The new PWC?

I have, quite arbitrarily and completely unfairly, decided that kayaks, their owners, renters and users, are the new PWC.

If I had a dime for every kayak that did something dangerous, as in turn in front of a boat, get caught in a eddy and slam into the bridge pilings, etc., I'd have about two bucks more than I have now, but still.

So, there you have it - kayaks are the new PWC.

mk5000

"Hancock. I've got lunatics laughing at me from the woods. My original plan has been scuppered now that the jeeps haven't arrived. My communications are completely broken down. Do you really believe any of that can be helped by a cup of tea? "--kamj gen urquhart

The PWC crowd *loved* to have other boats on the water. Everybody else was out there just to generate wakes for those fools to jump (or so they thought).

Make no mistake about the attitude of most kayakers: they can barely tolerate sailboats and see powerboats as Satan's spawn. The fact that we don't always reduce our wakes to a ripple when within a mile or two of a kayak only aggravates their sentiments that we are "defiling Gaea".

If you want to draw a parallel between kayakers and some other group, I think those bicyclists who pedal down the middle of the lane at 5-10 mph in a 45 mph zone and flip off every motor vehicle that dares to pass them would be closer kin than PWC'ers.

There's room for everybody on the water. I always try to slow down around kayaks or other unseaworthy small craft(how seaworthy can something actually be when a key part of the training course is how to recover after the frequent and fully expected capsizings?)....and I wish them well in their chosen recreational pursuit. To the exact degree that a portion of kayakers would love to drive powerboaters completely off the water, I have little use for that portion of them.

Some of my in-laws are investors in the company, they are opening another one that will be a theme on DiMaggio. Crosby's is doing a GREAT business!

Fortunately we were able to drag them to shore so they could right themselves. The perps never even looked back.

There are a lot of idiot powerboaters around.

Them too. :>)

***** Have a Spectacular Day! *****

John

I was speaking specifically, with tongue in cheek, about those inexperienced yakkers who seem to think that wakes and tidal currents have to bearing on their ability to maneuver their "boats".

And the fact that they seem emboldened enough to take up 20 of the available parking spaces for trailers with single cars at a state launch ramp.

Not to mention that most of them are inexperienced in the use of a kayak and don't even bother to put their PFDs on in heavily traveled areas and channels.

Now I'm getting mad again - oooooooommmmmmmmmmmm :>)

To a sailboat operator, the prevailing definition of "stupid idiot" is someone who is going faster than they are when under power.

Sail boats and kayaks have something in common: They are both able to go where most powerboats can not, although for different reasons.

Too bad they don't go there and celebtate with each other. It would likely alter the earth's orbit however with all of that brain power concentrated in one place.

And another thing. At the Barn Island ramp, you have single cars taking up boat parking spaces for their stupid damn ugly kayaks.

Man, I'm really getting po'd. :>)

Couple of seasons ago, we were coming into Baltimore Harbor at 11 pm using radar. We were smack dab in the middle of the marked channel, and so were dozens of small fishing boats on anchor, and some without the benefit of any sort of lights. Lots of these little boats did not show up on radar.