Saturday we are calling it a day and we have another family with us, mom,dad, and 2 girls. We opt to drive around Govenors for an end of day scenic drive with our guests ( we are heading towards Paugus Bay) We slow down as we reach the bridge and another boat is on the other side(no wake zone) he is looking at us and we are looking at him since we both arrived at the same time, we signal for him to go through, he waves and starts to proceed through and immediately another boat jumps behind him to get through, not an issue, although we also go by the "one by one" . We begin now to head through, our bow is under the bridge and an older model formula accelerates and starts to head through at the same time, our bows almost touch and my husband throws it in reverse and the male guest,who is standing, jerks backwards (I tell you that so you know how quickly we had to put it in reverse). The passenger of the formula yells to us "you should have just followed through" and smirks at us?????? Follow through??? Should we have just continued and allowed our boats to hit???
The male guest then asks us what the protocol is, we explain we do the "one by one" but there are different circumstances depending on whats happening. He then presents a great question "Where is the etiquette when a boat has a bow full of children" , again if we had not reversed we would have hit.....
I get there is no "rule" here but where is the common courtesy? Where is the kindness to others? I just don't get what is happening to people any more :-(
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