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Originally Posted by jrc
Mashugana posted this picture to discuss the safety of riding on the bow but I hijacked his thread to talk about big wakes and horsepower limits:
A lot of those boats are underpowered and can't get fully on plane, especially when full of people. Some are semi-displacement and designed to run that way. Some just have unskilled operators.
I don't have an easy solution but in my opinion a HP limit makes it worse. Local boat dealers will buy the biggest boats with the smallest engines to squeak under the limit. |
Interesting picture and topic. The problem in my mind is not really boat design or size, or even Horse power for all that matters. It is about the fact that a boater is responsible for the damage his wake creates. unfortunately this is something that is very hard for the person with damage to prove. Some of the big cruisers with non planing hulls are ment as ocean going vessels and have no place on the lake, regardless of how big it is. For those planning hull 30 ft cabin cruisers then need to learn that the either go slow and create minimal wake, or get up on plane..... hummm by the way those are the two most efficient ways for a planing hull to travel.... but far to many of them plow along creating as much wake as possible. Unfortunately way to many boats are on the lake now that shouldn't be, and there is no easy way to look at romoving them...... Oh and by the way..... I am even critical of the Mount and the two smaller tourist boats.....