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Originally Posted by Evenstar
You're skepticism is completely due to you drawing the wrong conclusions again - and not from what I actually wrote.
I never said that I felt at all unsafe at the time. The operator of the powerboat obviously saw us, so we never felt like he might get close enough to hit us.
Being swamped in a kayak just means that water pours into your cockpit. It's annoying, but doesn't necessarily feel unsafe. Usually you just bail out (or pump out the water), which is what we did. My kayak has both front and rear sealed (watertight) compartments, so my kayak will not sink even if the cockpit fills completely with water.
The powerboat operator broke the 150 foot law. But just because one law gets broken, that doesn't negate other laws, or show that other laws are not necessary.
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My skepticism comes from reading your posts and remembering what you say from one to the next.
The speeding boat post was in a thread concerning the 45 mph speed limit. Speeding implies a speed greater than the proposed limit. You getting swamped by a "speeding" boat troubles me. You see a "speeding" boat generally gives a small wake. If I believe all your posts a sea kayak would not get swamped by a small wake. So that leaves me to believe that the "speeding" boat was probably traveling below planing speed, which for sake of argument is about 15 mph (with a "tolerance"
). This troubles me because your definition of "speeding" is actually not that fast at all, in fact it seems to be below 45 mph. Now there is another definition "speeding at high speed", what's next, speeding at ludicrous speed?
Here's my problem, your information is incorrect in that it doesn't hold up under scrutiny. You have very limited experience on Winni. (once or twice) yet you try to make it sound unsafe and pass yourself off as knowing what you are talking about. We ask for statistics, you provide quotations. The statistics you do provide do not support your cause and you misinterpret them be it intentionally or through error.