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Old 06-19-2007, 06:12 PM   #220
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I'd love to come sit on your dock some afternoon, just to meet you! As far as experiencing wakes, well, I doubt that either you home or dock bounce as much as my cruiser does when a big wake strikes!

I'm also intimately familiar with how a wake can stop a sailboat dead in the water; I grew up racing small sailboats, remember? I remember many a time when I lost a race because of a wake , and cussing my fool head off about it (under my breath -I was still young enough to have had my mouth washed out with soap if I'd said those things out loud.)

In all seriousness, I don't like big wakes, either, and I'm very, very conscious of how much I'm throwing, and where. IMHO, that's a responsibility that comes with operating a largish boat (I sure wish that the captain of the Sophie C would catch on to that).

It's just that, as always and on all subjects, I object to punishing everyone for offensive behavior on the part of some.

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