boomerang
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Yep. So true...
The difference iis most of those rec boaters are just ignorant of laws, customs and courtesies...and have little time on the water.
The watermen have few or no excuses.
Didn't say it was an excure as much as a reason why it happens.
I am a lot more forgiving of ignorance than arrogance.
And one more time, I am not conemm ng ALL watermen, but I know better than to to think it's just a random few that are chuckleheads.
Oh believe me, i’ve seen some of the arrogance too.
From commercial guys, yac hiht folks, sailboaters, jetskiers, and so on.
Anyhow, sorry you’re having an issue with them up there.
Funny. I grew up in the commercial fishery in Alaska. Spent all my childhood and teenage Summers fishing on the family boat. Spent the better part of a decade as a young man running the family tender (boat that buys fish from the fishermen on behalf of the salmon processors) and I've never heard the term "waterman."
Is that really what they call fishermen in places outside Alaska? How strange and interesting.
Cheers!
Dave
I knew a guy once who drove a big F-250 pickup with large tires, and whenever he saw someone intentionally park their new, shiny luxury car away from the other cars in the parking lot to avoid door dings, he would drive over and park right next to them and open his door with reckless abandon to leave them a nice divot in the paint.
Anyone who would do that must have a real self image problem and an extremely small
p—-is.
More like a jealousy and envy issue. I think he just disliked anyone who had the resources to buy things he couldn't afford. And it pissed him off to see them flaunting their affluence in public like they were better than the rest of us.
This is the mentality that fuels the animosity to the 1%ers, and it is way more prevalent now than it was back then. And most of us with larger boats would be seen to be in the 1% by the rest of the population.
These days F-250’s ARE luxury cars: have you been in a King Ranch or Platinum lately? They cost almost as much too, mid $80k list for one set up to tow an RV.
Greetings,
Life's too short to let other people's ignorance upset you for more than a few minutes. I am a GREAT believer in Karma. It's not up to me to get revenge or get even, life will take care of the idiots IMO.
So why do crabbers and fishermen feel like they are the only ones on the water? I guess I can understand exclusively dropping ones pots in the channel if that’s where the crabs are: folks gotta make a living. But what’s with everyone zooming through the marina trailing a giant wake? We’ve been tied to the fuel dock for a few nights awaiting a permanent slip to open up and every morning around 5:00 am the fleet heads out at such a clip that we rock and roll until dawn when the recreational boaters head out. Then it’s even worse after dark when they return. Last night one crabber was in such a hurry to tie up that he rocked my soup out of the bowland onto the table. The recreational boaters all seem to know what a no wake zone is, I wonder why the pros do not.
Do professional fishermen have some sort of exemption from courtesy?