Was the guy in Blackey's Cove in a smaller ski boat with a tow bar extended off one side of the boat? If it's the same boat, their behavior has been going on for a couple seasons. Then again, he might be named "Blackey" and is annoyed we're in his cove...
I was out yesterday and was also surprised by two flagrant violations of safe passage... Coming out of Glendale and turning between Lockes Island and Varney Point I was starting to throttle up after the NWZ about 150 off Varney Point when I see Captain Bonehead at roughly 25+ MPH splitting the gap between me and the point! I turned around to MP to see if anyone else was seeing this, but no such luck.
Shrugging it off, we continue out and we're on plane headed North by Timber at about 30 MPH when I turn and not more than 75 feet off my stern is
another bonehead moving to pass on my port side. I turn to starboard and slow so I can gesture to "back off" and in what's becoming a classic now on the lake, the operator is clueless, but the kids in the bow wave gleefully in return.
I could see only 5 other boats out there on a weekday. How much Lake does it take for you to find some water in excess of 150 feet from the water I'm currently on?
Three and half weeks 'til Labor Day...