Next message: bob england: "T&T: re:re: idiots on the icw"
There can be some truth to this depending upon whether you consider quality
(size) or quantity the culprit. I have noticed that for a short distance
away from any boat the wake consists of one, maybe two steep waves. It then
starts to build into a series of rolling waves reaching as many as 6-7. (Let
me qualify this by saying that I am talking about along a line that is drawn
parallel to the boat's travel. A line that would represent the course of a
boat overtaking another, being passed by another or two meeting head to head
where there direction of travel is parallel.)
If boats pass closely (within 40-50 feet) then there is one, maybe two
waves to negotiate. They will be steep but comparatively short, or narrow
depending on how you look at it, with a deep trough behind them. If you take
this action you will most likely have your bow slice thru them with not a
whole lot of roll.
If on the other hand they pass at a distance (2-300+ feet ) where the waves
have flattened but multiplied, the bow will tend to ride up the waves then
ease down the back side and therefore, because there is a series of 6-8 of
these, start the whole boat a rockin and a rollin. IE a beam sea.
Of course if you are a good distance apart then both can take action to
change course, after they pass, so that when they meet each others wake the
bows will be at 90 degrees to the waves in order the minimize roll. IE a
head sea.
This observation of the waves being more concentrated close to the boat has
lead to the technique I use to pass fishermen that are in small boats that
are stopped along the rivers and ICW. When I see them I will head directly
toward them, when I am about 100 yards from them I throttle back to idle, my
wake dies by the time I get to them and I steer one side or the other to
miss them by 100 feet or so and as soon as I'm passed I can throttle up. I
can tell by the look they think I am heading toward running them down until
they see what's happening. I wave as I go by and because by then they
realize that they are hardly going to rock at all, they wave back.
I tried that business of staying off them as far as I could but found out
before long that unless I throttled back a quarter of a mile before I got
even and waited until I was 200 yards passed, I still rocked them pretty
good.
Bill
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Davies" <>
To: <>
Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 7:58 PM
Subject: T&T: RE: Re: rules- as they apply to idiots and (interchangable)
bass boaters
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alok Kalia
>
> Saw a post a few days ago stating that the wake from a boat will affect a
> nearby boat LESS if the two are close together...this posts says the
> opposite.
>
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