Not all neighbors are friendly..help!!

KonaChick · 07-18-2004, 08:00 PM

We need some advice. We have neighbors in our cove who are driving us a little crazy. They have done many things in the past several years but the latest is truly baffeling to my husband and me. They like to start waterskiing, tubing, knee-boarding off of their beach. They have to go directly in front of our docks, jet ski lift, swim raft in order to get out of the cove. They go right off their beach or near their beach and "blast" through the cove creating a wake that's big enough to swamp a small boat. We have waved them off with hand signals asking them to slow down. This hasn't worked. We don't want to be on bad terms with these people as we've seen them do things that makes us question their sanity almost daily. If i report this to Marine Patrol what can they do? I'm wondering if it's even worth it or if we'll have to get into a confrontation with these ummmm...fools!! Isn't it against boating laws to start from your beach? Arent they supposed to be headway speed w/in 150' of shore or rafts/docks?? I guess i just want to know my options and what if anything Marine Patrol could do about it. Today the wake was so huge it looked like our swim raft was about to get lose of it's mooring. Thanks for any adive you have.

07-18-2004, 08:00 PM	#1
KonaChick Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 518 Thanks: 19 Thanked 62 Times in 15 Posts	Not all neighbors are friendly..help!! We need some advice. We have neighbors in our cove who are driving us a little crazy. They have done many things in the past several years but the latest is truly baffeling to my husband and me. They like to start waterskiing, tubing, knee-boarding off of their beach. They have to go directly in front of our docks, jet ski lift, swim raft in order to get out of the cove. They go right off their beach or near their beach and "blast" through the cove creating a wake that's big enough to swamp a small boat. We have waved them off with hand signals asking them to slow down. This hasn't worked. We don't want to be on bad terms with these people as we've seen them do things that makes us question their sanity almost daily. If i report this to Marine Patrol what can they do? I'm wondering if it's even worth it or if we'll have to get into a confrontation with these ummmm...fools!! Isn't it against boating laws to start from your beach? Arent they supposed to be headway speed w/in 150' of shore or rafts/docks?? I guess i just want to know my options and what if anything Marine Patrol could do about it. Today the wake was so huge it looked like our swim raft was about to get lose of it's mooring. Thanks for any adive you have.