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Originally Posted by Finder
Dave and other wakeboarders. Do you have any idea what your wakes do to the shoreline? Most coves have been protected from the weather and natural waves for years. Now due to a higher lake level during the tourist season and clueless boaters the shoreline is eroding. Trees are being undermined and previously sandy bottoms are being silted over. These are hard facts, but I don't expect anything to change for the better.
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I'm not a wakeboarder. My guest did it once for about 10 minutes last year, when that picture was taken. I wouldn't say I was clueless, I am aware that my wake eventually ends up on shore, with everyone else's. I'm also aware that my boat's exhaust is adding to global warming and that the fuel usage is lining the pockets of Saudi oil Princes who probably fund terrorism.
Sometimes I just don't worry about such things because in the whole scheme of things, it's all pretty minor. Let's face it, the entire planet will be vapor when the sun nears the end of it's life and becomes a red giant. Who's gonna care that Winnipesaukee's surface area has been increased fractionally by shoreline erosion then? For that matter, was anyone there to complain when the glaciers carved the lake out in the first place? I bet that was a bit tougher on the shoreline than a few wakes. What about the next glacier? I imagine it'll undo or add to any erosion I and every wakeboarder ever caused, a trillion times over. Maybe all my greenhouse gases will hep prevent the next glacier and I'm actaully doing the lake a huge favor, erosion wise. But then, maybe those oil funded terrorists will setoff a backpack nuke killing thousands of people, some of whose last thoughts will be: "I wish I'd tried wakeboarding, just once, even for just 10 minutes".
But seriously, I'm not the guy you should be targeting for wakeboarding erosion guilt. We are not into water sports like that at all.