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Originally Posted by Gatto Nero
I couldn't disagree more. That wake is minimal in comparison to other boats 1/4 the size. It goes by my house everyday and I hardly notice a ripple on a calm day. It's not even worth the gas to get there to jump it on a jet ski. Check out Manatu sometime if you want to see a wake. That thing is a traveling takeoff ramp manufacturing machine.
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I agree with Gatto Nero. Have you ever seen the wake of the MV Bear that serves the two YMCA camps on Bear Island. Humongous.
And how about the mammoth Marine Patrol boat? Two falls ago, on a calm and quiet day, that monster went by in front of my place, a few thousand feet out. It's wake was so large that it lifted my 25 foot bowrider (on it's mooring whips, but not as tight a usual), and tossed it violently against the dock posts damaging the gel coat on the rear side of the boat. The bill was several hundred dollars to repair the damage.
Of course the big cabin cruisers are frequent and habitual captain boneheads in this regard. I had one plow by me last weekend while I was fishhing maybe at most hundred feet off my starboard (I could have hit him with a beer bottle close). He seemed to be running at a speed designed to create the biggest possible wake. (no worries about fuel prices there). I had to turn into his wake and risk fouling my lines rather than get swamped by the giant rollers he produced. He and his wife seem to enjoy watching my boat get tossed by his wake. I have a 17 foot Montauk. The lack of consideration from boats that size is consistently awful. I used to think they were just clueless. Arrogance is probably more likely the root cause.
Ah but you can't legislate common sense or courtesy.