This isn't a rant against all power boaters, just a lot of them. I don't understand how they think!
Hamilton Bay, in Ontario Canada, is enclosed by two (2) bridges. One is so high that it impedes nothing, and I mean nothing from passing underneath it. A hundred meters past it is a lift bridge with maybe fifteen (15) feet of clearance when down. (That is an estimate on my part).
I am not sure of the width of the restricted waterway that allows us boaters to travel under the bridges but it is wide enough to allow us pleasure craft to enter it along side the huge lakers (freighters) at the same time.
The lift bridge is raised at the top and bottom of the hour if there is a vessel in the channel waiting to pass. Needless to say, sailboats need the bridge to lift in order to pass.
This is where I cannot fathom the mind set of power craft operators. Small runabouts, jetskis and small cruisers flock there at top and bottom of the hour and race through the channel creating huge waves in the restricted water way. There has been literally dozens of these boats cramming in there when they could pass any time of the day or night.
Unfathomable.
Allan
