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Originally Posted by TiltonBB
I agree that there is a problem.
When any regular boat boat passes by and it's wake hits your shore, it is over pretty quickly.
When the operator of the "make a big wake" boats decides that the water in the area of your house is the place his family wants to wakeboard then your shoreline may be subjected to hours of big waves as everyone in the family has their turn, falls, and has their turn again.
I have not noticed, as claimed by some, that the wakes dissipate quickly. Last week I had to make substantial repairs to my granite seawall that had been damaged by the repeated wakes hitting it.
And that doesn't address the hours of loud music that accompany these boats. At times, on otherwise nice days, when one of these boats is playing in my area, I have had to shut the windows in my house just so we can converse or watch TV. The speakers on the towers of a wakeboard boat are placed to broadcast the music across the lake thus annoying a substantial number of people from the mainland to the islands.
If the music is that important to the enjoyment of the person in the water behind the boat how about a waterproof headset so they get their choice of loud music and the rest of the people attempting to enjoy the lake are not disturbed?
I wonder how the Marine Patrol would handle a call with a complaint of "disturbing the peace?"
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I also agree this is an issue. Although I do not think that all these coves should be no wake zones, but much like the no rafting areas there can be areas that are no water sport zones (ie repeated wake boarding, tubing water skiing ect) for the areas most susceptible to shoreline damage from from repeated wakes.