[ApS]

My recollection goes back to the preponderance of my racing days -- and the days of K-band radar which is affected by rain. There's no doubt that radar has come a long way since. You won't see rain like we have in Florida, either.

As you say, there are "human nature" reasons why we were never ticketed in the rain: Aircraft spotters won't fly...and not being able to see into the rained-on car would be good reasons today.

My last ticket was in a '88 Porsche Turbo, in Trinidad, Colorado -- 1989 -- empty Interstate, clear roads, bright early morning. 89-MPH.

APS: "Why, officer, 89MPH?"

Officer: "Because if I wrote your true speed, I'd have to arrest you"

Oh.

(It's a good thing I'd previously helped push the officer's cruiser from the median, where he'd gotten stuck). I don't speed anywhere...anymore.

Five of us attending the speed-event got a ticket within an hour of arriving in Colorado: Including three in seperate rental cars from the airport!

You've been fore-warned about Colorado.

Originally Posted by Lakegeezer

"...Now - this thread is about wakes, right? I have lost over two feet of shoreline in the past 14 years, mostly caused by large boats going slowly. The biggest problem is when they slow down..."

You may recall this photo from my January post here. Those are my denims -- plus my black shoe between the roots -- and my shoe is still not wet. It's a maple tree about 50 years old.

From a seed, all trees send a trunk upwards, and a root downwards. This means that I have lost about five feet of shoreline -- and recently. (Actually, it's the state's shoreline. The highwater stake is five feet inland from my shoe).

My problem is the same as yours: Big boats. But at 35, they "mush" (as eminem calls it) while trying to beat their fellow party-boaters. While flying the "tipped-martini" burgee -- I'll never understand why they fly a flag that shouts

"Stop me, MP -- I'm partying, and I'm BUI!".

Since my shoreline faces north, it has gotten the worst of Millennia-worth of winds in the winter, when the ice prevents erosion; therefore, it is the newest shore to face erosion from cruisers.

More recently, wakes (particularly big cruisers), have taken away the soil and caused the rest of my lot to "subside"; that is, to sink, due to rain-runoff sending mud into the lake. The soil is responding to the shoreline erosion through runoff and gravity. The shoreline lost to the lake (through shoreline erosion) must be made-up for by additional mud. It's a shame to watch it happen so quickly, and it's not doing the lake any good, either.

While a HB162 speed limit may cause increased wakes from some of the "Express Cruisers" and the "slowed" 4½-ton fast boats, it is nothing compared to what has been happening since the first oversized cruisers appeared. (About 1990. But even back then, they proceeded slowly -- like...cruisers!).