Weirs Chop
Although the larger cruisers make a larger wake than a smaller boat, I believe the main source of the chop near the Weirs is from non-cruisers getting up on plane and getting off plane. Too many boats are plowing water for too long a period of time.
There are now three NWZ in the area with the new NWZ near Eagle Island and with the heavy traffic we get on some Saturdays, those transitions becomes a lot of boat chop. Most cruisers do not get onto plane, or semi-plane, in that area. They usually just cruise out of the channel or the Weirs docks to the Governor's Island or Eagle Island NWZs in displacement mode.
That said, the sharpest wakes are from the Doris E and Sophie C and they are displacement hulls.
We kayak in the area since that is where we live, but we do not kayak on July and August Saturdays from 10 AM until 6 PM.
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