 45 degree angle.
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CAT BOAT
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Haha....
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5/31/2008 10:09:24 AM
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ALSCN wrote...Didn't you mean to say " My awesome, beautiful, intelligent wife was driving the 33 foot 16,000 lb cruiser at 3200 RPM."
Actually, CAT saw all this in person and said, "Look at the HOT chick driving that boat, she is awesome. And, she could have choose a better looking deck hand"..... <<<<<<Das what CAT said..
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| Name: |
Big D
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Huge Waves
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6/1/2008 9:12:12 AM
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I think you're right about that. You never know what another person is going to think is "cool". To add insult to injury, plowing uses THE MOST GAS of anything that a boater can do besides tying the transom to the dock and then putting the motor in gear at high rpm!
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| Name: |
Maverick
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That is Not the Way I Say It
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6/1/2008 9:52:33 PM
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Connor was driving the boat
Cheyenne was the co pilot
PP was passed out
ALSCN was in the berth trying to unbolt the microwave so she could throw it at PP.
That is the way I say it and I am sticking with it.
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| Name: |
Pier Pressure
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That is Not the Way I Say It
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6/1/2008 10:36:28 PM
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Man, how did you know? You must have been on the Sea Doo following us... lol You guys are too much...
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