Wake Boat Rant....

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Havalina said:
You need to come out with me one day an experience the fun of the surf boats. There is a wonderful word called sharing. If your fun prevents others from having fun and possibly puts them in dangerous situations, that is not sharing a resource. That is a group of individuals being inconsiderate.
Here is all that I am asking for, If you find this being divisive, please let me see that perspective.
1. Watch where you are going and quit focusing on the girls breast next to you.
2. Follow the state boating laws. Especially, the one that says you need to maintain a minium distance of 150 ft from other boats unless traveling at a wakeless speed. If I can admire you daughters camel toe you are to close.
3. Having a towel party wiping down your precious boat10 feet from the water at the boat ramp, when there are several other boats needing to pull out is just rude.

If these three request could be met I would have nothing to complain about. I don’t think asking for common courtesy and respect is divisive

I have similar complaints about old guys driving Lunds who can’t seem to remember how to trim their Lunds cruising through the canyons.
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I have plenty of practice getting along with other boats. Your post started with I absolutely hate the surf boats. That doesn't set the tone for anything but negativity. We all get annoyed with discourteous behavior. I just refuse to get my blood pressure up over it.
 
Leardriver said:
I have plenty of practice getting along with other boats. Your post started with I absolutely hate the surf boats. That doesn't set the tone for anything but negativity. We all get annoyed with discourteous behavior. I just refuse to get my blood pressure up over it.
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I do absolutely hate the surf boats. When I am out on the water at either Willard, the Flaming gorge, or Powell you can’t get away from them. I am not in a small boat and they make fishing untenable. Like I said earlier, with the way the world is to day someone is going to have boater rage. I would rather have the 30 ft cruisers buzz me than the surf boats. You also have to remember the I am going a blistering pace of about 2.2 mph. Yet they still manage to get with in 50 ft of me. I know this because I put a baseball into the center of one at Willard last year. I have had eight surgries and can chunk a baseball about 50 ft, if the wind is blowing right. I hardly ever get buzzed by a houseboat, another fishing boat, pontoon boat, or cruiser. The surf boats manage to get that close several times a day for every trip. I watched two guys in a fishing boat last October bail out of their boat because they were almost hit by a surf boat across from Moki.

All I am asking is that they follow the law. Nothing special just follow the law, it should not be that difficult.
 
Peto said:
We typically avoid the lake during the summer months due to the crowds and the idiots but made a trip up last week to meet up with some friends that were coming to the lake for the first time and asked me to show them around. So we launch both cruisers, run up lake to Last Chance and find a nice beach to call home for the night. We get anchored up and break out the grills to enjoy some happy hour treats and a couple drinks thinking we had found a nice quiet cove to relax and enjoy the peace and views but we were WRONG....

Around the corner comes a wake boat with the stereo blaring and they proceeded to run laps in the cove for over and hour rocking our cruisers with their wake to the point food and drinks were falling of the tables if not held on too... It was NOT the experience I wanted to show new lake visitors.

We tried to get their attention but they just ignored us.

The idiots have to realize the wakes are destructive / annoyance since they don't surf in the cove they camp in.

Anyone else annoyed by this activity??

This is the primary reason we go to the lake in the Fall and Spring. This is a reoccurring event and becoming more common each trip.
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I just want the wake boats and water skiers to stay in the bigger parts of the lake. Stay out of the coves and small canyons. If they did this there would not be a problem. But they do have the mentality that someone needs to watch our stupid crap. many times while just fishing off the back of our houseboat we have had to endure the wake wash of idiots surfing or wake boarding in very small coves we are anchored in. Don't even get me started on the idiots with there kids on a tube that pull them right in front of my houseboat (that cant stop very quickly) Most people with cruisers have been around a while, and know what there wake can do. Wake board boats don't give a S**t. Most are spoiled rich kids that shouldn't even be allowed to be driving a boat.
 
Peto said:
I'm typically not the revenge type of guy but once I was soo pissed off at a group that the next day when we pulled anchor to head home I purposely cruised by their camp site and made 3-4 passed with the bow trimmed up and throwing the largest wake I could create.... I really doubt I got my point across but it made me feel better...
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I have done the same thing.
 
Ryan, the colors in that explosion remind me of the stain on my galley carpet caused by a jar of salsa shattering after sliding off the counter top while being waked.... After than incident we learned that we have to take extra precautions while beached and trying to enjoy a quiet happy hour nacho treat, everything goes in the sink.... We also spend extra time trying to find a beach with some kind of protection from the wakes... Sadly our favorite shady spots don't offer that.
 
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