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> I have always considered myself a courteous boater, but I have
> found that
> those who post no-wake signs, as well as some who just delight in
> "enforcing"
> them, have widely differing opinions of what constitutes a wake.
> Furthermore, I
> strongly suspect that these signs were necessitated by wakes from
> the same
> folks who travel at high speed and not those of "trawlers."
>
> Seahorse has a sailboat hull, so, below 7 knots in deep water, the
> wake is
> less than one foot and does not break, nor does it trouble any but the
> smallest rowboats docked along the shore. When bottom shoals, the
> wake will break at
> 7 knots, and I slow until it doesn't. That's the criteria I use. I
> don't
> find many shore-dwellers signaling me to slow unless the wake
> waves break, so
> that's the criteria I use.
My understanding is that the real definition of 'no wake speed' is
the minimum speed at which you maintain steerageway. For all of the
single screw, double screw, planning, displacement, jet boats, etc.
that I've encountered, that means idle speed.
Rick Quarles
Barric II, Nordic Tug 32-147
New Bern, NC
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