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Originally Posted by Mee-n-Mac
As a boater and being on the waterfront I've got a foot in "both houses" that seem to be emerging in this discussion. I think 600' is not enough distance to dimish wake size effectively* but to the extent that it may have kept people off the lake it did work somewhat. I think that the people with boats that throw large wakes should be more considerate and either leave them at the dock or do NWS wherever but I don't expect everyone to do that. Some people are just plain ignorant of their wakes, others ignorant of the effect of the lake level and still others just don't give a ... hmmm ... hoot. Given that realitity and the fact the Mother Nature doesn't abide by any of our rules I put the the barrels back on the dock, just like I did last fall. I have a neighbor a few docks down that watched me do this 2 weeks ago and did nothing. My dock is intact and his is demolished. And I'll add it was the constant pounding from the waves of last weeks storms that did it, not this weekends boat wakes, so we all need to get a little perspective here. Given last falls floods I can muster only mild sympathy for the landowners who didn't learn from that lesson and do something to protect their assets. People who put in their seasonal docks and didn't fasten down the decks (as GN mentions here) get no sympathy from me. They and the large wakers are both in the wrong.
*I'm remotivated to make a "Winni Wave-o-meter" to record wave and wake size and then do some tests to measure wake reduction vs distance. Then I can forward the data to Concord so they have something solid to base their decisions on. |
I'm in both camps also, I chose not to get my boat which was scheduled to be launched last Sunday. My docks have held up well (pipe dock with wood decks that are nailed together). Erosion hasn't been that bad but you can see a fine cloud of silt in the water after every series of waves from wakes. Agree with you on the float away docks and also on the large wakers. As I said before the cruisers and so called GFBL boats seemed to be the most courteous as far as wakes my observations. The "runabouts" that were out either had no clue or didn't care.
Let me know if you need any help with the "Winni Wave-o-meter", sounds like a 6 cocktail project to me.
If we follow the MP directors logic, no one should ever have to worry about tsunamis again.