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Originally Posted by B R
time for the tubing rant!!! {snip} People need to look around them before putting their kids on tubes and weaving in and out of high traffic lanes. it's not safe for anyone.
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Similar thing down here in Alton Bay. By Sandy Pt the bay necks down if one follows the rule re: the black tipped marker. There's often a lot of traffic squeezing into a smaller space (though much larger than the Eagle-Gov I. channel). Yet every year I see water skiers and tubers trying to go past the marker in the midst of a spurt of traffic. When I was a kid we went and skied in places, and at times, where there was no traffic ... if only to save our own skins.
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My particular rant is how people don't consider the larger picture, re: other boats, when out and about on the lake. If you don't want to come off plane to NW speed then you have to leave space for other boaters to get by. If a port - port passing if prefered then "stay right" and leave enough space for other boaters to pass "you", others and the shore w/o bursting the 150' bubble. Yet time and time again I see people coming down the bay following a shortest distance, straight line course with no consideration of the above. OK when there's no other traffic but when there is .... There's be a lot less weaving and confusion and consternation if more people used "channel discipline" even when not in a designated channel. Phew
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