Rich122
Member
- Aug 7, 2007
- 295
- Boat Info
- '10 540DA, t/t:Amanzi350-40hp
Raymarine G150s HD MFDs/48kw Radar/DSM300 Sounder
- Engines
- Cummins QSC8.3-600s
Pod Drive/Skyhook
21.5kw Onan
Most of this stuff is anoying, and can be dealt with, but the two that top my list
1-Blowbotes, at first on a perfectly good heading, following traffic, that insist on tacking across a narrow channel (like Huntington NY!!) within 50' of you. So close you need to cavitate in reverse to avoid cutting them in half with 20 tons. AHs every last one of them.
2-Waterbugs (waverunners/jetskis and now powered surf boards), lurking on the sides, that come out of nowwhere with no regard for the rules let alone their own safety:
a) Heading straight for you, trying to time the wake and jump them so close to your stern, that if you pulled back the throttles they'd broadside you. I can hear the bones cracking. (then again suing them for everything they got wouldn't get you a bowrider)
b) Jumping wakes BETWEEN boats, crossing your bow!!!!!!!!!!
Oh yeah, and somehow........THIS IS ALL OUR FAULT!
1-Blowbotes, at first on a perfectly good heading, following traffic, that insist on tacking across a narrow channel (like Huntington NY!!) within 50' of you. So close you need to cavitate in reverse to avoid cutting them in half with 20 tons. AHs every last one of them.
2-Waterbugs (waverunners/jetskis and now powered surf boards), lurking on the sides, that come out of nowwhere with no regard for the rules let alone their own safety:
a) Heading straight for you, trying to time the wake and jump them so close to your stern, that if you pulled back the throttles they'd broadside you. I can hear the bones cracking. (then again suing them for everything they got wouldn't get you a bowrider)
b) Jumping wakes BETWEEN boats, crossing your bow!!!!!!!!!!
Oh yeah, and somehow........THIS IS ALL OUR FAULT!