We sail to enjoy the challenge of making the boat go as well as is comfortable for the conditions and to enjoy peaceful anchorages.
Both these objectives are frequently disrupted by planing and semi planing power boats with noisy engines kicking up huge wakes which affect other boats a mile or more away from where the power boat passed.
The wakes are the worst problem as they shake the wind from our sails in light weather and in stronger winds create nasty cross seas that fling the boat around.
And then there is the smell of diesel or 2 stroke exhaust.
All the above applies whether sailing or at anchor.
So we do wave at traditional displacement motor boats but we do not wave at power boats as we are usually busy preparing to cope with their wake.
Both these objectives are frequently disrupted by planing and semi planing power boats with noisy engines kicking up huge wakes which affect other boats a mile or more away from where the power boat passed.
The wakes are the worst problem as they shake the wind from our sails in light weather and in stronger winds create nasty cross seas that fling the boat around.
And then there is the smell of diesel or 2 stroke exhaust.
All the above applies whether sailing or at anchor.
So we do wave at traditional displacement motor boats but we do not wave at power boats as we are usually busy preparing to cope with their wake.
UPDATE
In September there was an article in the Huddersfield Examiner about 2 men from Huddersfield being hospitalised and flown home following the small motor boat they were in in Ibiza being overtaken by a large power boat and the wash being so extreme that they thrown up in the air a number of time
of times and suffered serious injuries when landing back on their boat each time.
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