What is your #1 boating complaint?

out-n-aboat said:
I dont like feeling I am being held hostage by mechanics in the marine industry. The supply and demand needs to level off. IMHO
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So very, very true.

I don't mind paying through the nose. I just wish I saw higher competence levels. :smt013
 
Actually besides what I posted before, my biggest complaint is not having deep enough pockets to buy the Sea Ray that I really want! :wow:

Lets see now.......a 40DA?......................or maybe a 48DA?..............or.......... wait a minute a 55DA..............yeah that's it!!!!! :smt038

My pockets will really have to be deep for that one. :smt043
 
Well, since I started this, I may as well list my pet peeve.

Surprised this did not come up yet, so its possible this is a local issue.

Where we boat we have lots of rivers, connecting various lakes via a chain.

Cruising is popular, so is fishing.

My pet peeve is fishermen blatantly disregarding the rules of the road in every respect, blocking the navigational channels.

Examples include but are not limited to:

- Fishermen anchored between the red and green buoys in the narrow channel. Not one or tow, but dozens.

- Fishermen ‘trolling’ that will be off my port at a right angle, making them the “give-way†vessel, yet they cut across the front of us as we are going thru no wake zones and narrow channels.

- Fishermen with lines blocking access to gas docks and then yell at me “Hey, we have a line there†as I approach the gas dock at a angle perpendicular to the gas dock, trying to give the fishermen as much room as possible. In this case the only option they would accept is to leave and get gas elsewhere.

I use to think fishermen did not like cruisers. One day we went to a restaurant in Winneconne WI on the Wolf River. The kids were acting up so we decide to eat on the boat. I sat there and witnessed fishermen after fishermen not only yell at passing cruisers but yelling at each other. Everything from tangled lines to encroachment into the other fisherman’s spot, as if he owned it, to trolling boats snagging the lines of shore and bridge (non-boater) fishermen and gaining bait and I assume lures.

The funny thing is we also fish. We are not gung-ho fishermen but we do fish, mostly for pan fish to eat. However when we do it we find spots that are not in the navigational channels.
 
I agree. We also boat in an area where there are narrow channels and inlets and invariably there are fishermen drifting in and out of the channel. Coming off of plane 3-4 times on the way in or out is a major pain to be curteous to this group who show no curtesy to anyone else, so now we just blow past them on plane. Tough, they don't belong there.
 
People who can not comprehend the concept of a No Wake Zone. (Or understand the concept, but don't think it applies to them.)
 
#1 boating pet peeve here is the tradeoffs that come with boats. I want a bigger boat for the room, comfort & creature comforts. But I also want the things that come with a smaller boat -- speed, agility, and the exhilaration of a small boat.

Of course, the answer is a true yacht big enough to stow a 20' runabout on the deck. Then perhaps a helicopter on the upper deck.

All I need now is money. And a body of water big enough and close enough.
 
Blowing past a fisherman who happens to be drifting in a channel may feel like the right thing to do but you are still responsible for your wake. I know it sucks and I have had the urge to try and see just how close to them I can get but I also consider the down side risk if my wake happens to sink their boat. Just my $.02 but be careful what you do....
 
For the last two weekends I have to say it's the "Go Fast" boats. I understand it, I used to drag race and have big loud headers. But those suckers are loud as hell. I'm anchored in a nice quiet place cooking a steak and having a beer and from far away, before you can even see the thing, you can hear him coming. Sounds like a thunderstorm approaching. Then for some retarded reason, they have to come close to every boat to see if they recognize you. I have to plug my ears as they idle by. :smt021

for 20 min you can't have a conversation or even think until they leave.
 
Common courtesy. Jet ski's please understand we are not being rude when we yell at you. We don't stop or maneuver as quickly. Loud and noisy boats understand that the look we give you when you enter our nice and quiet cove is our way of saying we left the noise at the office please feel free to locate another area of the lake to make all the noise you want to. And to all those fisherman drifting in the channels, you are a hazard but our frustration is in that we don't want to sink you our take away your right to be there also. And last but not least, at the ramps its a game of patience. At the end of the day everyone feels just as fried as you do and we all need to stop being so selfish and take our time. Remember its recreation! :thumbsup:
 
Among all the other "peeves" already listed, I really can't stand it when I finally find a nice peacefull shaddy spot to lounge in my zero gravity chair, light up one of my favorite mild churchills, set a glass of tasty port wine on a small patio table next to the chair with the latest copy of my favorite Boating magazine and then.....then it happens.......all those damned advertising post cards start to fall out of the pages of the magazine and the wind blows them around, and I burn my lap trying to get up real fast to catch them and I tip over my glass of wine....man that peeves me... :smt013
 
My wife and I are visiting relatives in Toms River, NJ. Gas here is cheap compared to Texas. Only 2.79 per gal.
 
AS was stated Previously FISHERMAN.....

Anyone that defends there actions obviously has never had to deal with them.... Here on Long island where ur in a giant sand box and the channels are narraow they do as they please. Tie to channel markers and bridges... its a disgrace.... They show total disregard for those around them....


Rob
 
And what really gets me burning.... :smt013 .....is when I see a CG or State Patrol boat go by 15 small boats drifting accross the back channels and they don't say anything... :smt021 ....... :smt013 ......where is the enforcement....rule # 9 is very clear with regard to impeading passage in narrow channels....... :huh:
 
Having to spending the entire time out on the water with "2"s, "3"s or "4"s displaying on the depth guage. It must be great for those of you that just go out and drive your boat without having to CONSTANTLY look at the depth guage.
 
gerryb said:
Having to spending the entire time out on the water with "2"s, "3"s or "4"s displaying on the depth guage. It must be great for those of you that just go out and drive your boat without having to CONSTANTLY look at the depth guage.
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Ah, yes. Barnegate bay. A place where "5 feet" is considered deep water.

One level of pain is being in new water, with no depth finder.

Another level of pain comes after you get the depth finder fixed. . .drive into shallow water, and suddenly realizing that an entire line of crab pots have been laid down on the 3' depth line (and I was on the wrong side of the line!) for about a mile.
 
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