| I have spent years on Powerboats & Sailboats | | | | couple of bluefish going after some bait fish in the |
| and noticed some powerboat & sailboat | | | | curl of that wake... that power boater was the |
| differences that most overlook. Before knowing | | | | winner! But I couldn't even see the boat that sent it |
| anything about sailboats, I lived on used powerboats | | | | my way to tell him he won! I would've climbed up |
| for years when I was young (instead of an | | | | the mast to see, but was concerned I'd get whipped |
| apartment). Cruising around, I'd happen to throw my | | | | into the next state as the sailboat would rock wildly |
| wake onto sailboats (uuuhhhhmmm by mistake of | | | | the the wave! Like being on a catapult if I'd go up |
| course... they always seemed to be in the way not | | | | there! And yes, the running around on deck is to get |
| going anywhere). | | | | things secure so they don't go overboard... like |
| I would think the sailboat was stuck on a sandbar | | | | everything. In the cabin we don't want to eat off our |
| and needed a wake to float them free! I think back | | | | settee's, literally, as the plates fly about with our |
| now, why the crew on the sailboat would stop what | | | | lunches and land all over the settees. So I don't |
| they were doing and stare at the wake I sent them | | | | know if I can speak for all sail boaters, but if they |
| as a good gesture. As the wake kept coming at | | | | need to get off a sandbar, they can definitely |
| them, I noticed they started running about the deck | | | | contact you by VHF channel 16 if you're monitoring. |
| and cabin feverishly... like a fast forward movie! Did I | | | | Still thanks for all the help... |
| happen to mention my boat was 40' and the back | | | | That's why you always see sailboats neat and nice... |
| side of a wake looks nothing like the front side that's | | | | everything in its place. The Powerboats have shown |
| coming at you! Just ask some of those small jet | | | | us what can come loose if a bad storm hits with all |
| boats (pwc, personal watercraft) that look for the | | | | those bad waves. Powerboats send bad storm |
| biggest wakes to fly into where the air gets thin. | | | | scenarios in one real big wave to shake things up. I |
| That's what was coming at these sailboats. I have to | | | | would arrive at my boat in the morning, make |
| tell you, I must have gotten many a sailboat off a | | | | everything shipshape and head out. When a |
| sand bar that way. I think they were waving at me | | | | powerboat would come by thinking I was aground |
| as I passed them by. | | | | and sending that tidal wave, I would let things fall |
| Now that I have been active with sailboats - racing, | | | | where they may to find out what I didn't secure |
| cruising, and long distance (Bermuda and such), I've | | | | properly. If everything stays put, I'm ready to head |
| noticed things haven't changed too much. Those | | | | Offshore! |
| power boaters are still helping us off those darn | | | | Think your good stowing stuff securely? Well then |
| sandbars! Every now and again I see this wall of | | | | head to where the powerboats play and if you don't |
| water coming my way, and let me tell you, it IS | | | | end up calling your insurance company about all the |
| scary looking at it from the front side as it curls and | | | | gear loss... then you're good to go! |
| grows larger the closer it gets! Once I think I saw a | | | | And why Knot? |