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I was only out briefly Friday night, all day Saturday and all day Sunday and I saw nothing but inexperienced or STUPID boaters. Sorry, but there are some real bozos out there!
Middle Channel with about 200 feet of visibility and I got boats appearing out of nowhere, ACROSS THE CHANNELL, digging ditches at incredible speeds, nearly wiping me out! Charts, people!
In the North Channel at Deckers, some idiot's flying through with about a 30 footer, doing maybe 30 MPH with a boatload of what looked like older folks. I'm honking and motioning for him to slow down. The damn old lady in the back sees me and starts waving frantically, like, "Hi, yeah, it's me, we're having a blast, nice to see you too".
It's NO WAKE people! There had to 50 boats around us all going at idle speed and this idot's flying through there. And it wasn't anywhere near either end.
And in the creek at Metro some fool in a big-a$$ boat decides I'm going too slow for his tastes (like I have any say in the matter with three thousand boats in front of and all around me!). So he's passing me, kicking up a hell of a wake and blowin' by everyone else. It's like, dude??!! Do you have eyes? Did you happen to notice that half the world's population is in this narrow creek and attempting to creep through as safely as possible?
Morons.
Had to vent, sorry about that.
Middle Channel with about 200 feet of visibility and I got boats appearing out of nowhere, ACROSS THE CHANNELL, digging ditches at incredible speeds, nearly wiping me out! Charts, people!
In the North Channel at Deckers, some idiot's flying through with about a 30 footer, doing maybe 30 MPH with a boatload of what looked like older folks. I'm honking and motioning for him to slow down. The damn old lady in the back sees me and starts waving frantically, like, "Hi, yeah, it's me, we're having a blast, nice to see you too".

And in the creek at Metro some fool in a big-a$$ boat decides I'm going too slow for his tastes (like I have any say in the matter with three thousand boats in front of and all around me!). So he's passing me, kicking up a hell of a wake and blowin' by everyone else. It's like, dude??!! Do you have eyes? Did you happen to notice that half the world's population is in this narrow creek and attempting to creep through as safely as possible?
Morons.
Had to vent, sorry about that.