Wake-setter boats

[Shreddy]

Originally Posted by DanteMartiniello

Thank you for everyone that has sent back information, This past week in August has been hard, my family needed to fix the dock with a winch tied up to a Pine, Every time those wake-setters come in, it pulls out dock back out to the lake, we needed to fix our dock SEVRAL TIMES A DAY, when we got here at winni for the weekend, the dock was literally about to fall off the rocks, and our two boats would be floating down the Cove with the rest of our dock, we really need to put some laws aside to make these boats have a higher radius than 150ft, more like 300ft.


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Welp - here come the fun police once again. Once people start having a bunch of fun it has to get ruined. Just realize that the laws you're now going to impose are going to take the fun of wake surfing away from youths and adults and eventually put an end to "wakesetter" boats. They're wakeboard boats btw, wakesetter is a brand made by Malibu but all of them are geared for lakes.

I really hope someone counters whatever laws you're considering and puts forth a law that makes your dock more compliant to withstand a few wakes. You own waterfront on the lake, enjoy it. I'm sure you can afford to implement a more sturdy dock rather than try to ruin the fun for others.

[thinkxingu]

Originally Posted by Shreddy

...make your dock more compliant to withstand a few wakes...a more sturdy dock...

This is what I took as well--that the dock seems awfully weak to be in a lake as big as Winni.

That being said, if more people would just do the right thing, we wouldn't have nearly as many issues as we do on the lake. It's time for the ME Culture to change to a WE Culture.

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[FlyingScot]

Originally Posted by Shreddy

Welp - here come the fun police once again. Once people start having a bunch of fun it has to get ruined. Just realize that the laws you're now going to impose are going to take the fun of wake surfing away from youths and adults and eventually put an end to "wakesetter" boats. They're wakeboard boats btw, wakesetter is a brand made by Malibu but all of them are geared for lakes.

I really hope someone counters whatever laws you're considering and puts forth a law that makes your dock more compliant to withstand a few wakes. You own waterfront on the lake, enjoy it. I'm sure you can afford to implement a more sturdy dock rather than try to ruin the fun for others.

I'm afraid you have it backwards. Wakesetter boats have made the lake less fun for those of us who were here before their arrival.

[kawishiwi]

Originally Posted by Shreddy

Welp - here come the fun police once again. Once people start having a bunch of fun it has to get ruined. Just realize that the laws you're now going to impose are going to take the fun of wake surfing away from youths and adults and eventually put an end to "wakesetter" boats. They're wakeboard boats btw, wakesetter is a brand made by Malibu but all of them are geared for lakes.

I really hope someone counters whatever laws you're considering and puts forth a law that makes your dock more compliant to withstand a few wakes. You own waterfront on the lake, enjoy it. I'm sure you can afford to implement a more sturdy dock rather than try to ruin the fun for others.

Shove your "fun police" somewhere we dont have to see it. These boats cause damage. Many drivers of these boats are selfish a-holes. There are reasons you cant do donuts anywhere you want in a monster truck in the middle of a state park, doing the same thing in a boat on a public lake should be flat outlawed.

[Poor Richard]

10 bucks says the folks complaining about the wake boats nowadays also had something to say about PWC's in the 80's.

[KPW]

Originally Posted by kawishiwi

Shove your "fun police" somewhere we dont have to see it. These boats cause damage. Many drivers of these boats are selfish a-holes. There are reasons you cant do donuts anywhere you want in a monster truck in the middle of a state park, doing the same thing in a boat on a public lake should be flat outlawed.

Thank you for responding to Shreddy!!

[ursa minor]

We've got a couple of these boats "in the hood". We're in a fairly open area and have a "U" dock set up, the big boat is four way tied with spring lines, the fun boat has spring lines and dock whips. I really don't see a lot of difference between the wakeboard boats and a larger bow rider or cruiser going by. The operators stay at least 200 plus feet off shore and it's fun to watch the kids. The radios were a bit much in past seasons but this year it seems they got the message that sound carries on the water.

We'd need to have the boats well tied regardless of whether the wakeboard boats were a thing. I personally think it's great to see kids out doing something besides tubing again. Even "in the day" (70's- 80's for me) we couldn't water ski unless it was early or later in the day when boat traffic and wakes would ease up. Can I get a " get off my lawn" anyone?

[ITD]

Hmmm, that escalated quickly.

[noreast]

I agree with ursa, There wakes are made to pop straight up within a few feet of the boat, when I've followed them in the past I was surprised how fast they dissipated, nowhere near the wakes of cabin cruisers. Maybe some are worse than others and for sure some "captains" are more thoughtful than others. I don't own one, I would not use one in a small cove though. As with everything, The person is the problem not the weapon.

[ursa minor]

I'll agree that the difference in our location may be that the boats pass us without turning and we're not in a tight area. We get quite a few wake board boats and more conventional boats towing wake boaters passing by. The wakes are pretty similar.

Now the 40 plus foot Carver that went steaming by at 20 knots leaving a 5 foot wake last Saturday morning, you sir.....