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What about the 4'5" old fart in the 65' searay smoking the stogie thats just plowing down the middle of the channel, at w.o.t barley able to see over the wheel. throwing a 5' wake on both sides. We have these chit heads here in florida and they are absolutely heartless bastards with way more money that brains. rich banker types that you wanna follow back to the marina and kick thier teeth down thier throats.....
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Originally Posted by jonyb
(Post 3413970)
Dear powerboater douchebag,
Thanks for coming to the empty, isolated (from the main lake) bay where me and my friends like go to wakeboard. We normally go there out of consideration of other boaters, as to not disrupt other boaters, or have to deal with tubers. I'm especially pleased that you came out my way so I could hear your loud, unmuffled exhaust. It makes you look so much more badass, you don't even understand. When you came through at full throttle (in a dead-end bay), made that powerturn and hauled ass back out, I rubbed one out. That had to be the coolest thing I'd ever seen. The point is, it goes both ways. There are people in every type of boat that disrespects other people. Just turn your head and go about your business. It's a public lake for damn sakes, just like the street. Now in the bay people seem to be a little better(minus rag baggers) and when someone does stupid stuff everyone lets em hear about it! |
Originally Posted by pitts1313
(Post 3414249)
Bass boats fishing in the middle of blind curves that are main byways? I don't get it or the attitudes. You can't be catching anything with all the traffic and jeopardizing everyone that rounds the corner.
Jet skis are kamikaze pilots. I learned they will do anythng to pass you, even if putting themselves endanger by pinching you in a curve. I have come off plane for canoes up river where it might be appropriate location for canoeing (but they really shouldn't be where big boats are), but sea kayaks in the main channel I am not coming off plane. They made a conscious decision to be there in the main channel wakes. In contrast. I choose not to take my power boat to play in a shipping lane jumping wakes or run thru a sail boat regatta. I really believe the go fast crowd is pretty safety conscious and situation aware compared to all other boaters. I do my part to help project a good image Jet skiers are definatly by far the best kamikaze pilots! |
Originally Posted by pacalim1965@yaho
(Post 3414558)
What about the 4'5" old fart in the 65' searay smoking the stogie thats just plowing down the middle of the channel, at w.o.t barley able to see over the wheel. throwing a 5' wake on both sides. We have these chit heads here in florida and they are absolutely heartless bastards with way more money that brains. rich banker types that you wanna follow back to the marina and kick thier teeth down thier throats.....
Wake Boarders are throwing some massive wakes with ballast bags on board. Saw a pic of a 30 plus foot cat that had "Jet Ski Intake" printed above the tunnel and between the sponsons at the front. Rear of boat said "Jet Ski Output". |
Originally Posted by pitts1313
(Post 3414808)
I have heard that a boater "owns his wake". That the boater is responsible for his wake's damage. Don't know if that is true or how you prove it.
Near the Tides Inn they used to have a sign up saying this, too, but somebody removed it last I was there. Best wishes. |
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douchebag powerboater cruised by the beach wanting everyone to look at him on Saturday. When he got to the end he faced it out to the main lake and took off. The wake from his boat tore up the whole beach and a few boats bumped each other from the wake that washed up to them.
Another douche move happened when a guy got hung up in my anchor rope, then the bow contacted the front of my boat and put 3 nice galges in the side of it :mad: What was that I read about people being aware of their surroundings? |
Sounds like y'all are boating on lakes that are too dam small....
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You were probably just in the wrong place at the wrong time . I just couldn't imagine a Performance boat doing anything wrong ....you must have been in thier way.
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Originally Posted by pacalim1965@yaho
(Post 3415550)
You were probably just in the wrong place at the wrong time . I just couldn't imagine a Performance boat doing anything wrong ....you must have been in thier way.
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Originally Posted by hotjava66
(Post 3413472)
Its a brave new world. I have a hard time telling if people these days are blatant pricks, or just blatantly oblivious to everything and everyone around them.
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Jonyb, Im just kidding around. it sucks when people are so careless and disrespectful. but we just gotta get along with one another, the best we can.
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Originally Posted by pacalim1965@yaho
(Post 3415799)
Jonyb, Im just kidding around. it sucks when people are so careless and disrespectful. but we just gotta get along with one another, the best we can.
Bottom line is, I have respect for anyone, no matter what they drive, but only if they know how to drive it. |
I guess which type of jackass you have to deal with depends on where you boat. It seems like in CT I mostly run into the type that thinks LI sound should only be enjoyed via kayak, 10 foot skiff, or catamaran.
When we did the photo shoot for the boat, I had to launch the boat and my photographers were rushing me me to hurry up because we were losing light. I was waiting my turn at the ramp and some dude, probably around 60 yr old in khaki shorts and a sweater tied around his shoulders, was loading up his kayak onto the roof of his jeep. Instead of pulling up off the ramp to secure down the kayak , he held up the ramp for 15 minutes while he tied the thing down, then checked every knot, then retied a few of them. I mean, it's common courtesy that you get your rig on the trailer (or your roof) and you pull out of the way to tie down, do your safety check, etc. |
Originally Posted by richanton
(Post 3415932)
When we did the photo shoot for the boat, I had to launch the boat and my photographers were rushing me me to hurry up because we were losing light. I was waiting my turn at the ramp and some dude, probably around 60 yr old in khaki shorts and a sweater tied around his shoulders, was loading up his kayak onto the roof of his jeep. Instead of pulling up off the ramp to secure down the kayak , he held up the ramp for 15 minutes while he tied the thing down, then checked every knot, then retied a few of them. I mean, it's common courtesy that you get your rig on the trailer (or your roof) and you pull out of the way to tie down, do your safety check, etc. I always get the feeling the person was so much in their own little stupid world they didnt know people were waiting even when its painfully obvious. |
This weekend, on the first day, we are all the way back in a cove, next thing I know, a houseboat starts coming back in to our cove. My wife says, they surely aren't comng back here, (the cove was barely large enough to get a houseboat in), but they sure did, got as close to us as they could get. Then we went to to another part of the lake, way back to very end of a cove, was just realaxing, next thing I know, two jet skis come blasting, around the boat, then blasting, between our boat and the shore (maybe 10 or 20 feet). My wife suggested we get a paint ball gun and shoot their a**. F******* a** wipes. This on a 66,000 acre lake, with hundres of coves.:angry-smiley-038:
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