[Rhodes22-list] Saturday sail.

[Slim]

Rummy,

I feel your pain.  This happens a lot on the now-famous Lake Minnetonka too.
Except they usually slow down to half throttle thinking they're being
courteous but of course half throttle makes their wake even bigger.

BTW, those two "Love Boats" of Vikings fame, operated by a supper club
called Al and Alma's, are just a short distance from our dock in Cook's Bay.
We encounter the cruise boats out there every day.  I can tell you that the
pilots/crew are always professional, courteous, right-of-way yielding and
never any trouble.  It's always the drunken millionaires, be they football
players or not, that cause all the problems.

Slim

On 10/16/05 8:16 AM, "R22RumRunner at aol.com" <R22RumRunner at aol.com> wrote:

> Wally,
> I didn't see much wildlife except for a few Monarch Buterfly's going south.
> However, I did see one huge asshole. I had a 45 foot Carver with a flybridge
> pass within 100 feet of my bow going full throttle. I had right of way and
> this  jerk didn't slow down. I headed into his wake, which was huge by the
> way, 
> and  took it on the bow. The wave came over the deck, into the open cabin and
> washed  all the way back into the cockpit. In all my years of boating I have
> never seen  anything so stupid. I will find this boat because there aren't
> many 
> places on  this lake he can hide from me. If I had had a paint ball gun on
> board I could  have easily plastered him.
> Everything inside the cabin got soaked including electronics and my cell
> phone. I can't wait to meet this jerk.
> 
> Rummy
> __________________________________________________
> Use Rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org, Help? www.rhodes22.org/list