Shortwave Sportfishing wrote

Not sure I believe it.



General "buzz" around the docks seems to be: "I'm not going to let high
fuel prices stop me from boating, but I do intend to stay a little
closer to home or cruise a little bit slower this year"

Shortwave Sportfishing wrote:
On 7 Jun 2006 19:38:35 -0700, "
wrote:


Shortwave Sportfishing wrote

Not sure I believe it.

General "buzz" around the docks seems to be: "I'm not going to let high
fuel prices stop me from boating, but I do intend to stay a little
closer to home or cruise a little bit slower this year"

Guys that used to do daily trips around Narragansett Bay, are now
cutting back to maybe a couple times per week. Long runs out to
Martha's or Block - hell, even down to the Race which isn't all that
far either are much fewer.

However, it is interesting to note that the outboard crowd, in
particular those with newer EFI or DI engines, are still zipping
around about the same as they used to.

I know that I thank BRP for E-TECS. :)

It's killin' me but I have definitely cut back on my pwc'ing this
season, only riding once a week tops and keeping it to a tank or less
every ride so far instead of the usual epic rides including filling up
a second tank far from home to come back. Thanks to my Yamaha 4-stroke
I can still cover a lot of miles on that one tank, but the price of gas
as well as my own financial situation has definitely caused me to cut
back a bit. Still stay out all day but with more/longer beach breaks.

richforman

wrote:

It's killin' me but I have definitely cut back on my pwc'ing this
season, only riding once a week tops

So, the environmentalists are right! The high price of gas IS a good
thing.

(Just kidding ... but I was almost knocked off the boat while we were
putting up the rigging when a jet ski zoomed by obviously piloted by
someone who couldn't read the "No Wake. 5 KPH" sign he had just flown past)

And of course, the price of gas isn't an issue for sailors. We may
spend $60 on gas this summer instead of $30 like last summer.

Black Dog wrote:
wrote:

It's killin' me but I have definitely cut back on my pwc'ing this
season, only riding once a week tops

So, the environmentalists are right! The high price of gas IS a good
thing.

(Just kidding ... but I was almost knocked off the boat while we were
putting up the rigging when a jet ski zoomed by obviously piloted by
someone who couldn't read the "No Wake. 5 KPH" sign he had just flown past)

And of course, the price of gas isn't an issue for sailors. We may
spend $60 on gas this summer instead of $30 like last summer.

True, but wait until the next time you purchase a synthetic sail made
from a vast quantity of crude oil.

Black Dog wrote:
wrote:

It's killin' me but I have definitely cut back on my pwc'ing this
season, only riding once a week tops

So, the environmentalists are right! The high price of gas IS a good
thing.

(Just kidding ... but I was almost knocked off the boat while we were
putting up the rigging when a jet ski zoomed by obviously piloted by
someone who couldn't read the "No Wake. 5 KPH" sign he had just flown past)


I hate that stuff when I see fellow pwc'ers or any other fellow
powerboaters do it. Hopefully that person had his incorrect behavior
pointed out to him by a sympathetic soul. I would have done stuff like
that on my first season out on a jetski, back about a decade ago, I
didn't know anything at first about boating and proper behavior on the
water, but the more experienced guys I was riding with set me straight
pretty quickly and I learned about no-wake zones (also from getting a
ticket or two), wide berths, slowing down around other boaters,
fishermen, marinas, etc; and in the eight years since, well obviously
I've known what to do. That's another reason why I'm very glad that
New York State and others now require basic boating safety education in
order to legally ride a pwc now (they didn't back then) and think the
same should apply to all power boaters.

richforman

richforman
And of course, the price of gas isn't an issue for sailors. We may
spend $60 on gas this summer instead of $30 like last summer.