What gets your undies in a bundle?

Sailers who think they ALWAYS have the right of way!!
If the motor running it called a power boat and your 35ft. blowbote doesn't draft 15ft. Move to the middle of the channel, away from my boat.
 
My mother in law who has never owned a boat in her life but "has a very knowledgeable friend who does" telling me how to drive the dam thing....all...... day.....long :smt013
 
:smt038 After reading these posts...I just realized I have nothing to Bit(h about....now THAT ticks me off!!:smt024
 
Fishing guys and their boats with the fly bridge who MUST keep all those dammed hi intensity lights burning all night while at anchor to show how cool they are...
 
Jet Skiers running up my a$$ while I'm pulling a skier. One of my kids almost got run over on the 4th. JO took one look at me and took off as fast as he could:smt021. Of course he didn't have any reg. numbers.

People that don't know the rules. If you follow the rules for being the stand-on boat on our lake, you'd be dead in minutes.

People who come into the cove that we usually tube and ski in, and drop anchor in the middle of the cove while we are tubing, then get pissed because we're tubing.
 
H2ONUT said:
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!!!!!!!!!
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My next door neighbor is a commercial diver, and has worked on some of these dams (stevensons in particular)

The dams cannot do anything about the debris. Dont forget, they are spillways, and the gates are only a small portion. Most of the debris is from the tributaries along the housatonic that run into the river.I have seen it firsthand up on zoar...larger streams coming into the river carrying limbs and muck :-(

The dams actually DO catch some debris in the cages, but it is a small amount.

I feel your pain bro...Im 2 bodies of water up from you where it happens!
 
wait... I thought of one. It's a hot day, I've just gone for a swim, I dry off and go to the fridge to get a beer.... No more beer left. Makes me want to punch babies I get so mad.
 
1. landlubber guests on my boat
2. children of landlubber guests on my boat.

this is controllable by NEVER inviting landlubbers, which i no longer do.

3. kayakers in the friggin geometric center of the ICW on a busy saturday afternoon. they draw like 3" of water but they insist on sharing that tiny avenue of the bay that will allow the rest of us to keep our boats from bottoming out. even worse, a kayaker with a sail. yes, these exist, and they all wind up IN MY PATH!!! :smt013:smt013:smt013:smt013
 
TurtleTone said:
wait... I thought of one. It's a hot day, I've just gone for a swim, I dry off and go to the fridge to get a beer.... No more beer left. Makes me want to punch babies I get so mad.
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I have one like that. I just went for an after dinner cruise with the family. I went to grab a cold one from the cockpit fridge. To my dismay, it was WARM!!!!

Someone turned off the cockpit fridge. WHY?!:smt021

(luckily, I had another stash in the cabin, so all was good.:grin:)
 
A few of mine have been mentioned.

1) When I anchor 100' from another anchored boat, it is NOT because I want to allow room for someone to anchor between us.

2) When I am running a hull speed (6mph) in a narrow channel it is NOT because I can't run at 30mph on full plane.

3) Yeah . . .the landlubber factor. The worst is family landlubbers. (but why can't we sit on the bow while underway? but that boat is running fast.. . .why aren't we?)

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Hey kids!

When I am on the boat nothing bothers me that a well placed water balloon won't cure.

Those idiots that don't follow the rules are like slinkies - not really good for anything but it brings a smile to your face just imagining pushing them down the stairs.
 
1. I'm anchored with 20 other boats in the middle of the Bay fishing. 2 30'+ go fasts blast right through the middle of the pack at 60 MPH. there is at least 3 miles of open water on either side of us.

2. $5.22 gal Gas
 
1. People who anchor next to me and never to bother to check if their anchor is actually hung and drift into me.
2. My own friends that try to tie up to me with no Fender/Ropes and then then need to use my jump box to leave. Basicaly all ill prepared boaters.
3. People who drive right behind me 50 yards back. "Like my wake is some magic Flipping Sheild from the big bad wakes?"
4. NOVICE BOATER DAY.......Memorial day/Fourth/Labor day.
 
sfergson727 said:
My favorite is when they cast in front of my boat as I am making my way out to the lake amongst the other boats, and then yell at me to give way to their line. I've found that logic doesn't take with these types, so I've stopped attempting to "communicate" with them and just ignore their shouts as I cruise along.
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Yeah ive found this one to be at the top of my list of pet-peaves. We had a guy fishing off of the boat ramp dock casting his lines right where the boats were loading and unloading. As we unloaded my friends boat, his fishing line got cut and he proceeded to go into profanity laden tirade. I went back to my truck, grabbed a ice-cold beer, brought it over to him, opened it, and in my most sarcastic voice told him "You have the ENTIRE river to cast your lines. We have THESE 20 feet to load and unload boats. So enjoy the beer and thank god that it was me on the dock and not my buddy Pete. Because he would have put YOU on some fishing line and cast you into the water by the loading ramp".

Just when you thought youd seen it all...

Now that i think back, what a waste of a good beer...

Mike
 
Motoring down the ICW and having a sailboater flip me off after I radio him and ask him to slow down so I can give him a no-wake pass.

Sailboaters who have a sail raised while running the engine thinking they can "sneak" the whole right-of-way issue by you.

Sailboaters who don't wave back.

Sailboaters who hog the fuel dock for 3 hours while buying 2 gallons of fuel and walking their little shit dogs.

Sailboaters...
 
Spiders all over my boat.
Seems like every morning I wake up to find that my boat
is home to a hundred spiders.
Then when you kill them, they smear! Another good reason to
keep a small vacuum on board!
 
People who answer posts with statements like.

"I'm not sure how to fix that but...." Then they throw out their best guess...

or

"I don't have that on my boat but..... (See above):smt021
 
Four Suns said:
Sailboaters who don't wave back.

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Thats like harley guys who don't wave back at crotch rocket guys... you are doing the same thing on different machines.

Sorry don't mean to hyjack the thread.
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