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I'm looking for what is the law, and what is right behavior.
I visited my son on Sunday, and he was jet sking in the neighborhood cove/ arm of LKN. Yeah, I don't like jet skis either....
A boat had anchored up about 100 yards from a vacant dock to spend an afternoon tanning and floating on tubes near the boat.... The arm is about 150 yards wide at that point. Water is 6'-10' for about 1/10 of mile beyond where they are anchored.
They chewed out my son (and many other boaters) for riding his jet ski, in the cove....Adam drove generally within 10 yards of halfway between the boat and the dock (not coming close to either, but probably no closer that 40 yards to either....
They believe that they intentionally anchored in a place that would not not get any boat wakes, they believed that nobody was allowed to pass at higher than a no-wake speed. This is an area that gets a fair amount of Jet Skis, tubing, etc on weekends. They essentially were trying to turn this arm of a busy, public lake, into a private pond for them to tan and float on tubes.
IMO, they might be right legally, but they're total jerks to try to block the arm of the lake.
I'm not looking for general condemnations of either the jet skier, or the boater... I am trying to figure out what is the proper behavior here for both the jetskier, and the anchored boat.
I visited my son on Sunday, and he was jet sking in the neighborhood cove/ arm of LKN. Yeah, I don't like jet skis either....
A boat had anchored up about 100 yards from a vacant dock to spend an afternoon tanning and floating on tubes near the boat.... The arm is about 150 yards wide at that point. Water is 6'-10' for about 1/10 of mile beyond where they are anchored.
They chewed out my son (and many other boaters) for riding his jet ski, in the cove....Adam drove generally within 10 yards of halfway between the boat and the dock (not coming close to either, but probably no closer that 40 yards to either....
They believe that they intentionally anchored in a place that would not not get any boat wakes, they believed that nobody was allowed to pass at higher than a no-wake speed. This is an area that gets a fair amount of Jet Skis, tubing, etc on weekends. They essentially were trying to turn this arm of a busy, public lake, into a private pond for them to tan and float on tubes.
IMO, they might be right legally, but they're total jerks to try to block the arm of the lake.
I'm not looking for general condemnations of either the jet skier, or the boater... I am trying to figure out what is the proper behavior here for both the jetskier, and the anchored boat.