Wake boat bashing - Slow news week??

[swc5150]

A clique of wake boat (I won't say owners, since that would be clearly mom and dad) users on our lake take fun in seeing how much stuff they can wash off of people's docks with their wakes. They were successful in sending my elderly mom into the lake, who walks with a cane BTW, and they thought it was amusing stuff. It's little turds like this that'll ruin it for everyone.

[SilentSeven]

The surf wakes I have seen roll by all tend to be very large, very tightly spaced waves. Not really the same as the random wakes generated by a ski boat with toobers or wakeboarding boats.

I think we all have experienced the idiots who manage to ruin an entire lake. We had one out just the other AM - teenage kids wakeboarding in a "J" line to the shore, diagonal to all the other boats, running big power turns and generally chewing up the entire lake.

Best thing we can all do is teach our kids how to be courteous, conscientious drivers and how to share the water. And we need to pull the keys if they can't be responsible. I think surfers, in their quest for ever larger wakes, are going to put themselves in their own hole they will need to dig themselves out of. The old adage will come to play...if you can't police yourself, someone will be happy to do it for you.

[lucky7t]

The surf wakes I have seen roll by all tend to be very large, very tightly spaced waves. Not really the same as the random wakes generated by a ski boat with toobers or wakeboarding boats.

I think we all have experienced the idiots who manage to ruin an entire lake. We had one out just the other AM - teenage kids wakeboarding in a "J" line to the shore, diagonal to all the other boats, running big power turns and generally chewing up the entire lake.

Best thing we can all do is teach our kids how to be courteous, conscientious drivers and how to share the water. And we need to pull the keys if they can't be responsible. I think surfers, in their quest for ever larger wakes, are going to put themselves in their own hole they will need to dig themselves out of. The old adage will come to play...if you can't police yourself, someone will be happy to do it for you.

Very well said

[GCSuper]

If those little turds did that to my dock or mom, they might discover they have a few holes in their boat due to my dewalt. Would rather use a gun, but it's not worth going to jail for.

[BoardSkier]

A few things...
There could be 5 wakeboats and three toobers and I assure you the toobers throw much more damaging wakes. Ban tubes!

Another ..
I don't understand why anyone would crank up tupac with small children close to you. Geez that's just plain stupid and inconsiderate.

And a few more...
DONT POWER TURN! this drives me crazy
And please don't surf in a quiet glass cove when you have a huge area to surf.

We love to surf, wakeboard, wakeskate etc.. But people are ruining it for us. I watched this inconsiderate moron last weekend in a Moomba blast through a no wake zone under a bridge with fisherman tied up as he laughed.

Well said! We are ex-skiers and now boarders and surfers. Our practice is to only let experienced drivers operate the boat when surfing. It seems easy because of slow speed, but large wake goes on for 100 feet or so behind and out. Got to be looking well down the lake. We stay out of coves with fishermen, anchored boats or skiers and try stay in larger open areas. Our experience is that tubers and jet skiers also contribute to the wakes because they jump the surf wake. But if they're happy, we're happy. If it gets too crazy, we take a break or move.

Our lake has its share of people who don't know or don't care about the wake they throw. The VA boater safety course covers wakes. Maybe they need a refresher! As for music, it is easy enough to create a "clean playlist". We have the clean list for when kids are aboard and the not-so-clean when its just the adults in the cove. Oh, yeah also have a volume control on the tower speakers!

[swc5150]

If those little turds did that to my dock or mom, they might discover they have a few holes in their boat due to my dewalt. Would rather use a gun, but it's not worth going to jail for.

There indeed was retribution, I just thought it better not to elaborate here. I'll just say the laughter had ceased at the conclusion of confrontation.

I won't be shocked one but when these boats are banned from our lake. Unfortunately, it's not the boat that's the problem, it's the driver. Just like spoons don't make people fat.

[pboltonmd]

[QUOTE=lucky7t;231897]A few things...
"There could be 5 wakeboats and three toobers and I assure you the toobers throw much more damaging wakes. Ban tubes!"

Agreed. I assume tubers are driven by boaters that have no appreciation of nice water or safe separation distance as they too often needlessly churn up the glass, make sudden turns into my path and seem not to change course when I raise my flag.

I see way too many neck and head injuries from tubing in children--the worst being a 9 year old girl who ultimately died (huge intracranial bleed) after colliding with other riders after her tube flipped.


Save the kids not the shorline.


2012 SANTE 210

[scottb7]

I don't disagree on the danger of tubing. But I do disagree on the wake. The wake created by the average run-about pulling tubers is a whole lot smaller than the average weighted wake board boat pulling a wake boarder. Just like the average weighted wakeboard boat while surfing creates a bigger wake than the average weighted wakeboard boat wakeboarding.

[Chexi]

True. The only qualifier would be if the runabout is doing circles and its wakes are getting doubled by constructive interference. Let's face it, that's the only way to make tubing fun.

[kend]

Let's face it, that's the only way to make tubing fun.

but why do tubers always look for the quietest cove in the lake to do it....and why do jet skiiers have to do a fly-by when they see a boat.
Most annoyed I've been this year is the guy at the ramp that had to play f-bomb laced music on his 15,000w system while loading his boat next to me and my kids loading our boat.

[SilentSeven]

but why do tubers always look for the quietest cove in the lake to do it....and why do jet skiiers have to do a fly-by when they see a boat.

We call 'em Credit Card Captains - and they are generally absolutely clueless. Jetski's and runabouts.

It's when see a tourney or wake boat doing the same that I really burn - makes me want to snip their towropes into itsy bitsy parts and have them disowned from the skiing fraternity!

[lucky7t]

Wake boat bashing - Slow news week??

I know it's not a nice thing to say but I absolutely hate inexperienced toobers. Yes they do create massive waves. These boats are like crown lines , baja etc.. That are large boats and the go in circles . It drives me insane! They destroy a lake in minutes especially if there are 3 or 4 . Last weekend there were at least 6 and some of them had two tubes

Yes we own a tube that my kids enjoy but we tube safely and respect other riders.

[HS]

Lame tube drivers that insist on hitting the prime glass in our coves are the worst. Take any typical Saturday, head up wind or in the lee of a hill side, to find the glass and there you'll find an i/o station wagon full of kids towing a tube in crazy unpredictable lines through the best water. Their ignorance is deafening. How can they not recognize the traffic patterns for WB and skiers, and why would they assume this is where they can just tow the kids until they throw up??? It's worse because they invariably creep right up behind the WBer or skier being towed, and since they are whipping at 25 they close the distance way too fast, plus they are looking back, not forward. When I see this, we pull over and go elsewhere. talk about lack of basic seamanship and rules of the road. Geez!

Tubers: stay in the middle of the lake, please.

[pboltonmd]

2 Weeks ago





PLAINFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. — Authorities say a 16-year-old Virginia girl was killed in a tubing accident on a northern Michigan lake.


The Iosco County sheriff’s department told The Bay City Times that the accident happened Friday on Jose Lake, in Plainfield Township, about 55 miles north of Bay City in the northern Lower Peninsula.


The sheriff’s department said Monday that it isn’t releasing the girl’s identity.


The department says a 55-year-old woman was towing the girl behind a power boat when the tube struck an anchored swimming platform.

AND 1 WEEK LATER

GREENWICH Conn. (Reuters) - Police on Thursday identified a 16-year-old girl who died after being struck by the propeller of a boat that had been pulling her in a tube in Long Island Sound off Connecticut on Wednesday.


The girl, Emily Fedorko of Greenwich, Connecticut, had been tubing with three friends aged 15 and 16 when the incident happened, Greenwich Police Lieutenant Kraig Gray said.


The incident occurred when Fedorko and a second girl, who has not been identified, fell out of the tube that was being pulled behind a 21-foot boat with an outboard motor.


"The boat operator made a turn to pick up the tubers when the boat collided with the two girls in the water, who were injured by the propeller," Gray said.


The second girl sustained a serious but not life-threatening injury to her lower left leg, Gray said.


Gray said the boat operator and a passenger tried to help the victims.


"They immediately lifted them aboard the boat and transported them to the Old Greenwich Yacht Club dock," he said.


All four teens were students at Greenwich High School, police said.


Police said the incident was still under investigation by the Greenwich Police Department Marine Section and the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection.

[kend]

All four teens were students at Greenwich High School, police said.

I got my kids a boat licenses as soon as they turned 13yo and could legally have one. Next season my oldest will be 16 and could legally pull the boat out with a group of friends and go tubing without me ....that's not going to happen