The Hammer
Petty Officer 2nd Class
- Joined
- Jul 30, 2010
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Re: No wake zone???
Jackie Gleason, Smokey and the Bandit
Jackie Gleason, Smokey and the Bandit
You mean John Wayne??? Who's the old guy here.... or were you just checking lol
Nope.No "attack" intended. As I said before, we weren't there. If you have gone past the police before and didn't get a hollar, then YOU know your boat is operating correctly and undoubtedly the restaurant guy was having a bad day. If it were me I would go back and try again, but this time converse with the guy like you did here. I love that old movie with the guy on the horse that says: "It must be a failure to communicate".
And it's those bouys, bought at the local hardware store, that I respectful of, but in no way obligated to.try driving a jet ski or fast looking jet boat... i've gotten yelled at by more people than I can count for no wake. I have a gps on both vessels, and both never exceed 3.5 mph in no-wake zones. I have simultaneously been flipped off by pontoons for going too slow, and yelled at for going to fast in the no wake. (seriously, within 2 minutes. The person of course was blind to the pontoon that just overtook me)
All because they don't agree with a jetski on their little 'private' water. As someone else mentioned, people put up no-wake buoys, thinking it means private property/no boats allowed.
I don't understand this at all . . . seems to me that this is exactly the problem. My boat acts very similar to 45's, especially when swinging a 24" prop. 22" not as bad (fast). At idle (650) with the 24" prop, my boat produces barely a ripple, makes headway, and that's how I run it in no wake zones. Why is that bad? Oh, and BTW, the smaller the boat the slower the no wake speed, it's just a physics thing . . .To quote someone's factory specs sounds like something a 10 year old would do.....to know (and quote) how fast your boat goes at 650rpm and 900 rpm is something my mom would do.
you at least got the good grief part rightInteresting QC ummmmm have you ever been in my boat???? Do you know how it's trimmed or tuned or the prop I'm running???? If my tach is right on or not???? If I'm light...... Carry a lot of extra weight.... It's not a factory fresh boat the motor has been rebuilt and its not a stock prop so quoting factory specs is a little silly and saying you guarantee that it will throw a wake at 850 would lose you some money if you were a betting man! It barely steers at idle much less moves enough to make a wake! You may know a lot about boats and a lot of useful cookie cutter information about boats but you don't know my boat. Good greif!!