What gets your undies in a bundle?

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Oct 3, 2006
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Wisconsin - Winnebago Pool chain of lakes
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What bothers you most as it pertains to boating?

Is it that fisherman that anchors in the channel? That kid that keeps jumping your wake? The junk that gets stuck to the Velcro on your bimini?

What gets your dander up, makes your blood boil, makes you red faced mad!
 
For me... all that stuff bugs me. What REALLY gets me............

Here on the river I'm on, there are multiple northern dams. What happens after heavy rains is you get alot of debris in the water beacuse... the utility companies that control these dams, push all the crap over and let it flow down stream. There are times it's better to stay at the dock than go out and risk damaging your running gear. For the last 2 years it has been really bad. Phone calls, e-mails do NOTHING!!!!!!!!!
 
1. Bronze - The people that insist on prepping all their tubing/skiing/etc paraphernalia in the middle of the ICW. Get over - prep - THEN tube!

2. Silver - The 350lb woman in the 10ft RIB trying to challenge me for position in the ICW when I'm doing 30mph and she's heading straight at me, trying to force me beyond the markers.

3. Gold - Maybe it's more common here than on lakes where you have a little larger berth, but nothing gets me all red faced faster than a boat full of idiots (read - center-console fishing boats around here) screaming past me fast and close enough that I can see the whites of their eyes, and practically HAND them a beer!? Just leave me a boat-lengths worth of space...PLEASE!
 
1. Someone else on my boat that thinks they know how to help and ends up breaking something.

2. Someone putting solids in the holding tank after having been told its for liquids only. (Like I wouldn't find out)

3. Forgetting to put the antenna down while trailering and knocking off the top 8"...hey it still works.

4. Getting up on a plane. Hitting a wave. Wife comes up out of the cabin and says, "I wasn't ready to go...you come get the dishes off the floor and wash them." Sorry honey.

5. Pontoon boat rentals. Don't get me started.

6. Forgetting where my anchor hangs in relationship to my head while stepping over the trailer tongue. That's going to leave a mark.
 
Inconsiderate boaters who just feel the need to tube or ski (and throw big wakes) in an area where boats are rafted up.

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Boy, lots of angry boaters. The only times i've ever got ANGRY was when someone runs into my boat. Then it's mostly the anchor that smashes something on their boat. Other than that i'm chillaxin'.

I'm in no hurry. Last weekend I had a sailboat tack right in front of me. I came to a stop and let them cross my bow and what do you know... Topless girls on board. I waved, they waved back. Life is good.

Then my GF punched me.
 
1. People who think No Wake zones don't apply to them.
2. Guests who don’t understand that time and tide wait for no man. (And neither do I!)
 
Being anchored in a nice quiet peaceful bay and this boat full of teenagers(8-10), come in, with their dad's sailboat, drop anchor about 100' off and crank up their tunes so loud, it echos off the shore! And it's all horrible screaming angst alternative music - Argh! Just downright rude!

-VtSeaRay
 
1. Crab pots

2. Idiots, last Friday I'm in a narrow part of the river where a 6kt speed limit applies on weekends. Obviously on Fridays the limit doesn't apply so a lot of boaters speed through the area even though many marinas are nearby. I'm behind 2 sailboats who have taken up the entire channel so I'm going maybe 10kts. waiting to pass in a more open area. I look behind me and see a 30' something Sea Ray closing in on me looking like PT 73 enroute to Taratupa.
Not only was he approaching 3 boats like a bat out of hell he hit the docked boats with a wake that would wake the dead.

3. I was on the hook in a unusually crowded area. (People saving gas) I had my stern anchor out as most others did as I wanted the stern to shore so I could play with the grandkids. I notice that other boats who came later have no clue that when I leave I have to let the stern go and the boat will swing in the breeze until I pull anchor. A pontoon boat pulls in and anchors downwind of me. When I release the stern I swing to maybe 10 feet of him. No problem since I have to pull away from him to release the main anchor. Now as I'm doing that a 38' cruiser decides to pull in and throw anchor in my escape path. Luckily I squeezed out before he was set. Some people need to learn to read the surroundings, boats, tides and winds, before encroaching on others.
 
Inconsiderate folks tied up in their slip for the night, who erroneously think that 1) everyone around is deaf; and/or 2) that we like their music.

Inconsiderate marina staff who ignore the noise made after 10 pm quiet time, forcing me to get them out to quiet down the folks on the other dock. The 'noisy dock'. Usually it's the owner of a really ugly Silverton.
 
4. When tied up at a local restaurant dock last Friday night I watch as a 17' bowrider with 3 overweight passengers pull up behind me and decide to tie up about 2 foot from my swim platform. There was nobody behind him so he had 50' to play with but decided to cuddle my aft. Fortunately, he got carry out and was gone before I was ready to leave.
Maybe I could have towed his boat away like a dinghy.:smt001
 
I'm sure I could add to the list of ways that inconsiderate semi-sentient beings on the water bug me, but you guys have a great list going and anything I said would be just a variation on that theme.

What bugs me most are the politicians and government bureaucrats who waste my time and my tax money, thereby keeping me from enjoying my time on the water to the extent I'd like.
 
gredmer said:
4. When tied up at a local restaurant dock last Friday night I watch as a 17' bowrider with 3 overweight passengers pull up behind me and decide to tie up about 2 foot from my swim platform. There was nobody behind him so he had 50' to play with but decided to cuddle my aft. Fortunately, he got carry out and was gone before I was ready to leave.
Maybe I could have towed his boat away like a dinghy.:smt001
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Wait till after this weekend at Aquapaloooza at Hart Miller.... There will be some stories to tell after that I'll bet! :grin:
 
Two of mine have been listed already: 'high maintance' guests and fishing boats in the middle of the channel.

The one I'll add requires me to spend alot of time running to different places and shopping at sites online: boat parts which are COULD have been standard but manufacturer decides that hard-to-find, specialty items are better (pex water tubing, galley120v lightbulb, electrical connectors, etc.).
 
I'm all for subscribing to Mike's Chillaxin' mode. Luckily here we can either go boating in a Lake chock full of boats or disappear into Puget Sound or Canadian waters and be a mile or more away from the nearest boat.

The inconsiderate boaters that "Don't get it" with either Loud music or genny on in an otherwise silent anchorage are pretty annoying but, I'm not going to twist my britches on a bumch over it.

Chillax' to the Max



ooh, sailboaters that don't wave back are arrogant pukes
 
hack4alivin said:
Wait till after this weekend at Aquapaloooza at Hart Miller.... There will be some stories to tell after that I'll bet! :grin:
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BTW, Bill. I saw you and another I recognized from Gunpowder Cove docked at Conrad Ruth's on Sunday. There were alot of boats there. Was it a marina type party?
 
gredmer said:
BTW, Bill. I saw you and another I recognized from Gunpowder Cove docked at Conrad Ruth's on Sunday. There were alot of boats there. Was it a marina type party?
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Negitive, someone at the Marina we know gave us a bunch of tickets.... Nice event! Had four boats all tied to mine at the end of the pier, sure glad my dock lines held!
 
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