If I could uninvent only one
thing, I would choose wakeboats. These craft,
and the monster waves they purposely generate, chew-up the lakeshore and wreak
havoc on boats moored to docks.
On Saturday, I dropped my pontoon
boat into the lake for a bit of cruising around. I left the boat in overnight and secured it to
my dock at all four corners. Yesterday
for the first time of the year, the lake filled with wakeboarders and a roving
crosshatch of huge waves.
By midday, battering waves had
snapped one of the ropes securing my boat and allowed the boat to repeatedly
slam against my dock. Before we could pull
my boat from the water, Desiree and I were forced to dig something of a ramp into
a steep ledge carved (by the repeated assault of waves) into a thick mat of
grass and roots growing across my boat ramp.
Normally, I don’t put my boat on
the weekends due to the annoying swarm of wakeboarders and wakeboats.
Lesson relearned.
Desiree at Work
Desiree After Pulling the Boat
from the Water
—Mitchell Hegman
Oh that is so awful. And they don't care most of them. But wow what gorgeous pictures
ReplyDeleteThe mat of grass and roots was surprisingly difficult to dig through!
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