you were the skipper..it is your call..I would have done it differently but we all make our own choices.Originally Posted by ozscott
you were the skipper..it is your call..I would have done it differently but we all make our own choices.
I have boated in many different places in Aus. and the U.S. and the Broadwater these days has to be the scariest of the lot with regards to skippers that don't have any idea of how to share a waterway. I spent a lot of time between Sea World and South Straddie in the late 70's and it was a boating paradise with very few fools around. Nowdays it is a different proposition, you need to keep your eyes open and head on a swivel. Glad I now live in a different area where the local boaties are very proficient in their seamanship.
Stubbie!
Pinhead,
Wan't having a go at you, But then again if you do drive a big boat and put out a
monsterous wash. Take the time to have a look behind you and watch the small
that near get washed away on the spit beach or on the western side of wavebreak.
As has be discussed many times before
" IT ALL COMES DOWN TO HAVE A LIL CONSIDERATION FOR OTHERS"
Aj
I'm with Saurian!
And people wonder why I will hardly ever go out in the boat on week-ends and never on public holidays. Especially down the broadwater or Pin.
I've already lost enough hair in my life
Bring on the week days when everyones at work
Last edited by finga; 22-01-2007 at 06:08 PM.
mate..I have a 30' gin palace...but if we are going to talk about consideration for others then how about we make sure it applies to all...I was anchored for a short time yesterday near the Jacobs Well boat ramp (yes, I always go through there at 6 knots or less with no wash) and nearly every boat either leaving the ramp or heading back to it went past creating wash...now what is that rule about distances from anchored vessels and speed??? We all break the law at times..I am as guilty as the next bloke..all it needs is some common sense. I also go down there in my tinny and use the same approach to my boating...keep a good eye on approaching and following boats and act accordingly. I will give you another example...was heading back towards Horizon Shores one afternoon..a glass boat about 16' was sitting in my wake...i eased back to come off the plane and slow down to go past Jacobs Well..was the skipper behind me watching...nope..he was sightseeing..he was gaining on me rapidly..had to give it everything to get back on the plane and make sure he was watching as I slowed again..it does not matter what size or type of boat you drive...there will always be someone not doing the right thing..just the same as on the roads.
what sort of gin palace have you got mate?
jusat one of those fibreglass ones thateveryone hates cos it causes wash behind it.
2 metre swell off a 45 footer my arse..anyway.. um my major concern wouldnt be the weekend warriors on the broadwater, but the amount of sharks that hang around between marina mirage and the longliners and trawlers..never..ever let ur kids swim outside versace near the trawlers !!
it would have been damn close with the 20 knots wind that was adding to the wake.
Yep - thought about the trawlers and bi-catch + guts etc that they might off load there - commented to the wife about it - but we were on the other side near sea-world, the water was clear and they did not go out more than 8 feet and I could see into the water for another 15 20 feet out (very shallow sand bank on the king tide). But I hear what you say otherwise.
oh thats fine then. i thought you were closer to the trawlers.
no worries mate - thanks for the input about it...some people dont think about it...the mate I was with didnt and when I mentioned it he thought I was a luni (but I was the one with the divers knife strapped to my leg and was always out in the shallows with my kids and his!
I got a mate lives on the Gold Coast, he says the ramps are all chocca, and when you get out, there are d*&heads everywhere, hooning around, with no consideration for others.
Reckons you gotta go out real wide to get some peace, and then you gotta worry that your trailer is still there when you get back, and if it is, its a bonus if its still got all its rollers etc.
Ron
I might not enjoy the extremely chaotic environment of the Gold Coast Broadwater area but in the Jumpinpin area it is just enough to be endlessly entertaining on a weekend.
Weekends are generally used for doing a little cleaning of the boat and for just sitting around with a cup of coffee or a beer whilst watching the show. It is fascinating and has provided hours of interest for myself and on board guests.
So many types of boats, so many levels of boating skill - some are very competent and others act as if their licences fell out of the corn flakes packet last Wednesday. It is all amusing entertainment if anchored safely out of the way.
Gin Palaces (what a great term - I love it) or Poser boats, with skippers or trophy wives draped languidly in a chair sipping champagne also look out on the passing parade of cruisers, tinnies, tourist operated house boats, rubber duckies taking Fluffy or Tiddles to shore for a leak, and jet skis zooming hither and thither without much purpose but making a great deal of noise while they are at it.
And at night out come the wherethefukarewe tribe with helm positions lit up like Christmas trees and if not blinded by that, manage to destroy all hope of seeing anything by waving spot lights around.
If we are lucky there will be a wind change with strong gusts blasting boats, especially tourist operated houseboats, from there anchored position and chaos really starts to rule the water.
My mate likes the difference in dress; trophy wives in sheer bikinis emphasise the large beer gut of the husbands; blokes on jet skis dolled up in form fitting wet suits and dinky little life jackets - one rider he spotted even had on those poncy gloves normally used by drivers of racing cars and didn't seem to appreciate his call to me to have a look at this w*nker; fat ones, thin ones and all shapes in between, most dressed just in an ordinary way but some are covered from head to toe in fear of the sun and salt or whatever the current TV advertised fear might be. Most wear hats - they must like chasing them and retrieving them from the water every time the wind gets up by a few knots.
And dogs, always dogs being ferried back and forth. Generally they are white and fluffy and must have their little paws dried before getting back into the rubber ducky. Often, on one small island, there is a blue cattle dog running loose. I don't know what his name is but we have called him, 'Jack'.
Poor Jack always seems to be in a state of indecision when the white fluffy balls of fur are landed on his island and cannot quite seem to work out whether to play with them, eat them or root them. If Jack is not yet completely neurotic, one of these days, Fluffy or Tiddles is in for a hell of a surprise. I hope that I am there to see it.
By 4pm on a Sunday there area returns to quiet and peace with all of the crab pots strung out in long diagonals across narrow channels picked up if not forgotten or swept away by the tide. The temper tantrums have died down and wives have stopped being blamed for not dropping the anchor correctly. Off they go - back to the frustration of suburbia, some, I suspect, quietly thinking of divorce and why does this normally quiet husband of mine turn into a Hitler-like lunatic as soon as he starts the boat engine?
I love the sight of stranded boats on sand banks in the morning. It's so easy then for them to see which side of the channel they should have been on.
oh..and tigermullet..you forgot about the tinnies with about 2" of freeboard skippered by the flanno shirt and ugg boot brigade with mouths on them like sewers..and that is their female companions...takes all kinds.
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